The_Coming_Storm

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

More people, more voices, less focus.

In Catwhoorg's sentence above "more" modifies focused, not feedback. More focused, not more feedback.

In the early stages, it's not about the quantity of responses and people looking at things, or about loading the servers and systems. It's about noticing important bugs and pinning down how to reproduce them so they can be seen by the devs and fixed.

When there's a lot of people in a beta, and a lot of people posting, it quickly becomes impossible to pin down the responses and reports you need from the people working on the bugs you're interested in.

Essentially, we used to have blacklist betas. There was no such thing as closed betas for most of the early issues. They went to a closed beta system, and since then by and large Issues have come out with far fewer bugs in most cases. Truth of the matter is, they flat out work better (or they wouldn't keep doing them).

Originally Posted by Catwhoorg

Closed then open provides the Devs with focused feedback early in the process. The smaller groups leads to a much better ability to manage them

Originally Posted by je_saist

TCS: you need to read the current five posts at this link: http://www.gamenikki.com/g3/blogs/Ja...stIndexItem=45

(note: due to the tracking nature of the blog system in use, these 5 posts will change and be sorted further down the list)

Originally Posted by MEdelen

I17 has been in closed beta for alittle over a week now (1 week 1 day to be exact) and there hasn't been any new patches being applied to the test server. I may not be in closed beta, but I can still receive the patches when they update i17 CB or fix problems with a patch. Maybe if there are no problems, or this continues, it will go into OB sooner than the average 28 days an issue is typically in CB.

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

I know this has come up before, but a lot of the old bad ones have been patched up. In your opinion, what are the single worst powers currently in the game?

My nominations:

- World of Confusion. Otherwise known as "At Least It Takes Purples."

- Stealth, in the age of IOs.

- Group Fly. For reasons long ago established.

And my winner, by a huge margin:

- Sonic Repulsion. A power that is rumored to exist in the Sonic Resonance set, but, like the invisible pink unicorn, speaks to us from beyond the fold of reality.

What are yours?

Originally Posted by Part_Troll

ITF on Virtue. Many scrappers, some blasters, a tank, a controller and a FF defender.

First mission I notice a distinct lack of personal bubbles.

"Can we please have the team bubbles"

'Sorry, I don't have the small bubbles'

Do an Info on the L50 defender -- Personal Force Field, Dispersion Bubble, Force Bubble. That's it. The two team bubble powers completely absent.

'I like playing odd builds, this build can tank like anything when I'm solo ...'

It's a freaking TASK FORCE lady! Get your head out of your fundament and use the Dual Builds for a SOLO/PVP version and a TEAM version of your useless defender!

Had I been team leader, she would have been unceremoniously booted.

As it was, I was just along for the ride, and it was a very sloppy death-filled ride, let me tell you. We prevailed, it was 'okay', but it wasn't anything -like- the kind of Blaster Nirvana I thought I was enrolled in. :/

I did ask her if she also had a petless mastermind ...

Ex

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Huh... That IS odd. I guess whatever posts the Storm was banned for would be deleted anyway, so checking the posting history was futile, and we'll never know since Moderators don't discuss this. It's just... Odd.

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

Dude, did you see the list of games that accept Kwedit?

Check the list down near the bottom.

Originally Posted by IAmTheRad

*picks up two pistols*
Now, these pistols are for drawing.
*presses the trigger of one and a pencil tip comes out, and he writes a note "GOING ROGUE PREPURCHASE IS OUT""
Don't be Rouge Angles of Satin here.

Originally Posted by Shocktor

It was nice for someone to post the location of the Closed Beta boards in her profile (maybe they thought they were sending a PM)...

At least we know they exist...

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

As I said above, if you're in, you will be able to see the forum sections. Such has it been for every closed beta I've been involved in except for a minor glitch on the first one.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

If anything, it's the biggest content update in terms of raw file size we've gotten, second only to CoV. Granted, things like Inventions or the Architect may have had a great impact, but this is like downloading a whole new game on top of this one.