PXC: Puzzles-Responses

[PUZZLE] e=mc cubed

Duplexia@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:44:39 +0000

I'm not entirely sure I follow your train of thought as to why the cube will be easier than a 180 - there's maybe only 20/30l less - where do you feel you will get the saving? As for work, I would have thought the maintenance would have been more demanding on a tank with less volume as there is less tolerance

[PUZZLE] e=mc cubed

Duplexia@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:18:13 +0000

Would the cow be holding the board in its mouth so part of the message is not seen? it may still read E=mc(C) UBED... I dont understand this game.

User Created Puzzles

Guest@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:13:59 +0000

Oh,it must be a huge work,Thanks for list the links.

User Created Puzzles

Guest@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:01:09 +0000

I updated the master list again. I added the new puzzles people have posted here along with a few I created:

Dog Pile (green) - http://www.welovepuzzles.com/permalink/puzzle/8552/
Merit Badge (blue) - http://www.welovepuzzles.com/permalink/puzzle/8563/
Look Around You (yellow) - http://www.welovepuzzles.com/permalink/puzzle/8553/
The Gadget (silver) - http://www.welovepuzzles.com/permalink/puzzle/8562/

Ok, so Look Around You is the same as the one I posted a while back, but it now has a super pretty Photoshopped card look! I have one more puzzle to post, but I can't do it until the whole filesize/corruption issues is fixed. Or I can get the filesize down and still have some reasonable image quality.

Until next time...

PS: And for the record, Gumshoe was a darn creative puzzle.

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:04:12 +0000

MD1500, are your correct looking puzzles numbered before 8000? I guess in either case I'll be sending an email to MC, although I'm sure they know about it.

My two puzzles that display correctly are 8464 and 8490....
However, I think there's a definite problem. I've noticed there are no puzzle images present from 8502 onwards...

Whoops, I meant 8500 and above, not 8000.

I shot Mind Candy an email, and I noticed that MD1500 posted in their bug forum too (which I didn't realize existed), so hopefully we'll hear something.

I was able to upload two JPG images that were under 30k, but there does seem to be some limit around there. Some of my other images got corrupted near the beginning and some right at the end. Thanks for the tip, MD1500!

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:09:14 +0000

with things the way they are at the moment this may not get fixed any time so (if ever) :(

MC are committed to supporting the cards through waves 2 and 3 and support for the puzzles should also continue afaik, it is only the ARG that has finished/on sabbatical (I think Scarlett's probably got to learn to type again with her new fingers :twisted: )

But anyway, it's a customer service issue so definitely report it, I'd bear in mind that they have one or two fewer staff and probably lots of troubles so things might take longer. Though the WLP mods were supposed to have a hotline to Mind Candy, so maybe if you were sneaky you might be able to get a quicker response down that route... ;) Besides think of that lovely IP that you're giving them.

there lots of small things that have gone wrong with the we puzzles site that never real got fixed. this was ok because they working on the story and it would have all fix together in the end.

but now MC working on "New Thing" so all of PXC is going on to the back burner not just the story. so i don't see MC fixing the user made cards any time soon, as they have not put in any of the key things the cards like the S2 rankings or even a point total on your profile :( .

sorry if i sound bitter over whole :curse: thing.

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:45:53 +0000

with things the way they are at the moment this may not get fixed any time so (if ever) :(

MC are committed to supporting the cards through waves 2 and 3 and support for the puzzles should also continue afaik, it is only the ARG that has finished/on sabbatical (I think Scarlett's probably got to learn to type again with her new fingers :twisted: )

But anyway, it's a customer service issue so definitely report it, I'd bear in mind that they have one or two fewer staff and probably lots of troubles so things might take longer. Though the WLP mods were supposed to have a hotline to Mind Candy, so maybe if you were sneaky you might be able to get a quicker response down that route... ;) Besides think of that lovely IP that you're giving them.

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:49:39 +0000

MD1500, are your correct looking puzzles numbered before 8000? I guess in either case I'll be sending an email to MC, although I'm sure they know about it.

My two puzzles that display correctly are 8464 and 8490....
However, I think there's a definite problem. I've noticed there are no puzzle images present from 8502 onwards...

EDIT: I've just managed to upload a puzzle! I had to degrade the quality of the original image until it was 32k in size. There is still a problem with image uploading, but at least you can work around it. However, if your image is realy colourful, forget it! For those interested my new, working puzzle is at:
http://www.welovepuzzles.com/permalink/puzzle/8551/

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:52:57 +0000

with things the way they are at the moment this may not get fixed any time so (if ever) :(

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:03:10 +0000

Hi. I have a similar problem. When I try to upload a puzzle image to the site, the image appears corrupted in the preview panel. It's almost as though they abort the upload half way through the process.

The strangest thing is, the same thing happens when I try to re-upload my two previously submitted puzzle images (both which appeared on site correctly).

I'd like to know if anybody else has this problem.

EDIT: I just uploaded a test image and did a screencapture of it, to explain what I mean. On the left is the image I'm trying to upload, on the right is the image as it appears in the preview panel... (The only thing I've altered is the size.)

I was going through puzzles numbered 8000 and higher, and noticed that none of them have pictures. Heck, some don't even have an author attached to them. I guess the puzzle creation bit of the site started having issues in the recent past.

MD1500, are your correct looking puzzles numbered before 8000? I guess in either case I'll be sending an email to MC, although I'm sure they know about it.

Man, and I was so proud of these latest puzzle I made too! :(

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:16:00 +0000

Hi. I have a similar problem. When I try to upload a puzzle image to the site, the image appears corrupted in the preview panel. It's almost as though they abort the upload half way through the process.

The strangest thing is, the same thing happens when I try to re-upload my two previously submitted puzzle images (both which appeared on site correctly).

I'd like to know if anybody else has this problem.

EDIT: I just uploaded a test image and did a screencapture of it, to explain what I mean. On the left is the image I'm trying to upload, on the right is the image as it appears in the preview panel... (The only thing I've altered is the size.)

Problems With User Created Puzzle Images

volvox@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:34:49 +0000

Don't know if this happened to anyone else, but I created a puzzle on welovepuzzles.com and uploaded an image to go with it. The image uploaded fine on the creation screen, however, when I view the puzzle now, the image is gone! Needless to say, this makes it a bit difficult to solve the puzzle.

The original image was in PNG format. I also added a tiny bit of steg to attach my name to the image. I'm not sure if this caused the problem, but it is weird that the image would upload and display fine in one place, but not another.

Anyone else have this happen to them? I have several other puzzle to upload, but I don't want to risk having a bunch of broken puzzles associated with me. Would be nice if we could remove old puzzle at some point, but I digress. If nothing else, I may try going to a non-steged JPG or something. I would hope that works. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Found something new on Caine's journal?

Caol@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:32:59 +0000

Ah, thanks ginc. I thought it might be something like that, but having searched around and found nothing, I was getting rather confused. So better to ask, I figured. : )

Found something new on Caine's journal?

Caol@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:05:27 +0000

Hi Caol,

the stones were scattered over multiple pxc sites for promotion of the board game when it came out.

Cheers, ginc

Found something new on Caine's journal?

Caol@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 31 May 2007 04:19:40 +0000

Hi guys,

I was just clicking through links from last season, stopped on Caine's journal and happened to notice three little round things above the block of "about me" type text. I clicked on one of them and got a pop up talking about the board game that then sent me off looking for "puzzle stones" hidden in pxc pages and giving little puzzles to solve. I came over here to see if anyone had found a stone that was giving me trouble, but when I searched the forums several times, I couldn't find where anyone had mentioned anything about it. Is this a new development? Or something so old that there aren't records on it anymore? If the latter, then :oops: Just thought I'd point it out.

If anyone's forgotten where to find Caine's journal, it's here: http://www.theoozezone.com/