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Late Afternoon Reading

by Steve Gibson, Oct 28, 2000 5:26pm PDT
Related Topics – Wack News

What? Early? WTF? Yeah well its a weekend darn it. Here's that helping of stuff to read that will dramatically impact all of our lives. Myself as a responsible webmaster (heh) have made it my duty to bring it to your attention. Here is your afternoon public service announcement:

- Ah yes it is in fact official, pigs are flying. I think we confirmed this a while ago when Daikatana was released but in case you needed more proof... Thanks wumpus - Hey even communists can appreciate the occasional supermodel. Thats like, cool or something. - A little speculative bit on who exactly cracked Microsoft. The damage that was done still seems to be in question too. - The junk email going around the net is getting worse as stated in this story. No kidding, my volume of junk email has nearly doubled in the past few months.
Lastly, if you feel like being a beta tester, here's a link to the new threading interface. (Click on a threaded reply to see magic) It only works for later versions of IE and there is still a bit of work to be done (caching issues, navigation issues etc) but it'll give you the basic idea.


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    By: SlimJim x
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    Well I'm going to sleep now since Dave Georgeson did'nt pick me as a Tribes2 beta tester and I therefore have nothing to do. Just think of all the 100's of hours I could have spent testing Tribes2.

    So remember, when Tribes2 is released and it's buggy and they are releasing patches for it, Dave Georgeson is the man to blame.

    dave.georgeson@dynamix.com

    If they were smart, they'd put an ISO of the beta on their ftp and let us download that. Then it would cost them no money to get more beta testers since they don't have to make and mail out more cd's.

    All we'd have to do is email an address and have it reply back with an NDA, and we reply to it or click on a link contained in it to "sign it" and then after that, it would send us a serial number so we could play. And then if some people were being "bad" or being "lamers", they could perm ban them. That would really test their system. Cause you know none of the current beta testers are doing anything that would get them banned and their not trying to get around being banned. This stuff needs to be tested now. Not after the game goes gold and they have to release patches to fix this type of junk.

    And if Dave is leaving after the game ships to go too http://www.garagegames.com/ , then what's he care? How are they going to test out 64 player games? How will they load test the servers? Do they really have anywhere near 1000 of their "hand picked" beta testers playing at any one time? And FYI, most of those chosen bribed the Dynamix team to get in. I.E., sending them cases of beer months ahead of time. I guess Dave really does'nt care about Tribes2.

    True story: Back when they first opened up that new Tribes2 messageboard, someone said he was going to post every 10 minutes until they let him on the beta test. I don't know the exact number of hours he did that, but he got on the beta because of it. Dave said he let him on because "he showed so much dedication".

    What about all the people that won a slot on the beta test team through contests hosted at different websites? Is that anyway to go about beta testing a game?

    About 3 - 4 hundred people out of the 1000 "limit" were already pre chosen either from sending the dev team beer, or they were active members in the Tribes community. I.E., ran an IRC channel, top 10 Tribes clan, made maps, mods, or scripts, etc. Another 100 were set aside for "contest". Then the remaining ~500 were "hand picked" by Dave himself. These supposedly consisted of a broadrange of hardware configurations, connection speeds, and what country your living in.

    Here's that forum I was talking about:

    http://community.sierra.com/WebX?14@17.dyOGaC4AaYy^0@.ee77e10

    What type of logic is that on the end of the url?
    Oct 29, 2000 12:00am PDT

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