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[lljh]

<DIV>I would be happy to join in the testing if my guy was on test.  But I have worked too long on my character to not have him on a normal playing server.  Why not allow player copies?</DIV><p>Message Edited by lljh on <span class=date_text>03-09-2005</span> <span class=time_text>07:16 AM</span>

[Daffid011]

Why don't players use the search function.

[lljh]

<DIV>Because 9 out of 10 times it says Server is Busy.</DIV>

[Poyz]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> lljh wrote:<BR> <DIV>I would be happy to join in the testing if my guy was on test.  But I have worked too long on my character to not have him on a normal playing server.  Why not allow player copies?</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV>Moogard Quote "As mentioned in Scott Hartsman's Producer's Letter, our goal is to build a thriving Test server community. Since our Test server opened up after most of our regular worlds, many players who would like to participate on Test currently have characters on other servers and may be reluctant to start over.<BR> <BR>In order to let these folks join the Test community, we are now offering character transfers to our Test server. To make this a more manageable process, we will perform character moves in phases of several servers at a time."<BR><A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=news_announcements&message.id=109" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=news_announcements&message.id=109</A></DIV> <DIV><BR>I suggest that SOE let us COPY our toons over to the Test Sever instead of Transfering to the Test Server. Also give us the option to copy 1 toon as an option. Also with Full gear, and coin that is on that toon as well, not naked. You don't need to copy the Bank contents. Why on earth (er Norrath) <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> would you want to startover a toon you already worked so hard on naked?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This would serve to give you (SOE) a proper population, class and lvl flexabilty to test new items, spells, zones, and encounters. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Moogard Quote "Please note that this is a character move option, not a character copy option. Your character will no longer exist on its original server. Our goal is to enhance the Test community by adding players who consistently want to be at the forefront of improving the game, and the best way to achieve that is to offer the chance to make Test server your character's permanent home."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As a long time player I will NOT transfer my toons to test. I didn't buy EQ2 to do yer testing for you. I also would miss many frinds and Guildies which I know will not Move their toons to Test. However I would be willing to copy my toons to test and test new things out now and then to help improve the game quality and hopefully find your bugs for you. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>SOE this is a TEST server. I think if you would have patched the test server yesturday FIRST, you probibly would have found the Stein of Mo and Uber drop rare problem before you had all that downtime.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now you are probinly thinking that Everyone will copy toons over and stay and play there. I kind of dought that. I would like to check new things you are doing to my class though so I can provide feedback on it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As far as economy goes, who cares! This is the Test Server. It is meant to test your code and make sure Live Servers don't crash when you patch them.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You can even put a time limit on the Copied toons so that regular Test patrons are not effected. I would not mind that at all.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>SOE, you all did a fine job creating EQ2, I played EQ1 for a very long time. Let us try tihs and see if we the EQ community can actually test these patches before you go live with this stuff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now these are just suggestions. I do not claim to have all the answers, but I do know that after these big patches and all the downtime that goes with them this is really getting irritating to me as a player.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Also you since you all neglect to update the Login messages and only provide 1 chat room that holds 1000 peeps outta 350,000 players is getting a bit old as well. Not knowing what is going on (Being in the dark) really irritates players. You can't tell you can't put new forums up</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Moorgard quote "All English-language servers are currently locked to address an issue that appeared with this morning's update. We apologize for the inconvenience and will have them open as soon as possible. We will post further details when we have them."</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=news_announcements&message.id=117" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=news_announcements&message.id=117</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Why not post that on the Login screen?!?! and give a little more detail as to what is going on SOE.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>SOE has 350,000+ subscrbers at this time x $15.00 bones a month which at a minimum is (5.25) Million bones.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For that kind of cash flow we should not have to have all this downtime after a patch.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>