Hi folks just to give an open invite to be a beta tester.
Appocomaster was kind enough to allow this beta testing to happen so thanks to Him and the PA team.
There will be a beta test on thursday 12th november on the beta server.
http://beta.planetarion.com
Sign ups are availabe now and 1 min ticks start at 5pm till 11pm GMT (allows 360 ticks of testing/play)
Distorters are disabled.
1 Amp on startup
all scan tech given to each planet on start up
2mill of each start up resources and 70x base construction and 80x base research as you would get from the race you play as per usual and the paid bonus to use as you see fit.
Free choice in government (no changes to current round)
Galaxy size and alliance size will be determined by how many folk attend.
http://beta.planetarion.com/manual.pl?page=stats
http://beta.planetarion.com/statsanalysis.pl?race=5
The Xan ship fireblade is steal and cloaked at the same time.
What will be tested is the feature that stealers don't die on capping ships but die through combat and testing for bugs in combat
Also testing of the stats and input/feedback will be welcomed and pasting of calcs and battle reports on forums will be most welcomed.
If you have comments on the stats or would like to tender your interest in coming along please reply to the thread.
Join /j #beta channel on netgamers server for IRC for chat etc.
Hope to see you there