Precisely, I've been playing on it pretty long, and death was never a part of that before it was imposed in the last invasion. Indeed, Tom had always opposed the idea of mortality for everyone, and the only thing different about BT is that realms died more often (due to large NPC armies stomping on them every now and then), and that we got to experience the code changes before everyone. For the latter, it was always the same as the other testing islands. And testing islands were never special, they simply got the changes *first*, but that doesn't mean they worked differently than how the other realms would eventually work like. They didn't get special stuff just because they were testing islands. They were just prone to more bugs.
Before the first invasion, invasions had never happened before either
