Test Server Feedback

Hi Sisi fans,

I want to let you know about a change we are making to the market seeding for the summer. To enable the Alliance Tournament testing to run smoother, we are going to be expanding the seeding to all stations. Since we also need to seed some extra ships and ammo, we are going to have a test run of seeding EVERYTHING, with some exceptions. The following items will not be seeded (with reasons why)

- Supercapital ships. It was decided that with Masstest skillpoints, seeding supers would be too impactful to the combat system without any countermeasures. They will not be seeded as a result of this.
- Certain "rare" ships. Due to the special nature of these ships it would not be proper to seed them for mass purchase. The list of ships can be found here http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Unique_Ships
- Officer modules. Officer modules are very high power with very low skill requirement. They would become the de facto fitting and would make the next 6 weeks very boring.

Please note that this is temporary. It is both a trial (as many have asked for faction mods, etc, to be seeded) and a way to facilitate ATX testing without going crazy on our seeding scripts. This will disappear with the next mirror (following the alliance tournament) and be replaced with a new seeding script.

Changes will be made today.

Sounds great! I hope that after the ATX, you'll keep the Faction ships/mods, Deadspace mods seeded in SiSi. It was frustrating to want to test out a faction ship before I buy it in TQ but find that the ship wasn't seeded in my area. And I agree with you, Officer mods should probably not be seeded, at least for now. I wouldn't mind seeing them seeded afterwards though.

That is disappointing to hear, but understandable as it seems counter productive to have any idiot running around with Deadspace fit ships willynilly on the test server. However, my counter-argument is that with the increase in availability of Faction and Deadspace mods on SiSi, it allows me (and others) to actually test my higher end fits without the worry of being blown up by rats or other players while testing out my fits real-time. This is not to mention the money sink that Faction and Deadspace items are. It would be nice to have the opportunity to dry run the expensive modules for better efficiency on TQ. At the moment, I'm hesitant to buy Deadspace modules because I don't wish to spend the ISK to find out if the extra UMPH the Deadspace mods give my fit are actually worth it in the end.

As I have no reason to use officer mods, I won't try to argue that point. They are awesome modules, but to me they are moot points if you're hesitant to even include Faction mods on SiSi permanently.


At the very least, I'm satisfied with the Faction Ships.

Thank you very much for the faction ammo seeding.

Would it be possible to change the position on unique ship seeding? They have been seeded on sisi before with no negative effects that I saw. And their seeding would be very useful for many tournament teams.

Wondering this myself.

Likely Monday.

Flagships, I believe, are the only ones allowed to be fitted with faction/deadspace mods

Does this mean there is going to be another mirror? cause i would like to be able to access Sisi, but missed the mirror last time due to me coming back to EVE!!! >:

In terms of practise, I would argue that those teams in possession of the ships would have earned the right to having a bit of a secret weapon. I will talk to the tournament coordinators and game design on Monday and see what they say, but I would think that it's unlikely to happen.

From the perspective of the remaining team with by far the most unique ships in our possession, we don't mind other people being able to test with them and would prefer to have them seeded.