Loampounder
10-28-2005, 03:04 PM
We also filtered out people who didn't have higher end systems. Yes, this is what Zack is going to kill me for saying as we said we wouldn't reveal any of our criteria. Right now, though, the game isn't optimized and requires some hefty stuff. Thsi doesn't worry me for release, because I know what will be available then and those sytems will be much faster than the fastest system now, but at a very reasonable price.
If you were borderline, we let you in (assuming you were picked, and we've only brought in about 300 thus far), but sent you an email reccomending hardware upgrades. If you were well under, though, well, we don't want you to have a bad experience.
Then we pull from that pull using sekret rituals and other above top sekret methods when we need more people in beta. So we have this huge pool, but only 300-400 have been actually invited in. I'm filling up beta 1 as fast as I can because we have a lot of Thestra online now and are suffering from lack of critical mass (underpopulation). But I'm stopped at times, like right now, when we reach points where we have to optimize network code, frame rate, or whatever. Right now there's a bug where if more than 50 or so people are in a chunk, and they are when we invite people in because most people start in Brennan's Stead, the newbie human area, where we are getting some bad lag. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, but lots of things going on in coding, all priority one.
As soon as this is addressed, I will be pulling in another 400 or so, and keep going until it feels right relative to the size of the world we have online (which is also growing soon to be all of Thestra).
From this thread (http://www.vanguardsagaofheroes.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=26348&mode=linear&perpage=40&pagenumber=1).
The amount of detail Brad is posting is amazing, more so about beta. After sending that application off a few months ago (or it seemed like a few months), I am interested in any beta news from Brad.
I love the idea of "if you are borderline..." as it really addresses the person rather than the machine. My machine is good but my video card may not be uber. It's very nice to know that our guessing at a machine spec does not disqualifies us for beta. With 20,000 people to choose from, I would imagine most companies would just pick-and-choose what they want instead of going through the hassle of contacting people.
300-400 people in beta so far. Friends and family, of course. Key fan site people and uber guilders, ok. They send appplications out to the first few hundred OVF members (in the first week) so I can see a lot of them being involved. If Sigil is only at the 300-400 level yet, but bet they are not disregarding a lot of applications. Something to keep my hopes up.
OK, a delay in beta. Interesting to learn where they are at.
Brennan's Steed. So beta testers begin as humans (right now) and fan out from there. I'm impressed that they intend to put all of Thresta online soon.
Another 400 soon. Sounds like a big piece. I wonder how many total they feel they need to populate Thresta sufficiently.
Just chatting about beta concepts. Anything else out there?
If you were borderline, we let you in (assuming you were picked, and we've only brought in about 300 thus far), but sent you an email reccomending hardware upgrades. If you were well under, though, well, we don't want you to have a bad experience.
Then we pull from that pull using sekret rituals and other above top sekret methods when we need more people in beta. So we have this huge pool, but only 300-400 have been actually invited in. I'm filling up beta 1 as fast as I can because we have a lot of Thestra online now and are suffering from lack of critical mass (underpopulation). But I'm stopped at times, like right now, when we reach points where we have to optimize network code, frame rate, or whatever. Right now there's a bug where if more than 50 or so people are in a chunk, and they are when we invite people in because most people start in Brennan's Stead, the newbie human area, where we are getting some bad lag. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, but lots of things going on in coding, all priority one.
As soon as this is addressed, I will be pulling in another 400 or so, and keep going until it feels right relative to the size of the world we have online (which is also growing soon to be all of Thestra).
From this thread (http://www.vanguardsagaofheroes.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=26348&mode=linear&perpage=40&pagenumber=1).
The amount of detail Brad is posting is amazing, more so about beta. After sending that application off a few months ago (or it seemed like a few months), I am interested in any beta news from Brad.
I love the idea of "if you are borderline..." as it really addresses the person rather than the machine. My machine is good but my video card may not be uber. It's very nice to know that our guessing at a machine spec does not disqualifies us for beta. With 20,000 people to choose from, I would imagine most companies would just pick-and-choose what they want instead of going through the hassle of contacting people.
300-400 people in beta so far. Friends and family, of course. Key fan site people and uber guilders, ok. They send appplications out to the first few hundred OVF members (in the first week) so I can see a lot of them being involved. If Sigil is only at the 300-400 level yet, but bet they are not disregarding a lot of applications. Something to keep my hopes up.
OK, a delay in beta. Interesting to learn where they are at.
Brennan's Steed. So beta testers begin as humans (right now) and fan out from there. I'm impressed that they intend to put all of Thresta online soon.
Another 400 soon. Sounds like a big piece. I wonder how many total they feel they need to populate Thresta sufficiently.
Just chatting about beta concepts. Anything else out there?