What would you do for being one of the '60'

[Dale]

What would I do?

Sign a non-disclosure agreement and avoid talking to the likes of us here on this forum.

Dale

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Mace
I wouldn't mind being a beta tester. You would have to be patient though... putting up with CTD (crashes to desktop) in 1850 AD after you'd spent hours building your civ up...and forgot to save but in 1460 AD...with no autosave on.

Save often, save always.

Haven't you used Microsoft products?

[Robert]

I would love to be one of the 60, but since I'm not from the states I think I would never qualify
I don't care that the surprise will be "spoiled"
I would love it to have influence on the game!

I think I am a hardcore civ player. I played civ hundreds of hours per year from 1992 on. In fact I've ceased to play other games since I got civ.

So Firaxis, read this, put it in your files, and gimme a call as soon as you start the ciV development. (notice: that's civilization 5)

[The_Aussie_Lurker]

Sell my ENTIRE family into slavery, and perhaps slaughter an entire village of women and children ! . Aside from that, though, I really couldn't care less about being a beta tester )!

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker.

[Robert]

I'm so happy to be not one of Aussie's family members!
(or are you in secret my brother in law?)

[Adagio]

I don't have a life, so I'm ready to betatest

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by Dale
What would I do?

Sign a non-disclosure agreement and avoid talking to the likes of us here on this forum.

Dale

[Fidel]

i beta tested EU1 and it was both fun and hard. dunno if i would like to beta test civ4, i do not have enough time to do that now and it would, to some extent, spoil the feverish installation of my civ4 disk in october

[Alex]

Originally posted by Dale
What would I do?

Sign a non-disclosure agreement and avoid talking to the likes of us here on this forum.

Dale

Ok, so we know now that Dale is one of the 60 chosen.

[Dale]

Originally posted by Alex


Ok, so we know now that Dale is one of the 60 chosen.

But isn't me being here and talking say something else?

[hexagonian]

If I were single, it would be great...
And the family does take up a lot of time...and my daughter hogs the computer more and more now...
But to get my hands on a game that looks so promising...
But I'd have to give up playing RTW...and I tend to not go back to games I stop playing...and I love RTW at the moment
And to take on the huge responsibility of being part of the development of a premier game that fanatic, half-crazed players pick apart with a fine-toothed comb...

Oh crap... ...who'd want it

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Dale


But isn't me being here and talking say something else?

Or maybe that's exactly what you want us to think. You know, double reverse psychology.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner


Or maybe that's exactly what you want us to think. You know, double reverse psychology.

Precisely.

[Locutus]

I seriously doubt they would even know Dale. He's a CtP2er and Alt Civer and never spent any real amount of time on Civ3 or any other Firaxis game. I think you should look for the likes of Theseus and Trip and guys like that (well, Trip is 'special' of course )...

Also, a 'beta test' that everyone keeps calling this is the testing that takes place just months before release, it's just about fixing bugs, maybe solving some last-minute balance problems and getting some first user-feedback. This is not really a beta test, it's something much more comprehensive. Maybe an alpha test (as was done for CtP2 as well, but not very successfully unfortunately), or more likely even a pre-alpha test (an alpha release requires all the major components to be in place, it typically has to be 'feature-complete' -- that seems unlikely to have been the case for Civ4 a year ago). These guys probably have a serious influence on the entire design of the game :drool:

In order to be part of that group, I've would been willing to have spent more time on the Civ3 forums in the past few years, so Firaxis would've known who I was

[Mace]

Originally posted by Dale


But isn't me being here and talking say something else?

Nah, you're gassing us. You must be a beta tester...

You haven't told us anything yet, so you haven't violated the non-disclosure agreement, have you?