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2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« on: May 01, 2015, 09:39:15 am »
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2015, 10:20:34 am »
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Looking forward to this
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2015, 10:25:16 am »
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Do they have a formal signup for the wide-availability stage?
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2015, 10:26:18 am »
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Do they have a formal signup for the wide-availability stage?

As usual, one can send the checks directly to jsh.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2015, 10:47:49 am »
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2015, 10:55:18 am »
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I just agreed to say nothing about the closed beta beyond the fact that I'm part of it.
So here I am saying absolutely nothing except that I'm part of it :)
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2015, 10:56:02 am »
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I just agreed to say nothing about the closed beta beyond the fact that I'm part of it.
So here I am saying absolutely nothing except that I'm part of it :)

Can you tell us anything about the closed beta?
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2015, 11:00:27 am »
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I just agreed to say nothing about the closed beta beyond the fact that I'm part of it.
So here I am saying absolutely nothing except that I'm part of it :)

Can you tell us anything about the closed beta?

We can tell you that we're part of it.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2015, 11:02:20 am »
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I just agreed to say nothing about the closed beta beyond the fact that I'm part of it.
So here I am saying absolutely nothing except that I'm part of it :)

Can you tell us anything about the closed beta?
Yes off course.

Fact 1: It's closed.
Fact 2: It's beta.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2015, 11:05:42 am »
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I'm afraid I believe none of this without screenshots.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2015, 11:31:55 am »
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I just agreed to say nothing about the closed beta beyond the fact that I'm part of it.
So here I am saying absolutely nothing except that I'm part of it :)

Can you tell us anything about the closed beta?
Yes off course.

Fact 1: It's closed.
Fact 2: It's beta.

Fact 3: Stef is part of it
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2015, 11:43:09 am »
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OK, well, it's 01 May and not April.  So likely not just an elaborate hoax.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2015, 11:45:35 am »
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2015, 12:47:35 pm »
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Ya, some of the folks here were contacted by the lead developer, Jeff aka LordHumanton. The closed beta will move to open beta, which is detailed in the post jsh linked in his original post.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #14 on: May 01, 2015, 12:52:34 pm »
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Ya, some of the folks here were contacted by the lead developer, Jeff aka LordHumanton. The closed beta will move to open beta, which is detailed in the post jsh linked in his original post.

How soon can we expect that?  I know it said "May", but as Kirian said, it's already May, so... are we talking a couple days?  A week?  Two weeks?  Memorial Day?
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #15 on: May 01, 2015, 12:57:09 pm »
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Ya, some of the folks here were contacted by the lead developer, Jeff aka LordHumanton. The closed beta will move to open beta, which is detailed in the post jsh linked in his original post.

How soon can we expect that?  I know it said "May", but as Kirian said, it's already May, so... are we talking a couple days?  A week?  Two weeks?  Memorial Day?

The honest answer is, I don't know. I don't know how much flexibility they are putting into the schedule, but I'm sure they want some wiggle room.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2015, 04:05:26 pm »
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The linked statement reads pretty believably.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2015, 05:01:13 pm »
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The linked statement reads pretty believably.
That's cause it's real, I'm in it too.  And I can tell you that it's closed.  And it's a beta.  And Stef is in it. 
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2015, 05:15:14 pm »
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I'm not in this closed beta so I'm going to make one request of the new beta testers. After Goko finished their beta they did eventually realize that they were not very professional in how they ran their beta tests. I'm assuming that Making Fun are a going to run a much better beta test, but if they don't can someone let them know sooner rather than later please. A lot of beta testers will be wasting their time if the feedback appears to go into a black hole, as it did with Goko.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #19 on: May 01, 2015, 06:14:17 pm »
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I'm not in this closed beta so I'm going to make one request of the new beta testers. After Goko finished their beta they did eventually realize that they were not very professional in how they ran their beta tests. I'm assuming that Making Fun are a going to run a much better beta test, but if they don't can someone let them know sooner rather than later please. A lot of beta testers will be wasting their time if the feedback appears to go into a black hole, as it did with Goko.
The most severe early problems got addressed, from what I remember. For example, at the start, shuffling was bugged (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=3948.0), the server didn't verify client actions (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=4095.0), and KC-KC-duration would replay the duration too many times (no link because it must have only been posted on the official beta forums). All of that got fixed by the time of the (first) launch, I think, although that launch was retracted anyway because of server problems. I think they just had no time to address any feedback that wasn't game-breaking and didn't have a quick fix.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #20 on: May 01, 2015, 06:24:08 pm »
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Do they have a formal signup for the wide-availability stage?

As usual, one can send the checks directly to jsh.

There's no need to send checks.  Cards will do.  I also accept American Express.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #21 on: May 01, 2015, 06:46:59 pm »
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I'm not in this closed beta so I'm going to make one request of the new beta testers. After Goko finished their beta they did eventually realize that they were not very professional in how they ran their beta tests. I'm assuming that Making Fun are a going to run a much better beta test, but if they don't can someone let them know sooner rather than later please. A lot of beta testers will be wasting their time if the feedback appears to go into a black hole, as it did with Goko.
The most severe early problems got addressed, from what I remember. For example, at the start, shuffling was bugged (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=3948.0), the server didn't verify client actions (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=4095.0), and KC-KC-duration would replay the duration too many times (no link because it must have only been posted on the official beta forums). All of that got fixed by the time of the (first) launch, I think, although that launch was retracted anyway because of server problems. I think they just had no time to address any feedback that wasn't game-breaking and didn't have a quick fix.

I'm not talking about bugs. I'm talking about the beta process itself.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #22 on: May 01, 2015, 07:53:21 pm »
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I'm not in this closed beta so I'm going to make one request of the new beta testers. After Goko finished their beta they did eventually realize that they were not very professional in how they ran their beta tests. I'm assuming that Making Fun are a going to run a much better beta test, but if they don't can someone let them know sooner rather than later please. A lot of beta testers will be wasting their time if the feedback appears to go into a black hole, as it did with Goko.

I think you have a good point and I will keep it in mind. I'll try to be a good beta-tester for a couple of weeks, and then evaluate what is actually done with my bug reports and recommendations.
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #23 on: May 01, 2015, 08:17:51 pm »
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The one favor I'd like to ask of the Beta testers is to make sure they provide enough lobbies. On Goko you sometimes have to share them with multiple people!
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Re: 2.0 Closed Beta Begins
« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2015, 09:31:35 pm »
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Wonderful...  Now that Adventures is out, the elite formers will have something new to dangle over our heads and create new cryptic messages about.  I call that Bacon Cheeseburger is going to stand for the Kingsom Design feature.
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