Hiya,
I have noticed that there are a lot of potentially interesting changes listed upon this forum but without the chance to test them under fire a lot of our discussion here is largely pointless.
Anyway, I would like to propose a Test Server with scheduled trials of proposed ideas which have been vetted by the devs. These test servers (1 in Europe and 1 in the US) would run a set idea for a period of a day or so and gather responses here on the forums by the players participating. All scores on these games would be void (so would not alter the leaderboards) this would be a purely experimental process.
Obviously the focus of the Test Server would be to examine quick and relatively easy to implement ideas that have been proposed here on the forums without altering the core game upon the existing servers. In time good ideas would be drawn together and then shipped out to the rest of the servers becoming the new core game.
Its a simple concept found within many games and would offer us a way of evolving the ruleset and principles behind the survival games without ripping up the script every time a new version is released.
I have noticed that there are a lot of potentially interesting changes listed upon this forum but without the chance to test them under fire a lot of our discussion here is largely pointless.
Anyway, I would like to propose a Test Server with scheduled trials of proposed ideas which have been vetted by the devs. These test servers (1 in Europe and 1 in the US) would run a set idea for a period of a day or so and gather responses here on the forums by the players participating. All scores on these games would be void (so would not alter the leaderboards) this would be a purely experimental process.
Obviously the focus of the Test Server would be to examine quick and relatively easy to implement ideas that have been proposed here on the forums without altering the core game upon the existing servers. In time good ideas would be drawn together and then shipped out to the rest of the servers becoming the new core game.
Its a simple concept found within many games and would offer us a way of evolving the ruleset and principles behind the survival games without ripping up the script every time a new version is released.