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**Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:32 pm

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Marauder · Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 123

**Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:56 pm

DonkeyOatey · Charter Member Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 10

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:39 am

DonkeyOatey · Charter Member Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 10

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:45 am

Marl64

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 2:22 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:23 pm

KnowThySelf · Boot Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Hades

the pictures all appear to be taken on the third level. The first one, the overhead view, doesn't appear to show too much. pictures 2 - 4 are a little more complex. From what I saw, it looks like there are a few clues.

1 a black tile "rim" around what I would presume to be the surface of the pool. Assuming that the pool is on the Delios level, the black tile rim would be the surface of the water in the pool. underwater observation rooms aren't unusual for pools, but multiple observation rooms are. I can only speculate that the room was intentionally made for observing the "pool" or outside area.

2 the camera doesn't move. If it was a human filming, the picture's reference would have changed. A security system definetly captured the photos.

3 the "swimmer's" clenched fists in the photo are a sign of struggle. If he was going to manually override the bulkhead, and drain the area, he's be tugging on the override, not banging on the window.

4 the "swimmer" must know that something is observing the area. If he isn't trying to escape, he's trying to get some help, by alerting whoever is observing the room.

I wish I was more help. I recently picked up on the game. let me know if I can help in any way!

**Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 1:32 am

DonkeyOatey · Charter Member Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 10

**Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:45 am

yanka

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**Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:58 am

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Looking at the flash webcam, it looks as though it's a camera with a lot of jitter, like the tracking is all screwed up (yes, I know I'm stating the obvious... just getting everything out so people know where I'm coming from Smile

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The only interesting thing I've found thus far is the timer persists throughout your visit to the site. Now, I haven't had a chance to test to see if it persists between sessions or IP's yet - anyone else is more than welcome to jump in on this one - but even so, it isn't hard to program that into a flash routine. FYI, when I visited the site, it was reporting something like 8.00pm... I can't be sure because I hit status and promptly left to make a coffee. I'm curious to find out if this is an actual time though, or if everyone else statrs at 8pm.

What makes me curious, is that for all intents and purposes it's just the one picture, on a vertical "jitter-loop". One lousy picture. Which completely blows the size of the Aquapolis flash out of all proportion.

I'm not condoing deking the flash, but I'd also be very curious to find out what the go is with the picture. Looks to me like a coral reef... nothing really thrilling there but hey, whatever turns your crank... Wink

**Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:12 am

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AnthraX101 · Entrenched Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797

It goes off the timing for your system clock. For me it appears to be giving out GMT-9 (Alaska). It appears that no matter what time zone you are in, they correct it to GMT -9.

AnthraX101

**Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:19 am

yanka

I dunno... for me, it gives GMT+3, which is 1 hour ahead of Greece (whose time it should be giving).

As far as decompling it - I'm not suggesting anything horribly "behind the curtain". But what can we glean from it now? 1. The time is screwy. 2. The picture "jumps" (irregularly, btw - it goes through 11 short "jumps" and the 12th one is like a double-jump).

That's after they 1) updated the "webcam"; 2) updated the update.

It's as if they're saying "you should look at this". And it's not like they don't rely on us doing something along those lines to begin with (carelessly). If we deck it, we might find that one of the frames is somehow different. I mean, what fps is it set at - there might even be a "hidden" frame if it's very high? (I'm using trial software, and it only gives me some results). Or they could have hidden text inside the script. Etc. Otherwise, it's

**Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:01 am

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Miss Starchild · Boot Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 55 Location: Brazil

aquopolis new jobs

**Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2003 12:58 pm

bakntime

The Aquapolis website is driving me nuts. It seems like a lot of work went into it, and unless I'm missing something, we can't seem to find out how it's "connected" to anything else. I can't shake the idea that there is a piece of the puzzle waiting to be found there.

Just throwing out this possibility - about the construction webcam: What if the point they are trying to make is that the cam isn't "real"... In other words, (hang with me here...) we know that this is just a game in "real life", so we knew that the webcam wasn't really of a real Aquapolis that was really being built in Greece....

If you noticed, before the webcam started scrolling vertically like it is now, it was just a short loop that repeated over and over. But you could still notice an extremely small amount of vertical scroll... It seemed like every couple of frames, the image moved "up" by a pixel, until the video finally looped and skipped back down the few pixels it had risen up, going to the beginning of the loop. I studied that thing for a while, and that's about the only anomoly I noticed about it. Considering the attention to detail the PMs have done so far, I'm thinking that the "slight" scrolling possibly wasn't an accident. If they couldn't get the webcam to be perfectly believeable, why would they put it there at all?... unless there was some clue there? Both incarnations of the webcam are clearly flawed - they seem made to look imperfect - made to look like a video tape loop, even more so now with the pronounced vertical scrolling.

Perhaps that was the point - that the construction cam wasn't "supposed" to be "real" in the first place. When they edited it to introduce the pronounced vertical scroll, perhaps the PMs are saying "Yes, this cam ISN'T a real webcam, and there's a reason for that". Add in the fact that it's not an actual timestamp, simply a time code based on your PC system clock, and you've got too much evidence that breaks what is otherwise a completely believable website. Think about it - if you didn't know it was part of the game, you'd probably believe everything on that website - except the webcam...

Besides, that's a pretty lousy construction cam anyway, isn't it? It doesn't really even show anything... There has to be something going on there.

Oh well. I guess I don't really have any great ideas, I'm just throwing that info out there as a possibility. It seems like we're making significant progress around here with almost all of the other websites in the game, yet the Aquapolis stuff doesn't seem to be leading anywhere yet. Even the incidentlog stuff is still somewhat of a mystery...

What's the Aquapolis' connection to everything else?

(sorry this post was so long! Razz

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:10 pm

Mayalla · Boot Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 54

I am still convinced the time thing on the construction cam is significant. I am not sure if it is inherent of Flash, but if I click rewind, it goes back one hour and if I go forward it goes back to your system time. If I go forward once more, the screen goes blank. If it is a quirck of flash (because it is a loop), ignore my question.. Confused

I just want to make sure no stone goes unturned

**Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:29 pm