Contest: Beta Test Master Of Orion 3!!!

MarkG · September 18, 2002, 13:16

Apolyton in cooperation with Infogrames and Quicksilver is proud to bring you a unique event. The "Match The Races To The Faces" Contest is your chance to become a beta tester for Master of Orion 3!

There will only be 25 winners and the contest ends in 2 days, so act now and make your matches wisely!

moomin · September 18, 2002, 14:29

Great contest, Mark! I hope someone here takes it. As for myself, I guess I'll have to be satisfied with being a paying beta tester...

Xentax · September 18, 2002, 15:17

Good luck to everyone (I just submitted mine).

Though to be honest, I'd be surprised if there weren't *way* more than 25 people who get all of the faces right. Nearly every race's art is available if you know where to look.

brassemperor · September 18, 2002, 19:38

Definitely an awesome contest. I unfortunately cant enter. I wish all of you who enter, good luck. Too bad there wasn't a harvester pic though...

ssgjames · September 18, 2002, 21:11

edit by markg: come on.... no info about the "races" or the "faces"

edit by MAD JAMES!!: come on... I was just supporting what Xentax said

You could've just taken out the names

(What I said was that other than ONE of the races that we know we won't see until the game ships - and didn't name - and one other race already had pictures floating around. The latter is the ? and the former is can be inferred by default)

tniem · September 18, 2002, 23:31

Sweet idea. Nice work in securing this Markos. I wish I had time to do this beta test but I don't and so I won't try to take this spot from someone that would give it there all.

vmxa1 · September 19, 2002, 01:52

Don't know any of the new races and will keep it that way until the game comes out. No peeking for me. I want it to be all new and exciting. I like to watch the cuts scenes for the first time (no other time though).

Jack_www · September 19, 2002, 19:15

I enter the contest just now. I was able to find all the pictures for all the races on the net. I hope I am able to win a spot.

Lenester · September 19, 2002, 20:00

800 responses, and the web research wasn't terribly hard to get all of them right... I really, really hope they pay a lot of attention to the "tell us about yourself" field instead of just picking out of a hat.

I also hope that there aren't more than 24 other people with prior full-time professional game software testing experience.

playshogi · September 19, 2002, 22:47

Quote:

Originally posted by Lenester
I also hope that there aren't more than 24 other people with prior full-time professional game software testing experience.

I don't think you have to worry about professionals competing with us. Professionals want to get paid for their work.

moomin · September 20, 2002, 06:19

I would hope thay already have their professional game testers. I would also hope these spots go to professional game players. There's a difference - a pro tester will tell you the game crashes when you leave the save dialog blank. The player will tell you culture flipping sucks.

Zealot · September 20, 2002, 07:19

Uuuu if I get my hands on one of those LAWYERS!

Good luck Jack_www!

Hagbart · September 20, 2002, 08:41

Quote:

Originally posted by moomin
Great contest, Mark! I hope someone here takes it. As for myself, I guess I'll have to be satisfied with being a paying beta tester...

Hagbart · September 20, 2002, 08:44

I can't enter the contest, but it doesn't matter. I'll be suprised if I ever buy MOO3. The art looks nice though.

DCMike · September 20, 2002, 10:40

No matter what I do or where I access the beta tester contest page from, I still get the "Unauthorized Domain" error

DCMike · September 20, 2002, 10:45

Never mind. I was able to enter after all. I have Zone Alarm running on my computer and had to shut it down in order to enter the contest. It also causes the Unauthorized Domain error

moomin · September 20, 2002, 12:28

If they'd want to do anything with my computer that'd require me to drop my firewall, I'd tell'em to stick it. But since their page works jsut fine with ZA, I think your problem was somewhere else.

Straybow · September 20, 2002, 19:15

Once I had time in my schedule to do beta testing. No more, so since there isn't a harvester picture I won't bother.

system370 · September 21, 2002, 00:54

Hello,

Are you able to tell me who is the Moo3 Beta tester from the Moo2 Multi-player (Kali) League?

I have asked around - but no-one is owning up - I guess he could be busy testing.

Thanks.

vmxa1 · September 21, 2002, 15:24

system370, did you start on them or do you go back to 360 or even 1401?

September 22, 2002, 10:27

Don't know about system370

But I cut my sysprog teeth on a 370-158 MP with dialable shared memory.

Beinf employed in a online financial style environment, our collective blood would freeze every time the printer stopped and the chugga-chugga of the system console floppy drive started.

Usually indicated a system crash of some kind.

Straybow · September 22, 2002, 21:58

Heh, heh. I started on a System 1620 donated to my highschool. It was a museum piece we called "Plymouth Rock."

When I got to college I decided I'd had enough of punchcards, so I delayed taking the intro engineering courses until the transition to IBM PCs was complete. I didn't use the 370 until I was a senior.

system370 · September 23, 2002, 20:42

Yep that's where I started a System370 (DOS/VM) 6ft Tall and as long as a Bus. Finally some 20 years on they have a PC Operating System just about as stable as VM/370 and VMs (Virtual Machines) are back in fasion

.

vmxa1 · September 23, 2002, 21:56

Well as you may have guess by the name I use, I was a VM systems programmer (when the first release hit the west coast). We tried to run it on a 370-135, but it paged so much the disk was bouncing. I forget if the disk was a 2313 or what. I started on BOS, then DOS and then VM with DOS running under it. Well actually I was trained on Navy computers before BOS came out, we used paper tape to load the operating system in the box. We had a large CICS environment at that time. Then we ran MVS under VM before the LPAR boxes came out and they put VM in the microcode.

Straybow · September 24, 2002, 17:37

"Finally some 20 years on they have a PC Operating System just about as stable as VM/370…"

Who does? Where can I get it? You mean Linux?

vmxa1 · September 25, 2002, 00:06

Well XP is been very stable for me, unlike 98.

Xentax · September 25, 2002, 12:25

From the official forums:

Folks,

BETA Contest Winners will be announced Wed (today) 9/25 at 9PM PST.

I'm proud to say that we have 927 correct entries from a total of 1627! WAY TO GO! The fans really know their stuff!

Also I want to personally thank you all for participating in this fun contest. You all showed marvelous restraint in not posting answers and playing by the rules. Big time Salute!!

Best,

Constantine Hantzopoulos
Sr. Producer
Infogrames

MarkG · September 25, 2002, 15:47

the correct answers...

http://apolyton.net/moo3/races.php

moomin · September 25, 2002, 15:56

Sure seems to be a lot of insectoids out there. I miss the Elerians.