There has been a lot of kerfuffle on the forums over the last year regards PVP, ganking, griefing and negative aspects of the MP side of the game.
I'm proposing that a group of public spirited individuals help FD during the Beta to identify bugs, exploits and ways of abusing the system for nefarious means so they can iron them out prior to release.
I'd like to ask for volunteers to group up to test these negative aspects. Ideally I don't want to spoil the enjoyment of regular Beta players so we will need a relatively large number of volunteers so that some can play the bad guys and some can play the victims (We'll take turns, unless you like being the victim
different strokes and all that ).
If you'd like to participate, even for a short period please post on this thread or send me a message.
I won't be asking everyone to be awful all the time (unless they want to), just to participate in certain tests if they can (e.g. maybe one night a week or once every 2 weeks).
If you wouldn't like to participate but have some ideas of what we can try and test please post in this thread and I'll use your suggestions to compile a list of things we can look at.
If any of the Dev team want to get involved or have any suggestions on things they would like us to test and report back on please let me know.
I personally do not plan to continue this type of behaviour come gamma, this is purely for testing purposes and to help make the game better for non-gits.
I have access to a TeamSpeak server that we can jump on to chat while testing. I'll try and use this forum and messages to coordinate the testing but if needs be I could provide a private forum for us.
I propose that we start testing at least a week after Beta launches so that everyone has a chance to learn what's what and become comfortable with the game.
I plan for this to be a laid back experience with no pressure on anyone. If you can't make a certain test or for whatever reason you don't want to participate in a certain test then no worries.
You never know though, we may even have a bit of fun playing the bad guys
Some suggestions so far are:-
Volunteers so far :-
Just to make people aware I'm Premium Beta too so I won't be starting this till 6th or 7th of June.
Not starting it straight away as no doubt people will want some time to mess about and enjoy the game a bit.
I'll let this thread run until then just keeping this post updated with testing ideas and volunteers. Nearer the time I'll post something here, message all the volunteers with Teamspeak details, testing plan, place to meet etc.. and we'll take if from there.
Here's a link for Teamspeak if you haven't got it http://www.teamspeak.co.uk/
Don't worry if you don't have a mic. There is text facilities in Teamspeak so you can type to people.
Being on teamspeak will be helpful though in coordinating what we do
I'll post the Teamspeak server details nearer testing.
TL: DR version - Post in this thread if you'd like to help FD remove the ability for arseholes to be arseholes in the game come release by being arseholes once every so often during the beta. If you don't want to be a pretend arsehole but have any ideas on arseholey behaviour that we can test please also post in this thread.
I'm proposing that a group of public spirited individuals help FD during the Beta to identify bugs, exploits and ways of abusing the system for nefarious means so they can iron them out prior to release.
I'd like to ask for volunteers to group up to test these negative aspects. Ideally I don't want to spoil the enjoyment of regular Beta players so we will need a relatively large number of volunteers so that some can play the bad guys and some can play the victims (We'll take turns, unless you like being the victim
different strokes and all that ). If you'd like to participate, even for a short period please post on this thread or send me a message.
I won't be asking everyone to be awful all the time (unless they want to), just to participate in certain tests if they can (e.g. maybe one night a week or once every 2 weeks).
If you wouldn't like to participate but have some ideas of what we can try and test please post in this thread and I'll use your suggestions to compile a list of things we can look at.
If any of the Dev team want to get involved or have any suggestions on things they would like us to test and report back on please let me know.
I personally do not plan to continue this type of behaviour come gamma, this is purely for testing purposes and to help make the game better for non-gits.
I have access to a TeamSpeak server that we can jump on to chat while testing. I'll try and use this forum and messages to coordinate the testing but if needs be I could provide a private forum for us.
I propose that we start testing at least a week after Beta launches so that everyone has a chance to learn what's what and become comfortable with the game.
I plan for this to be a laid back experience with no pressure on anyone. If you can't make a certain test or for whatever reason you don't want to participate in a certain test then no worries.
You never know though, we may even have a bit of fun playing the bad guys
Some suggestions so far are:-
- Blocking access to key stations.
- Large groups of players ganking single players or groups with less people in.
- Actions that cause players to gain unintentional bounties.
- Nullifying police forces so they cannot protect players.
- Disabling but not destroying players so that they cannot do anything for long periods of time.
- Manipulation of game rules such as insurance, bounties and cargo.
- Comms Spamming.
- Abusing Alliance and Group mechanics
- Market manipulation
Volunteers so far :-
- cassius
- Thorn Black
- Harker
- Mysturji
- Frobitz
- Ayo
- Katkon
- Myotis
- Globusdiablo
- Bob_H
Just to make people aware I'm Premium Beta too so I won't be starting this till 6th or 7th of June.
Not starting it straight away as no doubt people will want some time to mess about and enjoy the game a bit.
I'll let this thread run until then just keeping this post updated with testing ideas and volunteers. Nearer the time I'll post something here, message all the volunteers with Teamspeak details, testing plan, place to meet etc.. and we'll take if from there.
Here's a link for Teamspeak if you haven't got it http://www.teamspeak.co.uk/
Don't worry if you don't have a mic. There is text facilities in Teamspeak so you can type to people.
Being on teamspeak will be helpful though in coordinating what we do
I'll post the Teamspeak server details nearer testing.
TL: DR version - Post in this thread if you'd like to help FD remove the ability for arseholes to be arseholes in the game come release by being arseholes once every so often during the beta. If you don't want to be a pretend arsehole but have any ideas on arseholey behaviour that we can test please also post in this thread.
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