Kunark and Spring Break

Cyrano · #1 02-07-2011, 12:41 PM

Many of the players here are students or work in the school system. That being said a large % of the population will have an increase in free time from March 14-18 that would make releasing Kunark on the 12th more ideal.

I understand there is also a ton of people who this wouldn't affect and some would view it as a hindrance, however if the content is close enough to ready at that point I think the server would benefit from letting those players get the jump at the expansion full time.

This effectively institutes a "live testing" group which in turn would help make the content more tuned, due to the amount of people submitting content petitions, by the current proposed released date.

What this means ultimately is that we'd have a more "classic" version of the expansion as more casual people are getting into the higher end zones which will have less amount of testing hours from beta. This SHOULD create a smoother experience towards the back end.

I'm sure it will get shot down but just food for thought.

BTW I'm not getting that week off but I'm sure people will flame me anyways for suggesting it.

Dr4z3r · #2 02-07-2011, 12:43 PM

A smooth expansion release, conveniently-timed so that a large section of the playerbase has extra time to get at it?

That doesn't sound classic at all.

Ele · #3 02-07-2011, 12:45 PM

I seem to remember expansions hitting right before finals time.

**nilbog** · #4 02-07-2011, 12:47 PM

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That being said a large % of the population will have an increase in free time from March 14-18 that would make releasing Kunark on the 12th more ideal.

Depends on where you live.

http://www.tripsmarter.com/panamacit...sbcalendar.htm

Cyrano · #5 02-07-2011, 12:55 PM

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Depends on where you live.

http://www.tripsmarter.com/panamacit...sbcalendar.htm

The largest % of students from that list comes from the week I suggest with the second largest coming the week before. By far the majority of students are off during the month of March compared to February/April and would prove the most beneficial in terms of logging the most hours on this server at the release which in turn means more bugs are being discovered early on.

**nilbog** · #6 02-07-2011, 12:58 PM

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The largest % of students from that list comes from the week I suggest with the second largest coming the week before. By far the majority of students are off during the month of March compared to February/April and would prove the most beneficial in terms of logging the most hours on this server at the release which in turn means more bugs are being discovered early on.

It would be most beneficial for the bugs to be discovered prior to release.. It is EXTREMELY easier to fix bugs while in beta, as opposed to after a release.

It's sad to say, but I had more beta testers for prekunark, when the actual playerbase was zero.

Cyrano · #7 02-07-2011, 01:01 PM

Then why not shut down p1999 for the week of March 14-18th. I'm pretty sure the playerbase for EZ spiked when we were down for the DDoS issues last year.

**nilbog** · #8 02-07-2011, 01:04 PM

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Then why not shut down p1999 for the week of March 14-18th. I'm pretty sure the playerbase for EZ spiked when we were down for the DDoS issues last year.

If it takes shutting down the server for thousands of p99 players to beta test, then you guys can live with the bugs.

**Rogean** · #9 02-07-2011, 01:07 PM

Thanks for the idea.. March 14-18... one of those days will be our final beta stress test.. live server shuts down, everyone to beta!

eqholmes · #10 02-07-2011, 01:09 PM

Nilbog that is due to that fact that people can play their characters now and everyone is getting all there shit and maxing xp or leveling their alt real fast now that they know kunark is 6 weeks away.

One thing that could help the beta would be /random 7 and then /random 24 pick that hour as the starting point and close p99 for, idk lets say 8 hours. Honestly most people will just say screw it and do RL stuff, but the 20% that are addictive to no end will pop over to the BETA. Do this once a week till kunark. I know some people will slap down the idea, but screw those ungrateful bastards, they aren’t the ones that want kunark out with less bugs.

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