staff: application for beta testing

dramaking444 · Post by **dramaking444** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:01 pm

can someone accept my application for beta testing? i really want to try new stuff!

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:21 pm

From the looks of it...you already are.
http://theuniversal.net/forum/groupcp.p ... 8566fa43b0

Make sure your logged in when you vist the download section.

dramaking444 · Post by **dramaking444** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:22 pm

i know. magic finger did bout 5 minutes ago. after havin a go at me for posting it twice

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:48 pm

what happened to the beta group being open for anybody to freely join?

Post by **Magicfinger** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:10 pm

it is of sorts... but mit wanted it so that users could be removed if that user abused the position of having access to the beta client.

djaj88 · Post by **djaj88** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:34 pm

never knew you could abuse your beta power. How is this possible?

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:40 pm

same thing i was wondering

only way i can see it abusable is if somebody passed out the client, but with it an open group, anybody could easily just join it to get access to the client

VDZ · Post by **VDZ** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:13 pm

There are things called 'abusable bugs'. They're not very common in TU, but they do exist.
Since the betas still contain lots of bugs, it might contain a bug that would, for example, allow you to buy buildings that aren't for sale. If you use that bug over and over again for your own gain, and don't report it, you are abusing your beta power.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:36 pm

yes, thier could be abusable bugs, many times they make it threw the beta clients into the public clients too. but did you forget thiers also other players that will see and report any possible wrong doing? thier are also logs that show alot of info.

as for your example, its hardly arguable.
something like that would be kinda hard to abuse without getting caught. any player that used a bug like that even only a few times would be caught right away when the players complained about the lost buildings, then they would be banned, labeled as a cheater threwout the game, the buildings returned to thier rightful owners, and like most players who have cheated be hated and drivin away by all the other players. i can't imagine any world owner who woulden't ban a player for cheating.

overall, that scenareo is nothing special at all seeing how thiers already a few loopholes in the public client (which are semi-unfixable) that could easily be abused with barly any way of being caught.

the group could easily still maintain its security taking 'possible abuse' into account. just set it up so it players can freely join but have a blocked ip/user/e-mail list that gets manually edited via a staff accessible web-form to prevent some people from joining. this form could be takin a step farther to offer info asto why a certain player is blocked aswell.
waiting problem solved, less work for the staff, and still secure.

djaj88 · Post by **djaj88** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:49 pm

Sooooo... Someone has SLAMED the door shut on open-beta Now it's closed-beta...so you are making sure that no beta virus people come in and destroy the program...
1 word: k00l

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zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:36 pm

probably just need to refresh the page.

and...EWWW toolbar city