Hey fellow pilots, marines, hackers and medics!
Quaquaversal and I are working on Community Relations now, so we'll provide you with answers to related questions, news posts and promo stuff you will see in the future.
Right now, we are glad to announce that we are looking for skilled recruits for our official beta tester clans:
[CMU] Cerbera Miners Union and =/\= Project Atlantis are caught in a battle that's not only raging in the released version of Eternal Silence, but also in the unreleased dev build. The clans are made up of beta testers and ES developers.
Our tag is =/\= and we're also known as PAC - the Project Atlantis Crew.
Only a few remarks are known about the "Project Atlantis" from the story, chapter 4:
...The crew of the Atlantis project knew a secret. That secret is now safe...
...I've built a ship, James. Humanity's first ship, and humanity's last ship...
...It houses three things: life, knowledge and an environment,
everything humanity needs to start over...
[CMU] Cerbera Miners Union
Cerbera Miners Union: Mixing beer and heavy machinery in the Cerbera Minor system since 377
Are you ready for fierce strategic battles, to experience the full potential of Eternal Silence in clan matches?
Are you interested in playing with the devs and help them find bugs, tweaks and the true potential of this mod while testing new features, maps and ships in the dev build? Then head over to our new Beta Testing Clan section as soon as it's ready. Until then, here's the basic information you need to know:
You get to play with the devs. You get to access private forums and the developers build of Eternal Silence. You see, play and help the next, unreleased version of this mod!
To join one of the beta tester clans, you should
- realize that as official beta tester you represent the mod and behave accordingly (i.e. no bragging, no flaming, instead help newbies and spread the word about ES)
- be willing to accept a recruit phase so we can check out your skills and behaviour before giving you access to sensitive material
- know that you need to sign a NDA (Non-Disclosure-Agreement) to become a full member
- be willing and ready to accept bugs, crashes and problems when running the dev build; be willing and able to write bug reports and basically do what is required at the moment to advance the mod
- invest time and effort: show up for trainings and test sessions; be willing to take over responsibilities
be a fairly skilled teamplayer and have a good understanding of the strategic and tactical game concept (e.g. subsystems and externals; importance of defense; and basically know that teamwork > personal kill/death ratio)
While the devs are members of the clans, they don't hold leader or organizational positions - so don't bug the devs about joining.
Until our Beta Tester Clan section with a 'Join Form' goes online, you can frequent the ES game servers (and maybe find one of us there), our forums and our irc channel. The clan's leaders are [CMU] Armadous and =/\= echo and if you can't wait, you can check out our Join the Beta Tester Clans - report here! topic in the general forum.
See you in space. And on foot.
Gunship Oracle
Good call on clan vs. clan playtesting. It's something I've been for for a long time for team multiplayer mods.