Did this really go live?

[GSHaberma]

<div>I have been playing on test and cant believe LU19 went into place with a broken Quest (Checking on Charles) and no drops in 2 collection quets (sparrow and abalone). What is the point of test if you gonna release with errors?</div>

[Ariathas]

Why post accusations based on an assumption?Why not log in and verify yourself if these quests are still broken on live?<div></div>

[GSHaberma]

<div></div>I logged into test and yes the quest is still broken. I habe a lvl 9 char with lvl 9 tradeskills who is just suitting in the Outpost till he can finish these 3 quests. THere was no patch on test today.

[Ariathas]

I said live <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div>

[Kelfizzle]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>GSHabermaas wrote:<div>I have been playing on test and cant believe LU19 went into place with a broken Quest (Checking on Charles) and no drops in 2 collection quets (sparrow and abalone). What is the point of test if you gonna release with errors?</div><hr></blockquote><p>Hm, I had no problem with the feather collection, but you are right with abalone (spent 3 hours with tons of mussels, claims and so on... :/ ) and CoC.</p><p>I will re-check it when LU19 is live. Maybe they fixed it before bringing it onto the live-servers.</p>

[Hirebra]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>GSHabermaas wrote:<div>I have been playing on test and cant believe LU19 went into place with a broken Quest (Checking on Charles) and no drops in 2 collection quets (sparrow and abalone). What is the point of test if you gonna release with errors?</div><hr></blockquote>I completed both collection quests on Test. Maybe you are just unlucky. Turtle shell was <i>my</i> last collection item and it took a while.</span></div>

[Trust]

<div>can't log into a live server, they've been down for almost 8 hours</div>

[Gallenite]

<div>Seems strange, doesn't it?  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div><div> </div><div>Sometimes what happens late in the cycle with these updates is this:</div><div> </div><div>* We get the patch 99% of the way to where we want it on the public Test Server</div><div>* When we end up with everything working except for 3 or 4 small bugs (exactly like the broken quest you're talking about), we iterate them on the internal test server until they're gone, not changing anything else.  (We can iterate on an internal server in about 1/4 the time of doing a public Test Server update.)</div><div>* Once we clear the trauma of "patch day," we update Test again to make sure that Live and Test are once again in sync.</div><div> </div><div>So what should happen when this goes live:  These will be fixed on live.  Then they'll be fixed on test a couple hours later.</div><div> </div><div>Hope that makes sense.</div><div> </div><div>It's not something we do a lot of, but sometimes in the hours before a patch it's a necessity to make sure that the Test /bugs we want to cover are addressed before we send a big update live.</div><div> </div><div>- Scott</div><div> </div>

[juz]

<div></div><p>Those 2 quests have been there since release. I started a test character and found all feather in 5 minutes.</p><p>Didn't collect shells.</p>

[rezmond]

<div></div>"When we end up with everything working except for 3 or 4 small bugs"<span>i think you missed a few zero's  </span><span>:smileywink:</span><div></div><p>Message Edited by rezmond on <span class="date_text">02-02-2006</span><span class="time_text">11:08 AM</span></p>

[Jai1]

<div></div>You can skip quests.  I don't even know if early quest count in your quest totals.  The items, you will outlevel in a few days of regular play.  There is a ton of content that gets pushed out with an LU.  I'm looking forward to jumping off carpets and the raid management changes. Haven't read the lastest notes but hopefully those are working.

[Erladd]

<div></div><p>Just out of curiosity, why haven't post 50 advance carpenter books been added with this patch as well?</p><p>I would think that while you were in there re-doing all the 1-20 books, you would take some time and fix that bug as well?</p>

[GSHaberma]

<div>TY for the clarification, I will be patient.</div>

[thesilverf]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>GSHabermaas wrote:<div>I have been playing on test and cant believe LU19 went into place with a broken Quest (Checking on Charles) and no drops in 2 collection quets (sparrow and abalone). What is the point of test if you gonna release with errors?</div><hr></blockquote>I finished both Collection quests on three different toons.  Abalone was a pain on all of them, but it is there.  Sparrow feathers I had plenty of.  Falcon was hard for me. 

[Mathe]

<div></div>I never had an issue with that quest or those collection quests.

[Lathspell]

I rolled 2 new toons on test, one good, one evil.  On the good one I got both collection quests done faster than I had on the live or my other test server toons.  Now on the evil side I couldnt find the turtle shell or the falcon feather for the longest time.  But I did find them eventually.<div></div>

[Korpo]

Don't you guys know that if a quest takes more than a minute or two to complete, it's obviously broken?<div></div>

[Zh]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>GSHabermaas wrote:<div>I have been playing on test and cant believe LU19 went into place with a broken Quest (Checking on Charles) and no drops in 2 collection quets (sparrow and abalone). What is the point of test if you gonna release with errors?</div><hr></blockquote>You get forum Troll rank 1/10. Please quit the game and leave those that are content with it free from the oppression of constant whiners that will never be satisfied with anything in thier life.</span></div>

[Rattfa]

i was thinking the collection quests were broken in some way, because i havent found a single sparrow feather or abalone shell since the last update on test....yet harvested literally hundreds of shells/feathers with different toons on both islandsthats seems a little off to mebut whatever...no play for me..test is down and the euro servers dont get an update till tomorrow <span>:smileysad:</span><span></span><div></div>

[GSHaberma]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Zhek wrote:<div><span>You get forum Troll rank 1/10. Please quit the game and leave those that are content with it free from the oppression of constant whiners that will never be satisfied with anything in thier life.</span></div><hr></blockquote><p>I was not whining, I did not understand the hows of release and was afraid that the problems on test were going to be sent to the live servers.  Since the last patch update, abalone and sparrows stopped dropping.... I searched for 3 days, not 5 min.</p><p>I love this game, and only want to see the best product put forward.</p>

[FatalPhoenix]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>korpo53 wrote:Don't you guys know that if a quest takes more than a minute or two to complete, it's obviously broken?<div></div><hr></blockquote><font size="3" face="Verdana">Darn.  I missed that memo.  :smileywink:</font>

[Rhianni]

<div>If this only has those 3 bugs you described this will be a very successful LU</div>

[retro_guy]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>GSHabermaas wrote:<div>I have been playing on test and cant believe LU19 went into place with a broken Quest (Checking on Charles) and no drops in 2 collection quets (sparrow and abalone). What is the point of test if you gonna release with errors?</div><hr></blockquote>I've done both of the collection quests on Test and didn't find any issues.I did run into another player who couldn't find an abalone shell, so I gave her one of my spares. I also have a few sprrow feathers spare if anyone needs them I'm in Qeynos now.Perhaps the quest drops became broken after I collected them, which was about 3 days ago.</span></div>

[Rattfa]

funny thing, after test came back up lastnight, the first two collection items i found were a sparrow feather and an abalone shell <span>:smileyhappy:</span> followed by another 3 sparrow feathers <span>:smileyvery-happy:</span><div></div>