Test Server Feedback

A bunch of dust items on the market are bugged, both in market window and show info. They don't appear at all.
And the new drop down menu (with the new options) on the chat window doesn't disappear when you click esc. (Don't know if this is working as intended).

Other than that i don't really know what should we test with this new build.

If there's a battle going on on the planet you can see explosions occasionally. We're going to be testing Live Orbital Striking.

Market: Exercise as much of the market as possible; including buying and selling directly, placing buy/sell orders that are not filled immediately, buying and selling from/to NPCs and making sure orders evolve correctly (note differences between skills books and BPs vs. commodities). Take special note of region specifics and ranges.

Inventory: All inventory operations. A lot of it will be covered in the market tests, but also moving things between hangars, into and from corp hangars, trading, undocking and docking, spawning stuff, blowing stuff up.

Sessions: Session changes as in docking/undocking, jumping between systems on the same node and on different nodes, contacting different services (market, character, corp/alliance, chat, …), moving in and out of fleet.

Characters: Make sure that all aspects of characters function.

Corporations: Make sure that EVE corporations works, creating, disbanding, corp mechanics (such as no CONCORD response), corp chat, corp hangar, corp member tracking, roles, etc.

Chat: All aspects of all types of chat. Private, fleet, local, etc. EVE Voice as well.

Fleets: Everything.

Logged in today to biomass a character on TQ and noted the mass test tomorrow so thought I would check out the new set up on Buckingham.

So feedback;

Copy TQ setup to new folder: check
Make a new shortcut as advised: check
Add /server details as advised: check
Run shortcut: check
Launcher runs and creates new patch: check
Patch installs and [Play] button lights up: check
Click [Play] button and client starts to load but stops with a ‘Checking Status’ message on the log in screen: Hmmm
Ah Ha, realise my firewall has probably blocked the client as it’s new so tab out and check, yep firewall is getting miffed with new client. Authorise new client and tab back in.
Log in and answer the ULA and get a message ‘Welcome to Buckingham’, so far so good.

Client loads and we are in the CQ, everything seems to work as on TQ so that’s OK then.
Change to Hanger View and ship spinning seems fine.
Check out the [Esc] menu and make changes as required, nothing new that I can see here so go back to hanger.

Next I set up my chat windows, what’s this, chat windows have changes, new drop down menus, and the add windows bubble has gone. Oh bother (being polite here), how do I add the ‘Buckingham’ chat window. Finally find it under the [Chat] button on the Neocom, not exactly user friendly but whatever, it works.

Change ship with drag and drop, yep that’s ok, open cargo hold and set the windows for open as secondary, yep that’s working.
Undock and check cargo hold in space, that’s ok, hey this is not on we should have had bugs by now, no fair CCP.

Do a scan using on board scanner, this is getting boring, that works as well.
Dock up and change to scanning Helios, undock and scan for ‘life forms’ (see STTNG), find an almost there 0.15% hit.
Use 5 probes and after much careful scanning get it to 99.76 then 100% and find a Grav site with asteroids I’ve never met in 4 years of playing. Never found one of those in my home system before.

This afternoon I’ll fly to another system and check out the market and see if that works, I’ll also see how PI can be set up with this new system, that is if CCP don’t do their usual and shut down the server just after I log in .

P.S. couldn’t find Wills or Kate

Its ALWAYS offline, any way to fix it?

Local chat is not working for me. It shows all black but it does say how many pilots are in local and currently its 31. Also there is no option to join channels. I got podded and i cant join moveme channel so my testing is done.

I have also experienced all of those issues

Add a script to remove cans after 2h would be nice too...
right now my sanctum made 3days ago still have the cans in space (after salvage)

No deadspace or faction items on the market to test, dunno if this is a bug or a feature.

I really like the new chat window design/layout. However it took me a good moment to figure out on how to join chat channels now.

My suggestion: The last chat window tab in a window should have a small "+" right next to its tab, similar to all common browsers (and the ingame browser as well to some extend). People should immediately be able to grasp it's functionality. As an alternative, there could be a new entry under the gear button. If there's already an entry somewhere outside the Neocom chat button, I obviously missed it.

Edit: While at it, it would be nice for the browser tabs to use the same system rather than having those +/- buttons on the far left/right.