Welcome to the Test Server Discussion area where we hope you will engage and assist in testing of game content for the good of the community as a whole. As you may have already read in other threads this is the start of a new programme of testing for NFNA and we are very keen to make it productive, informative and as inclusive as possible.
In addition to the normal posting rules as per General Discussion, the following applies to the Testing Area:
A. We encourage free discussion about test results and progress. B. We encourage the use of screenshots to support evidence and discussion. C. Players need to focus on current tests ONLY to avoid any 'noise' and distractions on to other things they may like testing in future. Non-testing discussion, spam, flames or anything deemed inappropriate will be removed without recourse to the person making the post/thread. D. Mailman, the Head Moderator and one player selected from the current core team will maintain an oversight of the ideas and discussion on the Testing forum and will provide any official responses that may be required. This team will also coordinate official recommendations from testing up to SDE. As such the player rep is someone that players can speak to if they do not want to use the forums or speak to Mailman or the Head Moderator. E. Mailman or the Head Moderator will pin and unpin threads if they are considered of significant importance at the time.
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The testserver client can be found in the download section, together with the manual patch.. and believe me, you want to use the manual patch.... auto-patching takes about 2 hours.
To download and use the testserver client, do the following:
1. Download the client archive file (nfna_dev_client.zip) and save it somewhere. 2. Extract the files from the archive file. Windows Vista and 7 support this, with XP you'll need to use a program like winzip or winrar (which are free programs). Extract the files to a folder of your choice (e.g. c:\NFNA_test\ ). Do NOT put them in your main NF folder. 3. Also download the Testserver manual patch. Extract the files into the same folder as in step 2. You may need to confirm overwriting files. 4. In the folder where you extracted the files should be a file called Navyfield.exe Double click this to run the client.
The accounts are ready, but the sailor classing does not yet work as planned.
Account information is as follows:
test101 to test199
i. Any player who wants to participate in testing will be able to access these accounts (password will be the same for all = iwanttotest (cannot be changed) ii. First come first served for each testing session. If you get the account already logged in?suggest jumping up or down a random number of accounts and trying again iii. A spread of levelled Sailors will be available on each account and will be RESET in every week. These sailors will need allocating nations and classes ahead of testing, so there will be a setup time in the programme as well. And yes the nation/class restrictions of normal servers are not present on the test server so you can set them as needed for the declared test.
Troubleshooting: ------Crashing after start I heard a possible fix to this is enabling DEP (Data Execution Prevention) when using Windows XP
------Hackshield relating issues -Do not run 3rd party programs like NF fixer (or something similar) -Do not use custom sprites in the testserver client -Try running the Navyfield.exe with administrator privileges (was not needed for me though)
Tip by Skssoldier: To get past the crash and to the loading screen: Find where you extracted the navyFIELD client for the Test server. Right click, go to properties. Disable Visual Themes and Desktop Composition
Then: Control Panel> System and Security> System> Advanced system settings> Data Execution Prevention> Add NavyFIELD(Test Server client) and HSUpdater (This is in HShield [of the folders you extracted with the client])
*Merged by Angus725 to free up space for other stickies*
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