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Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-19-2012 20:57

People of Sleuthville, lend me your ears!
I call out now to all you tomb-raiders and treasure seekers! To those who love the thrill of a good treasure hunt!

In the spirit of friendly competition i propose a challenge.
This challenge will require 10 adventurous detectives to be split onto 2 Teams, each team consisting of 5 members, in 2 newly made Agencies of my own making in NY.

These two agencies will compete against each other in Treasure Hunts.
The first team to get their agency to 7,000 Fame wins:

$200,000 Prize to be split among the team evenly.
(Working out to $40,000 a piece for each teammate...not too shabby huh?)
Also each team after the contest ends will vote amongst themselves on who alone among their team was MVP (someone who went above and beyond, did a really excellent job, etc) The MVP's from Both teams will win a 3 month gift subscription from me personally.
You also win bragging rights and honor for your home agencies on being an awesome treasure hunter.
Whether your team chooses single or multi-city hunt strategy is entirely up to you.

Obviously this competition will run for a while, (I'm venturing a guess at anywhere between 2 weeks to a month depending on how luck smiles on you or how good you and your teammates are).

It goes without saying that you would be required to resign temporarily from whatever agency you are currently in to join my competing agencies for the contest. You are allowed to enter an alternate detective if you wish if you're too attached to have your main detective leave your agency, and the only rules are:

1) Absolutely NO Password Sharing.
2) Only one entry per contestant
3) Have fun.

I want to know who among you treasure hunters really has what it takes to come together and co-ordinate as a team to truly be the best.

(Cont'd)

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Jack Billings
Jack Billings
Thespian

Jun-20-2012 09:49

Oshoot.
<----Molly

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 09:59

Molly you're looking quite manly today ;)

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 10:11

Damn i married me a strong lady!!!! Molly i cant believe im hearing you say this. I was looking forward to the new things for your pageant...

PM me :)

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 10:17

Also guys official update, i am now making the contest set at first agency to 15,000 fame from treasure hunts wins. If everyone agrees with this number i can quit asking for everyone's opinions and actually start making this happen. We all good on this? And to clarify i dont really care if your team gets a little boost from doing AI cases, that's all part of the strategy i want you all to chose, Should you do easy cases to get favors quickly to move through a hunt not gaining fame, or should you take a little extra time doing AI cases but having it pay off with a little extra fame boost for the effort? Obviously i want you guys THing like madmen but im not going to get picky about a little extra fame boost from cases.......am i making sense? My point is it can be very Tortoise vs Hare strategy, which will you choose?

Special_K
Special_K
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 10:27

thats one long paragraph chief ;)

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 10:32

And Riza will be happy to know its all most likely one big run on sentence :D

So everyone agrees on 15,000 fame limit?

Autumnsprings
Autumnsprings
Con Artist

Jun-20-2012 11:02

15,000 is good with me. also, i would like to donate money for the prize or for the buying of agencies/upkeep/whatever. PM me on how you want to work this out. :)

Night Queen
Night Queen
Old Shoe

Jun-20-2012 11:19

Jason,

What a brilliant and novel idea. If I were younger like Summer's niece, I would also say something about nipples.

I think you are going about trying to set an arbitrary limit the wrong way. I am posting the history of Queen's Gambit as an example in the following post...

Night Queen
Night Queen
Old Shoe

Jun-20-2012 11:20

November 1, 2011.
Queen's Gambit started by Night Queen.

Nov-27-2011 23:50
Delhi ranking: 6th
Fame: now over 10,000 ! (10,009)
Treasure Hunts: 3
Members
Night Queen
Synesence
Lady Sirocco
Fire Princess
Sean King
Baldacci
Dr. Doolittle
lucas d
Arctic Blast
Beneficus Lamia
Sherry Kola
Jerry Hatrick

Dec-1-2011 08:56
Delhi ranking: 5th
Overall ranking: 42nd
Fame: 14,766
Treasure Hunts: 5
Esteemed Members
Night Queen, ranked 14th overall, 1st in Veteran detectives, 20 AVH's
Synesence, ranked 2nd in Seasoned detectives, 13 AVH's
Lady Sirocco
Fire Princess
Sean King ranked 6th overall, 1st in Legendary detectives, 35 AVH's
Baldacci
Dr. Doolittle
lucas d
Joyfuljones, ranked 16th in Master detectives, 14 AVH's
Arctic Blast
Beneficus Lamia, ranked 3rd in Practiced detectives
Sherry Kola, ranked 1st in Novice detectives

Dec-9-2011 22:00
Delhi ranking: 5th
Overall ranking: 36th
Fame: 23,878
Treasure Hunts: 10
Esteemed Members
Night Queen, ranked 14th overall, 1st in Veteran detectives, 21 AVH's
Synesence, ranked 1st in Seasoned detectives, 15 AVH's
Lady Sirocco
Fire Princess
Sean King ranked 6th overall, 1st in Legendary detectives, 36 AVH's
Baldacci
Dr. Doolittle
lucas d
Joyfuljones, ranked 16th in Master detectives, 15 AVH's
Arctic Blast
Beneficus Lamia, ranked 2nd in Practiced detectives
Sherry Kola, ranked 1st in Apprentice detectives

Dec-15-2011 00:44
Delhi ranking: 5th
Overall ranking: 32nd
Fame: 30,007
Treasure Hunts: 14
Esteemed Members
Night Queen, ranked 14th overall, 1st in Veteran detectives, 21 AVH's
Synesence, ranked 1st in Seasoned detectives, 15 AVH's
Lady Sirocco
Fire Princess
Sean King ranked 6th overall, 1st in Legendary detectives, 37 AVH's
Baldacci
Dr. Doolittle
lucas d
Joyfuljones, ranked 16th in Master detectives, 17 AVH's
Arctic Blast
Sherry Kola, ranked 1st in Apprentice detectives
AndyThomas, ranked 4th in Apprentice detectives
Former Esteemed Members
Beneficus Lamia

Night Queen
Night Queen
Old Shoe

Jun-20-2012 11:27

Gambit was a hard-hitting startup agency in those years. We had exemplary sleuths in a Sleuth world that was rather lean. Notice that it took a month to reach 10,000 xp.

That 10,000 xp benchmark was achieved by going hard after TH's and by everyone mostly doing AI cases. We also had some real power hitters at that time.

My suggestion is this. Why don't you set a time limit--maybe 2 weeks. Then award the winner to whoever is ahead at that time limit.

With today's battleground of many more active agencies, this contest could be a rough one trying to achieve an arbitrary xp goal.

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