CCP Konflikt
CCP Engineering Corp
CCP Engineering Alliance
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Posted - 2011.11.02 10:23:00 -
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Ganthrithor wrote:[quote=Missile War]listen to CJ... my god....(feels weird to say this :S)
It's also for balance testing. How are you going to test ship balance without testing all possible fittings? Great argument.
Want more people to test things on SiSi? Make it easy for them to put ships together and play spaceships.
Balance can be tested on a very broad spectrum using the modules available. There may be fits that are not possible without rare modules, but in comparison to the 350,000 subscribers, there are few players with faction modules.
We balance according to majorities not minorities.
To answer your original points:
Fitting ships - Store your fitting, buy [100 x number of modules fitted] of everything you need for that fitting, assemble using stored fittings, you can make a lot of ships in a short amount of time. (This is what was used in the fanfest PvP tournament.)
SP Loss - This is removing existing functionality, which removes testing of tech 3 ship loss and also would require development time. It's not going to happen.
All market Items - The dogma effects of modules can be tested no matter what value of the effect. So for the majority of testing a 5% module is the same as a 10% module. When it has happened in the past the only notable difference was an increase in ban requests.
Contracts are copied over at the start of a mirror, you can either rush to Jita on mirror day and buy them all or hope you kill someone in 6-cz49 with faction mods.
The final option is to go ratting or run dead space complexes.
As I frequently point out, we develop for tranquility and not for singularity, favoring our 45000-50000 daily players over the 200 that frequent Singularity.
On top of this the team who created the move-me bot have disbanded and are working on separate projects, so there will be no new test server tools for a long time to come (if ever).
So to summarise : Singularity is for testing for bugs, not to be an EFT with simulation. |
CCP Konflikt
CCP Engineering Corp
CCP Engineering Alliance
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Posted - 2011.11.02 14:12:00 -
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Kenpachi Viktor wrote:CCP Konflikt wrote:the team who created the move-me bot have disbanded and are working on separate projects, so there will be no new test server tools for a long time to come (if ever).
 The sisi launcher is very awesome
The SiSi launcher was made by Team Special Circumstances, the team who made the moveme bot was Team Riding Mower. With the exception of myself, they're the same team now. Team Special Circumstances focuses on builds and deployment mechanisms. |