Information on the Test Server
Zorillius, a producer with EverQuest, puts in a plug for the Test Server:
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Greetings all,
We’ve been putting a lot of thought lately into what we can do to ensure that the Test server continues to be fun for players and useful to the developers. There have been a lot of ideas tossed around and we want to open a dialogue with the testing community about a few of the ones we feel are worth doing. Right now, players on test already receive the following benefits:
Double experience
All Veteran's Rewards activated regardless of subscription time
Dev interaction
Exclusive Community
First look at new things
In addition to those benefits, we’d like to add a few more since the Test server has some unique circumstances that live servers do not. It’s very important to us that Test is a vibrant server with a population capable of properly testing content, both old and new. So here is what we have in mind for new test server bonus features:
Reset all reuse timers for AAs/Veteran Rewards after each server reset.
Loosening restrictions on the flagging system so that content can be tested more rapidly.
Linked chat channel between Beta & Test to ensure easy access to Devs.
Change spawn timers on boss NPCs so they aren’t affected by server down time.
We would also like to give the current Test Server Community the opportunity to invite others to play on the Test Server with them, so we are working on "Grumbuk's Buddy Invitations". This system will allow the Test Community to earn buddy invitations based on days played on Test. These buddy invitations can be sent to other players on Live servers which will enable the player to have their character copied – not transferred – to the Test server. We’re hoping people will take this opportunity to invite more good people to the Test community who will then discover that it’s a fun place to be.
Due to the unique advantages that currently exist to Test players, we will continue to be firm on the restriction about transferring characters off of the Test Server. Character transfers off of the Test Server are not going to be considered. Also, please know that we have no intentions of doing any character wipes on the Test server or any other server. The last character wipe was done in early 2000 and we have no intentions to do any future character wipes on the Test Server.
Feel free to make constructive suggestions and discuss your ideas in this thread.
Thank you,
Zorillius