Lokisoft call for beta testers for Civ:CTP

The Smack writes "Lokisoft is taking applications for beta testers for Civ: CTP. Show them the support they deserve and flood their mailbox with legitimate applications. Can't wait! " Head over to Lokisoft to sign-up. Looks cool-and their booth is interesting too. Update: 03/03 02:21 by CT :This just in:scjody writes "You may want to update your CIV story. I copied the beta. Here's the form

Just sent mine in

[mackga]

But I dunno if my box is up to it: old 486/66, 32mb ram, and a clgd - 1mb. I know I shd upgrade, but it works okay, being just a tad wheezy running stuff like KDE. Oh, well.

They want a balanced sample

[Dicky]

The majority of the computer world, and the vast majority of the Linux world, is male. They want to get as balanced a sample of the population as possible, so they are probably more likely to select females than males (to even up the ratio).
I don't know any of this, I'm guessing :-)

Too busy

[Daniel]

I'm too busy beta-ing Freeciv 1.8.0 [freeciv.org]. :-)

Daniel

Screenshots?

[GreenPickles]

Yeah we want screenshots, yes we do! We want screenshots, how bout you?

God, High School sucked. Anyways it would be nice if the developers were to add some screenshots... No pics suck

CTP for PPC, more?

[Squeeze Truck]

I filled out the application last night. They specifically ask what processor you're using, Intel, AMD, PPC, etc. I put down my Alpha.

This kinda suggests this may not be an intel-only realease. Pretty cool.


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0nly 20-25 testers?

[Svartalf]

I'd think more like at least 10 times that amount- 20-25's not enough to really wring things out for something this big.

By the way, best of luck to everyone that applied- hope you all get lucky (and I'm planning on being lucky! ;->

Thanks.

[ziffie]

You win. Now I will get to send an application in after all.

upisdedowncak.

Done!

[Signal 11]

Submitted my application.

Had to add the std. disclaimer though - no spam.



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[SimonK]

It was SW Uganda, near the Rwandan border, and I hope you are not suggesting that being hacked to death is a desirable fate for anyone.

Release early and often

[Anonymous Coed]

... that's the best way to stamp out annoying bugs.

I have signed up to beta test ... I hope I am one of the lucky 2000 ;-).

I have been a Civ junkie for a long time and I can't wait to play a native Linux version. That is oh so cool.

I would prefer to wait on a longer beta cycle to ultimately have a better quality product... one that will stay on my hard drive for years.

There's no use chasing the chimera of "First Major Linux Game" because if it's rushed and crappy, it will be quickly forgotten as the first major Linux game (not counter err, Quake II and Angband I guess... ;-))

What??

[spiritu]

So there's a section there for gender on their app. Does it really matter?? Do women get higher precedence over men, or the other way around? Why the hell do they care?

New slashdotting experience

[zyklone]

I wonder how long their mailserver will survive.
Have we ever slashdotted one before ?

Too busy

[scrytch]

Freeciv's still ugly as sin. Some of us like those cool wonder movies. Isometric interfaces fit more on the screen too. Wake me up when it's at least not using Athena widgets.

The Effect

[Pope Ketric]

All Shall Bow to the /. effect... The Pope

Just sent mine in..

[Mercury]

I just sent my app in, hopefully I'll be betatesting real soon..
As far as the gender question, they just want to know who is really intrested, what parts of the community

Zephaniah E. Hull. (Who is wishing for a ispell interface on this thing)

Been there

[NaTaS777]

Read about this yesterday and emailed them already! Hope they choose me!
Natas
http://www.mp3.com/pedophagia

Server slashdotted? Here's the form.

[scjody]

Their server seems slashdotted. I copied the beta form to my site [cs.mun.ca] for your convenience..

Jody McIntyre

~2000 hits in 8 hours

[scjody]

~2000 hits in 8 hours, looks like the form is pretty popular. Now if only I had but an ad banner on the page I'd be rich :)

BTW www.lokisoft.com seems to be back online. Hammer their server instead :)

You people are no fun :(

[Hangman]

I knew that this was going up as of friday... (anybody who expressed interest in beta testing got an e-mail early about it) i was just hoping /. wouldn't post it since the original e-mail that loki sent when i asked about beta testing suggested that they would only be picking 20-25 beta testers spread between x86 and ppc.

0nly 20-25 testers?

[Hangman]

that's what they said.... that's why i didn't say anything.... right now, i'm hoping that all of you people who flooded the server caused enough of a flood that they will just ignore them.... (more chance for me ;) )

in case you care, here's the message that was sent to people who asked them about beta testing really early...
This message is going out to everyone who sent us mail asking about beta testing the Linux version of Civilization: Call to Power. We're going to keep your information and contact you once we've announced the beta test signup sometime in February. Civ should go beta in late February or early March. There will probably be 25 beta testers, and we'll need both Intel and PPC users in that group.

Loki Beta -- Followup

[Highlander]

Just a quick note. The show was great. Thanks to everyone who came.

Obviously, our plans for the beta need some rethinking. 20 - 25 just won't cut it. We're somewhere around 2000 responses right now, considerably more than most Windows titles get. We'd have to go into full replication to get that many out.

We're going to do the right thing with the beta -- as soon as we figure out what that is. Ideas?

Scott Draeker
President
Loki Entertainment Software