Wanna be a HoI2 Betatester?

[Johan]

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/beta.asp

 

[Darkrenown]

Woo!

 

[Johan]

Usual criteria I have which I use to sort away people with.

1) Beeing able to fill in the form properly.. Like what country you live in. Contrary to popular opinion Oregon is not a country. If you can't fill in this form, you'll most likely make errors when filling in a more complex bugreport form.

2) Sorting away everybody without good net connection. We distribute daily 150mb packages, and if you can't download that within 30 mins, you can't beta.

3) Being able to write good enough english in your motivation for why you should be test. A tester needs to be able to make himself understood.


And I usually avoid taking in many kids below 18. Make sure that your parents/guardians KNOW before you apply that they will have to sign an NDA for you and will be responsible for your online activities regarding this, IF you get accepted.

 

[Darkrenown]

I filled in my application using l33t sp3ak, hopefully this will show that I am mature and intelligent with excellent knowlage of computing!

 

[Darkrenown]

Depends on the time you want to dedicate... I feel obliged to do my work. I'd say I spend at least 7 hours a day on HOI II atm... AT LEAST

I can match that, I'd just beta test for half the time I normally spend on the Vic forum each day

 

[Darkrenown]

It is, but not unlimited simultaneous downloads. Several people can download at the same time but not all betas.

Well having betas in different time zones can spread out when they're downloading.

 

[Darkrenown]

Aye, I should've told... You can get along with 2 or 3 very dedicated hours a day or even 1 hour sometimes. Note that 7 hours is not exactly my average. Sometimes it's less as well

Bah! 7 hours should be the requred minimun each day! If I'm selected as a beta I pledge to put in 26 hours of testing every day!

 

[Darkrenown]

Also: That was the first internet application I filled with my real personal information.

You fool! Now The MAN knows where to find you!

 

[Darkrenown]

Grosshaus is right of course...but how "fun" it is rather depends on what turns you on.

Betas are needed to do tons and tons of historical research which can take many hundreds of combined hours of digging through source material. If you like doing that sort of thing (I do) then the time flies by quite pleasantly and doesn't feel like work at all.

Betas do a lot of proofing (checking spelling/grammar in events, messages and tooltips) which can also take quite a while but isn't particularly paralysing work.

Lots of the events and scenarios are written by the betas. If you like scripting then this doesn't seem much like work either.

Even the playtesting - tring to find things that make the game crash or tweaking balance - is actually immensely rewarding work if you like playing the part of the detective.

I love all of that stuff (Ok, I don't love proofing, but I can still do it)

 

[Darkrenown]

Feh. You love proofing, too and you know it. You're a Victoria addict and you'll be a HOI2 addict as well.

Ok, I admit I love proofing too! The shame!

 

[Darkrenown]

It's a promise of getting an email, at least before also those rejected got one.

I wish they'd put whether you got in for not in the title, when I saw I had an email titled "Victoria beta test" I thought "Woohoo! I'm in!" then I opened it and saw that it said "Sorry, you didn't make it". I almost cried

 

[Darkrenown]

All that is left, is... SPAM... Not bad SPAM, but SPAM nonetheless... (SPAM SPAM).... (SPAM, SPAM, SPAM) ..... (SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM) ....

Do you have anything without spam?