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From: jhenders@... [mailto:jhenders@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 1:37 PM
To: eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Kunark Expansion

From: jhenders@...

On Tue, Mar 14/00, Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...> wrote:
> ...Songs were missing in beta, and never made it in. I believe the
> same thing will transpire here. The songs that I imagine being added
> will come one or two weeks before they ship the final for release, and
> those songs will be vague and poorly tested. That comment is based on
> my 1.5 years of experience with Brad's team.

That's my expectation too. In case people don't know, through all of
beta, right up to the last week of P4, there were only 20 bard songs in
the game. Then, just before they booted us all off to go final, most of
the current 20-50 songs went in (with huge gaps in the 40's).

Just how much testing and balancing do you think got done on them before
they got in (and no they weren't on the test server either)

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Heh, I remember that. I also remember on the last day of P4 they put in
wildly broken quests that would give items worth 60 to 100 plat when sold to
merchants :) I managed to get my bard outfitted in full chainmail in an
hour or two, haha. I should have gone for plate, but I was getting lots of
ohhh and ahhh zooming around in full chain the last day.

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