Why you cannot do that beta testing?
Pleae, give us a reason.
It's simply time consuming and most of the players will not understand why a new round has to end so soon. By the end of the two weeks, no one will want another reset.
I was meaning around why not giving access to the players to the beta server and implement there the new fuctions. What around 2 weeks from implementation in beta to implementation on live game?
The beta server could have increased rates for all the game mecanics, to allow quick growing and full testing of new fuctions.
x10 on all tasks time for the beta server would not be so bad.
x10 on all hardware for the beta server would be just.... cool!!!
You could disable the rankings, the fall of fame, and the ingame messaing, in order to optimize DB usage.
Way to join the beta server:
-PM you ingame so you copy our user/pass to the beta server
-Periodicly user table backups from DB where server, messages, ranks, hpd and soft are cleaned. then a script could fill the gaps ;)
What around it, siremi?