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[Warlord Zsinj]

BETA SIGNUPS ARE CLOSED TO NEW APPLICATIONS FOR NOW

We will reopen applications once we move into a more complete unit-set testing phase. Note that we are still letting people into the beta, we are simply closing the thread to new applications. Read on for more info.

We have decided to close signups because we have more then enough people to choose from inside this thread already, and we're only going to upset people who sign up now and are not invited, given the slow rate that we are actually taking people into the beta. We didn't start this thread to upset anyone, and we're absolutely flattered by the large amount of signups that we've received, but we're worried that we're alienating some of our fanbase by not bringing more people in - it's not your fault, we just haven't progressed enought to warrant more testers!

It is still possible to get into the beta if you are not in this thread if you can fulfill one of the following:
- you are a spring engine developer
- you have demonstrable mod-making experience (coding, modelling, texturing, etc)
- Or, you have a reference from a current beta-tester.
Please note that if you harass any current testers for a reference then that will rule you out of the beta

If you fill any of the above requirements, please send me a PM with your application (using the template in this thread). If you have demonstrable mod-making experience, please include some examples (images, links to past work, etc) in your message.

Thanks for your patience guys; please contact me with any problems / concerns / criticisms.

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Things are moving along at a terrific pace here, and our internal testing has ramped up as we hammer IW into a playable shape.

We are almost ready to bring in some more players for testing. As has been mentioned, this beta will be closed.

People will only be able to access the mod in an invite only manner. The main reason we are doing this is because we want to keep the beta limited to people who understand Spring and understand and are willing to deal with a 'rough' product. IW has the potential to tap into a large player base of Star Wars fans who have never heard of Spring. We only really have one go at getting those people to try our game out - and I think many of them would be put off by the unfinished state it is in. Therefore, we are not having an Open Beta, as this could be mistaken for a release.
Also, for obvious reasons it is helpful for us to have controls on how many people, and what sort of people are and aren't allowed in the beta.

Players who want to take part in the beta should, after reading the rest of this thread carefully, post here once only in the specified format. We'll contact you via PM on these forums if you've been selected. Please don't harass us about joining the beta - posting here once is the only thing you can do to be considered, anything else will just make you more unlikely to be picked.

Before you sign up, it is essential that you understand the following:

- IW is an unfinished product. It will have balance problems. Probably some big ones. It is still prone to game-ruining errors and occasional crashes. You must be prepared to accept these and provide information related to such events so we may fix them.
- We are not interested, at this point, in huge Star Wars fans who want to play with Stormtroopers and TIE fighters. We are trying to make a game here, and the only reason we are having a beta is to fix problems and make sure that it is well balanced and interesting. If you really, really want to play IW to have cool battles with Star Wars units, then perhaps you should be patient and wait for our main release. I think you'll be a lot happier with our final product, and have a lot more fun!

What we really need is people who:
- are willing to play lots of games of IW, on lots of different maps
- are going to continually come back to us with lots of feedback
- are able to give us technical bug feedback, and considered, thought-through balance feedback
- are going to be patient with the various problems that are likely to occur throughout the process
- People who are going to play competitively - that is, to win. Not so much people who want to sit back and build huge fortresses. If '20 minutes no attacking' is your idea of fun, I think (and hope) you'll have a great time when we do our public release, but your beta feedback is likely to be less helpful then a competitive player

If you would like to take part in the beta, please post with the following format:

- Your local timezone, relative to GMT
- Times in which you are most active in GMT
- Any other nicknames you are known by, on the spring forums and the lobby
- Any prior experience you have modding, for any game
- Any experience playing competitively in Spring, proven by ladder rankings
- Any other specific reasons why you would be helpful to us in the beta (be reasonable here. Being the biggest star wars fan does not count )

Here's an example

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Warlord Zsinj
Timezone: GMT +10 (East Coast Australia)
Times when I am usually active: GMT8:30am-1:30pm weeknights (6:30pm-11pm eastern australian time), GMT12:00am-2:00pm weekends (10am-12pm Aussie)
Also known as: [IW]Warlord_Zsinj on the springlobby, otherwise Warlord Zsinj. TheEvilPotato on MSN/some forums.
Prior modding experience: I have worked on IW/SWS for spring, Supremilated for SupCom, SWTA, Stars & Stripes and Gang Wars for TA. I worked as an artist, game designer and balancer on those projects.
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: None
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- I have been involved in the Spring community since it's advent, and was a long-time member of the TA community prior to this.
- I played OTA competitively, for a while being able to play on a competitive level with some of the gnugs.
- I participated in the SupCom invite-only beta, as well as the public-beta
- I played SupCom competitively, and broke into the top 50 players for a few weeks shortly after it's release.
- I was involved in balance testing AATA and then Spring:1944
- I do not play speedmetal or any of it's derivatives
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Finally, I've attached the EULA which everyone must agree to if they want to download and play IW. There's not much in it that hasn't already been mentioned here though - it's mostly straight forward common-sense type stuff.

[LordLemmi]

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LordLemmi
Timezone: (GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien.
Times when I am usually active: GMT3:30pm-9:30pm weeknights  GMT1:00pm-10:00pm weekends.
Also known as: [eXe]LordLemmi[LLTA] on the springlobby, otherwise LordLemmi. Trempler on MSN/some forums.
Prior modding experience: I have worked on LLTA for spring, Svencoop for Halflife, Tiberian Sun. I worked as an mapper,artist, game designer and balancer on those projects.
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: None
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- I have been involved in the Spring community since 2006, and was a long-time member of the TA community prior to this.
- I played OTA for a long time.
- I participated in the Svencoop invite-only beta.
- I played Halflife and TA for a long.
- I do not play speedmetal or any of it's derivatives Wink
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Hehe =) so far so good if there are more questions, ask me.
thx!

[Mr. Bob]

Mr. Bob
Timezone: GMT Mountain Time (US & Canada)
Times when I am usually active: around GMT - 6:00.
Also known as:  Mr. Bob, on the VERY popular site known as "The Hive Workshop".
Prior modding experience: I am a modeler, skinner, trigger editor, and a mapper for the popular game known as "Warcraft 3".
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: I play spring single player against RAI mostly.
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- I understand the complex world of modeling.
- I am very familiar with balance.
- I understand file size and low poly yet high quality models.
- I am very intrusted in helping test the game for it to get finished!

[icchan]

Icchan
Timezone: GMT +2 (Finland)
Times when I am usually active: Quite random, might be online at anytime when I'm awake. Less so during the summer.
Also known as: Icchan or Icchan-san in GPGNet
Prior modding experience: Jagged Alliance 2 customized items, made some maps for Half-life singleplayer and customized some textures. Also made some modifications to Silent Storm textures and edited random encounter lighting plus edited the weapon data.
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: 1997-2000 Counter-Strike, 2000-2002 Medal of Honor, 2007- Supreme Commander
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- I have prior beta test experience from EVE-Online, Guild Wars and Tabula Rasa.
- I have a decent grasp of technical knowledge, however coding and scripting is pure hebrew
- I'm motivated
- I'm a fan of the TA, SupCom and Spring games. My first contact with spring was two years ago, so I've seen it develop.
- I have a beefy PC with a rare operationg system so far (Vista Ultimate 32-bit), so I can provide information how well it works on that platform.

[mrcactus]

I live in the GMT -5 time zone (Central Time)
I run two fairly rare OSes: Linux with WINE 1.0 rc3 and Vista Ultimate 64-bit, and can test stability on those platforms
I'm active anytime from 10:00 to 22:00
I have 3 stripes in spring....

Just one question. Does this game intend to have single player support in any of the betas or the finals?

[maackey]

maackey
Timezone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Time I'm Most Active: GMT 2pm to 7pm weekdays.  Now that its summer this could be much more variable.
Also Known As: xudo or xudo333 in other places (but just maackey in all things spring)
Prior Competitive Spring Experience: None
Prior Modding Experience: I've downloaded the SVN of the CA mod, and played around with the files.  I'm not an expert, but I am learning how to create models and animations in my free time. I've made extensive mods in Neverwinter Nights, and am familiar with scripting. I have also made several maps in other RTS games such as Age of Empires, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, and some others.
Other Reasons Why I'm Helpful:
- I can provide detailed and thorough information on bugs and crashes
- I've helped balance games of CA with the top developers
- I have both Windows (vista) and Linux and can provide feedback on either platform
- I have made a promotional video for a project in my Web Design class for Spring that was widely popular (and the subject of much jealousy)
- It only took me one game to realize how horrible speedmetal really is 

[frostwyrm333]

frostwyrm333
Timezone: (GMT+01:00) Central Europe
Time I'm Most Active: GMT 4pm to 9pm, anytime at weekend. (hard to tell, I can make time whenever i want.)
Also Known As: just frostwyrm333 or frostwyrm
Prior Modding Experience: I was making maps for some older FPS, RTS games, coded/scripted them.
Other Reasons Why I'm Helpful:
- I know star wars universe well (ok, no SW, just the game) 
- I can code stuff and Im developing simple game(s) by myself
- I have a lot of time
- I have some understanding of game mechanics



(now you got 12 people, the whole team )

[Zoythrus]

Zoythus (people also know me as the infamous Zoy64)

GMT-8 (Pacific Time)

I can play whenever (summer break ) there is no really specific time

Modding experience: well, as you know, i tried to combine KP, XTA, and WH.  I also mess around will Glest coding.

I am a pro on the lobby (100+ hours), I love TA

other:
-I am a fan of SWTA,
-I am an RTS freak (I know what makes a good RTS),
-I have contributed a slew of ideas for this project,
-and WZ had promised me 2 years ago that i could beta test the new release (yes, i remembered that )

[Warlord Zsinj]

Just thought I'd let you guys know that we're still fixing up some lose ends with the current build before sending out passwords, so noone has been sent a password yet. It may be another couple of days yet.

[adamwalker13]

adamwalker13
Timezone: GMT (UK)
Times when I am usually active: GMT 9am-2:00am
Prior modding experience: OTA modding experience, TDF, FBI scripting experience. Basic AI scripting, modelling and texturing experience. Developer for KGB archiver
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: Most RTS games (CnC, Dark Reign, TA, KKND, Original War) Most FPS games (member of MOD CS:S clan for 2 years)
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- Dedicated to projects and development
- Large ammounts of free time
- Access to a large array of software
- I find RTS games extremely enjoyable
- I've been a beta tester for various other games
- Vast starwars knowledge
- Played the original starwars mod for spring heavily (Wookies ftw)
- An active gamer

[bashar]

Bashar
Timezone: GMT+1 (France)
Times when I am usually active: GMT 7:30pm-11:00pm
Known as [RoX]Bashar on the lobby
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: some RTS games (TA C&C Warcraft) / FPS games (mainly Duke (im so old) and UT)
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- Active on the XTA dev forum (balance imput) since the v8.1
- I've been in the spring community for around 2 years
- Competitive player @ XTA mod
- Played AA before sometimes BA(!) and SA (lol was the first KoSA)
- Like to give my opinion about balance ^^

[Warlord Zsinj]

The first round of invites have been sent out. This was just a small handful of people to test the latest build, we expect to expand it soon.

People were decided based on recommendations from various team members and current testers.

In the future people will typically be chosen much more at random, to keep things fair.

Please don't be offended or upset if you haven't made it in this round, you're obviously our most committed fans, and the last thing I want to do is get you off-side! At the moment we're keeping the testing pool small to get things under control.

There will be further invites and this will likely be sooner rather then later, so be patient!

And most especially, don't be afraid to sign up here just because we've already sent out some invites! There will be more!

[Flaxim]

Flaxim
Timezone: Eastern Standard Time (EST) = GMT-5
Times when I am usually active: EST 3:30pm - 11:30pm weeknights, EST 10:00am - 1:00 pm weekends
Also known as: Flaxim
Prior modding experience: I have worked as a coder, iconer, mapper and game admin on many games on www.BYOND.com (Build your own net dream) where gamers can create their own games using a programming language called Dream Maker.
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: World of Warcraft, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, GTA IV, Caeser III, Command and Conquer, Warcaft III, and many more.
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- I have a really good knowledge about Star Wars. (played most games, seen all movies, read couple books)
- I am a quick learner.
- I have experience in beta testing, and finding bugs.
- I play mostly for fun, however I do like the occasional competition.
- I may give voice acting a shot. 
- I am mature and have a good knowledge on grammar. (Help find spelling mistakes!)

[Maverick]

Maverick
Timezone: GMT-? (The state of Maryland in the USA)
Usually active: All Day Every Day
Lobby acount is: [Mafia]Maverick
Prior Modding experience: Test mods such as NOTA and CA on my own and speak directly with Devs with suggestions that almost always get implemented. Create concept drawings and artwork by hand for modders such as Overkill.
Prior Spring competitive play: OTA, Starcraft, Age of Empires, Unreal Tournament 2004, Call of Duty 1-2
Other reasons why i could be helpful:
- Love seeing mods develop into full games
- Keen sense of mod balance and unit function
- Very easy to talk to, speak french and english fluently
- Helped a little with many many mods in development
- I like to test every single unit in a mod for balance
- I have a good reputation in the spring community and am a very proactive member.
Reasons why i wouldnt be helpful:- Honestly i can not think of any

[Arnos]

Arnos
Timezone: GMT -6
Times when I am usually active: around 12PM GMT
Also known as: N/A
Prior modding experience: None
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: I've played a few ladder games.
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
I've had a fair amount of experience at beta testing things.
I'm not super experienced so I can look at the mod from slightly different viewpoint sometimes.

[123vtemp]

Timezone: GMT-8 (California, USA)
- most active: 6:00 to 18:00 GMT
- Names: 123v[NOTA], 123vtemp, 123v, 1-23v
- Moding XP: Atm i can only do as much as I am doing with NOTA. I am currently testing NOTA for Balance, bugs, and game play.
I can not be of much use for mod work as I will be sorting out HD issues for some time longer. Once I have that straited out I can actually contribute some decent work.
- Competitive XP: I have played or observed nearly all the common RTS games and many uncommon games. Many a spring player can vouch for me as an opponent to fear.
- Any other reasons: This looks like a mod with potential, and for that I would want to make sure it can be the best it can be. PS - I perfectly fit the description of the type of help you said you want.

- What kind of player am I? The first few units I build are almost always units for immediate aggression.
- For the record I got my gold star rank in spring from playing mods other than BA. BA makes up only about 5%[or less] of my game time.

Thor and Cake can vouch for me(NOTA Creators). Overkill will vouch for me, and [EE]Decimator will likely vouch for me.

[numpty]

[teh] Numpty
Timezone: GMT (United Kingdom)
Times when I am usually active: varies
Also known as: [PinK]e
Prior modding experience: None
Prior Spring Competitive play experience: None
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- I have played rts games since the advent of the genre i.e. populous.
- I was one of best ota players for several years and played when it came out. I was delighted to discover spring when it came out.
- I play several mods regularly including ba, nota, ca and sa.
- I have tried many more spring mods and look forward to another hopefully popular mod.
- I believe that flexible strategic thinking should be rewarded more than speed of clicks since it leads to more diverse and interresting gameplay.
- I do not play speedmetal or any of it's derivatives except perhaps duck and cow
- I do not know lua but can code c, c++ & c# so i have an understanding of programming principles.
- I prefer team games as they require coordination which adds another dimension to gameplay.
- I am not adverse to porcing but i prefer the ebb and flow of skirmish games.

[helius]

Dojeh
Timezone: GMT +1
Online 15.00 GMT - 23.00 GMT
Also known as: [RoX][7uP]DojeH on the springlobby. dojeh@hotmail.de on MSN.
Prior modding experience: none
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
- spring addictive 
- running systems: win xp, or linux debian
- some balance experience too
- crossmod experience ~.^ (xta, ba, ca, nota, comshooter , and some other mods)
- I stopped playing speedmetal or any of it's derivatives Wink :>

[Warlord Zsinj]

Your modding experience sounds awful familiar

Note to all: Still waiting on some major fixes to aircraft code before we'll send out the next round of invites.

[icchan]

Will you be notifying people also if their beta application has been rejected?

[Warlord Zsinj]

No, we don't intend to reject anyone, just slowly draw people from the pool until either everyone who has signed up is part of the beta, or we have released the public one anyway.

[ChillAAA]

How about closing this thread, the pool seems big enough now.

[Warlord Zsinj]

Nah, no need, new applicants are welcome and won't be looked at any worse for having signed up later.

[ChillAAA]

Sif, they all looked on with disdain by Dr Hobo...

[Sheissy]

Sheissy
Timezone: GMT + 2
Usually Active: 9am - 10am (Next 4 weeks), 2pm - 8pm (After 4 weeks from now)
Also known as: N/A
Prior modding experience: None
Prior Spring competitive play: None
Other reasons why I could be helpful:
-I'm gonna have loads of free time during the next three weeks as it's holidays for me.
-Never tested a game, but will go all out with playing and I will take the liberty to note errors!
 
Next to the other applicants I look like nothing, but thats only cause they have a 10 - 20 year advantage.

[Tired]

Tired
Timezone: US EST
Usually active: Oh, now and then.
Lobby account is: Tired
Also Known As: Silver, Jose, Onslaught, Kyrie, GodBless, Faith, Hope....
Prior Modding experience: SA / TA
Prior Spring competitive play: Tourneys are for chumps.
Other reasons why i could be helpful:
- 2,200+ hours of Spring ingame.
- Have played all released Spring mods at some point or another (not all versions).
- Cheerful personality.^^
- Known exploiter of underhanded tactics / dominator of the weak.
- Could probably help with those balance problems.

[LordLemmi]

[Zoythrus]

so, will you be giving us emails or something if we are accepted? i dont know what to look for.

[Warlord Zsinj]

PM's on this forum.

Still a little while though, I just want to make sure this recent build is stable.

[Zoythrus]

take all the time you need, there is nothing worse than an unfinished game.



hey, can you make a Chuck Norris unit that roundhouses anything to death with one hit?