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[C E Dwyer]

Play testing is very important as it stress tests, gives opinions on features that need tweaks, suggests additions to, or removal of sections.

One of it's biggest failings has been population which only allows 4v4.

Varying ways of encouraging more people to play when it's open have been suggested.

Not having events during it, as there is currently no reward for testing and having events while it's open means your penalising testers, so I was glad that P.G.I adopted this for the last session.

People have suggested various things like camo, and transferring the earnings during it to live.

I'd like to present a complete reward package system, that I feel could be attractive to players, and shouldn't take any additional assets to complete other than those needed to create cockpit items, and have a lose basis in the franchise lore.

They need to be rewards that can only be received through logged time on the PTS servers so would be as exclusive as Founders and Phoenix Project cockpit items.

Standing cockpit items at three levels

As-Tech

Tech

Scientist

Each item comes in a grade Bronze, Silver, and Gold.

As-tech gives an X.P reward of 3% Bronze 6% Silver 10% Gold.

Tech gives a C-bill reward of 5% Bronze 10% Silver 15% Gold.

Scientist rewards are a combination of both the As-tech and the Tech.

So

Bronze Scientist level would receive a 3% XP and a 5% C-bill boost.

Silver Scientist level 6% X.P and 10% C-bill boost

Gold Scientist level 10% X.P and 15% C-bill boost.

So there are in total nine different cockpit items.

Design

I thought at first Nias or some other institute from the franchise, but that has some bias attached, I discarded it in favour of the design I'm going to try and describe, as I'm no artist.

A square base for all grades and levels

For As-techs

The word As-Tech (obvious huh) across the bottom two thirds of a laurel leaf circle. So a bit like a horse shoe.

For Techs, the word Tech and the top two thirds of a laurel leaf circle.

Scientists get the full laurel leaf circle, with there name, like the others superimposed or suspended across the centre.

In metalic colours they will look impressive and hopefully coveted by players bring in more people to P.T.S.

Impact on economy should be minimal as in Q.P you can only use one at a time, and are in most cases comparable or worse than in game boost now, only four are higher percentages, in X.P and two of those by 1%

Only time where they can be used to full advantage, and might be perceived as a better alternative to the current boost.

Which they should be in my opinion for the amount of hours put in P.T.S to achieve them

Are when they are used in Faction Warfare, another low population feature that needs more people playing so I personally see that as a big win.

They are awarded for hours logged into the P.T.S in either testing grounds or P.T.S matches, this prevents them being devalued by someone logging in and just idling.

[Guile Votoms]

The reward for testing on the PTS is that your feedback can improve the game.