Your Event by Cthulhu Kitty
March 31st, 2007 8:44 PMGreetings new EquivalenZ member,
If you are feeling up to a challenge, I have a secret task for you - Fake your own kidnapping. Just send documentation of you tying yourself up in some fashion - duct tape works best for pure flashiness. Remember, it's not enough just to show pictures of the end result; you have to also document that you were the one who did the dirty deed. Once completed, I will make sure points are awarded appropriately.
Keep up the good work,
Neko Totoro
15 people attended and there was much toasting of POON along with copious amounts of appropriate libations.
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I was wondering about something. All of a sudden all her points disappeared and I was worried she got X'd. But instead it went to Impossible Exchange (have you noticed that could be abbreviated IE? What like, in exempla or Internet Explorer...I stray from my point). Is that something automated, or is that something you can just do? Are IE-era tasks that are unretired for by-request completions backdated to IE or are they credited to Glasnost or are they flexible? Like did Cyber Kitty complete her event actually back in the last era, so that's why the points got applied back then? Like if I asked for a task from IE to be unretired and I completed it now, would those points go to my all time/IE totals or Glasnost?
When we were setting up the transition to the new era, we discussed this - it makes a lot more sense, database-ly speaking (to keep things lean and mean, and easy), for us to rely on the submission date when assigning a completed task to an era. And we weren't going to purge people's catalog of tasks-in-progress (this was one - it had just sat in CK's "working on..." since IE).
I'd rather just say "hey, you held onto the task, you started it, so now you can finish it". But 400 points is 400 points, and K messaged to point out that this was probably getting into some tricky rules territory. We ended up deciding to backdate the completion to 3/31, the end of IE and the day after the event in question.
This gets a little grey, though. Mouse's fantastic "Document a Construction" is another throwback. But it was completed in Glasnost time, and - perhaps more importantly - it's just a Level 1 task, so there isn't the same level-jumping issue.
Seems you made the smart choice. It makes for an interesting thing on the score page right now: CK is a level 6 player in 2nd place behind a level 5, and VV is back at level one, but listed ahead of some level fours, etc. etc. Bug? meh, doesn't bug me of course. But ...interesting.
which is why I pointed out the "mistake." Sean's first response was "Tough!" Gosh, made me feel like I was in the military or something - I'm surprised he didn't say "Suck it up, Sailor!." But given some of the comments floating around and sort of touchy atmosphere vis a vis certain task completions, I felt it was better if we subtracted the points. I'll just have to do a glastnost era 400 point task...
but what's really weird for me is that my points total hasnt changed. It's still showing up as 1325 instead of 925. guess ill just have to subtract 400 all the time...
Yeah, I missed the event, but some ImpEx (I like it, but maybe "Imp-X" is more marketable) bonus points for honesty. Took me a fat minute to figure out what was making the player page weird, so there were a couple days of gettin' nothin' done. Should be all better now, though.
So, lets recap - 400 points in this era for cheating or 5 bonus points applied to the previous era for honesty...
:)
thats a lot of points... did you come to town for the silent moment/ service/thing? most of the proof seems to be about what you already posted for the kidnapping task/haze the other task
and welcome to level 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sortof
the event i posted was for everyone who could not go to the wake. it was cheesy, and not worth 400 points. It was a moment of silence while drinking... :)
and im not positive, but i think im still 655 points away from level 8 :(
oops i was looking at the all-time score.
anyway i'm no one to complain, i got a 1000 point task once before...
here's to celebrating the late POOn
Impossible Exchanged!