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Hey folks, I'd like to test out a few things on TC. My own character on TC is pretty new, so I can't do much on my own. There are a few things I'd like to test out are the following:

Critical fail levels between Master and Novice - I was discussing this earlier on with a few other Correspondants relating to critical failures and dancers falling down. I dont remember seeing much difference between Novice and Master. I want to see if the rate will be very different.

New hopper size issue on TC - Let's see how big we can get it, and how small it is at 0%(not a big thing seeing as it wont be too tough to figure out, but just for kicks)

I'd like to do this Oct 1st between 7-10pm (EST) in Bestine - Tatooine in the "market" (bazaar). So if anyone wants to help out, please just drop by. F

or the critical failure test we'll be using the public crafting stations to get consistant results. I will ask the Artisan correspondant to factory produce some Limited Edition crafting tools for the participants (if she can). Anyone is welcome to swing by of course. Just put your TC name in this post or mail me in game. if you don't have one, create one =).

Thanks

ArchAngel -

I would love to help out, but unfortunately my test center character is still only a very low-level Artisan - nowhere near what is needed for this paritcular test. However, I am slowly building him up, so let us know when the next experiments take place...

Cheers,

Maborushi Yuri

Master Artisan / Installation Designer

Keren, Naboo (Valcyn)

I also have the same problem

Can you ask the devs to expand their program a bit so that you can select people to be twinked on TC?

Given the complexity of testing these issues it is pretty much necessary to have a fairly large amount of equipment and resources. Otherwise testing the elder game is going to be very difficult in the short to medium term.

Perhaps if you posted to the correspondent forum you plan and what you need (resources, xp, players, deeds) and see if they will provide them to you. Then you can select the participants in the test and dole out the resources to be used.

Just a thought.

Fastest way to reach people on test is /chat join tcpa and just ask for architects. People are incredibly helpful on TC and you will find several masters quick.

My live char is Master Architect as well so if you need a novice for testing I guess I can get the general crafting exp nps. I just don't want to stay architect on TC because I think there are plenty already. Shouldn't really be a problem to find one, my char name there is Drix if you need some help.

As it stands now, the devs do not consider Correspondants "testers" as such. They have an internal team for testing. However my concern is there is alot of information escaping the internal team and for that reason I want to check the results. Unfortunately, it is for this reason that we have no extra ressources, equipment, etc... allocated to us. However I will be in touch with Kathlean to see if she can do anything to hook me up with some ressources. First I need to get an idea of how many participate. Because I have no credits on TC, I can't ask to borrow too much steel from her =)

We'll probably be producing crafting stations as they take pretty much any type of metal, require few ressources and any level can craft them.

Sorry about thatdon't know what happened there...

What I meant to say was: We'll probably be producing crafting stations as they take pretty much any type of metal, require few ressources and any level can craft them. And we'll be making about 20 each, 3 masters 3 novices and some in between. This is my hope anyways =)

Okay.... Not too many responses there. =) Alright well I guess I'll call it off. I don't blame you. Making a whole new character on Test Center is a lot of work for nothing (unless of course it's your main server or your alt.).

Maybe further on down the road we'll try again. Thanks to those who did respond, I will be in touch with you, maybe we can go on missions or something =)

The BEST way for this to happen is to copy a live server to the Test Server so some real testing could happen. Only way to truely see how this will impact the live servers.

I really doubt the Dev Team could care less though. It's obvious they don't now.

Arch please call this to the attention to the devs. That getting proper elder game testing on TC will not happen until they provide some mechanism to assist us.

I know they have said they understand but a specific case like this would lend credence to the effort to get some sort of mechanism by which we can properly "test" on test center with elder chars, without the weeks of effort to make an elder char. Especially on a server with no guarantees of support/uptime or character integrity.

I would love to help you out, but I am not an architect there with hundreds of thousands of resources. It will take a month to get to that point, so it is pointless. If we could get a small team together that got a big exp boost and a bunch of resources, I'd be happy to play around with the new code. Spending a 100 hours of my time just to get to the point where I cantest software for SoE while not being paid isn't exactly my idea of charity.

If things can be arranged where we can test the new code in a few hours or even all day on a weekend, specially with player cities coming, count me in. I just can't do that grind again.