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[European Chris]

[Hunting4Treasure]

[European Chris]

Imagine if the world ends in those two days. You'll feel like a right idiot!

[thereverendeg]

[worship]Juxta[/worship]

[worship]E.C.[/worship]

hey, sorry, it's a fickle world of spiritual windowshopping :-p

[Hunting4Treasure]

[worship]spugmeistress[/worship]
... the only other one brave enough to post about the unfairness.
'Nuff said.

[BBuck]

Maybe for the next season, MC could consider virtual cards: a high-res scan + individual code in the body of the e-mail to be sent simultaneously worldwide to those who've ordered, with the physical card to follow. This wouldn't work for all cards (eg Cold Fission), but might be a way to solve the cruel, fickle problems of globalisation.

On with the puzzles. Please.

[duckiemonster]

[worship]duckiemonster[/worship]

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What? I was feeling left out

[spugmeistress]

[Hunting4Treasure]

[Rand0m]

Gotta say, as someone who started playing during wave two, I looked back at the posts on here from the time you were all waiting for the website to be switched on so you could try out solves on the first cards, and I thought, 'that looks like it was a good time to be here'. People swapping ideas and suchlike. I didn't order through Firebox (they were sold out) so I'm waiting for mine to come from another retailer tomorrow (hopefully - I'll be narked if they don't as I've taken the day off work). But I think it's great that there's discussions going on early and I almost wish there was a week or two between the cards arriving and the solve pages being unlocked, so there could be more discussion.

That's my take on it, anyway.

[badbarry]

I agree with Rand0m. Much as I have some cards (a few blacks and no silvers of course) and am ready to go at 6pm tomorrow, I'd be quite happy to wait another week between cards being issued and solves being allowed to let everyone have a fair crack at it. This is the first wave where I have had cards before the launch date (thankyou to the superefficient firebox) so have had a glorious weekend solving cards myself (well, me and google and some splendid friends from UF with their hints) knowing that there are no blatant answers out there that are an easy spoiler away.
The other tricky thing is the launch party - agonisingly 1.5hrs after the solves open. Bit of a dilemma if you live in the traffic hell that is London - can't be both solving and travelling on the tube at the same time. My humble recommendations to MC for Season 2 are therefore:

1. Issue cards well in advance of the official solve opening so everyone has a chance to see some before the start.
2. Make the launch event a different day/time to the solve opening so there's no conflict there. Clearly at least a day in advance would be better. Sure there are supposed to be internet access at the launch but this event should be for gassing (and boozing) not staring at screens like the geeky people that everyone has us labelled?

Maybe the next launch event will be in the US so then it'll be your problem about whether to go or not?

[spugmeistress]

[Rand0m]

[Hunting4Treasure]

I don't know why all the selfishness with the sharing of the scans! I wasn't asking for a free card, or a code, or a solution to a puzzle. I just wanted to *see* your cards so I could have fun solving them myself. It was bad enough to learn of people receiving their packs on Friday, opening them in chat, and gloating about them... only to *not* post the scans, and then intimidate others into taking down the scans they had already posted (you know who you are)! *That* is what I was complaining about! But, somehow it got turned around (to take the focus off the *real* issue?), and added insult to injury by ridiculing me!

This behavior was *very* unattractive! And if it continues, I will *not* be back for season 2! I've had a lot of fun with this ARG, thus far (my 1 yr anniversary is this week)... And, although I haven't been here as long as a lot of you, this weekend's behavior of *some* of you 'veterans', was bad enough to scare newcomers into not wanting to participate. I just hope this can be rectified, we can get back to having *fun*, and demonstrate that this is *not* how we normally play this game! The only 'magic' I saw this weekend, was posts and scans *disappearing* from the forum! Up until now, this forum was all about the *sharing*!

Firebox sent some packs out early... Great for some of you! But, unless they included a note saying *not* to open until the 31st, I'm sure they expected you to *share* your good fortune! That doesn't mean to just dangle the 'carrot' in front of our noses! I didn't see any posts from MC to that effect, either. This seemed to be decided by a minority of you. I can only hope this doesn't happen again, in the future!

I just want to thank all those people who *have* been posting their scans this weekend! It was much appreciated! I've been having fun trying to solve, and contributing to the discussions of, some of the cards. *That* is why I'm here. *Puzzles* are what brought me to this forum, in the first place. The camaraderie of most of the people here, is what made me stay. Can we please remember how it used to be?

With that said, on with the Wave 4 festivities!

[European Chris]

I completely agree with you (and Spug) and really don't know what the fuss is about. The scans should have been posted when people recieved them and those that didn't want to see them before Monday would have the opportunity not to look at them if that's what they wish (I've managed to cope); however that's not what you initially wrote. You wrote something hugley less eloquent, erudite and clear.