Why does Eclipse require me to set (arbitrary) brackets in java code?

Question

I am currently trying to figure out how to use Eclipse to program Escape models in java. I am quite new to Escape and Eclipse, and it has been a while since I programmed in java

Answer 1

public class CoordinationGame extends Scape {    
  // ...
  int test2;
  // ...
  test2 = 3;  // <- errror
}

This is illegal, we can't assign values this way in a class body. The other code was legal because you used a static initializer to init the field test2.

The error message is pretty misleading but, honestly, that happens quite often in Java ;)