Thursday, June 16, 2005

Life as a guinea pig (part 1)

Also known as... what's it like to play on EQ2's test server?

I moved to Test about 6 weeks ago (boy, time flies) after playing on Lucan D'Lere for about 6-7 months (signed up a week after release). The move was actually one that I had been considering since the offered a /movelog back in March for players to move their characters from Lucan D'Lere to Test. However, back in March, I wasn't ready to pull up roots and make the switch.

OTOH, a lot of the original founders of Tel Sindavathar have now left and either gone back to DAoC, or moved on to other games. Other players have out-leveled me or I've out-leveled them. So, I was kind of in the middle of a chasm. Too low and too far behind to keep up with the folks who are in a race to 50, and too high to stick with the lower folks. That, and I felt like I was getting a lot of static trying to get help with catching up.

So... after logging in the week before Memorial Day, counting heads, and realizing that I was always going to be 7th man out, I logged out and rolled my first Test toon.

I also recognized the signs that a lot of members were about to head back to DAoC.

Plus, there's the attractions of playing on a Test server. Instead of leveling for the sake of leveling, you're leveling for the sake of being able to test new content and give feedback to the Devs. Gives it a bit of meta-purpose where equipment and money takes a backseat to finding and stamping out new and unusual bugs.

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