At 09:18 AM 6/21/00 -0500, you wrote:

> My concern is this: How long will it take players of the less-common
>classes (in particular Bards and Rogues) get to higher levels to test the
>songs/skills etc that only come at the high-level.
>
> I heard (here?) that Verant's in-house testing group is four. We know
>their ability to test Bard songs is poor to non-existent (levitate change
>for example). So basically - the one stopgap hope we have for changes that
>affect songs is gone until the few people that play bards (or fill in other
>class) on the test server enough to get to level X...

i don't see how the player wipe hurts this phase of testing since the levitate bug
was not caught on test server either.

> This shows very poor foresight.
>
> As far as conjecture - I wonder if Verant is planning on making a major
>change (database?) that is dramatically changing some sort of data structure
>and wants to put the change into the test server before they write the
>conversion program. If so - doesn't give me much confidence on the data
>(i.e. high-level chars) they are testing that conversion with...

how would the data structure on a high level character be any different from a level
1 character?

>Slyde