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In TC3 right now, free players cannot go to skill lots, money lots, or go to jobs. We are testing this out on TC3 before we roll it out to EA-Land. After we finish testing this out, TC3 will revert back to the way it was.
Thank you for
choosing to play on a test server and helping us to test out features.
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Those of us with premium accounts do choose to play there and test, but free accounts don't have the luxury of choice, since there's no other place they can play unlimited. I am thrilled to see that this is only a temporary PITA though, after the 'probably' in another post I was a little worried LOL. Let's hope the testing can be done quickly and succinctly and proven to be unexploitable so they can roll it to EAL an give the free players their freedom back. This reinforced my belief that there should be an in-game link to Stratics like there is for the blog and Wiki though, because I was at a friend's entertainment lot just now and had literally dozens of people in a short amount of time asking wtf was going on, and when I gave out 'sims.stratcis.com' as the place where the discussion was going on, very few had even heard of it.....so it'd be cool if somehow a 4th button could be added to our panel linking us to Stratics, or if somehow you could send clickable links through PM so you could just send somebody the URL and in one click they're there just as they would be if there *were* a button. Knowlege is power......at least these guys are wanting to know....usually there's little interest in it, other than finding stuff out in-game.
ETA: For my part of the testing I tried a couple dozen times to get into different lots, all to no avail, trying from city view, and while on another property to see if there was a 'loophole' to get in that way, or 'stalking' a friend to see if the Where Am I button created a potential exploit to it, but nada. It'd be a little less painful to ride the timeframe if we could at least go to our sim jobs, even if they didn't pay anything.....just for the sake of having somethign to do since I had heard free players were working some job tracks before and just not getting paid for it, but no luck there either, so it does seem that the dev team has come up with a working 'fix' for the exploitation in EAL, which again is a good thing, and very timely considering how long we've gone with other exploits in the past that weren't 'plugged' anywhere near as fast.....so kudos to the dev team for at least rolling something out that solves one problem for those who have EAL as their primary playing place
