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[travelling performer?]

[OFFTOPIC] A reminder to unfiction

[oliverkeers13]

Re: [OFFTOPIC] A reminder to unfiction

[travelling performer?]

Thanks for your reply.

To be honest, i havent really read up on ARG's. I got into perplex city via a postcard sat on my table at a cafe lol.

But yeah, i just find it hard to see, with the prize money and stuff, how its not a solo player game. Although ive needed help from friends and things.. its just, surely when the answer is revealed, you'll all be fighting amongst yourself to get there first?

I was only compelled to post because i thought perhaps people were being harsh on someone for sending an email. As i say, ive sent emails, just like your group has. And i doubt we're the only ones.

I really need to think more about this community thing i think. It seems to have its benefits.

Wasnt accusing anyone of cheating. Just saying that anyone who can afford the cards can top the leaderboard, because the solutions are all here.

But meh.. its a good site.. i might read up on the other ARGs. Thanks for replying.

[zaeil]

We all understand that there are more people playing than our little group here at UF. (The sheer number of registered players on the leaderboard is a great indicator of that fact!) Speaking for myself, though, I enjoy playing with a like-minded group. Over here in my own little corner of the world there don't seem to be many others trying to find the cube, so this forum gives me the opportunity to work and play with others who are. And I've really enjoyed the group solving of cards--quite frankly, there are a few that I'd never have solved without nudging from the forums.

I don't find that working with the group here cheapens the experience at all. Rather, it's enriched the whole thing for me in so many ways. There's so much more to this game than the cards and the leaderboard!! As for the prize money...I'm not particularly worried about it, myself. It'll go to a bigger brain than my own, I'm sure. I'm playing mostly because the game is pretty interesting. I love puzzles, I love the opportunities to interact with the characters and the world of Perplex City, and I love having something to be a little nerdy about.

Anyway, UF isn't the be all, end all of Perplexed Gaming or anything like that...we're just a bunch of folks with an unusual hobby.

(sekrit: I email the characters on my own occasionally ever since Kurt emailed me back about the klebold plates and reynolds ionizer...so we're not all of the hive mind! )

[amliag]

Re: [OFFTOPIC] A reminder to unfiction

[European Chris]

Also, I doubt many people are playing with the intention of winning the money. It's merely a way to pass the time for the deskbound and hopefully learn something that's mildly interesting. Is winning prizes in a game taxable btw?

Curiously, how did you follow the receda trail? Did you have friends in London, Canada and Manchester? It would be a bit difficult for most people to follow the game completely individually.

[Rob_Riv]

I'm seconding what Chris just said but also here at Unfiction MC buy you lunch! Have you been to any of the meet-ups?

[ChalcoDoror]

Personally I like unfiction, it helped me catch up on everything when I got into the game, including a lot of what I had missed.

I guess you're entitled to your opinion, but I believe that the live events, for example Clapham, would have been really difficult if no one helped each other. We barely got everything done with a large group of people as well as people online and not physically present all working together (scratch that, we didn't get everything).

For some of the silver cards its good to have other peoples input, I'm pretty sure I would never have gotten Elucidate if not for Solitair, I was on completely the wrong track.

Unfiction isn't the only group that I have either, I've got a couple of mates helping me out with cards, as well as discussing stuff elsewhere on and offline.

Oh, I'm sorry I didn't get to the meetup, was working, and then went flinging myself around the skatepark, cause I kinda forgot...

[travelling performer?]

[ryandrew]

All i can add is that prize money in competitions is non-taxable.
It is not classed as income.

[number9dream]

I'm sure most people here would say that the game is the most important thing and that the money is really an irrelevence. I mean, who needs £100,000? It wont make much difference nowadays, might pay off the year's bar tab but not much else.

[Rob_Riv]

[travelling performer?]

I'm so not in it for the money, but saying £100,000 wont do a lot these days.. you are joking right? LOL.

[Scott]

Hi welcome to the fForums

I'm not playing fFor the reward. The game is a bit anglo-centric, so I'm fFairly gambling the cube will be fFound in england, or else somewhere remarkably hard to get to (like antarctica (Polar anyone?))

You know the puzzle cards are really genuinely meant to be solved in groups, at parties, at bars and clubs, sitting about, hanging around the water cooler, or in fForums on the web, eh. That is an integral part of the design. Michael Smith has said more than once, he wants to bring fForth the culture of casual brilliance. (The Hons have said stuff too, but they tend to mumble so it's anyone's guess.)

[number9dream]