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CCP Goliath
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Posted - 2014.04.15 13:51:00 -
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We're looking at something either the week before Fanfest, or Fanfest week, for a mirror.
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CCP Goliath
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Posted - 2014.04.29 11:15:00 -
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Kora Ethereal wrote:So has the mirror been pushed back? Or we expecting some action tomorrow?
No indication of a delay yet
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CCP Habakuk
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Posted - 2014.04.30 12:15:00 -
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Hi!
Unfortunately I am the one with bad news: We have to delay the mirror until after fanfest, partially because fanfest needs all our Ops powers. So sorry, next week it is. 
CCP Habakuk | EVE Quality Assurance | Team Gridlock-á
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CCP Habakuk
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Posted - 2014.05.05 10:08:00 -
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Kora Ethereal wrote:Merida DunBrogh wrote:
Hey haba, thanks for the update.
I got an unrelated question though: In fanfest we saw the presentation where...veritas I am thinking but probably wrong...anyway...someone showed that thin clients are a way to test with large amounts of ships, instead of masstests.
Since those clients however are far more predictable than human behavior and don't act in the same way, I was wondering:
Will this have an impact on the frequency of masstests? There hasn't been a masstest in a while anyway :(
~Gotta get dem SPs~
Hopefully Next Masstest will be plavers vs 500 man thin-client fleet flying rifters. :) Thinclients have been around for a very long time, I've seen them mentioned as far back as a few years ago, they've probably been used even longer. I wouldn't worry too much about masstest frequency.
CCP Veritas was speaking at fanfest about our new NoClients, which are similar to thinclients in its field of application but quite different in its setup. Thinclients are stripped down clients without any graphics, while NoClients are simulated in the proxy layer of our server - without any clients at all. This means that NoClients are faster and more efficient (no extra hardware needed), but on the other hand we have to be more careful with the interpretation of results and we are not sure yet about some of the boundaries.
I do not expect a lot of changes for mass tests in the near future. They are for sure still needed. Thinclients and NoClients are good in testing a specific feature, but mass tests are much better to get a broad coverage - both for performance and stability. Mass tests are also used in some cases to validate results from thinclients.
The number of mass tests was indeed a bit lower in the last time, which was mostly caused by lack of features, which needed to be tested in a mass test. There will be for sure mass tests for the Kronos release, but I'm not sure yet how many. Later in the year we will very likely need quite a few more mass tests, as soon as the Dogma rework and Brain in a Box will be ready for testing.
About combining thinclients and mass tests: We thought about this before, but so far we have not found a good use-case for this combination. I'll keep my eyes open :)
CCP Habakuk | EVE Quality Assurance | Team Gridlock-á
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