Test Center

[Robbbb]

Test center was a great place to test out skills, house placement and different hues for things. I know there is a problem with people logging in just to pvp for free, but it was a vital tool for players as well.

Couldnt you make it 'trammel' like and bring it back. That way no one can attack anyone else and things can still be tested.

I think it would be good for the shard.

[Brules]

Bring it back and take away the skill gates and endless item spawns....

[elhorno]

Bring it back!!

[Blaise]

Keep it gone. Too many people spent far too much time 'testing'.
Having it up when specific changes are being tested for the good of the shard, is appropriate.

Having it abailable to test character builds, house placement or other is not necessary.

You guys do realize how easy it is to fire up RunUO on your own PC, right?

[Robbbb]

Keep it gone. Too many people spent far too much time 'testing'.
Having it up when specific changes are being tested for the good of the shard, is appropriate.

Having it abailable to test character builds, house placement or other is not necessary.

You guys do realize how easy it is to fire up RunUO on your own PC, right?

Run UO doesnt have the same house placing rules and is NOTHING like our shard.

You cant test anything on it because mechanics arent the same

[Blaise]

Sounds era-accurate to me.
Changing house-placement rules isn't much of a challenge as far as I could tell on my own shard.

Also, pretty sure you're a UOSA Bajillionaire, why not just test in the actual game whatever it is you need to test?
Character templates and hues shouldn't be much of a challenge with your funds.

[elhorno]

The main reason I would like Test center back would be to test house placement. Back in 98' you would log into other shards to see what houses fit where etc. Here, following ALL house rules, there are spots that just don't work. On the flip side there are houses that just shouldn't fit, yet do. So the only way to actually know if something will for sure fit is through test shard.
Having test allowed me to check.

[Blaise]

Pretty sure the risk of not knowing if a house will fit was part of the fun of OSI. I never checked other shards because they were just as populated as where I played, as far as I saw.
My opinion of course. I tested placement on my own shard a number of times, without issue when placing on live, just a few months back.
It was tricky because as the admin I can place on mountains and uneven terrain, but I was mostly checking for alignment, what tile to click when placing and spacing by water/mountains.

[Arsen]

bring back test, i want neons

[Vhyx]

bring back test, i want to give away my neons before I quit there, too

<3

[Robbbb]

Also, pretty sure you're a UOSA Bajillionaire, why not just test in the actual game whatever it is you need to test?

That is not the point. The point is to help ALL of the players here that may spend almost all of their gold on a neon hair dye or those that want to see IF they purchased all the land around them can a caslte fit... For neon dyes, how are they supposed to test the colors to pick the correct one with no test center? This is a 1.5-2mill gold mistake that most players cannot afford to make.

[Zelek Uther]

For neon dyes, how are they supposed to test the colors to pick the correct one with no test center?

Some testing can be done during "Serverwars" 0700 to ~0715 EST, the period of time after last save and before server restart. Nothing counts during this time.

The timing of serverwars may be inconvenient for some players, and it isn't very long, but there is a window of time available every day for testing on the live server.

[Corbin]

Test Center was a place to test for bugs on new patches or changes being made to the game. It was never meant to be a free-for-all PVP zone nor a place to "test" housing placements for on the production shard.

There seems to be some failure in understanding that.

[Tiwstacain]

OSI had a test server. Era Accurate, lots of gold free skills yes.



TC