Test Server Feedback

Hi,

In the next hours we are running tests for automated account mirroring on Singularity. We cannot promise anything at this point. This tries to update your account data on Singularity with the latest changes on TQ. Anything on the characters (including skills) should not be affected. If you had a different password on Sisi then you might have to switch using the password from TQ.

Please reply here if you experience any new problems with your accounts there. For the case of sensitive information send me an EVE-mail (but please do not include passwords).

Can you expand on that a bit? What data should change? What should I keep looking at?

Then you say:



So the changes that might or might not occur pertain to data that is not visible in-game or should I say in-character (as opposed to out of character). This data includes password, account expiry, payment method and similar. Did I get that right?

Sounds good. people that are banned on tq should be banned on sisi too.

Thanks!

You obviously know more about how the player files are structured, but I find it hard to believe that copying over a portion of the file is somehow easier than the entire file. You're pulling some data from the file, copying it to SISI overwriting the SISI copy, but doing that with the entire file takes more developer time?

I dont know much about this, but wouldn't it be possible to write a really really long script that would copy TQ, delete all POS's , remove sov, seed modules, etc. Then have that run every few months automatically making the job easier for you guys long term?

Apologies if I'm being dense here, but does switching to an automated mirroring method mean Sisi will be mirrored more frequently, and if so is this going to make supercapital production on the test server impossible?

I'm slightly curious, what are the reasons for doing this atall, I cannot see how people who are inactive on TQ having their accounts inactive on Sisi really does to benefit the testing of future releases, the only reason I can think of is to force those who don't sub their TQ accounts, and just play Sisi to be forced into paying their subscriptions again. I may be wrong and if I am please feel free I would love to know the actual reason for this, but atleast to me, just looks like it's nothing more than a moneygrab.

If you didnt reactive me from the acounts thread its working for accounts that time out and then resub on TQ.

What you are describing is basically a full mirror. Most things for mirrors are scripted, but not everything. And yes, it is a quite heavy on our infrastructure (which is one of the reasons for keeping them seldom).



Full mirrors might be slightly less frequent, if the automated account mirroring works as expected. But we will still be doing full mirrors every few months.



Yeah, only the account itself is copied - without your characters. Feel free to create new characters on Singularity. We understand, that this is not perfect, but it should be at least better than having no account at all.


Frequency: We are looking into running this once per day, but this is not decided so far.
Character transfers: Unknown so far. I don't know if this would only need a small fix or if this would be something bigger.