Yes they can, but some players may just log on test, set their skills, notice they don't like the PvP, crafting, or whatnot and go elsewhere. By making them use the live server, player interaction increases which in turn raises population.Originally Posted by Jack Straw
I am neither for or against a test center, I'm just trying to put it into perspective.
“You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your art of war.”
I still don't see what will hold them back from doing that exact same thing on the day that the server launches
How does splitting the population between a real server and a test server "raise population" or promote people staying when they find out that they "don't like the PvP, crafting, or whatnot" when they log into the test server. I don't mean to be confrontational, but I'm not understanding the difference.
Also won't people who don't like the crafting/PvP/whatnot leave anyway regardless? Eventually they're going to have to find out. A fake population boom just because of initial interest isn't an incredible accomplishment. We want people staying. I'm going to totally ignore the population for the first few months. Divinity 2.0 went from 1,500 ish to 700 in a month or two. Then it slowly died completely.
I don't see any real positives behind a test centre. At all. All possible beneficiary aspects are countered by more negative impacts. Word of mouth will be key to the longevity of IPY2.
Please NO test server. I use to play on a pretty popular server a long time ago and then a new server called Cecils arena went up where people basically went to duel and practice pvp. It basically killed the pvp and population on the regular server because they would just log into the arena server to get their pvp fix.
Private test center is the way to go, just invite people you know and have a GM set skills/stats/etc...
I very much doubt that there will be a public test server.. play the real thing!
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