2009-04-28, 01:41:53
If someone really wants to get their hands on the beta it is going to happen. No amount of special protection will stop it.
We want exo to be concentrating on making Battle Tanks a better map, not adding all sorts of 'beta only' protection and such - besides there could be bugs in this protection that makes testing even harder.
No-one is forcing anyone to use the new map. If there are large bugs then people should create special in-house rules to prevent the use of the bug, or just go back to playing an earlier version until it can be fixed.
Exodus has shown that if a bug is big enough, he can release a quick fix in a relatively short time.
In regards to the idea of adding experimental changes in the release version, I think that the option to enable them would need to be made public. We do not want to create a system where there are the 'haves' that are playing battle tanks with all the interesting new modes and the 'have nots' who know nothing about the optional extras. We want to keep battle tanks accessable to new players (which is one reason why the map size is kept small), and adding 'hidden' extra modes in a release would go against this.
We want exo to be concentrating on making Battle Tanks a better map, not adding all sorts of 'beta only' protection and such - besides there could be bugs in this protection that makes testing even harder.
No-one is forcing anyone to use the new map. If there are large bugs then people should create special in-house rules to prevent the use of the bug, or just go back to playing an earlier version until it can be fixed.
Exodus has shown that if a bug is big enough, he can release a quick fix in a relatively short time.
In regards to the idea of adding experimental changes in the release version, I think that the option to enable them would need to be made public. We do not want to create a system where there are the 'haves' that are playing battle tanks with all the interesting new modes and the 'have nots' who know nothing about the optional extras. We want to keep battle tanks accessable to new players (which is one reason why the map size is kept small), and adding 'hidden' extra modes in a release would go against this.
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