Duality is not up nor is it coming up this weekend.

Duality is not up nor is it coming up this weekend.

Can you give us an explanation on why it is not up, nor will not be up this weekend?

Sure, it's not up because I want people testing on Buckingham right now. It won't be up this weekend, nor next weekend, for the same reason. Also, the purpose of Duality is to have short, focused tests on code far in advance of it being "release ready". These tests are requested by the teams, and I schedule them.

Could you start a Buckingham change log? The last version added "the add channel back to the chat windows" and districts are currently disabled. There is not much to test it seems.

A large majority of Buckingham changes are backend tech stuff that is very low level and touches many systems in the game. Just through normal activity we get a good idea of if there are problems or not. As I have stated quite a few times, I have no plans to provide patch notes on a test server. I do update feature lists when we have a large release and I need testing to be focused, but for this, it would not be a good use of my time.

[quote=CCP Goliath]I guess a better use of your time is answering the same question over and over again in multiple threads, because you can't be bothered to post a sticky. You want us to test on buckingham, with no idea of what to test, and none of the changes posted in the blogs on buckingham to test. Hard to imagine why there are generally 20 people on the server.

I guess a better use of your time is answering the same question over and over again in multiple threads, because you can't be bothered to post a sticky. You want us to test on buckingham, with no idea of what to test, and none of the changes posted in the blogs on buckingham to test. Hard to imagine why there are generally 20 people on the server.

When I need something specific tested, I ask for it and sticky it. When I don't, I don't. If you had read the replies that I posted in those multiple threads, you would know that the blogs going out just now are for the winter release, and that Buckingham currently hosts a different release. You would also know that Duality hosts snippets of the winter release, and that when its up and I need something tested on it, I or the team responsible for the changes post and sticky it.

So bottom line, the new AI changes, which affect a huge portion of the ISK generation of Eve, are just not that important to get Duality ASAP up for customer testing and feedback?

I like your enthusiasm, but please show me some professional respect and not escalate things to pointless states of hyperbole.

I respectfully submit that you may not be giving appropriate priority to the testing of the new AI changes.

I really appreciate the tone of your post - genuinely. That being said, the stuff we're putting out to TQ in a week takes priority over stuff we're putting out to TQ in December. We originally intended to get the AI changes on Duality on the weekend of the 28th of September, but unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control that was made impossible. I'm not overly concerned though - we're still in plenty of time to make changes with the current schedule.