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juu7 doesn't work if I wait first.

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on other hand, the next guess was quite easy to do

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Damn you, Schik! I managed to stay away from DROD for such a long time now! I built a career and everything! Then I just wanted to have a quick look how the next big thing was coming along, and you lured me back in!

Great job on the bar game, though.

I'm aware that the interactive version is just a bit of a gimmick, but if you wanted to, you could make it feel much more responsive without that much extra work, by letting the server return not only the current state of the board, but also all the ten possible states after each possible move. That way, the client side could always be one step ahead and execute moves immediately.

Of course, that would be about 50kB traffic for each move, but you could cut that down to not much more than the original 5 by, for example, only sending the whole board information for the wait move, and for all the other moves just send the difference.

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Schik wrote:
Let me just put this idea out there: Now that the puzzle is all uncovered... should I re-cover, put up a new room, and wipe all the old guesses, but with no new reward?

Heck yeah!

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Here is the hold of the puzzle. It is perhaps of interest that it looks slightly different in actual DROD, mainly in the walls.

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Schik wrote:
Let me just put this idea out there: Now that the puzzle is all uncovered... should I re-cover, put up a new room, and wipe all the old guesses, but with no new reward?

Absolutely! Probing the covered room wall by wall and seeing your guesses proved true is a reward in itself :)

Chaco wrote:
I think you should give it about 24 hours, just to let some stragglers who hadn't heard of this Bar puzzle yet see the room and have an opportunity to solve the room with a complete view of the room.

Perhaph the Bar could give away some swords to all those wanting to solve the room now? So that they can see how it works and get ready for the new covered room.

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I just had all the roaches freeze in place after forming the click number. Is that supposed to happen?


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Well, I'm not going to lie, I successfully got past the first three roaches and that took me about three swords.

I'm going to start completely ignoring this nonsense now.

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Thanks to a little help from my friends I got to enjoy the bar rewards If only the original solution were interactive maybe I wouldn't need all the help.

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Solved! Then, to find out what the deal was with those master walls which vanish between Swords, I read this thread. Huh. Would have been helpful to be following along.

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nabla wrote:
I'm aware that the interactive version is just a bit of a gimmick, but if you wanted to, you could make it feel much more responsive without that much extra work, by letting the server return not only the current state of the board, but also all the ten possible states after each possible move. That way, the client side could always be one step ahead and execute moves immediately.

Of course, that would be about 50kB traffic for each move, but you could cut that down to not much more than the original 5 by, for example, only sending the whole board information for the wait move, and for all the other moves just send the difference.

Oh, and another thing that would make it more playable, is the delete key: The way the game is set up, it would be trivial to implement the undo function, but that's not even what I'm talking about — it's just that it should be captured, so it doesn't trigger browser-history-back.

That's no biggie, of course, because it's probably not meant to really be played anyway; it's just another thing that pushes it a bit deeper into that uncanny valley between the non-interactive version and the real game.

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Aw, someone took the 100000 right from under my nose!
editeditedit:
And i even was clicking from 300 back on!
Oh, chaco you meanie :o
back to clicking to try to get a sword...

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Heh. I think there were two other people who were racing to 100,000th click...

Better luck next time!



EDIT:

Unfortunately, crossing 100000 has now resulted in a sharp decrease in how funny the messages were compared to last time - only about 10.0 percent as funny.

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Has anyone else noticed that Beethro doesn't seem to turn anymore when trying to kill over 100000 roaches?

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Timo006 wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that Beethro doesn't seem to turn anymore when trying to kill over 100000 roaches?

I can confirm this - the sword turns to kill roaches as normal, but Beethro's body keeps facing NW.

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I can't believe you're watching that long.

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Timo006 wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that Beethro doesn't seem to turn anymore when trying to kill over 100000 roaches?

On a similar note, in the roach message, the roaches do not turn to face north before scattering.

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12th Archivist wrote:
In the roach message, the roaches do not turn to face north before scattering.

In fact, they don't turn at all. Not even as they scatter.
Note also that both problems--the roaches and Beethro--deal with rotation.

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I just had all the roaches freeze in place after forming the click number. Is that supposed to happen?

This is still happening for me when I use I.E.. It does work for me when I use Firefox. I downloaded and installed Sun's Java but it made no difference.

And now Beethro doesn't kill a single roach. Everything just freezes for me at the point where the first roach should be killed.
(It does work for me under Firefox.)

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Stupid new version of jquery. Well okay, I was doing something that wasn't supported, but just happened to work in the old version, but doesn't in the new version. Fixed.

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Well, solved the mini-board.
Must ask though...

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Casebier wrote:

Click here to view the secret text

×"fin 102008" ??? Strange Album name...

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Ah great...Must have missed it, because I got the one with the bug slaying.

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I'm pretty sure that it WAS more than 28 hours ago.

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77%

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Hey, I just got a sword!

it's a shame I can't use it though, since I've already solved the Riddle...

EDIT: and it seems Schik has finally solved the riddle!

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Wait a minute, is it normal for me not being able to click the bar and being unable to access the bar game?

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Timo006 wrote:
Wait a minute, is it normal for me not being able to click the bar and being unable to access the bar game?

Are you still logged in? If I watch Beethro slay all those roaches, the forum logs me out due to inactivity.

Edit: Ignore this post. I can be so oblivious to the obvious.

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bdwing wrote:

Timo006 wrote:
Wait a minute, is it normal for me not being able to click the bar and being unable to access the bar game?

Are you still logged in? If I watch Beethro slay all those roaches, the forum logs me out due to inactivity.

I would assume he is still logged in considering he was able to post that message.

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