Anyone want in the DDO Stress Test?

[Calandryll]

http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15672

So you say you want to play in the DDO Stress Test Event? Well here’s your chance!

We’ve had a very successful Stress Test Event so far, but now we really want to up the ante and push our servers to their limits. In order to get even more people on the servers we’re giving all of you a chance to join the Stress Test Event.

To sign up for a chance to join the Stress Test Event, visit http://www.ddo.com/index.php?page_id=113 and enter your e-mail address and first name. We’ll be sending out e-mails to the first 2,000 people who enter their information. This e-mail will include instructions for how to sign up and download the client.

But that’s not all! Tonight from 6pm EST until 10pm EST we will be running a special event on the Stress Test server. Turbine admins will be logged in looking for players who are adventuring in a dungeon. If we find you in a dungeon, you and your party will gain full access to the closed Beta. We’ll also be giving out items to players as well as a few other surprises!

Keep in mind that this is a stress test. The servers will mostly likely be unavailable from time to time, even during the event.

Slots are limited, so sign up now! Remember also, the NDA still applies for anyone who gets in the Stress Test.

The e-mails will be sent at around 3pm or 4pm EST. Also, make sure your spam blocker isn't blockng e-mails from turbine.com!

[Dren]

I registered for the Alpha and Beta through your site. 

I had a friend that got into Alpha send you my email for a Beta Invite.

I've gotten nothing so far.

I'm not spending any more effort to just get into the stress test.  My input is obviously not needed.

[WayAbvPar]

Thanks for the heads up, Cal. I have a friend who is clamoring to check it out, so I took the liberty of signing him up  :-D

[Calandryll]

I registered for the Alpha and Beta through your site. 

I had a friend that got into Alpha send you my email for a Beta Invite.

I've gotten nothing so far.

I'm not spending any more effort to just get into the stress test.  My input is obviously not needed.

Did your friend win a beta referral in the last Beta event? If so, please have him e-mail me and send me his account name (not password) and the e-mail he sent for a referral. We sent out the referral e-mails for that event a while ago, but a few people didn't get them. I can look into this once your friend e-mails me.

jhanna@turbine.com

[cevik]

Alas, no email from DDO, I guess I'll grind in WoW tonight.. :(

[Roac]

Sent mine in minutes after Cal's post.  Nothing yet.

[Calandryll]

Signups are over.

The e-mails should be going out soon.

[Merusk]

Hmm.. no e-mail yet.. and I signed-up within a few mins of seeing this posted.  S'pose it's a matter of how long after Cal posted over there to when he posted here.

Ah well, thanks for the heads-up anyway, Cal.

[Calandryll]

The e-mails were just sent. I just got mine about 2mins ago.

Also, the e-mails are coming from gamespy.com and ign.com. They are 1 day free fileplanet access which you can use to get access to the Stress Test.

[cevik]

I'm in.. I'll download it as soon as I get home.. :)

[Nebu]

I signed up after you posted and just received my confirmation a few minutes ago in 2 emails (DDO and Fileplanet/IGN).

Thanks for the opportunity.

[Xanthippe]

Hmmm.  Signed up, received confirmation, went to File Planet, it's going to take 3 hours to download, it's almost 4pm Friday afternoon.  The stress test is over at midnight tonight, but since I'm going out at 7pm....

Oh well.  A little more lead time would have worked better for me.

[Surlyboi]

Hmmm.  Signed up, received confirmation, went to File Planet, it's going to take 3 hours to download, it's almost 4pm Friday afternoon.  The stress test is over at midnight tonight, but since I'm going out at 7pm....

Oh well.  A little more lead time would have worked better for me.

Same, I'm catching the new Harry Potter tonight, so I'll miss out. Appreciate the opportunity though.

[Merusk]

*looks at clock* Well THAT only took forever and a day to download.  So much for the 200 beta accounts.  Just got done unzipping the file and starting the install.  By the time it's done I should be ready to fall asleep.

Edit: "This requires the .NET framework 1.1 to install. Do you want to install now?"

Right, well I'll be system restoring that out tomorrow morning, but unless this is Manna from Heaven I already can say no thanks to a retail purchase.

[Trippy]

Edit: "This requires the .NET framework 1.1 to install. Do you want to install now?"

Right, well I'll be system restoring that out tomorrow morning, but unless this is Manna from Heaven I already can say no thanks to a retail purchase.

Why don't you like .NET?

[Flood]

I got in by way of being a sucker (a FilePlanet subscriber). 

I'd have to say that AC1 was one of the best games I've ever played, not to mention MMO's I've ever played.  So when I saw Cal's post I just wanted to say I thought that was pretty cool, thanks for the oppotunity, etc etc.  Label me Turbine gh3y I guess.

I have a Dwarven Cleric on Jorasco(sp?) that has reached Stormreach itself and is about to go out and see more of the world.  Nothing glaringly bad in my playtime so far, although of course I can find things to nit pick about if I had too.  Ehhh anyway not to start a wanna be review.

[Merusk]

Why don't you like .NET?

The stupidity of Logging-in to a computer you're the sole user of aside, any time I've had .net it's never given me anything but problems I don't have the time or inclination to deal with.  It's not required for anything I do, so I prefer to not have it or be a part of the 'friendly microsoft .net family.'

[Samwise]

Also, M$ |S EV|L!!!!

[Flood]

Mer I feel the exact same way. 

I went into the Control Panel and disabled/changed something in User Accounts and got the .net logon to go bye bye.  Not sure what I did though now.  Very helpful, sorry. 

[Trippy]

Thanks to Microsoft's marketing genius, you've confused the .NET framework (Microsoft's attempt to destroy Java) with what was formerly called .NET Passport (now called "Microsoft Passport Services") that later of which does not require the .NET framework.

[Merusk]

I probably have, I'm not a programmer or computer tech by trade, just an advanced user.  All I know is I had a login screen on my PC when I booted it up this morning just like the last time something installed .NET so out it goes along with the program that installed it.

[Hellinar]

I installed the DDO stress test, and hence .NET.  It does automatically set up an extra logon for .NET, which is a nuisance. And seemed to cause a new "serious error" at boot up for a while. I was glad to get rid of it when I removed the stress test.

Using .Net would lower the chances of me buying the game. If I *really* wanted to play, I suppose I would learn to live with it. But my basic principle with my home computer is "if it works, don't fix it".  Installing .NET violates that principle. Besides which, I code in Java, and don't want to support Microsofts "Java killer". 

[Trippy]

That's odd. Does Turbine still use Microsoft for login services? I had to have a .NET Passport account for AC2 but that was back when MS was still publishing their games. I just downloaded and installed the .NET Framework 1.1 through Windows Update as part of setting up my new computer and it never tried to create a .NET Passport login for me.

[Samwise]

Hrm... I haven't seen any extra .NET login since installing DDO.  Or anything that uses the .NET framework for that matter.  Y'all are just special.

[Krakrok]

Was the stress test covered by NDA? I clicked through a bunch of EULA BS that I didn't read so I'm not sure if I can say anything about it or not.

[Signe]

Yes, stress test was  'd!

Shh!

[MrHat]

Who's in the beta anyways?

Send me a tell!

[Signe]

Who are you?

[Der Helm]

I probably have, I'm not a programmer or computer tech by trade, just an advanced user.  All I know is I had a login screen on my PC when I booted it up this morning just like the last time something installed .NET so out it goes along with the program that installed it.

Whoa. This is going to be my second derail today, I am so sorry 

But I just reinstalled XP on my new computer and I remember vaguely that I installed something .net (don't remember why though )

Now I have to select a "user" everytime I start xp. Any connection to the above statement by Merusk ?

*back to work*

[Dren]

I registered for the Alpha and Beta through your site. 

I had a friend that got into Alpha send you my email for a Beta Invite.

I've gotten nothing so far.

I'm not spending any more effort to just get into the stress test.  My input is obviously not needed.

Did your friend win a beta referral in the last Beta event? If so, please have him e-mail me and send me his account name (not password) and the e-mail he sent for a referral. We sent out the referral e-mails for that event a while ago, but a few people didn't get them. I can look into this once your friend e-mails me.

jhanna@turbine.com

Thanks, I'll have him do that.  I believe he said it was a beta referral thing and that I should have gotten an email right away, but I've been checking for about 2 weeks and nothing.

[Merusk]

I probably have, I'm not a programmer or computer tech by trade, just an advanced user.  All I know is I had a login screen on my PC when I booted it up this morning just like the last time something installed .NET so out it goes along with the program that installed it.

Whoa. This is going to be my second derail today, I am so sorry 

But I just reinstalled XP on my new computer and I remember vaguely that I installed something .net (don't remember why though )

Now I have to select a "user" everytime I start xp. Any connection to the above statement by Merusk ?

*back to work*

Yep, that's exactly what I'm talking about.  Remove the Net stuff and it goes back to power-up & there's your desktop.  The only other setting I've been able to find when you have Net installed forces the windows login, meaning you need to type-in a username and password to get on your machine.  Thanks, but no thanks.

[Trippy]

Go to Control Panel -> User Accounts. Click on "Change the way users log on and off". Make sure "Use the Welcome screen" is checked. That should get you straight to your desktop in a normal single user setup. If you do see the colorful XP-style Welcome screen rather than the Windows 2000-style login dialog box but you see a list of users that you have to click on, delete the user accounts you don't need or use the Tweak UI tool from Windows XP Power Toys to auto login your main account.

[Alkiera]

*blink*  Maybe I'm just a paranoid freak, but since leaving Win98's laughable login security, I've never turned on any of the 'auto log-in' features of Win2k and XP.  I leave my computer logged in, I don't even have the screensaver set to require me to log back in.  I only log in when I have to reboot...  which isn't too often, lately.  But I do log in those times.  I just don't find it to be a trial to type in my 6 character password.

But maybe I'm just paranoid.

(p.s. I also have several accounts on my machine, as to get XP to save the login for my linux samba server, I have to have a local account with the same username.)

I've been signed up on Turbine's alpha/beta site for some time, I'm just unlucky, I guess.  I haven't signed up at the new ign site... I think I read somewhere that I don't have to if I've already signed up with Turbine.

Alkiera

[Nija]

You guys are crazy.

You don't like net 1.1 but you keep system restore going so you can revert back to have it not installed?

I'd hate to see how you behave in a domain, where OH NO YOU HAVE TO PUT IN A PASSWORD TO LOG IN.

Oh the fucking humanity. Those 6+ keypresses kill me more and more each day.

[Signe]

My system restore is always off because it saves stuff and when it saves stuff things slow down and I'm impatient.

Figure THAT out!