Test Server Feedback

Mirrors are made at CCP's convenience, not player's. If you want extra SP, attend the Mass Tests for 2m free. Or plug in +5s and get to training. The server is to test bugs for upcoming and past features, not an EFT playground.

New Mirror pls.

If they really wanted to let as many people as possible test bugs, It would make more sense to have toons there that have enough SP to fly and run whatever is needed. I wanted to test the drones and had to do this on my own:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2416871#post2416871

As at the time of the drone changes, I had nothing to jump in with other then a Drake with 5 hobs; pretty sure it counts as "testing" but expecting me to spending orders of magnitudes longer time wise, to get more drones then watching them fly - considering the AI could initially kill them in seconds at time - is pointless, also pretty sure I'd get the ship killed lots, meaning more time waste setting them up, regardless of it being seconds or minutes.

Testing should be turnkey. Try something, flick a button try it a different way, flick a key. etc.

I fully understand CCP can't do THAT level of player interaction, but allowing players more SP's allows them to ignore whatever training they have, put skills in exactly what they need to test, and go test it. It gets reset weeks later, so why is it a problem? We already know EVE has refund mechanics, so I'm not even asking for something that needs from scratch code to be made, It would be a single database command to add X more SP to every player account.

If they ever run testing on a new Titan change, how many people would they actually expect to be able to "test" it properly? If syncs are common, you're not allowed to grief etc, what harm is there to give players SP's for testing?

I'd also like to points out that even after "the testing" it was voted to be broken AND practically all the missions had all room aggro, so, how did that slip past?

From a tester point of view that makes no sense. Something comes up for testing and you instantly remove a section of all the player base from testing because they do not have the particular hulls trained well enough.

If they say "we need testing of ring mining" how many players do you think they will get? First off, all the combat people in SiSi now that test fleets will not have mining barge skills or the inclination to bother to try shooting rocks, and the miners in TQ will probably not be interested to mine for no benefits, and if I wanted to test it - and I would - I'd also have to train for a couple of weeks before even getting in the hull+mods.

... which makes perfect sense. By that same reasoning, if they wanted players testing drones, why not let players that have no drone skills spend points IN drones to do teh testing.

Yes I am aware that its not that simple, I'm just saying that it would be far more logical, and since just handing a couple of million SP would cover two months of training, always adding 2 million spare SP's every time there is a sync would be the fastest, least over powered way to get more people to do testing.

-70 days now, ideas if we will see one before 3 month point?

In the last downtime, they might have taken a mirror from TQ. The long DT of Singularity could mean, that the testserver finally gets an update. Just hoping.