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How and when will our preview quests get to the live server?

chili1179chili1179 Member Posts: 1,511 Arc User
edited June 2013 in NeverwinterPreview - The Foundry
As the title asks, how will this process be done?
There is a rumor floating around that I am working on a new foundry quest. It was started by me.
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  • assassin83assassin83 Member, Banned Users Posts: 276 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    10char
  • assassin83assassin83 Member, Banned Users Posts: 276 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    ops wrong 10c
  • morbicmorbic Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I'd imagine the preview quests wouldn't make it to live side until after the patch for the new features being tested in the Preview Server went live. Otherwise, you would have a lot of broken items here and there that you would think would work correctly..
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  • apocrs1980apocrs1980 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I am hoping to have an option not to have the preview server quest ported to live as if this is done it will set me back literally days and a lot of work will be lost.
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  • idbrainidbrain Member Posts: 18 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I don't think you'd want them doing that as they would be writing over your production quest with a quest from a server that may or may not have all its features implemented in live. I've already lost 2 quests due to foundry crashes caused by deleting the wrong thing at the wrong time. I'd imagine this sort of import would exponentially increase that risk.
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  • badbotlimitbadbotlimit Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 175 Cryptic Developer
    edited June 2013
    Work on preview will never make it to the LIVE servers.

    We will copy data to Preview but never back to LIVE.
  • apocrs1980apocrs1980 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Awesome thanks for the clarification badbot.
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  • eldartheldarth Member Posts: 4,494 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    badbotlimit wrote: »
    Work on preview will never make it to the LIVE servers.
    We will copy data to Preview but never back to LIVE.

    I hope that's not the final word.


    We should be able to COPY from Preview Unpublished to "From Preview- <Quest Name>" Live Unpublished?
    Kind of like copying unpublished quests now only copy (or import?) from Preview.


    I'd hate to (and honestly won't bother) creating/testing a lot of Preview Foundry if it means re-doing all that work on Live Unpublished after versions go live.
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  • chili1179chili1179 Member Posts: 1,511 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Well that is that then. No need to have the preview loaded onto my PC.
    There is a rumor floating around that I am working on a new foundry quest. It was started by me.
  • wininoidwininoid Member Posts: 534 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I assumed the transferring wasn't a one-time event.

    How often will live Foundry missions be copied to test? And can we initiate the copy (like we do with characters)? If we can do it, or it is a regular thing, then we can transfer over to test-publish and test before doing a live publish. That would be a good thing.

    If we can only test before a big update, then it only really helps identify quest-breaking bugs. Which is also a good thing, but not as good a thing as being able to use the test server to test/update/fix before publishing on Live.

    To make it what (I think) we all want, we should be able to
    1. Initiate a copy of a quest from Live > Test.
    2. Make changes on Test.
    3. Initiate a copy of a quest from Test > Live.


    Then we could use Test as a way to test our quests without worrying about bad reviews/stars for unfinished work--work that can't be tested solo in the foundry with the buggy test characters.

    I forsee problems when new updates are coming and the Test Foundry =/= Live Foundry. Perhaps disable Test > Live during those times?

    OR (and I think this is a better idea)

    Let us publish from Live Foundry to EITHER Live server or Test server. Then I only have 1 quest that I'm editing, but I can publish it to either place and see how it runs. That solves the problem of wanting to see how current quests run under the new updates and gives authors a "safe" way to publish and test under "live" conditions.
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