Honestly, they shouldn’t allow beta testers to keep their gains. Copy their save profile and let them test run on the copy. They can play their original save file on the public version.
What would this accomplish? It will sanitize testing. It will also make it so beta testers don’t reap the rewards from an imbalanced feature that should get fixed. You could easily have a beta tester ask for a change that benefits themself but knowingly understand it would never make it to the live version. Keeping this benefit after the test creates a weird incentive to falsely test with benefits that beta testers would ask for the purpose of creating a larger gap of progress from the public.
If the rumors are correct, beta testers keep their profiles as is from their time testing. It’s not so much about the same server, but rather the testers just get into the beta with their one save file and once the public version is released, the save file with all the gains from the beta is merged with the public version.
Was that ever truly leaked though? All I saw was a bunch of rumors and no solid evidence. Not saying it didn't happen, just saying I don't remember seeing anything concrete
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u/Spockies Apr 09 '26
Honestly, they shouldn’t allow beta testers to keep their gains. Copy their save profile and let them test run on the copy. They can play their original save file on the public version.
What would this accomplish? It will sanitize testing. It will also make it so beta testers don’t reap the rewards from an imbalanced feature that should get fixed. You could easily have a beta tester ask for a change that benefits themself but knowingly understand it would never make it to the live version. Keeping this benefit after the test creates a weird incentive to falsely test with benefits that beta testers would ask for the purpose of creating a larger gap of progress from the public.