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Terraquest site up!

[Pluvius]

Terraquest Demo Solution

[carlitoxxi]

Simply... FANTASTIC. Already i love this game. I want play ittttttttttt

Anyone know when it start???

[Tien_Le]

My goodness...read their privacy policy: http://www.terraquest1.com/privacy_policy.html This is a big ole supported-by-advertising game.

[carlitoxxi]

Tien, can you explain to me your post? I don't understand well... Thanks

[HiddenAlliance]

Privacy Policy - Signup

[vpisteve]

From the Rules page:

[carlitoxxi]

OK i understand now, thanks

I don't know what say... i've play the demo offline. It seem a good game and it have a good interface. And it's funny for me, i love this tipology of game (like a true adventure graphic).
I don't insert my credit card number for now.

At last, we pay for win (i think so) a very large prize. I think i can to be tolerant for some banner and pop up.

I've fear only for all information they storing on us. I hope credit card number and some crucial information, can to be stored in account bank server, and not on server of mind-quest. If it is, this is a little problem...

[jamesi]

a little bummed...

[Ozy_y2k]

Sorry, but by anyone's measuring stick, those prices are insanely expensive for an online service. I pay far less than that for broadband, and it allows me access to the WHOLE internet, not just one set of games.

I think I'll take a pass on this one, thanks.

[carlitoxxi]

The payment is only one time right? I can join at the first, pay 25$ and i play for entire game right? Not too bad. I repeat, the prize is very large.

[Pluvius]

If I'm reading that correctly, you only have to pay one of those prices depending on when you enter the game. Which means that if you enter the game at the beginning, you only have to play $25 for the whole game. That equates to less than $5 per period, which is pretty good. Of course, you better enter fairly early, because the later prices (especially that $100 one) are insane.

I think the reason they're doing this is so people don't decide to enter at the end of the game, when everyone else has already done the legwork for the first five periods, and try to win the prize just by beating the last period. Of course, the fact that they would have to do this doesn't bode too well for the organization of the gameplay. I'd much rather have it set up where playing one period would require you to play the ones before it.

Rob

[Ozy_y2k]

Ah, upon more careful perusal of the rules, I see you are correct, Carlitoxxi. Looks like they amp up the amount of the registration fee as you get closer to the "key" game period #5, when the finalists are chosen. I had misinterpreted those numbers to be the fee for EACH game period, but I guess you only need to pay once.

Phew. Well, that's a little more reasonable.

O

[Pluvius]

Doing some quick calculations:

Period When One Registers Fee Per Period

1 $ 4.17
2 $ 7.00
3 $12.50
4 $25.00
5 $50.00
6 $50.00

Rob

[moa-Night]

The demo reminds me of a game called Spycraft. In it, you work for the CIA and are tasked with investigating the death of a Russian presidential candidate (which of course quickly snowballs into something larger). You get to use a wide range of nifty tools, including cyphers, photo manipulators/enhancers, trajectory analyzers, and audio systems; and get to travel around to place bugs and rummage through people's homes, even getting into fire fights if you're not careful. The kicker is that you have to use the tools yourself, meaning that if you, for example, choose the wrong nose type in running a face match, you'll get the wrong person, and if you want to find out what was in that briefcase he was carrying, you'll have to track him down and find out.
Unfortunately, the game makes me leave the 'magical' LARS interface wanting to do a little more than I have to. If the real game ends up more like Spycraft, I'd gladly pay to play it, even if I don't win. If it doesn't, I'll just reinstall Spycraft and play that instead, for free.