Alpha/Beta Acess

[Madheisen]

Dear Voss,

Will we be able to have early access to the server to see how it is and also test and report some things?
Would greatly appreciate if something like that happened, since we're a month away, it's always good to have people to test things and look for any inconvenient bugs that may appear as you might not have full knowledge of what normal players normally like to do when they're farming and so on.

Many thanks,
Mad.

[Voss]

Hi Mad.

It might not look like it, but we are actually over 10 people in the team doing
tests in game etc while the developers sorts out the majority of issues and develops our features.

So during the closed beta phase, I will only have them doing their tests in game.

However, as you say, we are 1 month away from go live.

I might consider having 1 week of open beta the week before go live as
we have a planned server host migration before the grand opening.

Let me have a chat with the team and we'll announce this at a later point.

[Madheisen]

Where are you guys located btw?
How long was this project developed for ?

[Voss]

This project has been been in development for quite some time now.
It actually started a couple of years ago, but it never went through as we didn't think Lineage 2 was enough popular game anymore.

Since then we've been on the edge and now that we've all settle down a bit, it felt like fun project for us to do even if we won't end up with a massive community. Of course, this is still what we aim for.

We're a bit spread out, I'm in Australia.
We have team mates in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden and more.

[Madheisen]

Oh, that's good news, not that I'm against Greeks or Russians but it's always good to see other than them creating a server for change.
I'll be looking forward to join the Open Beta if you guys decide to do one.
Just a question that I've always wondered, isn't a team of 10 a bit too much or is it trusty people ? Just asking because normally you see servers going down or not ending well with the community because of the team misunderstanding and stuff. You know... He has a friend who just happens to need a baium, then you find out about it and then people get mad and stuff like that.

[Voss]

We're all old friends, corruption is nothing to worry about, and we will continue to only have team members that we personally know.

So out of these 10-12 team members we have right now, only 4-5 are going to actively help us out once we go live.

Right now we got:
Cold - Head Game Master
Tsiam - Game Master and forum moderator
Salsa - Developer
Voss - Myself

The rest remain "nameless" as they only want to do some closed beta testing, infrastructure and network work for the server.

Cold will hire more of those "nameless" helpers if we hit a demand for more Game Masters and Forum Moderators.

[Madheisen]

Oh that is actually good to know, by the way the event was a really good move from you guys, really shows how dedicated you guys are on this and how far you're willing to go to make this work.
Btw, can the person also choose to have the money in server donation as well?

[Tsiam]

Regarding the event prize.
We won't be giving it out as a donation credit because it will cause less false accusations of corruption.
However there is nothing stopping you from donating that money through our donation system later.

[Madheisen]

Yeah, makes sense.
Thanks for clarifying that Tsiam.