TESTBED SERVER - PATCH 27 - Port UI testing - SERVERS LIVE

[Aster]

The ship card for the requin at least seems bugged

 

[Angus MacDuff]

Do our DLC transfer over and will we have to grind slots on new ships?

[balticsailor]

you can use the dlcs, but you have to grind ship slots and skillbooks on the testbed (you need to make a new character on the testbed).

 

[admin]

1 minute ago, balticsailor said:

you can use the dlcs, but you have to grind ship slots and skillbooks on the testbed (you need to make a new character on the testbed).

 

you dont really need skill books and ship slots on the test bed  

[North]

2 minutes ago, admin said:

you dont really need skill books and ship slots on the test bed  

Will the tutorial count towards the 10 000 xp?

[admin]

45 minutes ago, Aster said:

The ship card for the requin at least seems bugged

 

yes - known issue - fixed and will be deployed soon

[admin]

1 minute ago, North said:

Will the tutorial count towards the 10 000 xp?

tutorial wont raise your rank if you are already and M&C  and you need to gain 1 rank above M&C

[o Barão]

My buddy captain caravela is having issues in downloading the new test server.

when he goes to naval action properties on steam and goes to the beta options it only shows the option "none-close all beta programs"

And when it tries to use the code gives an error. 

 

Any solution please?

[Christoph]

3 minutes ago, admin said:

tutorial wont raise your rank if you are already and M&C  and you need to gain 1 rank above M&C

do you get more xp with pvp?

[Ink]

5 hours ago, admin said:

Update: Captains, the testbed server is offline at the moment and will go live again tomorrow (ETA is unknown at the moment).

 

[Tom Farseer]

Is it possible to create a seperate client (maybe as free dlc in steam?) for testbed servers? Redownloading ~200 MB everytime to switch servers might be problematic for people on a download quota.

[admin]

19 minutes ago, Tom Farseer said:

Is it possible to create a seperate client (maybe as free dlc in steam?) for testbed servers? Redownloading ~200 MB everytime to switch servers might be problematic for people on a download quota.

Impossible unfortunately - wait a couple of days for testbed to stabilize and then it will operate like live servers with 1 hour daily maintenance (mostly).

[admin]

1 hour ago, rediii said:

That's not a thing, you should change it @admin

yes)) need to fix it

[Dibbler (Retired)]

 

 Not sure if has been already mentioned but the port UI i think could do with an in port screen picture/image, rather than seeing your ship on the dock.

 

 

Edited September 25, 2018 by Dibbler

[Raf Van Boom]

Please remove the clan online number display.

[Sir Malachy Karrde]

5 hours ago, admin said:

yes)) need to fix it

And by fix it, you intend to do the right thing and implement it as soon as possible, aff? 

[Sir Texas Sir]

4 hours ago, Wraith said:

+1 to Outlaw Battles coming back. Make Pirates great again.

The only reason it was removed was because of safe zone shenanigans by WO (after PB timers were put in place, there is no RvR exploit there, and lets be honest, hiding in battle is easier with alts). Now that we have the Requin and Herc to essentially hunt safe zones with no consequences, and no pulling of allies inside safe zone battles anyway, there's no reason at all to not bring back Outlaw battles for every nation. Just make it so Outlaw battles can only be joined by that nation's players and it is free for all. No red, no green, shoot what you will and make it count.

I'm with the other guys bring back outlaw battles.  It was abused by none pirates (using pirate alts) and we now have ways around this and well just screw it let them abuse it and we will report it, but pirates should be able to fight each other.  Keep the able to enter both sides also.

 

With that I'm actually on one of my alts as a Pirats cause it's more central.  Most folks might want to do what we did last time on testbed is pick two nations close to each other to test things.  Most of us did pirates last time cause we could fight each other to test things.  

 

One of the problems I was noticing this morning with the UI and dragging stuff is that the box you drag is the size of the text/item and some times is hard to get into what your dragging it into if your not perfect on the size.  Wonder if there a way to make them smaller when being dragged and than have it go back to original size when it's dropped into a new location.

That and why is Econ production so freaking expensive? I haven't been  able to do any cause it was very expensive compared to what It feels like in game now.  I have to go out and grind a lot of gold just to do my econ.

As mention before all coins lookd the same.  Silver coins items should have silver coin not a gold looking coin.  That and when you mouse over have the item actually tell you what the cost is.   The Admiralty shop is a bit pain cause every thing looks like it takes doubloons when really some of it takes silver coins and such.

[John Sheppard]

FINALLY we get rid of the black screen  first impression was good like "Wow looks really nice" but i believe there are problems :

It is important to keep balance between functionality and appearance and not make something complicated for the sake of complicating it 

Call me retro but i think the old interface (just like the OW UI) was much better on the functionality front . It took me only few minutes to figure out when i started this game. But now that i have over 3k hours it took me the better part of half an hour to find everything i needed in this new UI even with help and i do believe that a lot of new players won't be able to do simple tasks in this new UI which will make it very frustrating

While having separate little buttons to open windows to provide access to various function looks nice and frees space for the ship in the middle, it's orders of magnitude harder to navigate and use , compared to the old system . I mean take crafting for example .. you have to open buildings first then go into blueprints and then everything is mixed unlike before .. I had to ask how to find crafting in the first place. 

I believe the solution would be keep the top tabs as in the old UI that are so easy to find and use . Expand the warehouse make it semi-transparent place it where the compass usually sits in OW and have the chest/marks wallet on the other corner where ppl usually keep the chat window . This way you can still see the lovely scenery and ship and manage our stuff without getting a headache 

Also i've noticed that in port my FPS are significantly lower than they are in OW and i don't know why (i'm running borderline playable in OW/battle at 20fps average and in port it feels like 10-12

Edited September 26, 2018 by John Sheppard

[Raf Van Boom]

Too many windows is a problem, the old design had better functionality, I think. At least the game does remember the locations of those windows so that's good

[Sir Texas Sir]

15 hours ago, Ink said:

The more easier way is to upload it on services like imgur and just copy the link here

Are you can just F12 save it to steam and than post the link here. 

[Slim McSauce]

you can also use gyazo which screenshots automatically to the web so you just paste whatever image link it gives you, the fastest way to upload.

Edited September 26, 2018 by Slim McSauce

[Guest]

Is there a server status thread? If not, please create one when it goes live again.

Edited September 26, 2018 by Guest

[Batman]

Is it not possible to add the testbed server to the server selection screen, @admin? Always having to opt-in or out of the beta seems a bit complicated.

[qw569😳]

2 hours ago, Headless Parrot said:

Is there a server status thread? If not, please create one when it goes live again.

Just check this url

Code (powershell) for check status of TESTBED server

$status=0

while ($status -eq 0) {
  $out=Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://storage.googleapis.com/nacleandevshards/status_cleandev.txt"
  if ($out.statuscode -eq 200) {
    if ($out.content -Match "Working") {
      Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
      [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("TESTBED online", "Status", "Ok", "Warning")
      $status=1
    } else {
      Write-Host "TESTBED offline"
      start-sleep -s 300
    }
  }
}

 

Edited September 26, 2018 by qw569
add PSH code

[Jim Beamreach]

41 minutes ago, Batman said:

Is it not possible to add the testbed server to the server selection screen, @admin? Always having to opt-in or out of the beta seems a bit complicated.

I have made a second steamfolder cause my download is @+/-340kb/s i can sign in on the other steam for testbed and if i want too play on live server i can sign in on the other Steam without download everytime.

Is Testbed online? Still at work cant get on like yesterday.