LTD map beta testers

[Brandom]

There are lots of bugs in new ltd and it is obviously price for playing that game for free. Most people playing on ent31 or ent 18 care about elo and loosing only because of bugs can be really frustrating. It would be great if it was possible to test beta versions of ltd maps on volunteers.
Right now it is hard to get new map before release and even harder to get players who could play it with you since u have to use discord which is really tedious.
My proposition is to
1. Host new map on separate bot for one month or week (less time could mean more activity which is important since never filling lobbies are serious danger for that idea) before releasing on main servers.
2. I would love to play 5-20 games on new map before release but I guess that most players wouldnt, thats why we need to make some rewards for this month/week to encourage participation in beta testing, for example colored name for best 3 players who reported and well decribed most bugs.

This way Broud3r would have replays with desribed bugs which I guess would make fixing map much easier and people who dont want to play on not finished map would not be forced to do so.

[Karils]

There is a beta channel on the discord, everyone got tagged for an opportunity to join it if I recall correctly. Problem was it wasn't ran on a bot, just hosted a few times a day when the mods had a chance to watch it. But yes, a few prevalent bugs seem to have made it through this time.

[Brandom]

imo using discord to play game is much too tedious unless it is something "special" like ltl or lihl and thats why number of games played on new map before release proly wasnt even two digit number.

[bezdak]

This suggestion is brilliant, if we could get a spare cd key, a beta testing bot with a possible reward for not only LTD would greatly help our map devs.

[aRt)Y]

This suggestion is brilliant, if we could get a spare cd key, a beta testing bot with a possible reward for not only LTD would greatly help our map devs.

Why cant the devs host via private hosting though? Or casual users themselves and just report it to the dev.

Why is a 24/7 hosted bot necessary if you need to gather players on Discord anyway to fill it?

[HazarDous]

@Broud3r has the good habit of posting every detail of his updates alongside the map-download option here. Just check the forum and host it privately once it is out. Discord is merely a way to meet and coordinate.

On top of what aRt)Y said, we won't be updating a 24/7 beta bot for every single bug found/reported/fixed.. Denied.