Test server Instant Leveling?
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BetaKomplex,
Posted on: 2011-04-21 21:13 in The Global Training Room Test Server
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Unfortunately there's really no way to "instantly" level any character on the Test server. There have been a few times during beta testing when the Devs offered strict "one-time" level bumps to test out new powersets. But there's never been any other way to do that and there probably never will be either. Basically the Devs want people to actually "earn" level 50s. If they let people just "test drive" them at will they'd probably be less willing to play for real. 
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If devs were more consistent with their implied threat to delete characters on test, then the devs would not need to be worried about players sticking with the test drive model. Or they could have it so that the test drive model has an expiry date. Say create a character and talk to the level up contact. Contact gives you enough XP to get to 50 and timer is activated for a specified period of time. Timer ends and perma dead character.
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I think the main problem with allowing anyone to insta-level a character on the Test server is that there are likely still a handful of people out there who play on it as if it was their "native" server. In other words they play "for real" out there. I know it's weird, but it'd be unfair to allow people the chance to have instant 50's that they'll turn around and use for real.|
Originally Posted by starphoenix
If devs were more consistent with their implied threat to delete characters on test, then the devs would not need to be worried about players sticking with the test drive model. Or they could have it so that the test drive model has an expiry date. Say create a character and talk to the level up contact. Contact gives you enough XP to get to 50 and timer is activated for a specified period of time. Timer ends and perma dead character.
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Also as far as I know people still use the Test server as the unofficial PvP server. Again I'm pretty sure the Devs don't want to allow anyone the ability to auto-level characters that they may end up actually using for serious play.
Basically apart from future powerset beta testing I don't really ever see it happening. *shrugs*
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Did anyone test creating a new Toon on Test? When it was patched with Beta a while ago it inherited the zero-to-fifty script. I don't know if that's turned off or not.
If you make a new Toon and it doesn't become 50 upon zoning into the City, then the script is gone and Test currently has no auto-leveling.
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The thing that a lot of people have trouble grasping is that the Test Server is for the Developer's benefit, not ours. The Test Server is used to test new builds for publish to the live servers. As such, the code of the Test Server needs to be as close to the code of the Live servers as possible.
If they were to include code to allow us to level on Test, they would either need to include it on Live (even if it were disabled), or they would be risking a whole host of undetectable Live bugs every time they pushed a patch to the Live servers from Test, as the code is not the same.
tl;dr version:
Test is not for us to test any old thing we want to test. Test is for Paragon to test a publish before it is pushed Live. When we play on Test, we are volunteering our time to help Paragon minimize the bugs that make it Live.
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At least for now when you create a character on the beta server you can train up to L50 so you can test your powers
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Yes, on Beta, the 1 -> 50 script is in place and it only works on level 1 toons. Copying over a level 5 toon will miss out on the leveling script.|
Originally Posted by TeamSG1
At least for now when you create a character on the beta server you can train up to L50 so you can test your powers
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And I just checked: There is no leveling script active on the Training Room Server (i.e., the Test Server).
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And the auto-level only works on red or blue toons, it wont auto-level if you go Pretorian, i tried it myself.
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Further clarification, the Script affects Hero and Villain level 1s, Praetorians are unaffected.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Yes, on Beta, the 1 -> 50 script is in place and it only works on level 1 toons. Copying over a level 5 toon will miss out on the leveling script.
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Yes, that point was clarified in the post before yours.
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Originally Posted by Tylerst
Further clarification, the Script affects Hero and Villain level 1s, Praetorians are unaffected.
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Hello,
i'm new to test server, i was wondering if there is a way to instant level up your character to Lv 50 so you can test out all the powers? if so, could someone tell me how? thank you!