TOPIC: [SSRP Suggestion] Public Test Server

Suggestion Title:
SSRP Public Test Server

For which server is the suggestion?
SSRP

How would it benefit the server:
Give people a chance to use some items that they may never use or obtain. Also, will be a good chance for people to test up coming updates to see any bugs or eco breaks (like christmas 2019).

Potential Issues/Exploits:
People can maybe find exploits early on and use on main branch

Additional notes:
Players will be given unlimited money and will be able to buy cases or items on the “Cases” tab. Feel free to leave a reply on how this suggestion could be improved!

i didnt make this Suggestion

this was made from (yisyas)
he still waiting to be unbanned on forums doe

will be pvp server

would be pretty fun but giving people unlimited items would be a risk since people might like spam qeds and lag the server or something

Sounds fun as hell but I doubt they will leak major updates for everyone to test

would be fun as fuck

jam wrote:
I think by test server they mean testing items out not testing the new updates

PZGrens wrote: reread the main post

jam wrote:
oh yes i was wrong

mabey not to test updates but a pvp server or somthin

I don't really think everyone having access to the upcoming update contents is a good idea, perhaps a select few of the community that are trusted? otherwise it's just going to make the updates less surprising and fun because you've already tried all the new stuff beforehand.

only if the upcoming updates items werent useable there then it good

narexa wrote:
I think it would make to be a good VIP feature as then new players wouldn't join this instead of Zarp main

Giving a very limited set of core players a testing ground and pvp area for new and existing content doesn't seem to be fair for others as it grants them practice and insight on items that others will not have

narexa wrote:
This pretty much sums it up - updates are tested by the Community Team, and sometimes a few select people in high up positions in the community when we're lacking in Community Team members, when we're ready to release them, and once they're ready to be released on the server, we want to get them out for people to play on our live servers.

There was a brief period of time where I trialled allowing some more people onto my test server to help out with testing. Unfortunately, this led to a lot of update features being leaked, and allowed specific people to "prepare" for aspects of the update on the live server (specifically with this one, I believe it was the addition of the craftable suits) which ruined the surprise for a lot of people and gave some people an unfair advantage over others, which forced me to make some last-minute changes to prevent this from happening.