Official Community Playtest Events

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Having canceled last week's scheduled free play weekend event due to the potential for abuse, review bomb attacks etc, we are in the process of putting together regularly scheduled community gameplay test events instead. This means that we use Early Access backers who already have a vested interest in the game.As an official event, for myself and some of the team to attend it would have to be scheduled for Sat late afternoon to early evening.It would streamed live on my TwitchTV channel This would be a 2hr block of time, with a day/date announced and promoted well in advance.I am planning to implement Steam achievements and use that to award ribbons and medals for participation and other gameplay criteria.Since we already have art assets and criteria for them, these earned ribbons and medals can then be displayed on your Steam pages. And if we schedule these official events every two weeks, leading up to the game's release, active participants have a chance to gain multiple medals, ribbons over time. They would also be displayed in-game via the stats (TAB key which is NYI) panel where the certs are also displayed.I would also give qualifying active participants a Starter Kit key to give to a friend or family member.I am looking to schedule the first of these events for. Once everything is nailed down, I will create an announcement, as well as an event in the group/community events calendar.