As a "test veteran", I can account for *some* of this. I do not know
about the incident last night (wasn't online, myself), but this
happened once before, and I had friends that were wiped clean. A
friend of mine had two characters impacted. One was restored, and
another (a 16th level ranger) lost all his items, which he had to
rebuild. I met a guy on there one day that got restored, and lost
8 levels (powergamed his way to 12th, and started back at 4th). I
know a high level Erudite cleric that had his character competely
removed, but he did finally get it restored.
I have played on test since June, and haven't had any problems.
I've never lost anything.
And I'm not sure I'd call 450 people during peak time "overcrowded".
:) Certainly, when I started, the population was not quite over 200,
so it has grown quite a bit. I suspect the newbie areas are more
populated than higher-level hunting grounds. I've been the only guy
in Cazic Thule and Unrest before, at certain times. I could go into
upper guk on any evening, however, and be the only one there. And
there are some advantages to the test server - the people are by far
friendlier than on any server (imho), and we also get to test out new
things before anyone else. Race war; Hate plane (I'm too low for that
of course); the new SplitPaw; Solusek Ro, etc, etc.
In fact, when I logged onto Fennin Ro Friday night to participate in
the sit-in, I had to download 25 minutes worth of old patches. :(
And, of course, when I went back to Test, I had to download 25 minutes
worth of the new stuff.
Ergo Soulhealer
22nd level high elf cleric of Tunare
guildmaster of the one-man guild - Hand of Tunare
Test Server
>From: "Rose" <rliu@...>
>Reply-To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
>To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
>Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] Playing on Test server
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:37:41 -0600
>
>Just so that everyone knows, playing on the Test Server does has its
>pitfall. For instance, just last night, everyone came back after a server
>dump and everyone lost one item or another. A lvl 38 druid friend of mine
>lost everything she was wearing. Most ppl either lost stuff in their
>inventory, person, bank account, or ALL. From what I understand from
>talking to Test Server veterans who has been there over 4 months, this
>occurs quit often and from the last time, they either didnt get their items
>replace or didnt get all of them replace. Basically, he says that he had
>to
>restart with the items twice.
>
>Other things that can go wrong on Test is that some skills can get screw up
>and not fix for quit awhile....for instance, druid's tracking.
>
>Also, it seems that more and more ppl are now coming over to Test...its
>beginning to become just as crowded as a production server...so I don't
>know
>if there will be as much advantages over the regular server.
>
>Just thought to let u guys know.
>
>-Imogen
>
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