Hope you’re all having an amazing Cradle of War expansion week!
We are planning a mass test on Singularity beginning 12 June at 12:00, and running through the weekend.
What exactly is being tested?
We just had Cradle of War, but that’s not what’s being tested this time! This is a follow-up to a mass-test earlier in the year where your shennanagins on Singularity were able to help us identify some core issues. So unlike more traditional mass tests, we’re not looking for a concentrated mass of pilots at any given time. We’re testing some optimizations to the network layer and the teams are looking to collect performance and stability data. Essentially - just log into Singularity at your leisure and do stuff to things!
Be mindful that test server rules still apply. Punishments for flagrant infractions received on Singularity may extend to Tranquility.
How to connect to Singularity for this test:
Change the server from Tranquility to Singularity in the bottom right corner of the launcher and log in as normal.
More detailed instructions are available here.
The test server was recently mirrored around 20 May.
Note:
Military campaigns may not be active on the test, and at the moment there are no Navy Destroyers or T2 Carriers.
There was a test of COW content prior to its release with the last mass test they did a couple of weeks back, so if issues weren’t found and reported its because people didn’t actually engage with the content enough
Because its not designed to be a playground, its for actually testing things properly, by adding menus to spawn things you skip past any issues you might discover with the market system or manufacturing things
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As an aside PLEX is on the market just fine you just have to buy it to activate omega, it is however at normal prices
if something is being tested on the test server of almost ANY other game, players are given a huge (often infinite) amount of game currency, REGARDLESS of the test subject. Because an error may occur in a situation that cannot be implemented with limited resources.
It’s impossible to buy an Omega, because you set the plex at 90,000, and besides, the NES doesn’t work.
PLEX seems to be seeded on SISI at 100isk so its affordable, if you’re too poor to buy it at the proper price you could have asked i can send you a few bil on SISI if i’m still logged in there, also you could just buy a carrier and commit insurance fraud to get money
All of which tests systems to make sure they actually work, that doesn’t happen if you just spawn resources, because again, this is for testing the server, not as a free for all sandbox to play with things
And i’ll poke someone about the NES not working, that being said you can still perform alpha tasks just fine to help test the networking they want testing
I have now also been informed by a bug hunter that apparently if you use the upgrade option on the neocom at the bottom left it “should” work as it bypasses the NES
If FC don’t have actual testers in their development teams to find bugs and all the non sense resulting from bad game design (like the new Epic Arc), it’s on them.
“Mass test” are for things related to game performance under load, things of that nature.
