Test Server Feedback

Loving the test server so much, i wish the training on here could be different though so i can actually test out everything i want,
a lot of combat, industy, setting up structures, exploring fully etc.

thoughts about skill point revamps for test server or points awarded or something like that or possibly quicker training times. everything else is a gimmie i dont see how this cant be possible as well, so many players will come i bet.

people able to do everything aswell will help the test process this way 1000x better. to many people are limited and get bored is the downfall.

Test servers normally mean you can test things. not do everything the same as the real server. the server scale is huge and its sad not many people play on it. most are multiboxing in combat areas. make training time faster atleast or something like that as i said before. keep people wanting to actually play on it.

define a testing server, it wouldn't be to try out all the features as possible or to try out new ideas by doing things to try to find out bugs in all those features would it ? i mean they mention for new people to come and play after all.. so whos it for ?

faster training, more starting skill points. it doesn't have to be free all 5 skills everyone have fun in a titan now.

for the most part. the most people just sit in combat area's with there alt repping eachother. they obviously never tested games either and just want internet bragging points.

you need more players, fresh minds. new ideas so they can try different things in game to figure out the bugs and kinks and Loop holes.

i can see why people wouldn't want free SP, some like being the biggest kid on the block. but its not gonna help gameplay in the REAL server in the longrun.

its a TEST SERVER after all. people are still gonna want there FREE SP for the mass tests. because that's where it counts at the end of the day.

you are one of those people i was talking about lol. watched belts tonight just to make sure. like how most people on here are against it. guess what they were doing as well..

like i said before it doesn't have to be free, it can be multiplied to be quicker at least. incentives maybe for staying longer and playing on the test server. more time you spend more reward or something. i would much rather talk to people that work for the company instead. ive had way better luck in constructive play conversations.

im not against if people just wanna PVP and wreck stuff the whole time.. but you kind of need more of other players not worrying about killing someone so much to the point where they login a capital alt just to win for bragging rights on a test server.

cant find anyone that wants to try out PVE either to test a bunch of things out or to try item dupings or other loop holes tricks and nits learned from other games and so on then to report to HELP out besides the obvious to everyone bug.

ill just give up, i think ill join the herd and wait till its to late. no lagg in a billion ship fight is awesome though. lets just worry about that right. so bitter, this could be so much better and get actual new people to stay more than a day once a month.

ive given up trying to talk to players about it. thankfully ive been emailing back n forth wth some people. feeling alot better.

The SP Mechanic implemented through mastesting is CCP PRIMARY INCENTIVE to keep players masstesting. If there was any other way to accelerate the rate at witch players gained SP the primary issue would become how to incentive-ize the attendance of masstests. Those tests also ask players to bring a good MIX of ships as to give data on the performance of various ships in the environment (ie 6 beam laser boats did 9 times the damage to the control tower compared to 6 railgun boats).

The masstests are CCP's primary data collection babies, trying to give incentive to any other use of the server would probably be a poor choice on their part.

Conversations happen all the time in the Release & Feedback threads, try checking them out.

I'm sure you also tried to describe finding exploits on the server, something like that should be preformed with caution as exploiting is exploiting regardless of what server you are on and may not be dealt with as kindly as you would think.

So long story short, CCP's Goal is masstest attendance and feature/re-balance/change feedback, it doesn't seem maintaining a long term populous is on their list of things to do with this server.

TL:DR
Server is for CCP's Goals
You are a Guest
Things have been like this for a long time and it has changed a bit, but not much because it seems to work.

Skill point training will not be altered on Singularity.

The test server is intended to see how Tranquility might look with a certain patch out.

The desire for new players is so that the upcoming changes to the new player experience can be tested.

A horrible thought just appeared, they are getting ready to significantly change supers, which means they will need to be tested. The dark days are returning with fighter supers and large gun Titans. Beware....