Mantid

You really should get out and visit other boards on these forums...

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But yeah, its funny.

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So actually playing on test more than once in a great while is a silly reason for being invited to closed beta? Giving concise, useful bug reports about what you encounter in the test server is a silly reason to beta test the game? Would you give someone a backstage pass to a concert if the person never bought one of their CD's or merchandise, if you had the choice to give it to someone else who would appreciate it?

Sorry. You have to show you want it before they give it to you. Asking nicely isn't good enough.

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None of which are the crap I'm talking about and none of which seem to have any bearing on who is selected for beta.

If "showing you want it" means having paid for X months ahead of time, then fine, that's how it seems to work.

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Sure it does, Lighthouse mentioned one of the selection factors was logging onto test recently. So from the two criteria he listed I expect it went something like this.

1. select a group from previous beta tests.
2. select additional players from the group of people who had recently logged onto test.

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How does either of those have anything to do with how you pay for your subscription?

All I know it that as soon as I switched from time cards to paying for a larger period of time with a credit card, I received a issue beta invite that day, only a couple days before the issue went into open testing.

Sounds like a halfassed selection process to me.

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So actually playing on test more than once in a great while is a silly reason for being invited to closed beta? Giving concise, useful bug reports about what you encounter in the test server is a silly reason to beta test the game? Would you give someone a backstage pass to a concert if the person never bought one of their CD's or merchandise, if you had the choice to give it to someone else who would appreciate it?

Sorry. You have to show you want it before they give it to you. Asking nicely isn't good enough.

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None of which are the crap I'm talking about and none of which seem to have any bearing on who is selected for beta.

If "showing you want it" means having paid for X months ahead of time, then fine, that's how it seems to work.

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The devs say that they have a system for choosing beta testers, but they don't want to reveal what it is for fear of people trying to work the system.

However, if you beta-tested I9 or I10, then chances are you'll be in the I11 beta.

[edit] oh, and none of the testers are allowed to post anything about the beta because of an NDA

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Well I'm assuming that the only way you wuold get a invite to beta test the issues is if you have already done it before. so that basically jsut cancels out everyone except the select few they chose before. Reguardless of what else you have beta tested (in some people's cases beta testing the game before it launched)

Which is silly imo.

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The whole selection of beta testers is pretty silly to start with. I'm fairly certain I know two of the requirements, and they are pretty stupid, imo.

But I've given up on Crypic/NC on changing this policy.

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Quick question:

Things anyone can log on to the Training Room to see like costume pices, weapons, and power names are they OK to discuss?

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Yeah, just expect some people who aren't aware that it's public information to come back with "hey, don't talk about Fight Cl...err, beta"

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Great... you will be making an official additional weapon suggestion thread before we're flooded with threads about them, right?

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We just need that picture of the ghost ship going haywire...

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Sadly I was a little slow on the screen shot that day...

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Errr..what is an Emoticon?

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These are Emoticons (also called Graemlins):

Heeheehee. That is nice.

My current UI. I'm in the habit of changing the color to match the character its on for some odd reason...

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This contest was rigged!!

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I think Creole Ned brings up a good point. They could return in a small way. Time will tell.


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If they returned in anything less than game-wide, it would be worse than if they didn't return at all.

Case in point: RV Isolator.

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Or a 5th Columnist gladiator...

Biggest cop-out I've ever seen.

Sadly my computer died about a year ago... it took all my screenshots from back then with it...

I think this is my oldest surviving screenshot...

This shows the most age, however.

Some volunteers...

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Does Demoedit allow you to pose any character you want, in any map location, even Signature Heroes/Villains and friends characters from other accounts? If so, then he is still jerking me around by saying Demoedit isn't what he did.

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You can do just about anything with them provided you have the model info, the move/effects name, and map name that the demorecords use.

Here is most of the NPC model names

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2) Missed the table of contents this time. Just seemed a handy feature.

3) Anybody else get slightly lost when following the BtM conversations? Had a small problem tracking each article. (But no, can't really think of a better way to organize them)

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Yeah, both of these are probably part of the new layout I'm playing around with. I did intend to get a ToC in, but it just didn't happen, unfortunately. I think I know how and where to get it in next week.

The new layout also is very space conscious, and BtM is HUGE!!!

Yeah, it still needs some tweaking.

I'm so tempted to turn this into Jingleheimer Junction


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Rikti Sword Diving, its all the rave with the young Rikti.

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*Drops his BAB pic again*

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I would say it's not "The Journey's End", but the "Journey Continues" on Pinnacle!

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Well the journey to the most high level is certainly over. No one ever said it was the only journey, nor the last.

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this isn't exactly an unbiased, player representive publication; more like a clique pub.

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If it is, it comes complete with barroom brawls...

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Read
Digest
Understand

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Please.

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Somehow, I can actually see Nintendo making a game similar to that someday.

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Are ya kidding? Nintendo’s got the cajones that it would make this the next Legend of Zelda game!

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You know, Mario Paint 2 would have been good enough.

Somehow, I can actually see Nintendo making a game similar to that someday.

Well there was a reason I hadn't posted reference shots.