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Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 9	Posted - 2011.10.13 20:57:00 - [1] - Quote Good evening. As you probably know, about two times per month CCP QA team is hosting a so called 'Mass test' on the Singularity test server in order to try out new stuff, optimize old stuff, etc., as the thin-client CCP uses to conduct testing internally can not catch everything. Please see Mass testing on wiki for more information. As a reward for participating in the test, players are awarded 2 milion skillpoints on Singularity to allocate however they want. But I do believe that these fellow capsuleers, who sacrifice their own time to help our benefactors in the everlasting quest of improving EVE, deserve a little bit more. Therefore I propose: Award mass test participants unallocated skillpoints on Tranquility As 2 milion SP would be unbalancing (and crashing SiSi), I suggest 10 to 20 thousand - approximately five to ten hours worth of training. It is small enough a boost to envy, while at the same time showing some solid gratitude to the volunteers. Something similar could be applied to those finding a bug and submiting a good bugreport - please see this sticky thread. (awarding the first dozen or so people that report that particular bug, as to prevent abusive spamming). Importantly, this would probably bring even more players to the tests, allowing the QA team to gather more data. (If I recall correctly, on the 1.10.2011 mass test CCP asked for 500 players, while only 350 came - Testing results on wiki) I am looking foward to Your comments, opinions, and bumps.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 10	Posted - 2011.10.14 12:15:00 - [2] - Quote Rented wrote: Everytime you come up with stupid ideas such as this, a kitten dies. This is just stealth QQ for skillpoints. Never liked kittens anyway.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 10	Posted - 2011.10.14 16:41:00 - [3] - Quote Vanity items - how then would you encourage people to attend a test or submit a bugreport more than once? Also, I am not sure if people change their appereance often enough. And giving out Also, EVERY pilot in EVE is SP hungry - but only a tiny fraction would spend 2 hours just to get something they would get anyway. It would still be significantly more time-effective to run mission and buy better implants/pvp with better implants than to attend. Assuming 2000 SP/hour (I am training 2580/hour at the moment by the way), and a 30 day month: 1 440 000 SP a month. Should a player earn 20 000 SP by testing and/or submiting quality bugreports, he would be cca 1.3% percent better. Is that really so unbalancing?
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 10	Posted - 2011.10.14 18:14:00 - [4] - Quote Drake Draconis wrote: You have no business asking that question if you don't understand why we are so passionate enough to tell you hell no. I'll give you a ltitle hint. Some of us actaully put a little time time into our accounts and don't like it when peolpe are given shortcuts for something that will not have a lasting impact on game in a good way. Givnig CCP botched bug reports or showing up for a test evevnt for SP's won't be for the bug reprots...it will be for the SP's. This is a question of motivation...not goals. They wont give a crap about filing reports. THAT is the point. Let alone showing up to test something that is likely going to be utterly boring or reptitive. Singualrity kills don't count after all as an example. It will have good impact - as the QA team will have more data, leading to better game. As not to spam the reports - that's why I suggested awarding only first dozen or so of quality reports.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 10	Posted - 2011.10.18 17:34:00 - [5] - Quote It is interesting to see how people would deny other people rewards for their effort.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 10	Posted - 2011.10.19 03:45:00 - [6] - Quote http://www.eveonline.com/mb2/news.asp?nid=4768 Next Mass Test on Thursday, October 20, 2011 reported by: CCP Zymurgist \| 2011.10.18 15:26:04 The next mass test on the Singularity server will take place on Thursday, October 20 at 20:00 UTC. We will be testing time dilation and remapping systems on the server to different nodes. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client; for Mac users, please see this tutorial. Please invite your friends as we would like to have 500-800 players to participate. Testing should last between 60 and 90 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity. Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 11	Posted - 2011.10.21 15:01:00 - [7] - Quote MNagy, as my mom you taught me there is a difference between millions and ten thousand. Or was it your brother and my dad? Also people are getting various SP per hour - especially in nonsecure space. The richest get the most as they can afford fly with the best implants.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 11	Posted - 2011.10.21 15:05:00 - [8] - Quote Drake Draconis wrote: Blastfizzle wrote: http://www.eveonline.com/mb2/news.asp?nid=4768 Next Mass Test on Thursday, October 20, 2011 reported by: CCP Zymurgist \| 2011.10.18 15:26:04 The next mass test on the Singularity server will take place on Thursday, October 20 at 20:00 UTC. We will be testing time dilation and remapping systems on the server to different nodes. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client; for Mac users, please see this tutorial. Please invite your friends as we would like to have 500-800 players to participate. Testing should last between 60 and 90 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity. Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing. Yes thank you for cross posting and double posting and everything else in-between. Your point? Relevance? My point? Yes, I have it. But you could find it only if you were willing to read and able to notice that it is not a double post.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 20	Posted - 2011.10.27 12:11:00 - [9] - Quote Is there anyone who dislikes the idea AND participate in the testing and bugreporting? Or is is just 'I do not want others to have possibility I would not use; not because it would disbalance the game, but solely on principle.?'
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 38	Posted - 2011.11.15 19:30:00 - [10] - Quote The Mittani wrote: Blastfizzle wrote: Is there anyone who dislikes the idea AND participate in the testing and bugreporting? Or is is just 'I do not want others to have possibility I would not use; not because it would disbalance the game, but solely on principle.?' It's a dumb idea and you should feel bad about posting it. Sorry kiddo. I don't. Sorry dad.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 38	Posted - 2011.11.15 19:30:00 - [11] - Quote http://www.eveonline.com/mb2/news.asp?nid=4791 Next Mass Test on Thursday November 17, 2011 reported by: CCP Spitfire \| 2011.11.15 11:58:54 The next mass-test on the Singularity server will take place on Thursday, November 17 at 20:00 UTC. We will be mostly testing the general performance of client and server for the Winter Expansion, but we will also gather more data for remapping systems to different server nodes. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client; for Mac users, please see this tutorial. In particular, we would like to invite as many Mac users as possible to attend this mass test. Testing should last between 60 and 90 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity. Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 42	Posted - 2011.12.06 16:58:00 - [12] - Quote Time Dilation mass test on Singularity - Dec. 8th, 20:00 UTC reported by: CCP Guard \| 2011.12.06 16:07:55 The next mass test will take place on our test-server, Singularity, on Thursday December 8 at 20:00 UTC. This time we are focusing on testing Time Dilation before enabling it on Tranquility. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client, otherwise please follow the instructions on the Singularity page on the EVElopedia.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 48	Posted - 2011.12.14 07:16:00 - [13] - Quote The next mass test will take place on our test-server Singularity on Thursday, December 15 at 20:00 UTC. This time we are testing Time Dilation again to make sure that all bugs are really fixed. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client, otherwise please follow the instructions on the Singularity page in Evelopedia. Testing should last between 60 and 90 minutes.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 48	Posted - 2011.12.14 07:18:00 - [14] - Quote Abdiel Kavash wrote: 2-3 hours of SP for attending a mass test, I wouldn't care. A person attending every single one would get one day ahead of someone who doesn't over the course of one year. I probably lose more SP than that due to getting podded and needing new implants, or forgetting to update my queue. The efforts of these people make the game better for everyone. Although I agree that AUR or perhaps a unique vanity shirt would be better. Rewards for reporting bugs? No please. The last thing a programmer wants to do is to dig through fifty thousand bug reports saying "my ship no work". About the bugs - that's why I proposed that only first 10 well-writen reports about a given bug would be rewarded.
Blastfizzle Quondam Souls of the Universe corporation THE R0NIN 48	Posted - 2011.12.14 07:45:00 - [15] - Quote And as many of you have the issue of me having the cca 20 000 SP boost a month (assuming 30-day month, 20 000 / 1 857 600 translates into less than 1.08% boost), let's add that accounts that are or ever were paid or ever bought a PLEX by credit card, paypal account, or bank account, that my account ever was are not eligible. Satisfied?

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