If TNT would've stopped giving out points for this testing step, they would've ended the step as soon as the real faerie token was found.
I think they just assigned a certain room to be the correct one, and perhaps the people who have found it gain extra points for it. Now, if the correct room is found very quickly (like in this case), what to do with the rest of the testing? Well, just like the battling, just keep it open, so people can still do this step and perhaps catch up if they're still stuck on the mods. You still get plot points for doing it, just like you would still get points for battling (it
is still open, after all), but the story itself can advance.
Maybe it's just because this is a Sloth plot (
), but I think they've handled everything pretty well. Keeping the steps open, so people can ease their time, yet advancing in the plot at the same time sounds like a good solution. Especially since they made it clear that you
need to finish the mods step (and perhaps other steps) before you can advance to other steps yourself.
The only downsides I found were that they don't have any regular updates, sometimes we wait for weeks and sometimes updates are much sooner than we expect. That and I'm also missing the part where we actually go look for the faerie token (we suddenly just found like a gazillion lying around somewhere).