Forced Beta Test

[Phrenze]

Standing on his toes to get his attention i say: Hail
He gives me options for beta buff, list of quest items, and faction.
I repeatedly try several of the required responses he expects of me to perform his duties.

NOTHING HAPPENS.

I am Ginsing and i am logging back in to bang my head against his knees if anyone wants to help...

[Veleria]

Originally Posted by Phrenze [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Standing on his toes to get his attention i say: Hail
He gives me options for beta buff, list of quest items, and faction.
I repeatedly try several of the required responses he expects of me to perform his duties.

NOTHING HAPPENS.

I am Ginsing and i am logging back in to bang my head against his knees if anyone wants to help...

1: Target the Beta Banker NPC
2: Stand very close
3: /say beta buff me
4: If you need to buy velious spells from the other Beta gnome merchants sell all your gear to one of them then repeat steps 1-3. your coin will remain and all gear will be replaced.
5: Buy the 4 beta wands that are on the merchants.
6: Go testing and report bugs on the beta test forums.

[salimoneus]

Originally Posted by Veleria [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1: Target the Beta Banker NPC
2: Stand very close
3: /say beta buff me
4: If you need to buy velious spells from the other Beta gnome merchants sell all your gear to one of them then repeat steps 1-3. your coin will remain and all gear will be replaced.
5: Buy the 4 beta wands that are on the merchants.
6: Go testing and report bugs on the beta test forums.

^ That was the part that tripped me up at first, you need to be almost standing on top of the banker for the beta buff to work.

[tom229]

So, let me get this straight. This is a forced test of an expansion that released post 1999. It is being done over a long weekend. And finally, no experience gains will be saved.

As a level 15 what am I supposed to test? If dying works in the new zones? Why is Velious even been deployed on a server called project 1999? And finally, why is this being done over the worst possible time: a long weekend?

I really really don't understand anything about this decision.

[Blasted]

Originally Posted by tom229 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, let me get this straight. This is a forced test of an expansion that released post 1999. It is being done over a long weekend. And finally, no experience gains will be saved.

As a level 15 what am I supposed to test? If dying works in the new zones? Why is Velious even been deployed on a server called project 1999? And finally, why is this being done over the worst possible time: a long weekend?

Probably because the server population as a whole has made a piss-poor beta testing effort, as if there is someone else who's going to do it for them.

The server staff has been asking the regular players -- most of which have been complaining about wanting velious for literal years now -- to get on beta and test things. A couple of hundred out of a few thousand that likely play here have contributed. Devs need data to make sure shit works properly, and an inside team of a dozen people is not going to get it done.

Are you level 15? Do you feel like your presence on beta makes no impact, because you're not killing dragons? Think of it this way: Even if you just log on and sit there, at the very least, you're stress-testing the hardware.

tl;dr: They need everybody they can get to log on and just do stuff. Now go do stuff!

[Jeisenne]

The beta buff turned me into a gnome. A GNOME.

I am normally a dark elf that goes around and bites gnomes. This is karma at its worst. I AM NOT PLEASED WITH THIS OUTCOME :P

On the other hand, I do have my duckstick and some pretty nice gear, so at least I got that going for me, which is nice.

This should be fun. Looking forward to testing this weekend.

P.S. If there's any way I can get my bitey, mad lady DE back for the weekend, please let me know. Thanks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[dbouya]

I think kunark is from 2000 and velious is from 2001

[Darkhath]

Obviously I failed the IQ test, I have tried to use one of my existing characters on Blue DISCONNECTED
made a new character on Blue DISCONNECTED
logged into red server and type /beta /beta on a lvl 1 character I had there and got the message that says it works "get to testing" but where is the copy of this character, not in my list on the Blue server
????

Everything I have done so far only results in me being disconnected, wanted to try to help test this but I missed some memo or maybe it was not for everyone like I thought.

[Jeisenne]

Originally Posted by Darkhath [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Obviously I failed the IQ test, I have tried to use one of my existing characters on Blue DISCONNECTED
made a new character on Blue DISCONNECTED
logged into red server and type /beta /beta on a lvl 1 character I had there and got the message that says it works "get to testing" but where is the copy of this character, not in my list on the Blue server
????

Everything I have done so far only results in me being disconnected, wanted to try to help test this but I missed some memo or maybe it was not for everyone like I thought.

It's meant to do that. You will get disconnected after making your toons on blue (or trying to log on to them).

Now log back in, click on the velious beta server, and you'll see them on the character select screen. Log in, target one of the mutant large gnomes, and /say Beta buff me.

Enjoy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Darkhath]

I see, the secret is to come here, post a message making you look like a dork and then you can see that you are trying to log into the wrong server, you should be logging into the BETA - Velious Preferred Server. And there are all those characters I created in my abortive attempts to log into the Blue server. FML