Pikeman Archive
Thread: Sandbox Testing Selections
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Gunman21
Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:37 pm
#1
The correspondents are allowed to select 5 players from the community to test on the sandbox, once it is up and running (this may not be for a while, however)
I won't be making any selections untill at least after the summit, and possibly not untill it's a week or so before the servers up.
If you'd like to take part in the testing, please Send a PM to me with:
Normal playing times availible to test and # of hours per week availible to test (no set limit, but we do need active people)
The things you have tested on TC or TC2 prior to live(IE Vehicles, Jedi, Jedi Trials, ect)
The amount of time you've been a Pikeman Master
Whether you are PvP, PvE, or both.
Why you want to test Pikeman changes
Thanks 
Message Edited by Gunman21 on 08-15-2004 03:56 PM
Asharin
Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:55 am
#4
Nura wrote:i mus have missed something. what is this sandbox stuff??
It's a server where they test the combat rebalance and stuff, I believe.
JediKnightCZ
Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:33 am
#5
I am not really interested in testing (we all know we have antares here for these things
Gunman21 wrote:
The correspondents are allowed to select 5 players from the community to test on the sandbox, once it is up and running (this may not be for a while, however)
I won't be making any selections untill at least after the summit, and possibly not untill it's a week or so before the servers up.
If you'd like to take part in the testing, please Send a PM to me with:
Normal playing times availible to test and # of hours per week availible to test (no set limit, but we do need active people)
The things you have tested on TC or TC2 prior to live(IE Vehicles, Jedi, Jedi Trials, ect)
The amount of time you've been a Pikeman Master
Whether you are PvP, PvE, or both.
Why you want to test Pikeman changes
Thanks
Message Edited by Gunman21 on 08-15-2004 03:56 PM
), but I am interested in anything DEVs have prepared for us. I just hope you won't have to promise to be quiet...
Message Edited by JediKnightCZ on 08-17-2004 02:34 PM
Djena
Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:30 am
#6
JediKnightCZ wrote:
I am not really interested in testing (we all know we have antares here for these things
Gunman21 wrote:
The correspondents are allowed to select 5 players from the community to test on the sandbox, once it is up and running (this may not be for a while, however)
I won't be making any selections untill at least after the summit, and possibly not untill it's a week or so before the servers up.
If you'd like to take part in the testing, please Send a PM to me with:
Normal playing times availible to test and # of hours per week availible to test (no set limit, but we do need active people)
The things you have tested on TC or TC2 prior to live(IE Vehicles, Jedi, Jedi Trials, ect)
The amount of time you've been a Pikeman Master
Whether you are PvP, PvE, or both.
Why you want to test Pikeman changes
Thanks
Message Edited by Gunman21 on 08-15-2004 03:56 PM
Message Edited by JediKnightCZ on 08-17-2004 02:34 PM
Can we nominate people for this? I'd choose Antares and Annalid0
They both have done a lot for pikeman the past few months and I would trust them to test everything thoroughly.
cadof
Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:16 pm
#8
I would like to see a person that does not have a looted lance in the sand box this is the only way we will see how we truly stand in the game. Some one with a crafted pike weapon is the only way it going to be true testing.
Jasper_nl
Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:02 am
#10
I'm betting that the sandbox people will be given weapons and armor and the like to test with. If I was a dev i'd give those people a variety of weapon damage ranges to see the various effects. Whether we like it or not, looted lances are on Live and they should be taken into account when testing.
Banthabutcher
Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:52 am
#12
Just like I Said over in the musician forum, I'm glad they're hand-picking the testers.
No matter what we have dedicated testers, and I'm happy with just that.
annelid0
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:49 am
#13
Jasper_nl wrote:Whether we like it or not, looted lances are on Live and they should be taken into account when testing.
They do need to be dealt with in some way, but balancing us with looted weapons vs everyone else with crafted weapons will just keep us loot-dependent and weak. The loot needs to be adjusted to fit us, we shouldn't be adjusted to fit it.
Hopefully the sandbox testing will be done in such a way that the classes are at least initially balanced against each other in their purest form. By that I mean a master pikeman with absolutely no other skills should first be balanced against other masters with no other skills. Loot, skill mods, defense stacking, and so forth will only conceal problems and make it difficult to get things balanced properly. All that big-picture stuff can be considered after the core problems are fixed.
At the very least, it'll be interesting to see how they go about it.
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