Beta will be go-live on 01/01/15 at midnight Pacific.
We will be shutting down the server at 6pm 12/31/14 to prep and final patch.
Beta notes:
NO more wipes after this date.
Also the box limit will be set to 3 as it is now in open alpha since 3 won the poll.
All zones that are online now will be included in Beta launch. (except airplane and fearplane.)
Experience rate and death penalty rate will be dropped down to AK levels after this date.
Regular patches will no longer be nightly. We will have a 2 week schedule for Wednesdays at 2am Pacific.
With emergency patches at any time in-between. Emergency patches will be frequent and taper off in the initial days.
Any and all patches of significance will be noted in the forum changelog.
After this date ALL GM related rules are in effect and strictly enforced.
Including but not limited to(also noted in rules, but here as a reminder):
- Harassing tells for assistance in obtaining any advantage. Meaning asking for anything to assist in testing.
- Openly debating or researching who GM play toons are as well as disclosing to the public if you know.
- Bugging a GM on a play toon for GM related activities. Use bug and petition or post on the forums as anyone would.
- Asking a GM to use their GM on raids in any form. (related to first note) Including if a GM is in your guild and you mention the GM should check for a spawn or anything else.
This phase is considered the Play phase. You keep what you earn and you earn it through hard work and repetition as you would on AK or Live.
The server will be considered Beta until all expansions are released and considered complete.
As well as the server code being considered in a finished state.
So Beta will be a vast bulk of the foreseeable life of the server.
As such there will be NO wipe going Beta to finished state.
