Okay the alliance tournament is long over, can we please get back access to the test server?
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Is there new content to test?
Or is this request because you wish to try things that you could do on the main server but then in absolute safety with zero consequences if it goes wrong?
Or because you wish to have easy access to ships you do not yet have access to on the main server?
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When ever the conversation of the test server comes up, itâs always been under the banner of testing builds and fits as well as practicing strategies in environments that dont waste billions to trillions worth of isk depending on the build.
Imagine going from a humble cruiser pilot to wanting to try battleships. cruisers to battlecruiser to battleships are behave differently and i think could be worth keeping a test server up for.
The more expensive practices would be when trying to go from battleships to dreadnaughts or carriers. the whole game basically changes on how you are supposed to behave or what your capabilities are when you begin lugging around in those massive tin cans.
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Why are you gatekeeping this content? What do you think the purpose of the test server was? Why are you not advocating for the consumer rather than CCP?
It is utterly wild that you would question the customers ability to try out ship combinations and strategies before losing them in the real server.
Why would you be against this? Do you like closing off player options?
The purpose of the test server is to test new content.
Many players used it for other purposes as well, which meant these people werenât âtrying out ship combinations and strategiesâ on the real server where such actions means ships in space, interaction with other players and the market, and content.
I like EVE as a very interactive single shard game where everyone is in the same universe. A game where someone who practices their strategies does so in a real part in space where other players can find them, can supply them or can interfere.
Thatâs why.
If you wish to try new combinations and strategies, why not do it on the live server?
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people were abusing the test server too. using it to find locations of structures on the real server to bash and steal the loot.
it was used to learn the meta of new expansions before it even hit live, and where a lot of players didnt use the test server, those that did had the advantage before it even went live
not to mention the test server has specific rules that so many people kept breaking, it made sense that ccp locked it down.
how many other games that have test servers only open access when needed?
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Test server is for testing new things no for testing things thats already exist in the game.
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CCP is actually the one âgatekeepingâ, he is just informing you of the reality.
Informing you is not saying you support one way or another.
This is only limiting which server a player does it on. If you want to test something on the test server, just wait for them to be open during a mass test AND when they allow you to test something other than the main thing they want tested.
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There are always new things to test. Eve is complicated and buggy game to say the least. No one person (devs included) actually knows how all the obscure mechanics work (or donât work) together.
I never used the test server all that much, but if anything it caused me to lose more ships on the live server. I would push the limits on what I could see as possible on the test server. Things I would never try on live if I hadnât been able to try out first. Then the inevitable lag spike, or disconnect, or mistakes I made on live would cost the ship.
Consequences are part of what make Eve so great, so I would not even want to subvert that. Though, is it unreasonable to want to want to say, learn how fighter control mechanics work before jumping in a 60 bil super into a fight where it might die in ten seconds?
Of course most players in EVE wonât have touched all content yet including all obscure mechanics in the game, so I have no doubt there are new things for any player to test.
However, all the content that already is available on the main server doesnât need a test server to be tested.
When I said âIs there new content to testâ I meant upcoming content that would be new for the entire game, not just new for a player. The kind of content CCP has a test server for so players can test if it all works as intented.
Though, is it unreasonable to want to want to say, learn how fighter control mechanics work before jumping in a 60 bil super into a fight where it might die in ten seconds?
If only there was some middle ground where you undock in friendly space and try stuff out instead of assembling your super and jumping straight into B-R.