----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Honeyman" <honeyman@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] EQ Testing Procedure

> > BTW about getting a character buffed to your present level on test? dont
> > hold your breath...they havent done anything like that since the
population
> > explosion.
>
> The test server is for testing, if they don't understand that -
> then I won't bother wasting my time. It does seem that those
> few people who play on the test server and invested time into
> a character feel bad about importing a L50 character into it.
> I completely understand your position, but I've earned all my
> levels already, there's no surprise or falsity in copying my
> bard to test. You kind make it sound like you've earned your
> levels on the test server, so everyone else would have to. I
> don't want to play there, I simply want to test there.

I went to test way back when wanting to test too.. All testing (the real
stuff) is done by inhouse testers. And if I came across as what you said i
did not mean to. I have given up trying to become a part of whoever the test
population is....the only reason i put my time on the ts is to lend
credibility to what i said. I have been there ALONG time (in other words i
didn't just start a character there yesterday and only know the hearsay)
>
> The truth is at L16 you cannot really test the majority of the
> changes that are going on as of late. By promoting a character
> straight to L50, you cut the anticipation of getting new songs
> by just giving it all to them. That is bad.
>
I dont want to be a buffie. I want to earn every level i make. Whether its
with my necro, my bard, my cleric, my shaman, my wizard, or my rogue...makes
no matter to me...theres bugs in things under 50 to. Id be more than willing
to test the things they want to add for us low characters *listens to the
crickets*

> I've done it all, leveled frustratingly, and have all the song
> knowledge from experience. You're right, it makes too much sense
> to do something practical like give an already L50 bard the
> privledge to test out his songs on a non-live server.

Im just stating the way its been.
>
> And I had a level 10 monk on the test server... made level 10
> in about 10 mins via guide buffing. So obviously, they don't
> mind upping levels.

Well 10 levels is nothing. There are characters who started their lives as
30 40 or 50. Im not trying to get in an argument with you harmonic. Im just
letting you know what its really like on the test server from my eyes.

--Cethan
>
> Harmonic.
>
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