How the hell are we supposed to test it? Go solo the lord room and die 10 or
20 times? Jeeze. Verant really pissesme off..

Klayan Deathbringer lvl 50 Nec
Celantra lvl 10 Bard
"The Unforgiven"

>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: "'eqbards@onelist.com'" <eqbards@onelist.com>
>Subject: [eqbards] EQ Testing Procedure
>Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 01:58:05 -0700
>
>Well, here you have it straight from the EQ team themselves. In an excerpt
>from the test server:
>
>Solution:
>
>Ideally, Feign Death should work like Invisibility, where summoned pets
>suicide and the charmed ones break Charm. We do not want, however, to
>adversely affect lower level Necromancers to such a large degree. What we
>do recognize is the need to prevent higher level Necros from exploiting key
>spawn points. Hence, when you Feign Death, any charmed NPC will
>immediately
>break Charm. However, summoned NPCs (pets) will not be affected. While
>this still allows the use of the Feign Death tactic with your summoned pet,
>it does not imbalance the game and many dungeon spawns to the degree that
>charming an NPC does.
>
>We would appreciate diligent testing of this change, to insure that no
>unforeseen problems have been caused by it.
>
>-The EverQuest Team
>
>So now they are saying they would appreciate diligent testing of a change?
>Wtf? Who is the customer and who is the service provider here? I guess
>this tells us everything we need to know about Verant test procedure.
>Throw
>the code out on the test server and hope some player puts it to task.
>
> Kitasi
> more disillusioned than ever

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