Rotate the beta testers!
 

Here's an awesome idea! Rotate out the current beta testers w/ new testers. New testers = fresh eyes. Also, it'll deflate a few heads I believe! Thanks in advance!

Better plan: just add more!

...

Seriously! Add more!

I'd personally like to vote myself. Second anyone?

Seconded.

To the DEV's, I would donate cash to be a beta tester. Fuck that voting democracy bullshit.

Yea, Ill let zip donate cash for me to beta test too. Just take it outta what your mom owes me..

I got terminal cancer, let me in.

Now that's a fucked up joke..
At least I hope it's a joke.

heres a better idea...just release the game.

How about an open beta?

Like I said back when they added all of you "new" testers, that was likely to be around the high point as far as activity went. I'd be willing to bet that a few of the people that were added in the last batch aren't very active anymore (although I think there's a good amount that are). I still check the FF servers all the time and it's empty most of the day. If you want people playing more regularly, 30-40 (that's how many I estimate are beta testers at least) aren't enough.

It was probably a good idea then, and still a good idea now, to add more testers if the level of activity desired was more than that. However, I realize the problem is more that there aren't enough active devs, not that there aren't enough beta testers, but whenever there's an infusion of new people, there is usually a corresponding pickup in interest from whatever devs there are. I realize that it's hard to find people you trust, but adding a bigger batch might do wonders as far as getting the entire team excited. My guess at a magic number would be around 30 more (maybe more)?

30-40?

More like 300.

do they dine in hell?

Actually, a fresh set of eyes would be great!
I would take 8 new beta testers who know nothing about "Fortress" and let them have at it! Let's see what the viewpoint from a n00b on Fortress Forever is :shock:

i only have a few days to live..=( at least let me die with joy

Did that already.

There are almost 70 or so, so you got your magic number. Let them do their jobs. You don't have to connect to a game server to test software, I'm sure they're doing most of the testing on their own machines.

...actually, we can't make listen servers...

Devs can, but not testers.

I am trying to help you. Help Me.... Help YOU....

This beta needs more betas.