2.25 playtest #6 (15.09.2009 19:00 UTC)

We haven't made any big changes since last playtest. But I can finally check CPU use on KaneTW's server. So again, I'll need 10-20 testers.

 

Im working tonight (AGAIN :S), if anything specific needs tested im free for a couple of hours now though

 

Hmm on steam group it says 9:00PM, I cant make it I have to go to school very early.

 

Should be OK for that, sleeping OK now, assuming of course this tester refresh thing doesn't involve breaking my SVN access.

 

It turns out that we got quite a bit of changes from Beerdude and Kylegar. If there are any problems I'll just use previous DLLs for this test because I only want to see where CPU time is used.

 

This + im away until 9:15 so thats a maybe but rather no, because i need to sleep, too
9:00 pm is quite late ...
The SVN version has still some obvious (and kind of gamebreaking) bugs anyway, shouldnt need many testers to spot them ;P
Youre doing a performance test on a linux server? Im not sure if thats representativ for windows servers performances, and most empires servers (beside kanetws) run windows,
what i want to say with this is: you need another playtest and you should plan it now so you get more testers, great idea?

 

Im in

'Shadowdancer' here im in.

 

What I wanted to say is that you have now idea what you're talking about and you should keep your mouth shut.

 

I probably won't make it. Have to go shopping for some important items.

Also, could someone add me to the Testers Steam group? Same screen name.

 

Is this still on the SVN or the one I downloaded onto steam?

 

SVn, always SVN

 

When do we get to test on the steam downloaded one? never?

 

Ok I'd love to test but every time I connect the game crashes within one minute, until you can provide a build which will actually run, do not expect me to attend any tests.

Crash dumps: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1579090/Steam__3943__2009_9_15T19_21_16C0.zip

 

What kind of backwards logic is that, the reason you need to attend is so we can find crashes, how obvious they may seem

 

I mean I can't attend a test if I can't stay on the server.

I can crash the game repeatedly and send you the crash dumps, but that hardly constitutes attending the test. I certainly can't test CPU usage.

 

But fortunately, you'll already have achieved what most of these tests require: breaking the game so we can fix it.

 

Oh yes I can do that fine, I just probably can't show up on the server and do whatever you were planning to do.

 

I only wanted to do profiling. I got what I wanted.