Ok. Do you know how complicated it is to do crab beacons safely? You have to setup the beacon in a safer spot, roll wormholes, make sure your cyno is setup at the right distance, and know how to play if you get hot dropped by blops. Doing this thing right without incurring a 40 billion isk bill by going through 5 dreads is not a good gameplay experience. It is true that a lot of people who don’t have the skills only play subcaps. How do you suggest going about practicing beacons so you don’t blow 50 bill. You might be able to do it, but how do you know everyone else can to. It is a feature that is nice to have a test server. And why can’t it be part of the game. You says you don’t need it? Fine for you, but I say I need it. Maybe go by a vote to see how many people want some semblance of a test or practice server.
And if what you say is true, that ccp made a test server only for testing additions to the game, are you saying that is breaks the game to have it or it shouldn’t be a part of the game? Some people like to test and tweak and learn that way. There is nothing wrong with a test server being a part of the game.
Imagine if I want to run t6 abyssals. Is there anyone who can do t6 abyssals without practice? Yes but very few.
This is a big part of the game, t6 abyssals. How do you think to open that content to everyone? It is to expensive to learn without practice and you don’t empathize with players who will never be able to do this content because there is no test server.
What CCP does in the gae is not always the best, but you take CCP doctorine about how to setup the game as law. And it is law, but that doesn’t mean they are right. I am saying CCP is wrong not to have a test server. All you have to say is that CCP doesn’t want the game that played. Put it to a vote.
Also, I want to multibox 2 marauders to solo C5 sleeper sites. I have to have 3 characters. 1 to scane for WHs and sleeper sites, and 2 seperate marauders. Multiboxing is very important and some people cannot do it safely without practice. I want wormhole content and it is just trial and error to do it with a 6 billion isk each for 2 marauders, and a scanning ship? Do you know how many vets earned their stars to play really skilfully from the test server?
I am relatively new but it isn’t fair that I cannot get to the content without a test server.
Also, what if a test server is a bad idea? It isn’t advertised a lot and letting new players practice on it wouldn’t be common because it takes reading about the game to know you can learn there. I know the tutorial in the beginning for getting new eve players allows a scripted story to get players up to playing the game. This game is really complicated. There might have to be storylines and tutorials for Capitals, Abysals, Incursions, Wormholes, multiboxing (don’t hide that multiboxing needs tutorials, because the only way to play a lot of this game is by multiboxing.) So how do you expect people to multibox without practice? It is practically a requirement for unlocking content.