I'd like to second this request

maybe something like
TEST JUMP [city number?]
TEST SETSKILL [all/skill] [number]
TEST SETSTAT [all/stat] [number]

Is there a list somewhere of the various test server commands that are currently usable?

Are shards still there? I was looking and never found them.

Some good news to share on this front.

Thanks to a quick QC from Javac, we've updated the TEST verb to be a bit more useful. The following were added as new options:

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TEST CRYSTAL - Get a crystal shard to teleport to other provinces.
TEST GUIDES - Get 25 uses of URCHIN guides for traveling within province.
TEST RUNNERS - Get 25 uses of urchin runners for remote BANKing and other conveniences.
TEST COINS - Get 10,000 platinum of each currency type (if you're under 10,000).
TEST CURRENCY - Get 10,000 of a chosen TICKET currency type.

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We talked about letting you adjust skills/stats. Right now, we're not sure of a good way to handle that, and odds aren't favorable any time soon. The primary concern is that if you don't copy down (by hand, notepad, whatever) what your "normal" skills and stats are, and then change them, you're stuck that way. If we put something else in Test, you'd be "broken" until another sync was done with your real Prime version.

The idea hasn't been shot down, we just don't know of a good way of doing it at the moment that wouldn't be clunky or annoying. For now, there's no work being done on it. It may be something we revisit in the future if a good idea comes up.

There may be more updates coming to the TEST verb in the future, but this should be a good start for most of what happens over there!

Zadraes

>Couldn't I just log back into live and see what they are, then log back in to test and use the same command to adjust them again?

Yes, you could. But also, commands...many. You'd have to adjust each skill and stat separately. That's 100ish commands for them all, each time you do it...each time you move to some other system (which we really don't push too often over there). That's a lot of effort that's very clunky. Some of you may be willing to do it, I don't doubt that! But enough to justify us spending the time writing and parsing it all?

Very few characters log into Test. We mostly only see people there when a new Simucoin event opens and people are checking out the prizes, and rarely do those need people changing skills/stats to test.

Again, it's not off the table. But it's hard (for me) to justify the time it'd take to set that up vs the use it would get. If another GM picks it up, they can absolutely run with it, but I think for now there are other things I could focus on that would be more widely used and available in the live games.

Zadraes

I'm happy to see more test commands. I like what you've done so far. The cash on in particular will be helpful if we test more B&E style fines.


>Yes, you could. But also, commands...many. You'd have to adjust each skill and stat separately. That's 100ish commands for them all, each time you do it...each time you move to some other system (which we really don't push too often over there). That's a lot of effort that's very clunky.

Can I just lol at this statement? DR is a game designed around repeatedly entering 100-1000 commands every day for literal years to reach mid game. Whatever system you come up with, it will be less clunky than Enchanting and you guys released that to prime less than a year ago. You've trained us for this; We're ready for exactly this :D

I'd further state that if one bothered to go adjust a character enough to test something they almost certainly did it with a script, so just run the script again to adjust to a new setting. It would be simple enough to write a script that sent 50-70 `put test skill SKILLNAME %1` and 8 `put test stat STATNAME %2` commands and just fire of a .settest 90 15 to go check that new release as a snowbeast level hunter followed by .settest 1650 115 to go check out the overpowered special attacks of joel moradu. If you're the kind of person that would do this, you're probably like me and have a running spreadsheet of your character's skills written out to a .csv every 24 hours anyway.

You correctly identified that not many folks go test things. A system that would let us adjust characters, clunky as it may be (trust me we know how to script around clunk), would be a force multiplier for those few that do test. It's worth at least some effort on the GM side, in my opinion.

~Hunter Hanryu
>I would like to avoid the collection of broken dreams and sorrow that is the Ranger guild.~Agalea

another thought is, leave the tedium of reversion on us

Speaking as someone who occasionally uses test to actually test stuff and not just to scope out the event items, I'm more than happy to have to be the one to set my skills back if I want to test against my skills in live. Maybe tack a note onto the command to the effect of "this is not reversible, if you want to set your skill back to its old value you will have to use this command again"

I think others who would use it would be alright with that limitation, too. Like you said, for the number of people who would use it, it's not worth spending any significant amount of time on. If leaving out a method to revert would take the task to a reasonable amount of time, I doubt anyone would mind having to manually reset the skills they chose to manually change

Any possibility of updating the TEST command to allow us to get our hands on potency crystals and infuser stones?

Anytime we get to play with the upgradable event loot in DRT I never seem to have enough crystals on hand...

- I

I would appreciate this as well. I have several items I need to test without having to PAFO by losing a PC or IS in game.

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