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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?

Mar-20-2011 11:08

Testers wanted...
There will be no rewarding. Still I hope to collect 4 teams of 4 sleuths to participate in a small AVH tournament (3 best in the team will count), in order to see if I manage to do the correct tracking and construction of a "scoreboard" - over at playsleuth2.com

If more teams are interested in joining, I will enlarge the tournament, but for a first try, 4 teams is my target. As it's testing, I am interested in having one team that will not be able to put up 3 players to finish an AVH :-P (If you can bring that team, I will be happy to know :-))

So, I have decided on start date: April - 1 (aprils fool day)
Use of sidekicked cases is discouraged.
3 best players in the team will count. I'll be using Serges way of computing score (need to look it up somewhere)
If a player starts more than one AVH within the time frame of [startdate - 1: startdate + 4] the best AVH will count.
Starting before the startdate will count as a failed AVH.
A failed AVH will count as a failed AVH.
An AVH that is not finished within 13 days will count as a failed AVH.
If one player's AVH goes through Cairo, and someone looks at the scoreboard when the player is Active in Cairo, on day is subtracted from the number of days to complete the hunt.

Hopefully some of you will be interested, and manage to collect 4 sleuths to be in your team. Send me a sleuth mail with the name of your team, and the team members.
I will do no checking on the joined team members, whether they may go to Shangri La or not. That is your responsibility.

I hope to sometime soon to bring up at least some scoreboard information over at the playsleuth2-site. - and may be, if things runs smoothly, I will make the page availiable also for those not logged in ;-)

Mar-20-2011 11:47

I think that the best way to build up teams would be to list your name on this post and when there are enough names we can form groups of four players.

Mar-20-2011 11:48

Count me in :-)

Mar-20-2011 11:57

I'll join with a team that I will call "The Disasters", and it will consist of Irene, Huglover and Huglover's Assistant, and a fourth player that I will try to dig up...

I guess it's a given that we will be the loosing team, since both Huglover and Huglover's Assistant is unsubbed at the moment.
- and myself, I plan to use loooooong time to finish the AVH ;-)

Mar-20-2011 13:02

Count me in too!

Mar-20-2011 14:42

Okay, I'm going to throw my hat in and say I'll do it. Now all I have to do is REMEMBER!

Mar-20-2011 15:14

You can count me in.

Mar-20-2011 15:45

I'll give it a go. ;-)

Mar-20-2011 15:47

(And from the looks of it, that's five so far, 8 total. ;-)

Mar-20-2011 19:47

I'll join up with Night Queen, that is if she'd like to be on a team with me :)