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Beta - Faith HelpBeta is an Invites-based system that regulates how many new testers are introduced at a time. High-karma site members are invited early, but people can also request an invite. Focuses for testing include:Strategy Rebalances Strategies that are so good that you’d be dumb to not do them need to be toned down. This always annoys the smart players who find these "broken" strategies, since they’ll always take a hit when I fix things. Please though, help me get the balancing done as fast as possible, rather than secretly exploiting broken strategies. This is true to a lesser degree of sucky strategies - every game feature should have at least some usefulness. Polish The interface is quite rough right now, mostly due to focus in other places. Now that I have more people to get feedback from, I’ll be spending time making the pages easier to use and making things look better. So far I haven’t paid much attention to aesthetics. Help The help system is quite lame right now. It has at least as much info as Asylum’s lame system, but Faith is more complex than Asylum, and even seasoned Asylum players are getting confused. Not only will the help system be improved, but it will be integrated into the game in some places. Player Management With only 10 players, things are pretty manageable. But with 50, it’s a whole different game. Well, it’s the same game, technically… but that’s besides the point. Right now there are few features like game presignup, retiring, inactivity punishment, vacations, newb protection, cheat tracking, covenant features (aka parties), and so on. These will be implemented throughout the annals of beta. Bugs There’ll be Bugs. Actually, I already have a database of known bugs. Rounding errors, weird layouts, lack of functioning in Internet Explorer, abusable strategies, and more will cause amusement and antics abound. Beta players should watch progress reports, report bugs they find, and hopefully not get too frustrated if a bug accidentally deletes their Holy 500 Pound Goldfish. |
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