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[vapor]

I think that we'll be fine if we just move along at a leisurely pace. We'd probably even be okay if we didn't do ANY of them. I really feel that the virus is going to take over before we get a chance to finish.

[DrKra37]

That does seem likely. At the rate we're going, it's going to take several weeks at least to do all nine thousand remaining. Incidentally, it seems that the regression was a one-time slap on the wrist for the multiple accounts, since we've gone well below the 9300 mark and no problems yet.

But then, it could just be setting a new, lower mark for the next regression point.

At any rate, I feel like this could very well be a stalling tactic by the PMs, if they didn't expect us to progress as fast as we've been doing. I'm thinking here of the week or so that we had to "stand by" while Edna was getting the puzzles ready for us. But I suppose we shall see...

[Xels]

shall we call more people to join?
just to speed up the things...

[notgordian]

Forced to go on an antiquated computer operating system to periodically input a series of keys for an unknown purpose because of threatened dire consequences?

Yep, designers of this puzzle are obviously going through LOST withdrawal.

4...8...15...16...23...42...



Also: huh, number of operations allowed dropped to 80. Hooray for change.

[DavFlamerock]

Sup folks, I saw this over on ARGNet while I was looking around for a new game to play. You have acquired one more gene-fixer to best the silly 8800 gene barrier.

[Nighthawk]

Is someone out there doing it automated? It got down to 8800 faster than I expected... that's 500+ in 48 hours. We'll be done in a month!

I'm tempted to think (OK, hoping maybe...) they might be accelerating the counter.


We still don't know the meaning of the highlighted "wa3", do we?

[Xels]

i read in the ea forum something interesting: they associated the colour of the wa3 letters with the security level access, in this case, orange.
that made me think, at some point, they will have to give us the access to the information that was locked in the responses channel, in other words, they will have to give us the "<colour> access card" , but, how it will be?

maybe the computer will trust in the entire group and it only will have to unlock the first level of security
or
the computer will select the diferent acounts (or ip) and give an access level to each one, but in this case, what will be the method of selection? trust? but how we win the computer's trust? doing the most secuences we can?

well, that's all, sorry again for my english, its not my mother language, maybe i can't explain myself very well but i did my best, also is late here and im very tired
good night and stuff

[vapor]

You did a good job explaining Xels.

I had almost forgotten about the security level colors. It's an interesting theory.

Here is a listing of the different style classes that are applied to text and the resulting text color. these can be found on http://helpedna.com/startup.php

no style = green text
"edna"= gold text
"hint"= white text
"error"= red text
"outsider"= orange text, but has also displayed as green text

Judging by descriptions of the style classes, I'd venture to guess that "outsider" probably doesn't refer to a security level. I'm won't dismiss the theory altogether, though.

ETA: So it appears that the "outsider" style class has changed to green text now.

ETA 2: Ok so either it was a fluke, or it is rotating colors. It went back to orange when I refreshed.

[Nighthawk]

You can see the styles easier at http://www.helpedna.com/style.css

[AzureWolf]

[Brian Morton]

I'm down for a little grinding. Let's see where this goes.

[DavFlamerock]

So here I was, minding my own business and helping eDNA solve its little genetics puzzle with some peachmonkey help, and all of a sudden I receive the answer: "Solution: No solution found."

Had a little freak-out that no solution exists before remembering that this was made by us, and thus our understanding of the genetics puzzle is incomplete. The no solution code was: NRRBP => QNBRN

So either something has changed and they're making unbeatable puzzles to force us to fail or else there are other algorithms we don't know.

[Angelus78]

[Nighthawk]

[AzureWolf]