Test Server Feedback

This may cause some major confusion to the people of 6-CZ48 but here it goes,
for the time being it is really just annoying that the first thing you read in the local channel is "I need fleet -x up" when you purpose of your visit might be testing da new stuff to get an impression on it.

If you do that you end up in being primaried by the nice captial fleet that need so much testing every day at any time and the 40000 macharials with officer mods that needs to be tested every day at any time while testing the stuff that is being changed just get scred in your face by the 12 year olds that bashed your ship with their allmighty machariel gang with their shiny dreads and carrier support.

Would testing not be much better if there were just tech1 and 2 ships to get on the test server so you can TEST stuff instead of getting punked?
I tend to log on to sisi and form an opinion about the things that are being tested there and really dont need all the same people in thier stupid pirate boats because they might have low self esteem issues there and they need to prove themselves that they can shoot down ONE ship in thier gangs or whatever is sitting there.

I do understand the temptation in pluging in 50 trillion isk worth of implants and showing off your uber-ftw-solo-instapoof-solo-i-kill-them-all-in-one-shoot and need to change my pants now because I rock so hard.....
But "making sisi more like TQ" doesn't really come to play with all the people in a serious need of a killmail to make it through the day.

Yeah Yeah, blabla

And why appeal to people being honest or fight with honor with what would they really fit / plugged in on the live server in da same situation?
I don't know but maybe I am foolish enough to see some good in at least some people?

This shows to me that the Machariel needs a rebalancing, but that's just me.

Don't like the rules for the Combat System? Go to another system and do your testing.

The pod rule was changed over a year ago, if you're just now finding out about this rule then you either haven't played in years or some anon who never reads rules.

The reason CCP changed the rules is because they didn't want to police the server all day long. That takes time AWAY from them working on Tranquility. The less time they get to work on patches, the more buggy they will be.

Just for the new kids, SISI is not here for you to test ship fittings. It's primary function is to search for bugs in the game and fix them.

Since the rules changes, the LAST system you want to go to to test anything is the main testing system. it has now come down to SISI just being a bone CCP throws at us before release so the min/maxers can look for possible exploits and abuses of mechanics so they can be ready on release date. They no longer seem to have the time to listen to or respond to the various change feedback threads, as they seem to have already made up their minds about how the changes will go down. Between them and the CSM's, SISI has pretty much been relegated to a way of providing static to the back end systems so they can tweak flow optimizations, and the bone they throw is more a lure just to get numbers.

Best recommendation is to find a system or systems as far from the test system and get some friends to test what you want to test. systems are seeded across the entire map, just have to find one in an npc system or claim sov if it hasn't been claimed.

Test server works quite well in that regard, OP. I have 4 accounts on there, I can test just about any fit I want but in terms of what I learn being usefull to EVE I need to go to test system and see how long it lasts in an Alpha blob. Answer is always the same. Not very long.

some people pvp endlessly some others spend two days setting up sov logistics infrastructure across 9 systems

http://i.imgur.com/gDI3e.jpg

having three accounts to use on sisi and two freighter pilots helped but crucible made it possible.

BTW a huge thank you to ccp for the pos anchoring and onlining changes!

Any available pirate faction ship can be obtained by just doing some missions for them and open the LP store - voilà your pirate ship in da ship section of da store.
I am not saying that I don't want anyone around, I was stating that the majority who populate 6C are way younger then me and they behave and talk like it.
They also use everything that is available to them and blob themselves to get a feeling of superiority. I bet what they would do on the live server is different from what they do on the test server to say the least.
Everything at the right time.
There is a time for doing crazy stuff and there is a time to do other stuff.
Would you propose that we start a nuclear war all over the world because "we can"?
Why don't humans all go out and murder everyone they meet next because "they can"?
Why don't people use thier cars and play carmageddon all day long because "they can"?
Not everything of what can be done should.
For me the test server is a copy of the live server where I can study the ship I fly and in case I did not fit them properly and they go poof I can replace them quickly and try different things fast then I could on the live server.
And I use modules that I would use on the live server as soon as I know what is a good fit and what is better on any given ship I would fly.
I could use officer / deadspace stuff and utterly expensive implants to get ahead of everyone else but I find it very unrealistic to go on the live server and buy a 5 billion isk implant set and a 10 billion isk fitted ship because it would take me far too long to obtain those things and have them crumbled in 10 seconds after obtaining them and flying around with them.
What I also find unrealistic are 13 year olds who have a character from about 4 years ago and 10 trillion isk to throw around which would mean that they started playing at age 9..
The first thing you will always hear in 6C local is the typical "need fleet" request and that goes on and on and everyone needs more fleets and then they are upset because one of thier solo-uber-wtf-pwn mobiles got shot and they must take revenge in thier halo gimped dreadnoughts and bring 24 alts with them to take thier revenge on one girl.
Yeah yeah, a girl with a dream of a better world, I know..

The best thing I had on test server was my nyx being blowed up while It was bumped out of a my pos by one of this random pubbies that only own a SC on test server but not on TQ. It was funny as well.