TooOldForRS

I sent out all 3 ships last night around 9:30 PM EST. One was a 7 hour voyage. The others were 4 hours and 40 some minutes long. Logged in this morning around 6:30 AM and none of my voyages were finished. Checked their progress and they all had 1 minute remaining on their voyage. Around a minute later, they all completed their mission at the same time. Didn't effect me any because I am not going to get up during the night to check ships. Just thought it was pretty weird.

"Do you hoard dragon squares for something that may take two days to two months before it's in the real game?" Uh...........YES!!!!

"The economic consequences will either happen the day beta testing opens up or the day the update comes out. It will happen either way, however the benefits of beta testing is it makes bugs much harder to slip through. " It is not WHEN the consequences happen, it is who gets to benefit from them. Example: A new activity is beta tested. A consequence of this activity is that whips will double in price. Those individuals who participated in the beta testing will have from the day they started testing, till the day the activity is released, to stockpile whips. "Why do people assume only a small portion will be able to get in? You open up testing to everyone, and I guarantee that (much like every other MMO with an open test server) only a small fraction will even want to use it" Let's see...when a new RS activity is released, do many people flock to that activity or not? OBVIOUSLY a TON of people flock to the activity. Just like they would with beta testing. To think otherwise, in my opinion, is simply naive.

But if only a certain few can participate in beta testing, and get a heads up on potential shifts in the economy, is that really fair?