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Heimlich VonVictor
Heimlich VonVictor
Vigilante

Feb-14-2011 00:51

Hey guys. This is kind of a follow-up to my last thread. There I asked many of you what you had done to make things any different. Here I'm asking you, "What are you going to do?"

I always tell students it's better to show not tell, so here we go!


What I'm doing- Tonight I started writing a short scripted mystery that will serve as a tutorial to answer a lot of the common SM questions that people have.

How long will it take me- Hopefully I will have the whole thing done in a month (but with me who knows).

What would I need for it to work- I'd need it to be approved as a Scripted Mystery and ideally I'd like Ben to make it free to all players.


So what do you think guys? What can you do to help Sleuth?

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Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Mar-31-2011 11:32

*Is MORE than a little bit confused....*

Squirrel and Irene:

How does one choose to *opt* (for lack of a better word) out of Cairo???? *Goes bug-eyed at the thought.* And how, pray tell, does a detective have THAT kind of control over the server?? (I keep goin' wherever the system keeps tellin' me to go. Y'mean I can choose to NOT go to Cairo???? And NOW y'all choose to let me in on this little tidbit of gossip???? Sigh. *Goes off muttering to herself.... ;-)

As for the rest of us:

Good luck to all of us!! I hope we all make it through the round!!! And NOOO fails, please!!!! ;-D ;-D ;-D

See y'all in Shangri-La!! ;-D

Breit

Irene
Irene

Mar-31-2011 13:17

Let me try to start by trying to explain to Breit :-)
*I am awful with explaining though, but I'll do my best*

Now, the system I have made will pull out information about where the sleuths registered in an AVH tournament, from the Active, Failed and Captured Villains pages, that for ordinary users may be found in the City Hall. This collection of information is done each time someone reuests to look at the page I have put up. (No manual involvement there, or... - it's not meant to be any manual involvement). Since especially the Captured Villains page takes quite some time to load the ordinary way, my page also takes some time to be loaded.
So, the way you will be able to "make seen" to the playsleuth2 server where you are "active" with your hunt, is to look at the page I have put up, as it will "force" the server to update it's information about all the sleuths in the tournament when someone ask to have a look at the page.
So, if someone ask to have a look at the current "scoreboard" for the tournament when you are "active" in Cairo, the server will know that your list of cities included Cairo. If noone have a look at the page during the whole time you are active in Cairo, the server will not know your VH involved Cairo. Now, since you also may be = someone, you may be able to make the server know you went through Cairo, by looking at the page when you are "active" in Cairo. (That is what I mean when I use the phrase "make it seen").
So, that is the first part of my explanation.
Next part in next post :-)

Irene
Irene

Mar-31-2011 13:29

If you are going to recieve some "benefits" for going through Cairo, there is a couple of requirements that needs to be met.
The first requirement is that the tournament is set up WITH the benefits included. This specific Beta-test tournament is set up WITH a benefit of "one free day" if you pass through Cairo. In later tournaments, the one who "configure" the tournament, will be allowed to choose if there is going to be a benefit, and if so, what kind of benefit (among the availiable options).
BUT, the setup of the tournament is NOT the only requirement to meet for a certain player to actually get the benefit. If the certain player is going to GET the benefit, the server must be made aware that you meet the requirements, and actually go through Cairo. That requirement can be controlled partly by the user, in the way described in the prior post. (Other part of that requirement of course being that you actually be requested by Noir original to go to Cairo).

So, let me try to sum this up: The only thing you can choose about going to Cairo or not, is the benefit, if any to be recieved IF you are requested to go through Cairo. This benefit is tied to the configuration of the tournament. This time we are testing how a one day discount benefit will work. SS sugest that it will be a too big benefit, and he might be right, but we need testing to know.

I would also be interested in knowing what kind of other benefits that would be worth considering. :-) Only when I know, I am able to consider including it as an option for later tournament setups.

Irene
Irene

Mar-31-2011 13:42

The next topic I want to address is some people who have graciously told me they have a problem at looking on the web page: http://playsleuth2.com/Noir/bonus/Scores/AVHtournament.spy?id=3

Riza told me she would get a Spyce Exception (= error) when she looked at the page, and Aknas told me she got an error when she was looking at the http://playsleuth2.com/Noir/bonus/Scores/avhSelectedList.spy?id=3 - which is a page I have created just to see that I have managed to collect the information, before I started on the presentation in a more sensible way. (id=1 is a small test tournament I put up without people knowing, id=2 is the All for fun tournament that Riza put up some time ago, and id=3 is this beta test tournament). The error Aknas recieved: Spyce exception
File: /var/www/html/Noir/bonus/Scores/avhSelectedList.spy
Message:

UnboundLocalError: local variable 'sleuthName' referenced before assignment

Stack: avhSelectedList.spy:11, in (main):


page = noir.requestNoir(sleuthName, 'GET', theLink, '', spyceSessionValue, debugState)

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indicate in my eyes that there is a problem looking at the page when you have not logged in to playsleuth2.com. It was not my plan to introduce that problem, but obviously I have made some mistakes. :-(
I will look into this when my head is starting to function again. Right now it's very tired... :-(
I will be very interested though, if anyone get some errors, if you would care to copy the information you get when the error occurs, as it will help me to search for the problem and correct it.

In a couple of additional tests that Aknas was willing to do for me, she indicated that the problem she had was related to what kind of browser software she was using. She told she had problems when using Firefox, and that it worked when she used Chrome. If you get the same difference I will be happy to know, as there are some differences between the browsers what they handle and what they do not handle on a web page.

Irene
Irene

Mar-31-2011 14:00

This First Blood benefit/award thing sounds like a very good idea :-) If someone knows more about it, or will try describing what kind of award/benefit that is going to be, I would be happy to know.

As the "Captured Villains" page offered by Noir does not include timestamp, and I have not yet implemented something to go through the news to find the timestamp, I will be dependent on the one who does the "first capture" be willing to look at the score page before someone else capture, so that the playsleuth2 server will be able to (when I have learned it how to), determine who was the first one to do a capture. But, I believe this requirement (you have to look up the page quickly enough) is not a requirement that will be seen as too hard to accept. - so if someone give me an idea of what a "First Blood" benefit/award was/should be I will be happy to know :-)

Irene
Irene

Mar-31-2011 15:35

Seems like the current problem with spyce exception is due to not being logged in. You may log in to the site at: www.playsleuth2.com

It might be worth noticing that the sleuth you use to log in with at playsleuth2.com does NOT have to be your valuable and working part of an AVH tournament for the information to be collected. If you are concerned with question of whether passwords are collected or not (they are not, but you will have to take my word on that), find yourself some unimportant sleuth (might be unsubbed), to do the login and looking at score... "someone" might be you, but it does not have to be "you" :-P

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Mar-31-2011 15:59

Never said anything about opt in / opt out of Cairo Breit. :s

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Mar-31-2011 18:50

Forgive me, must've read your posts wrong. Oops. ;-)

Thank you both!! ;-D

Huglover
Huglover
Old Shoe

Mar-31-2011 21:55

Oh, what a disaster!
I am unsubbed, and therefore unable to travel to Shangri La :-P

Oh, shit, but well, I guess that was part of the plan :-D
Some of you already know that when you are not subbed, you are not allowed to travel, so joining an AVH tournament and not being subscribed is not a good idea :-P
Unless, of course, you are planning a disaster :-D

Nancy Harris
Nancy Harris
Old Shoe

Apr-1-2011 06:01

LOL Huglover!

Well, it can happen to all of us. You can incorporate it as a testing factor. :) :)

Happy hunting to all of the rest - and have fun!!!

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