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TESTING, TESTING, ONE TWO THREE...

by Hazed

Just what has happened to the work on the new-style companies, called businesses? I hear you ask impatiently. It seems like forever since Alan started to work on them, and the test team have been playing with them for weeks now.

Well, leaving aside the fact that all work had to be suspended for Fed2's move, Alan has just spent the last week working on something different - but it was necessary.

What he's done is to set up a second copy of the game on the new server. This version of the game will act as a test version. It means new code can be put in and the test team can play around with it, without any worries about the effect it will have on the real game.

It was proving particularly frustrating to test businesses in the real game, while players carried on with their normal play. (Well, if anything that happens in Fed DataSpace can be considered normal...) Unlike most of the new code that Alan adds to the game, this is intended to replace something that already exists. Allowing the testers to use the new feature - businesses - while players continue to run old-style companies made the whole thing even more complicated.

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