Before Lawbot HQ came out, we had tons of attention-seekers who began huge hoaxes when they started threads claiming that they had been to Lawbot HQ or possessed information/screenshots of it. The worst part was that many people naively believed them. In the end, not one of these threads turned out to be true.
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"I wasn't disconnected when a dev brought Toontown down for maintenance, and I got to see Bossbot HQ."
Many people think that when Toontown is brought down for maintenance because a developer is working on or testing Bossbot HQ. They think that while we’re offline, the Toontown developers have temporarily uploaded Bossbot HQ and are busy doing who-knows-what. Last year, we had an enormous hoax when somebody claimed that the devs had been careless and had forgotten to boot him when TTC went down for maintenance. He claimed that instead, the game had restarted and he had been returned to the Brrrgh, where to his great surprise, the street to Lawbot HQ was now open, allowing him to go to Lawbot HQ, which the developers were busy testing. Of course, he was disconnected after being in Lawbot HQ for a few seconds. He offered several “pictures” as proof that he had been able to go to Lawbot HQ. Many believed him, figuring that a developer must have brought the server down to test Lawbot HQ, but had forgotten to boot him off.
This couldn’t have possibly been true, however, because the devs don’t use the server that everybody plays on test new content. The developers have their own computers over in California that they use to program and test new content. If they had to bring Toontown down for maintenance every single time that they wanted to work on and test Bossbot HQ, then Toontown would have to be down around the clock, because programming a game is a very long and laborious process.
Plus, it wouldn’t make sense to upload Bossbot HQ to Toontown prematurely and risk it being exposed like that. Once Toontown has made Bossbot HQ playable, they will release it to the TEST server, so that the testers can test out Bossbot HQ’s gameplay and find bugs. The first time that Bossbot HQ will ever be on the open server will be the day of its official release.
When Toontown goes down for matinence, the developers are just performing a tune-up. They're correcting minor bugs that have developed and that sort of thing. Nothing nearly as exciting as Bossbot HQ.
The "Pictures" of Lawbot HQ
