[2020] Mass Test on Singularity: Tuesday, October 27th, 2020

Hey!

We are planning a mass test on Singularity on Tuesday, October 27th, at 17:00 UTC (= EVE time)!

What exactly is being tested?

• Supercarrier Tactical Capsuleer Recloner, especially testing server performance and fleet fight situations
• Also looking into server performance of smartbombs

How to connect to Singularity for this test:

• Change the server from Tranquility to Singularity in the bottom right corner of the launcher and log in as normal.
• More detailed instructions are available here.

Test instructions:

• Please join the channels MassTesting (for instructions), MassQuestions (for feedback)
• Join either Fleet X or Fleet W
• Have a “Nanoheuristic Clone Mapper” booster ready
• For the first few steps: Be in small ships, which die easily, but have high DPS, as we want to see many explosions
• For the last step: Whatever you want to bring

Steps (on command by CCP):

1. Meet in FD-MLJ, at the gate to X-BV98
2. Consume “Nanoheuristic Clone Mapper”, if not done yet
3. Fleet W: Jump to X-BV98
4. Fleet X: Jump second fleet to X-BV98
5. Kill each other and do not reship right away
6. When ordered by FC, reship
7. Keep on fighting, being killed and fetching new ships, while CCP cycles through different super carrier combinations
8. Massive smartbomb event (every with smartbombs starts to use them and at the end CCP uses QA smartbombs )
9. Reship, now also including capital + super capital ships
10. Free for all fight

What else should I know?

• Use the command /moveme to be moved to the start system FD-MLJ
• 2M Skill points will be awarded on Singularity for this mass test
• The super carriers will be stocked with Tristans, so you might want to ensure, that you have skills for it.

Revised fitting of those frigates (but it does not matter if you are missing skills there):

[Tristan, Trash Mob Frigate]
5MN Microwarpdrive I
Small Graviton Smartbomb I
Small Plasma Smartbomb I
Small Proton Smartbomb I
Warrior I x8

The clone mapper is already available on the market on Sisi.
For this mass test we (CCP + ISD) will provide super carriers and we need many players to use them, so there is no need for providing supers. I still need to update the test steps, but for the first few test steps we ask you even to NOT bring super carriers, but you can switch to one then for the last step.

The information in the top post has been updated now, especially regarding that for the first part of the mass test it is best to be in small ships.

Per player feedback, I have posted the new and improved™ Frigate fit below, including a copy of the skills list:

[Tristan, Trash Mob Frigate]

5MN Microwarpdrive I

Small Graviton Smartbomb I
Small Plasma Smartbomb I
Small Proton Smartbomb I

Warrior I x8

Skill Requirements:

Spaceship Command 1
Gallente Frigate 1
Navigation 1
Afterburner 1
Afterburner 2
Afterburner 3
Navigation 2
Navigation 3
High Speed Maneuvering 1
Science 1
Science 2
Power Grid Management 1
Power Grid Management 2
Energy Pulse Weapons 1
Drones 1
Light Drone Operation 1

I know it’s not the most exciting fit, but remember, you can bring your own sub-caps to the first round of the fight and can bring any boat you want to the fight after the mass test.

Hi! Thank you all for participating! I applied 2M skill points to 141 characters on Singularity.

We are still going through the results from the test, and so far I can say that the test was fully worth it. We found quite a few edge cases, which are now analyzed further. Unfortunately we also learned that one of our server performance gathering tools broke partially along the way, so we lost a bit of data, but we have still plenty of performance data available - and according to this the server performance was not problematic (but we need to keep in mind, that the mass test participation was not as high).

@SleepLacker Thank you for your feedback! We are aware that the mass test yesterday was a bit more confusing than normal, and I would like to apologize for this.
We also wanted to stress some degenerate situations, which for sure resulted in a worse experience, like being killed immediately by smartbombs after recloning. This should not happen often on TQ, but it is a possible edge-case, which also resulted in some problems in the mass test, and this is why we wanted to stress it. As we really don’t want you to become stuck in such a case.
Several of your suggestions are very interesting, although many are out of scope (great if we would have all the time in the world, but not possible in a realistic time frame) , while at least one suggestion is even already worked on in some extent (sorry that I cannot give you details).
Regarding market seeding: There is a seeded NPC station in FD-MLJ (but the station in X-BV98 is not seeded).
Thanks again for the constructive feedback!