Promising stuff on the newest update!

[Edi]

I don't think there are many beta testers, and most of them would be well known to the IW guys. Gandalf is one and Psitticine is very probable given what he's done for them earlier. The rest I figure are JK's and KO's friends.

The topic of beta testing actually came up when I offered some other unrelated help with Dom3 but it didn't really go anywhere.

Edi

[Gandalf Parker]

When did I say I was one?
I am a beta tester but I dont remember ever saying what games Im in the test groups for.

But there are two answers. One is that Shrapnel has occassionally posted calls for beta-testers. Usually in the Shrapnel General forum. Not for a specific game but for people to be in the beta group.

The other is that if you search back in the Dom2 forum you will see posts by Illwinter mentioning their beta-test group and the comfort of them speaking swedish.

I thought I had also seen a post giving really small numbers for a test group but I cant seem to find it now. So it may just be a small mix drawn from Shrapnels and Illwinters beta groups.

Gandalf Parker

[alexti]

I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...

[Endoperez]

alexti said:
I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...

Yep, I remember that too. It got me quite enthusiastic with Swedish. Especially because the www.illwinter.com/dom2/dom2progress.htm (I still remember the URL ) had some of the changes in Swedish. I never became good in it, though, but I blame that on one exceptionally bad teacher, and a whole year in which my only bit of Swedish was the lone course he held.

Speaking about the beta: I'd except that there would be few native English speakers correcting the grammar. I doubt best grades from Finnish schools, even if the schools are said to be very good, can even come close to lifetime of English when descriptions have to be corrected to a spesific style.

[alexti]

Endoperez said:
Speaking about the beta: I'd except that there would be few native English speakers correcting the grammar. I doubt best grades from Finnish schools, even if the schools are said to be very good, can even come close to lifetime of English when descriptions have to be corrected to a spesific style.

I remember that certain respectable (natively-english-speaking?) modder was using finnish editor to correct english

[Edi]

alexti said:
I remember that certain respectable (natively-english-speaking?) modder was using finnish editor to correct english

You mean Zen and the CB mod?

Actually, it was not so much a matter of language skills as organizational ones. The reason I took on the task of documenting the CB mod was that I wanted to use it, but I also wanted to know what had been done with the mod just by looking at the mod files, and Zen's formatting and organization in the original mod files and readmes was simply abysmal. It was a fairly easy task to sort those out into a more readable form, and also allowed QM and others to take it up where Zen left off.

Edi

[Morkilus]

Illwinter said:
2nd april
* Tribal poptypes -> Wolf, bear, deer, lion tribes.

Anyone speculate what these Tribal Poptypes are? Some kind of new Amazons, except they're Beastmasters? Here's to hoping Darr makes the long journey from TBS to Turn-Based-Strategy.

[DominionsFan]

alexti said:
I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...

mmm...thats odd..why is that a req. to be a beta tester? The IW guys understand everything in english.

[Varjostin]

alexti said:
I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...

Heh. If I knew, I could be a beta-tester,I would too study Swedish twice as hard. Just think what kind of a booster that would be. OMG, this is the probably the most efficient way to study a language for a game enthusiastic. Another way would be that Illwinter would release the game only in Swedish language. I would become a fluent speaker in two weeks, when trying the comprehend those descriptions.

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Gandalf Parker said:
When did I say I was one?
I am a beta tester but I dont remember ever saying what games Im in the test groups for.

You've been framed ! In the preview Dom3 version (2.79) that Shrapnel sent to the press recently you appear as tester in the credits...