Hoi Bonk,
I am glad to see this as I was thinking of making a post asking players how they find it worthwhile to make time to play a server, yet refuse to make time to show up for a simple test that will allow for servers to be improved upon.
We all love the game; we all know it needs to be improved; we all know that the people devoting so much time and resources need numbers to see if a given setup will work under game-like circumstances, but the majority of players still do not show up. It is a very confusing and unfortunate situation.
This is what we do for a test. Get as many players to log on, go to a selected hex, pile in and start drafting like crazy. If the server holds up to the stress, great we move on, if it crashes, great, we found something, changes are made and do it again a few days/weeks later untill all of the bugs are understood. If people show up at the scheduled time(s) the whole process takes only a few minutes. It is really that simple. A few minutes of your time translates to awesome servers.
The powers that be are providing tools and resources for our community to work with, please show up for the tests.
Take care
drb