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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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Anikka
Anikka
Babelfish

Apr-5-2011 20:05

Irene, I think the point is not that you have the results showing as soon as we're done with the test, but that you can use this 'test tournament' to figure out how to make the page show results for when there is a REAL tournament.

In other words, I doubt anyone expects the thing to be working, much less perfect, immediately! So don't worry about it :)

Guiltfinder
Guiltfinder
Battered Shoe

Apr-6-2011 01:36

I was able to extract all needed informations from the scoreboard during the tournament. You did it fine Irene!

turtledove
turtledove
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods

Apr-6-2011 06:40

I think so far Irene has done a marvellous job. I, like Guiltfinder, was able to follow the progress of the hunt quite easily and as Anikka says this is a test which will help pinpoint the areas to work on.

Good job Irene :-)

ypsi
ypsi
Red-Nosed

Apr-6-2011 06:59

Congrats to Peach_Detects2 on the capture of her Arch Villain and now all the Eagles are home to roost ;-) Despite David's Marines and Breitkat's Missy, Eagle Wing has overcome all obstacles and have proven to be excellent hunters.

Perched on high ground Ypsi's sharp eyes follows Missy as she sashays away down far below. Ummmm, I must really do something about that Kitty!

Peach_Detects2
Peach_Detects2
Old Shoe

Apr-6-2011 15:20

Thanks Irene for the opportunity to play in a Tournament and all the hard work you've done.

Thanks teammates for the spot on the best April 2011 Tourney Team, Eagle Wing!

ctown28
ctown28
Huntsman

Apr-7-2011 04:28

Great Job Irene. Thanks for putting this together!

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Apr-7-2011 12:10

Just out of curiosity, are we doing Round 2?

Dekz
Dekz
Assistant Librarian

Apr-7-2011 15:48

Thank you Irene for all of your hard work!

Irene
Irene

Apr-7-2011 16:54

Hi all :-) I am looking forward to the weekend, when I hope to be able to make the server calculate the result as well :-)

There will be no second round. This will be when you have convinced Riza she will put up a new (real) hunt for you. May be even with a price? Perhaps a Pearl Handled Dirk? :-P

Riza will then collect the people interested/joining, and I will put them together with a start date into the database, and the same tracking system will be used over again. As you might have realized, the various ways to run a tournament is due to parameters that one want to set up. Most will be related to the way a score is calculated - and Riza will inform me how she wants the score to be calculated, and if a higher number is seen as better than a lower number... Besides of that, one may choose to do "strict" rules, or "gracious" rules, and you are meant to be able to choose between catching one Villain, or two in a row. The tournament will be team based, but you may choose single-member teams.

In the end I hope that you realize that it is actually you who will be the people who help the system to do the tracking that will give the most correct scores. - as it's you, when you look at the scores, that helps the system understand it's going to collect some information. So, if Cairo means something to the score/result, you are the ones, by looking, who makes the information availiable.

Night Queen
Night Queen
Old Shoe

Apr-8-2011 11:33

Thank you very, very much, Irene. I know you have put in many hours on this escapade. You are a real jewel in Sleuth Noir. :)

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