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AsheBail · 09-30-2005, 11:31 AM

EtoilePB wrote: Um, sorry, but what Test server are you on? There are at least 45 different players I can think of that have one or more toons over level 45 -- many up to 52 or 53 by now -- and those are just the ones I know of from a certain board. It's true that the population's been ridiculously low for the past five days or so, but that's becahse 3/4 of the time the server's just back up from a crash and everyone hasn't logged back in yet. (Supposedly something in last night's patch was going to help fix our stability problem -- crashing several times a day is Not Fun. If you'd run a /who all yesterday between 1 and 4 EST there's a good chance you'd have gotten a /who all 6, as I once did, because of how many times the server crashed.) The extraordinarily low numbers and the crashes, however, are NOT the norm. As for new blood and the lower levels, every week a couple of players who are relatively new to the server join the guild I'm in. I presume it's the same rate for the other guilds. (And I say relatively new because I don't know of a single guild on the server that will accept brand-new players; most wait until they've leveled a little -- past 10, at least, often closer to 20 -- just to make sure the player wants to stay on the server.) That may not be an influx of hundreds of new people a week, but it does indeed add up. That's not all to say we couldn't always use more people, because we could, but please don't make up "facts" about what we have. There are people worldwide on Test and at any time of day or night you'll find them there, seeing what breaks and how.

I am one of the people about level 20 who only really goes on when my live server is down daily. Eveytime I do a /who all, there is about only 50 players; maybe 10 of which are around 50 and half are under 20. It does not mean that maybe its just the time of day. Also, it does seem bugs found are generally ignored when reported. Though that's a different issue. Though this somewhat off topic. Do you think the little daily tweaks should be put on test server before going to live or most of them are trivial in a need to be tested further?

09-30-2005, 11:31 AM	#11
AsheBail Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 61	EtoilePB wrote: Um, sorry, but what Test server are you on? There are at least 45 different players I can think of that have one or more toons over level 45 -- many up to 52 or 53 by now -- and those are just the ones I know of from a certain board. It's true that the population's been ridiculously low for the past five days or so, but that's becahse 3/4 of the time the server's just back up from a crash and everyone hasn't logged back in yet. (Supposedly something in last night's patch was going to help fix our stability problem -- crashing several times a day is Not Fun. If you'd run a /who all yesterday between 1 and 4 EST there's a good chance you'd have gotten a /who all 6, as I once did, because of how many times the server crashed.) The extraordinarily low numbers and the crashes, however, are NOT the norm. As for new blood and the lower levels, every week a couple of players who are relatively new to the server join the guild I'm in. I presume it's the same rate for the other guilds. (And I say relatively new because I don't know of a single guild on the server that will accept brand-new players; most wait until they've leveled a little -- past 10, at least, often closer to 20 -- just to make sure the player wants to stay on the server.) That may not be an influx of hundreds of new people a week, but it does indeed add up. That's not all to say we couldn't always use more people, because we could, but please don't make up "facts" about what we have. There are people worldwide on Test and at any time of day or night you'll find them there, seeing what breaks and how. I am one of the people about level 20 who only really goes on when my live server is down daily. Eveytime I do a /who all, there is about only 50 players; maybe 10 of which are around 50 and half are under 20. It does not mean that maybe its just the time of day. Also, it does seem bugs found are generally ignored when reported. Though that's a different issue. Though this somewhat off topic. Do you think the little daily tweaks should be put on test server before going to live or most of them are trivial in a need to be tested further? __________________ --------------------------------------- &nbsp&nbsp&nbspSenu Spellfury Dark Elf Wizard &nbsp&nbsp&nbspEryn Fistfury&nbsp Wood Elf Buiser &nbsp&nbsp&nbspRook Tuneshot&nbsp Half Elf Troubador &nbsp&nbsp&nbspAiela Dominae&nbsp High Elf Warden ---------------------------------------