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[MissingTeddyHanssen]

Sorry to be so off-topic right now but.. I just stumbled this on Twitter:

www.jivid.com/?p=4795/r:t

The future looks Da Funk (or "Daft Punk"..God, I can just imagine the intro of that music in my head right now back in "Brazil" ).

[Lyoko is Cool]

I might or might not have a package, I haven't checked my mail in a couple of days. And I just killed 999 recognizers and didn't get the achievement >.> AARGH.

Other than that

[Rusty23]

They reset the counter to 4PM ET? WTF?!

[MOVIELORD101]

[Rusty23]

[Leovinus]

Got my 999 pack yesterday! 45 minutes until Space Paranoids? The time for the launch of the game has been very inconsistent. Taken at 8:15 am central:
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[sowasred2012]

It's been doing that all week - once it hits 3pm GMT it'll be back to normal (i.e. counting down to 9pm GMT).

[FSURobbie]

Can't wait for Space Paranoids to finally hit. Anyone else thinking there will be more to it than an online shooter? A lot of ARG build up to it makes me think it will be key to the next part of the game, but that's just a hunch.

Speaking of the game in general, I wonder if there will be more RL events? Zero Hour was cool and all but looking back those cell phones have had no impact on the game. Maybe they were just meant to lead the operatives on the ground to the packages, but I'm still surprised there wasn't more to the event than a package and a trailer release. Likewise, the Encom conference was pretty sweet but in reality it was just a bunch of folks watching a mock press conference. While cool, there wasn't a lot of a game aspect to it. Maybe I'm just being greedy/ridiculous...

Everything seems more geared to Facebook/online interactions than RL events at this point, but it is still early in the game so who knows. Sorry, just thinking aloud.

[sowasred2012]

[NWinTN]

Crazy thoughts, but go with me.
What if the High Scores list for Space Paranoids Online becomes important? I also think there'll be other stuff in the game, but I'm just talking about the scores list for now. After a certain date, what if the Top 5 or something on the High Scores list get invited to the red (probably TRON blue) carpet opening? I just started thinking about it, it would be a great way to get major interest in the game.....
Any thoughts?

[Ping Cruft]

For some reason the throwaway 'The past recognizes the future' line in the SPO trailer makes me think that since they used flynn's original source, plus unreleased material made by Flynn himself there will definatley be ARG relevant material.

[FSURobbie]

[Ping Cruft]

Well since there seems to be a consensus on the matter how do we go about prodding through the game collectively?

Should we have one person intentionally lose epically to see if some kind of in-game help arrives? What about exploration? Oddball and obscure methods 9hittingfire x number of times, or going x number of tics without hitting the fire button, or other obscure debug/dev codes seen in arcade boxes/80's era gaming.)

I'm sure there is bound to be something somewhere that shows up for more than just 'person who pwns the most.'

[thebruce]

Considering this is all about building community, not competing against each other or pitting playing vs player, I wouldn't expect competition to 'pwn' anything - that's different from times like being the first to retrieve a package and whatnot though. The more people can be rewarded the better - the less players start yelling at and flaming each other the better And usually those "first to find" types of games result in rewards for everyone... the livedrop with cellphones led to release of content for everyone, and the phones have yet to be used, which will likely require them to share communications with the community in order to progress.

So I wouldn't expect (well I hope not) to see competitive gaming with individual rewards and nothing more, in this campaign. (I don't recall there being a task like that in this one at least, IIRC) If there is something to do with the scores, it may be something more like unlocking something for everyone once someone breaks past a certain point... so they get bragging rights, but nothing exclusive necessarily. Heck even the 999 recognizer kills and following reward isn't restricted to 'best of the best' - anyone can do it, even if only perhaps available for a limited time.

Our fun and reward is self-defined (bragging rights), exclusive/limited reward leading to community (phones/cards), or shared with/equally accessible to everyone (assuming you're paying attention)

Those classic Tron collector's cards that came with wallet packages are pretty high value tho too...

Definitely interested to see what's in store with SPO!

[sowasred2012]