MrVic's Wall O Text

lammaer, on 08 January 2011 - 02:09 AM, said: Let me tell you how I know (and Vic, correct me if I'm wrong). So, there are two servers in russia.
The production server, where the customers play. And there is a beta test server, available for every russian accounts (not up all the time afaik) where they get the patch even before it is rolled out to the russian production one. On this server, the reward is boosted for every battle with a huge multiplier (10 or even more afaik), so in a single day or two anyone can grind up from zero to the high tiers.
So the situation looks like this:
- Russian beta server gets the patches first
- then rolled out to the russian normal server
- then rolled out to the EU/US so called beta servers (several weeks later).
So for example, on the russian beta server you could try the T-54 weeks before it was rolled out to the EU beta. And you could test it in a day.... I know, there were huge T54s battles on that server, where 14vs14 T54s pounded each other. Probably that was why it was not nerfed - the devs tougth it is average tank
Thats what I call beta testing, not the endless monthly grinds what we do where a softwipe is a grace from god Nevertheless, I enjoy it, but beta testing is something different than what we here, especially on the EU/US servers, cause we are the last ones getting the shiny toys.