Editing Update of the Avatar/Update 246 (section)

===<span id="5">In The News: Richard Garriott and Starr Long Dual Dragon Con Interviews</span>===
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[https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/testing-incentives-program-reinstated-as-a-lottery.100043/ &#91;From a Forum Post by Starr “Darkstarr” Long&#93;]

Greetings Avatars,

As we announced recently, we had to temporarily suspend the Testing Incentives Program due to the amount of internal bandwidth it was consuming. This was due to the high volume of bugs the program generated as players were incentivized to create quantity over quality to gain rewards.

We do want to reward efforts to test on the QA server because we do understand that time spent there is time lost on advancing your character on live. At the same time we do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so instead of rewarding quantity we are going to create a lottery. Each release we will randomly reward 4 of each of the following rewards (one prize per player):
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*5 Gold Crowns
*Ant Farm
*Antennae
*Bug Cloak
*Set of Bug Paintings

In order to qualify you must meet the following requirements:

*Install the QA version of the game
*Login and play on QA for at least 4 hours per release
*Report at least 1 bug in the QA section of the forums (Note that players will only be submitted for the lottery once per QA cycle. Continued bug reporting will not count toward additional submissions into the lottery.)

Thanks Avatars!

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