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Laymens explaination to Beta Testing Rules ** READ ** |
Tael
2nd Rear Admiral
Palestar
Joined: July 03, 2002
Posts: 3695
From: San Francisco Bay Area
|  Posted: 2005-02-13 21:10
Engineers and Miners violating no attack priveledge
Something I have noticed is Engineers and Miners attacking other ships then claiming you cant attack them back because they are covered from a Do Not Attack clause...
Welp, its simple, if an engineer or Miner attack another ship, they have nullified their ceasefire priveledge. Thus are now subject to normal ship combat until destroyed by any other ship.
The Staff has been instructed that if either are attacked without provocation, then handle the issue as necessary. If they are attacked in retribution, to bad, they broke the cease fire and can be fired upon until killed.
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Bombing in Beta
I am not ready to test it yet... Players are going to play with it, thats fine, non-flag worlds can be bombed once they are built up.
If an engineer is building a non-flag planet and is actively in orbit of that planet and asks a bomber to not bomb, then the bomber is to leave the planet alone until it is finished and the engineer is no longer in orbit.
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Building in Beta
Build flag planets first.
Optionally you may build rare resource planets as long as they do not have defense structures that attack mining ships until all flag planets are fully built. Rare Resources are considered: Hyper Matter, Dark Matter, Uridium
Once all Flag planets initially reach 30 structures, building defense structures on rare resource planets is permitted.
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Flag Planets
In beta each faction should be permitted to have atleast 1 flag, if possible allow each faction to have as close to an equal share of flags as possible.
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Capturing Planets
Normal invasion and capping of non-flag planets (including non-flag rare resource planets) is permitted. In the case of rare-resources, building of defense structure rule is still in effect.
Point Defense shooting down of Troop Pods and Bombs are permitted at all times and do not violate a engineer or miners non-aggression protection clause.
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Special Case Rules
Only an admin can excuse or augment these rules, If an admin needs to test something, they can give a moretorium for the period of time they are testing. At the end of their testing, normal rules and restrictions are placed back into effect.
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If people continue to abuse or violate these rules and those included in the Beta Testing Guide and RoC, then those accounts will have their beta pres reset to 0 and will no longer be given free prestige.
Should we continue to have issues, the I will simply switch back off the free trial flag that allows everyone to play on beta and noone will have over a scout unless an admin gives individual permission. Switching of flags will be at admins discretion and when "they feel like it", so could take days.
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Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-02-13 21:58
Thank you tael, much abliged for the rules that so many people are blind to in beta.
Hopefully people will read this.
Might be handy to make a news item of this thread.
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Archon
Grand Admiral
Joined: October 14, 2003
Posts: 331
From: Queensland, Australia
| Posted: 2005-02-14 03:15
*takes notes*
okay
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Coeus {NCX-Charger}
Admiral, I can't read,
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: February 16, 2004
Posts: 3635
From: South Philly
| Posted: 2005-02-14 17:34
Much better. GJ 
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NeoHermes (vigilance)
Cadet
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: September 29, 2003
Posts: 217
From: Floating around somewhere
| Posted: 2005-02-16 01:24
*bump*
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RagAnok
Admiral
Joined: February 02, 2004
Posts: 237
| Posted: 2005-02-22 17:56
**BUMP**
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Fatal Command (CO)
Marshal
Fatal Squadron
Joined: November 27, 2002
Posts: 1158
From: over here in New York noticing some ppl are like canoes.....they need to be paddled.
| Posted: 2005-02-26 10:42
you may want to explain this again to boba fett ,Mu La Flaga,Ragglock andAntoni as they cant comprehend written words.went into game as ICC which what I usually fly.....entire pro sys was capped except 1 planet,was 20 mins left on map...capped planet and was then attacked in engy and had planet capped away from me...even after telling them to check the forum for games rules in beta.Then Sheridan said that cause there wasnt evenough time left to do anything not to worry about it.I an worried about it..Its for testing.....not coming in and playing like its MV cause you feel like it.
[ This Message was edited by: Fatal Command *CO* on 2005-02-26 10:56 ]
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Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-02-26 10:44
He has a point, people are now coming into Beta because they cant be bothered to pay for the release version. Its sad, but true :/
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Ragglock
Marshal
BIOnics Industry Syndicate
Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 1955
From: Denmark
| Posted: 2005-02-26 15:41
what ever happend im sure it was an missunderstanding
i told ant to leave the flags alone well dident see much more after that becaus with 5 min left and no res tospawn other ships i loged
anyway took me about 2 1/2 hour work it up to spawn anything
so you expect you can do it in 20 min 
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Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-03-19 13:59
bump
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Starfist
Chief Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 22, 2003
Posts: 574
| Posted: 2005-03-20 20:27
bump
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Starfist
Chief Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 22, 2003
Posts: 574
| Posted: 2005-03-20 20:28
bump
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Shigernafy
Admiral
Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 5726
From: The Land of Taxation without Representation
| Posted: 2005-03-20 21:37
bump?
I think bumps, unfortunately, assume that people read forums, and I would hazard a guess that the people you wish to reach with the bumps are exactly the people who will not be reading this.
Sad, but probably true.
Still, don't let me discourage you.
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Xilaratu
Cadet
Joined: May 06, 2004
Posts: 745
From: Florida
| Posted: 2005-03-20 22:18
It's a postcount thing.
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Binks
1st Rear Admiral
Joined: November 28, 2003
Posts: 469
| Posted: 2005-03-22 20:04
Post count? Who really cares, there aren't ranks as far as I can tell...bumping so that people hitting lobby->darkspace beta will see this at the top, and maybe even read it...
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