The Veteran's Contest is Online - Page 2

DarkCloud · July 28, 2003, 13:28

Thanks for the praise Ming, et. al.

Ecthelion- with trip, it's almost all demogames posts

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With all those DemoGames questions hlf of it might as well be titled "Apolyton N00b quiz". Some of the stuff really goes a long way back into the mists of time, though, doesn't it

Heck, there's only about 6 demogame questions

And There's at least that many OT questions

And you have to admit, in the last year, demogames have truly taken over apolyton- getting more posts in them than the OT for its period, I believe.

Nice to see you around Ecthelion

DarkCloud · July 28, 2003, 13:33

oh and Ming, didn't know that OT thing was going through... I'm looking forward to it- hope I don't miss it

(I need to spend more time in the OT

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FrustratedPoet · July 28, 2003, 13:33

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Originally posted by Ming
Again... nobody was really meant to know all the answers. And yeah, the Demo games are well represented, because they are an important part of the forums. DC did his best to balance it.

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Originally posted by Darkcloud
Heck, there's only about 6 demogame questions And There's at least that many OT questions And you have to admit, in the last year, demogames have truly taken over apolyton- getting more posts in them than the OT for its period, I believe.

Just for the record: I wasn't complaining, but merely commenting that something titled "Veteran's Contest" included a lot of questions about very recent additions to the forums (like DemoGames).

It's certainly a good thing, but I wonder if the title is putting newer posters off playing?

DarkCloud · July 28, 2003, 13:38

Hmm... Possibly.
We'd have to know who has submitted their scores in the on-topic to be sure of that

Then again, a lot of newbies probably didn't even look at the Apolyton at 5 feature, since it probably didn't relate to them.

But who can tell.

Anyways, most of the questions did predicate at least 2 years at apolyton for you to have a good chance... that's not saying that a newbie couldn't get 10-15 correct, but it is highly unlikely that anyone registered after 2001 will get more than 25 right... especially since I can't get 25 or more right

and I'm supposed to know about 'everything'

Ming · July 28, 2003, 13:38

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And you have to admit, in the last year, demogames have truly taken over apolyton- getting more posts in them than the OT for its period, I believe.

Not even close DC... The numbers you see on the forum main page are misleading. MarkG moved a bunch of threads from the OT to the archives... that isn't done for the demo games, so the numbers don't tell the true story. Over half of the last years OT posts are not counted in the totals you see, since they are now in the archive

Ming · July 28, 2003, 13:45

As a side note... the last thread in the "active" OTF that isn't in the archive is from april of this year

So yes, you are totally wrong with that assumption DC

Jon Shafer · July 28, 2003, 14:11

That was rough.

I'm aiming high for 10 on this one.

Ming · July 28, 2003, 14:23

Heck... many of the answers were being discussed in the staff room... and it's STILL TOUGH

Jon Shafer · July 28, 2003, 14:27

I'm contented in knowing that no one can know all of them, or probably many over half of them.

Ming · July 28, 2003, 14:31

I Knew way more than I thought I would... but I'm into MP games and not the Demo games, so there were some I had absolutely no clue on.

Makeo · July 28, 2003, 15:24

I knew hardly any at all. Was there a mp question? I can't recall.

DrSpike · July 28, 2003, 15:45

I got quite a few....................but I was also stumped on a lot. Do we get a score if we don't win?

DarkCloud · July 28, 2003, 18:17

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So yes, you are totally wrong with that assumption DC

Okay then

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I got quite a few....................but I was also stumped on a lot. Do we get a score if we don't win?

I don't know. I volunteered to do stats for it, but Dan hasn't taken me up on it- I assume he's doing the stats himself

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I Knew way more than I thought I would...

It's good to know that Ming at least got one right

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MP Questions- I think there's one... although It's on Succession Games.

Rhothaerill · July 28, 2003, 18:51

That was more difficult than I thought it would be. I guessed on over 3/4 of the questions.

EDIT: and despite my Feb2003 join date, I've actually been around 'Poly for about 2 1/2 years.

Ben Kenobi · July 29, 2003, 04:24

Educated guesses on most of them, the most obvious poster is likely the red herring. Still I knew far to many for being here less than a year.

geeslaka · July 29, 2003, 04:42

I hardly knew any and made poorly educated guesses on nearly all.

Alexander's Horse · July 29, 2003, 08:26

» Who is Solver's next "Faces of Apolyton" interview supposed to be on?

rah · July 29, 2003, 09:22

AH.

Heck, you're listed as a possible answer to most of the questions anyway.

Rasbelin · July 29, 2003, 09:53

Hah! It says my e-mail address is invalid, despite it was valid.

Well, I can forget about the quiz then.

Mercator · July 29, 2003, 15:45

Don't you have an e-mail address other than the stellapolaris one?

EDIT: Oh, and... Woohoo, my name was in it.

Panag · July 29, 2003, 16:42

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Originally posted by Asuka
Hah! It says my e-mail address is invalid, despite it was valid.

Well, I can forget about the quiz then.

hi ,

make a new one or use an other one , .....

have a nice day

DarkCloud · July 29, 2003, 18:52

Alexander's Horse is always the answer

It doesn't matter what the question is. AH is the answer

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Hmm frustrated poet... Possibly.
We'd have to know who has submitted their scores in the on-topic to be sure of that

Then again, a lot of newbies probably didn't even look at the Apolyton at 5 feature, since it probably didn't relate to them.

But who can tell.

Anyways, most of the questions did predicate at least 2 years at apolyton for you to have a good chance... that's not saying that a newbie couldn't get 10-15 correct, but it is highly unlikely that anyone registered after 2001 will get more than 25 right... especially since I can't get 25 or more right

and I'm supposed to know about 'everything'

Alexander's Horse · July 29, 2003, 19:21

Its my DL's - vote for me and you get 2 chances at the right answer.

MattH · July 29, 2003, 20:03

Where is that sim's house at?

Jon Miller · July 29, 2003, 20:08

I went through it

but apolyton had problems, don't know if it was submetted properly

I have a decent chance to do well (Although I won't win) since I am involved in demogames, was involved (a long time ago) in the Civ3 list, and am an OTer

Jon Miller

Rasbelin · July 30, 2003, 05:23

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Don't you have an e-mail address other than the stellapolaris one?

That wasn't the point. And you don't even know what e-mail address I tried to use.

rah · July 30, 2003, 08:29

Being around since the beginning didn't help me answer most of the questions.

Skanky Burns · July 30, 2003, 08:39

[Nelson]
Ha ha![/Nelson]

DrSpike · July 30, 2003, 09:49

I think the scores should be published here. Mine will no doubt be awful, but I wont mind if everyone is similarly ignorant, and it should be pretty amusing.

DarkCloud · July 30, 2003, 12:48

The Sims House thing was done in August-December 2000 in the Off-Topic

It was quite popular at its time

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I think the scores should be published here. Mine will no doubt be awful, but I wont mind if everyone is similarly ignorant, and it should be pretty amusing

... I really want to see what Alexander's Horse answered to the questions

I assume that it might be very very very interesting