Feldon It was easy to interpret SmokeJumper‘s suggestion that StationCash purchases could count as “time” towards Veteran Rewards and, taken to its logical conclusion, allow players on EQ2X or even Live to “buy” Veteran time. However this is not what he meant! Here’s a clarification:
Veteran subscribers that have been here forever have already received their rewards. That would be a “no” for [taking previous time into account]. We’d only give them “backlog” credits from the last vet reward time to now.
But for EQ2X’ers, you’ve never received credit, so you’d get credits as far back as August last year when we launched if you’ve been here that whole time.
There are many details to work out before we implement however, so I should stop throwing out details. We may want to change our minds about some things.
and another tidbit about Test and Test Copy and how they may switch to staggered updates:
Test is an odd duck because of decisions made very early on in the process. Test is a real world, just like all other worlds. They just get content a bit earlier than normal as a last-step test before going Live.
We’re going to be using Test-Copy as the “rough draft” server and then move things to Test when we think they’re ready to publish. This will disrupt Test a lot less than our current practices, as well as allowing EQ2X folks to more heavily participate in testing, if they so desire. I believe EQ2X already has access to the Test-Copy server.
The comment “We’re going to be using Test-Copy as the “rough draft” server and then move things to Test when we think they’re ready to publish.” I find really amusing. I was under the impression that the LIVE server was the TEST server since, for the most part, every time stuff is released we have to petition all the bugs and get it all fixed. 🙂
There’s a TEST server ? That SoE actually uses to test the updates ? Since when … (chuckle)
So if the veterans don’t receive credit than this is not really a veteran reward. That’s ridiculous.
I think the problem as letting people advance characters on the original test server to begin with. It was intended to be just what it is claled, a “test” server. After so many years of letting players actually play and build up characters on the server though, they are afraid to use it for that now. They need to do what other games do and wipe their test server every few months, that would keep people from playing long term there and not actually testing things as was intended.