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Release 47 QA Testing Incentive Winners

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  1. Attenwood

    Attenwood Portalarian Emeritus Dev Emeritus

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    Release 47 QA Testing Incentive Winners

    Thank you to everyone who joined us during the latest round of QA Server testing for the launch of Release 47! We are incredibly thankful for the community's contribution in helping our team test new content and make sure every Release launches as smoothly as possible!

    The following prizes have been randomly drawn and delivered to the QA contributors below!

    @Alley Oop - Antennae Hat
    @Arpana - Antennae Hat
    @Wintermute of CoF - Antennae Hat
    @skeggy - Antennae Hat
    @Filter Bubble Algorithm - Ant Cloak
    @Cryodacry - Ant Cloak
    @ldykllr - Ant Cloak
    @Caree Death - Ant Cloak
    @Fasthund - Insect Painting Set
    @mystarr - Insect Painting Set
    @Rochelle - Insect Painting Set
    @Murphy - Insect Painting Set
    @Mobidoy Querrent - 5 Gold COTO
    @Soleidad - 5 Gold COTO
    @StarLord - 5 Gold COTO
    @FrostII - 5 Gold COTO
    @Alexander - Ant Farm
    @Jens_T - Ant Farm
    @Grimbone - Ant Farm
    @Peabo - Ant Farm

    Thank you EVERYONE, again, for contributing to another fantastic release!

    Want to participate for a chance to win prizes in the next release?

    Participation Instructions
    Each release we will randomly reward 4 of each of the following rewards (one prize per player):
    • 5 Gold Crowns
    • Ant Farm
    • Antennae
    • Bug Cloak
    • Set of Bug Paintings
    In order to qualify you must meet the following requirements:
    • Install the QA version of the game
    • Login and play on QA for at least 4 hours per release
    • Report at least 1 bug in the QA section of the forums
      • Note that players will only be submitted for the lottery once per QA cycle. Continued bug reporting will not count toward additional submissions into the lottery.
      • If raffle winners are discovered to have been using multiple forum accounts to increase their lottery chances, ALL accounts will be exempted from the lottery drawing for that QA cycle.
    Thanks, Avatars!
     
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    Grats to all winners! Thanks for caring enough to be a bug hunter :)
     
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    Grats!!!
     
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    Thanks to anyone who takes the time to make a bug report. :)
     
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    I echo those above and thank all who are posting bug reports. And gratz to all the winners!
     
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    Grats folks! Thanks to ALL who give their game time to the QA server, very much appreciated!!
     
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    thanks for this it was a nice suprise
     
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    Gratz everyone. Thank you for all your hard work and time.
     
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    Congrats to all the winners:)
     
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    Congrats winners!
     
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    Congrats and thanks for all the bugs!
     
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    You might want to consider that using multiple accounts lets us test in Multiplayer both early game content (delete that character) and late game stuff (keep that character.) This is particularly helpful because you guys often don't get the later game stuff, which for me is recipes, in until almost the end of the testing cycle. So the choice is test an early character from the start and not be able to do the late stuff, or don't test anything until the next release is about to drop, and still be able to hit the late stuff.

    Or test one in SP and one in MP, but that then ignores a whole host of issues that exist between the two modes.

    Why not just tally up the hours spent on both characters and enter it once? IE. if I put in 2 hours on one account and 2 hours on the other, enter one of them into the drawing and be thankful?

    And that also brings to issue what if two of us are testing from the same location, but at different times? My GF has her own account but we're not always playing at the same time, this could look like 1 person playing 2 accounts. So do we need to only have 1 of us test each cycle?
     
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    multiple chars, even on multiple accounts, is not the same as using more than one forum account.
     
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    Well I would assume you'd want the bug linking back to the character that it's happening with.

    I'm also going to assume that I'm auto-disqualified from here on out and keep doing it the way I do it, accurate bug reports is the true goal of the QA server anyway.

    But as something to think about, if someone is going to the trouble of putting in 4 hours per account (I don't think I hit that this month, not sure I even managed it with 1 because of doing so much in the Live server,) wouldn't you want to reward those hours by putting the account in the lotto?
     
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    Appearance of impropriety is as damning as actual impropriety in the eyes of the masses.
     
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    pie>cake
     
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