Dear Earthrise Players,
We are happy to announce the test server forum, which will facilitate the communication between the Earthrise development team and all of you regarding the preview and testing of new releases. Without further delay we would like to share with you the rules of the forum and the test server in general.
This forum will be used only for comments regarding the test server and the latest Earthrise test client.
You agree to follow the same rules listed in the Earthrise official forums here:
http://forum.play-earthrise.com/inde...8-forum-rules/
The forum will be accessible only for players who have purchased the Earthrise client.
Access to the test server will be granted generally to the majority of active players. Having an account in the forum does not automatically mean that you will be able to play on the test server. Eligible accounts will be copied on demand to the test server. We will make regular announcements who will be able to play, depending on the needed players for the test, your past participation and constructive feedback, polls, etc.
Some important information to keep in mind:
1. Test server is not a production server. It probably will be more unstable and certain functionality may be broken or disabled. Player progress may be reset on regular basis.
2. Test server will not run all the time and may stop operating abruptly without warning, and may have much longer downtime periods. We will write on the test server forums when the server is online or offline and what are expected run times. Note that the server status displayed by the test client launcher will display the status of the official server, not of the test server.
3. When we copy accounts from the official server in most cases current progress of all avatars will be transferred, so it makes sense to continue play on the official server.
4. The test server will not be located in the same datacenter and will not run on the same hardware as the official server so expect different performance. We have decided to host the test server in Europe to ease our Operations and telemetry so expect different network performance also.
5. You may be asked to test particular functionality when we need more players to participate for performance or load testing.
6. It is very likely that the test client will not be as stable as release client and you may experience performance issues and unexpected crashes. We have enabled additional diagnostics and that will have some impact. You should always keep in mind that this is a test client and we will be fixing bugs and issues with your valuable help.
7. The test client will be available through torrent only. We will post the torrent link on this forum with every new release.
8. Prices of items, drop rates, experience gathering rates, starting equipment, and so on may be completely different to facilitate testing of particular content. Nothing from the test server will be transferred back to the official server. As the content may be much different we do not advise novice players to try to learn game mechanics on the test servers.
9. Players that are impeding testing in any way may be banned from the test server and may not be able to participate in the future tests.
10. Test Server will be open only for active Earthrise accounts.
31/05/2011, 10h36