Jonric: You said you were keeping the testers busy testing combat. How many have you gotten into a battle? What aspects have you asked them to test, and what you've found out?

Peter Tyson: We've asked them to test items and clothes, and to test relative damage outputs as well as travel times, energy use and so on. This is all really basic stuff, but useful groundwork for us. Also, as stated, they're testing chasing each other around with intent to injure and our formal battle / Blood Circus system.

We never get all the testers together at once (especially with the developers all being in the UK), and so for this stage, a dozen for any one test has been just fine.