For those who have not yet posted their challenge 2, you will have until Sunday midnight NY-time to do so (April 12th, 2009).
Last call!
This is Your last chance, after I will post challenge 3 and no other challenge 2 will be accepted and 0 points will be given, sorry. And please don't tell me you didn't have an hour in almost 2 weeks to plop a water and energy plant and create a new road.
Fred
Fred, you might want to clarify this- in construing things as a lawyer, the specific rules over the more general. "April 11, 2009," is very specific, and certainly more so than "tomorrow." So, I'm assuming that folks have a little bit less than six hours today to get their second challenge posted.
Thanks for a great job on this, and for the willingness to be a cat-herder.
David
I hope so, David, as I am waiting for Challenge 3. ;D
Quote from: dedgren on April 11, 2009, 03:21:30 PM
Fred, you might want to clarify this- in construing things as a lawyer, the specific rules over the more general. "April 11, 2009," is very specific, and certainly more so than "tomorrow." So, I'm assuming that folks have a little bit less than six hours today to get their second challenge posted.
Thanks for a great job on this, and for the willingness to be a cat-herder.
David
Sorry, but I corrected the date, thought myself to be on another day. That happens when we're busy seven days/week.
The time limit is
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 at midnight NY-time. Please take note
Hmmm, that means 6am CET 13th April so I have to wait until my Monday. I do wish these other players would sort themselves out, Fred.
Quote from: BarbyW on April 11, 2009, 03:53:17 PM
Hmmm, that means 6am CET 13th April so I have to wait until my Monday. I do wish these other players would sort themselves out, Fred.
This will be one of the last time that we will be soooo tolerant.
Two players pm'ed me asking about the delay for the second challenge's entries. Here is what I answered, you might like to know also.
Hi ****,
The problem is that 5 of the players have pm'ed me to ask a 24 hr delay and as I have mentioned it in the beginning, as long as you pm me you're late, I will give you a certain time after the deadline. First of all we delayed the challenge endline because more than half weren't even in a couple of days ago.
Now. that I changed the last date again to april 12th, is simply because I thought it was friday when I wrote it, but actually it is saturday, my mistake, so it's corrected to sunday april12th to give a little over 24 hrs time for those who are late. Besides I will not be home before midnight on sunday. (family party for easter) Don't worry, there won't be another delay. And this delay is only to those who have pm'ed me, hope that's clear.
There will be an explanation of time delay with the third challenge because....first, it seems to be time for those finals in school and second, this challenge is quite complicated enough and could need not only a lot of gaming time but also time to really understand and get over it. There will be a possibility of two weeks, but we hope you will all make it within 10 days.
There will be only two more times, besides the 3rd challenge, that we will give a prolongation to the players, because there will be other challenges that need time to realize, and for the others it will be ten days, unless you have a good reason to be late and pm me before the deadline.
You have to understand that I cannot post another challenge before the previous are all in because some challenges depend on how you realized the previous one, like this 2nd challenge will be your basic futur for the third.
This time is an exception, the next time we will be stricter. Got that now? Thanks.
Thanks for advising and commenting and....Lynn is on the job judging all afternoon.
Fred
Heh, I thought the "****" was supposed to be a curse word when I first read it.
I suppose this delay is all right, since I still need to work on the other two tiles in preparation for the third challenge. But thanks for being pretty lenient on time. It's been a pretty busy couple of weeks here in Arkansas as well, and by the time I get back to the apartment and settled in, it's already almost time for bed! That's why I live for the weekends.
Now that you are familiar with your region and you think you know how to mayor it properly, here is something a little more complicated and interesting so you won't fall asleep with our challenges.
CHALLENGE 3
«« Governor Freddy Bison called all Mayors in an Emergency Meeting to the Capitol City. It is to inform them about the political situation that the region is suffering at the moment.
"Ladies and Gentlemen" as he started the speech with a lowtoned worried voice, " we have a serious political problem in our region of Grand River. Last night a group of heavily armed political Separatists decided to cut off every acces to the opposite side to the Grand River region, cutting our region into two equal halves, the north and south. Since this has become a very fragile international situation, we are heavily watched over on how we handle this matter. For the moment we cannot do anything more than continue to just govern our half of the region only and leaving the rest to our separatists until hopefully things will calm down and negociations will come to a mutual agreement and end this dispute for once and all. Meanwhile let's do the best we can, not only to govern our regionhalf, but also to avoid any unnecessary violent confrontation with the Separatists." Governor Bison sadly announced. »»
ok, you can close your mouths now......Yap, the region is now officially separated and called *Bordertown* from now on. You have lost the power to control the other half. The official Borderline is seen in the picture below, everything above the line belongs to the north and everything below the line belongs to the south from now on.
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg27.imageshack.us%2Fimg27%2F3774%2Fbordertowniiborderline.png&hash=0c58580ad2af6f6552a6ed5308bc1b279e540dae)
You decide which side you want to continue to govern, you only choose one side, either the north or the south. It's up to you. Once chosen the other side will be controlled by someone else (yet to define), and it is not the Governor nor his wife who will do so, but.......
Every Player will have an oponent to play remotely in his/her region, meaning the part that you lost control over now is totally under your oponent's and Competitor's power. Everything will be clearly explained in a later announcement.
I can hear the yelling in the room of all the mayors by now, but before we all panic, Silence please......."hammering away on the desk"...Gentlemen......SILENCE!...Please......let's listen to what this is all about first.....and then panic!
You will continue to totally control the part that you have chosen to play in, whether it is the north or the south, and a randomly chosen oponent GRV II player will control the other part of your region by telling you where and how to build certain "challenges" that the future will be asking for.
Now, how exactly that will function will be explained later. Of course you will be the one who still has control over your region and you will plop or grow on both sides, but the side that is controlled by the Separatists will only be done with instructions by that specific other Player that has the control over his/her regionhalf.
For now your challenge is to determine which side (north or south) you choose to continue to fully govern by yourself.
Example: If you have chosen the north to continue to govern, you may do so in tiles A, B, C and K without any restrictions, but in tiles D, E, F and L, you will be limited to the northern part of the river ONLY. (above the official borderline) The other half below will be in the hands of your oponent.....and vice versa.
Depending on which side you have chosen to play and which have or have not the lots (Power and Water) of the previous challenges, you will be asked to build your own Power and Waterstation now, on your side, so your sims are able to continue to function properly. Do not cut any power/water supply to the other side though if the power and water is on your chosen side, the Governor has given permission to continue the use of power and water for peaceful reasons and for a period of time. Let's allow them the time to build their own or build our own.
Plus, to make things a little more complicated, you will build another Route starting somewhere and finishing somewhere else. You can start it from another route or from anyplace of the neighboring region and have it ended anywhere where you want it, whether it is in conjunction of another route, crossing it or connected to the neighboring region or simply ending.....nowhere in a cul-de-sac (end of road). It can be build in either halves (north or south), whether your own part that you will govern or your oponent's part. If so in the oponent's part, it might give you mutual advantages later. Bridges are allowed to be build under the conditions mentioned in part 3 below only. Give it an official number please.
This will be the LAST OFFICIAL ROUTE in your region, all other roads/streets that you will place will not bear any numbers anymore, but names only. These three routes will be under federal/governmental law, meaning that you will not be able to change their directions without permission from the Governor himself. (remember I have a copy of your region picture with these routes on my computer). There will be futur challenges concerning these routes.
To show this week in your third update:
1. A region picture in transportation mode without city/mayor names and borders showing, and explaining us clearly which side of the region (north or south) you have chosen to continue to govern and with a short description why you chose this part. Plus showing us the third numbered route that you have created and please have all the previous routes identified.
2. A few pictures (3 minimum and 5 maximum) in any mayorview of what you have been building in your region before and/or after the separation, including at least one picture of your maintown (whether in your half or the oponent's half and if you have a town on each side we want 2 pics, one each) in a view that we can see the whole municipality in one picture, and explaining us on which lettered citytile it was constructed in, then explain why you chose that geographical area to build the maincity on. Show us your best parts of what you have done sofar, except the other challenges.
3. All bridges, except for one major Roadbridge only (if possible in your main-town), have to be cut off completely without destroying the actual bridge, but interrupting the connection of the road/rail tiles on the oponents side of the Grand River, and that we can see it in the regional view above (no 1.) No open (connected) rail connection to your oponent's land is allowed neither until things have settled down. This line has to be cut off also. You have to make a gap of minimum 2 road/rail tiles separated from the bridge, and we want to see a close up picture each bridge (mayorview 3,4 or 5 only) of every gaps (every bridge) showing us with a part of the bridge in the same picture. Please create this close to the bridge and on oponent's side. How you will do it, the originality, lots used, will determine the pointage, plus maybe a Bonus point for originality. Let's say show us as if the separatists whether blew up the road, made a gate, a fence, blockage, wall etc on the road, but the actual road and railtiles should not be visible for 2 Gridtiles. Any other lots or textures can replace the road/rail tiles though.
(hint) Maybe the use of some small military or governmental lots might be useful here without building a base of any kind. Or any *parkgroundtextured* lots only in between the connections. This is supposed to be temporary, please remember this when building or destroying.
We know, it is kind of getting complicated now, but this is what we have been talking about before starting the challenge. As we said, it will be different than just plopping things like in GRV I. Now your mayor and leadership techniques and experiences will be put to the total test. Are you an excellent negociator? Or maybe politically strong? Maybe even take the Governor's place one day? .....we'll see!
I hope the loss of one half of your region will not affect your way to govern the other half. Phsychological help can always be asked for in the General Discussion Thread. Hope you will have fun with this surely not expected challenge.......
Again, Bonus points will be given for special projects, ingenious ideas and excellent choice of location and organization. We could give up to 3 Bonus points (for all 3 subjects) for each player in this challenge.
As usual, all questions about this challenge should be asked in this thread below.
You can now use all YOUR region half to build in. The Governor gives you absolute free power over Your part of the region, you can now play in ALL citytiles of the part that you have chosen to govern. You may not touch any part of the Oponents side anymore though except for building the third route, and this time only. The borderlines shown in the picture above will show you EXACTLY what belongs and not belongs to you now. Anything that you touch on the oponents part without his/her demand may be seen as an act of war and penalities will be awarded by the Governor.
Now you can build roads, streets and rails wherever and however you want in your own region part.
The deadline of this challenge will be on Wednesday midnight(NY time) April 29th, 2009, but can be altered if we have more than three Players who will not be able to achieve this challenge within the time limit and with solid good reasons, since this is a big challenge and it needs lots of work and thoughts. But we would like to ask every player to do his/her best to fulfill the challenge before that time limit, so that we don't have to wait for those who waited for the very last minute to post their challenge like the last time. You can do it. Thank you and Good Luck.
Good luck,
Lynn and Fred
Excellent challenge &apls &apls
This is going to take some thought :D
better put the kettle on then to kick start the brain into gear ::) :D
:satisfied:
TTC
Quote from: TheTeaCat on April 12, 2009, 10:09:26 PM
better put the kettle on then to kick start the brain into gear ::) :D
:satisfied:
TTC
I think I might need something a bit stronger $%Grinno$%
Nice one Fred and Lyn, didn't see that coming. :thumbsup:
No time to chat, better get to work :)
Dave
Good sign, two comments and two who like it...lol.
Bordertown idea and concept was my idea last fall, but this specific challenge with the oponent players to control one half instead of us, was Lynn's idea. Glad you like it.
Goodnight :sleeping:
Fred
Make it a third. I think this is a fun little twist. It'll be interesting to see who gets paired with who, and how the differences between the sides are played out. I think there is a lot to play with here, but ideas are beginning to form... just need to take the time to play with them.
-Matt
Excellent challenge, Fred and Lynn. This will really make us think and plan - something most of us rarely do. The pairings will be interesting too.
Thanks for this.
great challenge...a lot to think about....I already have some ideas...let's work on it...
Count me in - I love it! What a brilliant idea Fred and Lynn! :thumbsup:
Later...
Joan
Nice you like the idea. At first I was afraid to get shot with a idea like this, but Fred supported me with my idea and told me that this will be a very good way to keep you interested in the challenges.
It was something hard to figure out first how we would do it with the exchange and everything, but I think that we found the best way to do so.
Now You will have three jobs, first how to handle somebody else's invasion of your region and how to invade somebody else's region all at the same time and finally how to handle your own half of the region.
I think that this idea will be as much fun making than judging.
Good luck everybody. Bonne chance tout le monde.
Lynn
This should be interesting...
I was wondering, would it be possible to become the separatist governor instead of the original governor? As far as gameplay goes, it would be the same, but in my story, the south is far more likely to separate (since it's empty and I'm planning on having some rebels escape to there), and I'd like to control it.
Now we are talking. This is the point where it really gets interresting :thumbsup:
Quote from: lynncanox on April 13, 2009, 03:26:12 AM
Nice you like the idea. At first I was afraid to get shot with a idea like this, but Fred supported me with my idea and told me that this will be a very good way to keep you interested in the challenges.
This is very ingenious and I love it $%Grinno$%
As M.Dundee would say, "No worries mate" :thumbsup:
sweet... now this is cool
Great idea! Sounds like fun :)
Hmmm now is time to tell where Patrick Allen is going to reside in his beautifully created southern portion of Edwardston or will he go North?
Geezzs Fred and Lynn talk about a man needing to choose his side lol!!! This is great and well I could always let my opponent decide the faith of the north or I could just take and run with the north now hmmm ???
either way either shape and anywho Count me in for some more fun!!!
A little like Lynn, I was worried a tiny bit about the reactions of the Players, but I thought the worse that could happen is that you don't like it and we simply would've jumped to another challenge within hours. Fortunetly as I can see, all is well accepted and even appreciated. Good to hear this, because this will surely be fun and as I said before, fun to play and to judge. It will be quite interesting to see the differences between you all on your decisions, not only in this challenge, but also the others to come. The next three challenges will be based on this and then .........well, that's another story yet to live.
Splime, you can choose your region's south, no problem, but you cannot choose it to govern the separatist, that will be in the hands of someone else. We want to mainly judge you and not the Separatists.
But however, you will have an occasion to play the role of a Separatist in someone else's region, maybe his/her north or his/her south. That is not to us to decide. So, you will surely have some fun anyways.
All we can say is to choose well your part of GRV, because the other half now lies in the hands of the Separatists.
We will not be able to post any challenge 2 points until wednesday and then only a few per day, so please be patient with us this week, since it is a lot of work to organize and judge all the pics and we have only little time at the moment. Thanks for understanding and we're eager to see your decisions on this one.
Btw, in this challenge some custom lots could be appreciated, but are not a necessity to get good points. We understand those who cannot BAT or LOT.
Good luck and thanks for appreciating this challenge.
Fred and Lynn
Let me get this straight, no road or rail is suppose to show in the blockade part? Even if its lotted only?
From the only unofficial player still in the house, this looks like a lot of fun. I don't think anyone here will try to play a heavy type character, which is the way I could see this going wrong on other boards.
I will, however, have to rewrite my background sections... ;)
Quote from: Kitsune on April 13, 2009, 02:44:11 PM
Let me get this straight, no road or rail is suppose to show in the blockade part? Even if its lotted only?
Right, we want to see that the road or rail is interupted in the region-trafficview. If you want you can create a roadlot which is not traffic enabled, that's fine, but then again when we ask for a closer picture of each "deconnection", it will not somehow look right, unless you have installed some barrier props on top of the road/rail or something else that could block the road/rail. It has to look like as if the road/rail was like completely blocked or blown up by serious separatists and totally disabled for trespassing. A park dirtlot would be a good idea.
Important is that we can see it in trafficview in the regionview that only 1 road and no rail is still connected to either the south or north.
And remember use at least 2 tiles that will not be seen in regionview.
Fred
ahhh so you want the disconnection then!!! hmmm tougher choice now to which side am I???
"Yah Hoo! Make no mistake. The south shall rise again!"
But I'm not quite ready yet. For one thing I've got to wait until Wednesday the 29th at midnight. Until then I've got to fix my car and maw's been pesterin' me to get that rusty old stove out of the yard. But when it's time I'll be right there showing them darn Yankees how is done and you can bet on that. That is, if it ain't raining and the creek don't rise.
Quote from: mrbisonm on April 13, 2009, 04:07:40 PM
Right, we want to see that the road or rail is interupted in the region-trafficview. If you want you can create a roadlot which is not traffic enabled, that's fine, but then again when we ask for a closer picture of each "deconnection", it will not somehow look right, unless you have installed some barrier props on top of the road/rail or something else that could block the road/rail. It has to look like as if the road/rail was like completely blocked or blown up by serious separatists and totally disabled for trespassing. A park dirtlot would be a good idea.
Important is that we can see it in trafficview in the regionview that only 1 road and no rail is still connected to either the south or north.
And remember use at least 2 tiles that will not be seen in regionview.
Fred
Thats what I was thinking, concrete barriers, a backhoe, and hopefully a prop that has someone totting a machine gun :D
Quote from: jmyers2043 on April 13, 2009, 05:24:17 PM
"Yah Hoo! Make no mistake. The south shall rise again!"
But I'm not quite ready yet. For one thing I've got to wait until Wednesday the 29th at midnight. Until then I've got to fix my car and maw's been pesterin' me to get that rusty old stove out of the yard. But when it's time I'll be right there showing them darn Yankees how is done and you can bet on that. That is, if it ain't raining and the creek don't rise.
For some reason there Jim I can see you jumping up and down while chanting that!!!
So, I just wanted to clarify, can we include things we built after the separation in the challenge, as long as we build them on our side of the river? Or should part 2 of the challenge (the 3-5 pictures part) only include what we've built up to this point?
EDIT: One more question - I know we can make security posts near the bridges that we cut off, but what about near the main bridge that we keep? I was thinking about making a checkpoint where the cars can go through, but have to pass through fencing and guardposts, etc. I realize this is something that would be built on the opponent's side, so I wanted to ask first.
Pat, Yap, it's gotta be disconnected so in regionview it shows like 2 tiles without connection.
Kitsune, sounds good, but remember it has to show as disconnected in regionview.
Quote from: Splime on April 13, 2009, 06:17:44 PM
So, I just wanted to clarify, can we include things we built after the separation in the challenge, as long as we build them on our side of the river? Or should part 2 of the challenge (the 3-5 pictures part) only include what we've built up to this point?
EDIT: One more question - I know we can make security posts near the bridges that we cut off, but what about near the main bridge that we keep? I was thinking about making a checkpoint where the cars can go through, but have to pass through fencing and guardposts, etc. I realize this is something that would be built on the opponent's side, so I wanted to ask first.
Answer to first question: You can show whatever and wherever from you want, north or south and we don't care which side you're on. We want to see everything that is worth showing in your total region. At least one picture of your maintown but in a view that we can see it all. If you have two major towns in your region, we want to see both, one picture each. And for the others you can either show details or different citytiles that you have been working on.
We want to see what you were up to in the last 4 weeks!
Answer to second question: We don't care what you do on or near the connected road, as long as you show us a picture (including a part of the bridge) and keep it connected. The rest is of free choice ......for the moment. &Thk/(
Fred
Just to be clear on this one: do I need to connect this new road to the neighboring regions, or does it just go from point a to b and stop? Reason I ask is, the planned route is going to send me into the mountains to connect it; not the end of the world, but pretty expensive, even for a road, with all the switchbacks.
David
The Third Official Road can start and stop anywhere you want, no specific destination is asked for. You can connect it to the neighboring region at one or two ends or not all. It can be a Road that starts in your region and end in your region, or just comefrom one side of the neighboring region and end in another neighboring region. You can build it on one tile only or go through the whole region. All is up to you.
Hint: It will be judged on how useful you made it.
Fred
Very interesting challenge guys! Should prove rather challenging!
A few clarifying questions...
First of all, the most important question is this: Is the region separated as of the posting of the challenge #3, meaning that, other than the new route, we really cannot build anything on the other side, or do we have access to build on the other side up until our posting of this challenge... after which we lose control (i.e. the posting of our "answer" to challenge #3 commences with the separation?) The main reason why I ask this is because I haven't had an opportunity to build on any of the "free" tiles other than what the challenges explicitly asked for yet. It would give the separatists a severe, severe disadvantage because they wouldn't have anything but a few houses, a few farms, and a utility (either water or power) to work with.
My second question is one of content. In initiating the separation, can we arm either side? Are we actually portraying the volatility of the region, or are the two sides of Bordertown just part of larger entities that are thrown into turmoil by their representative governments? Even with the latter situation, it would certainly be possible for there to be major (military) tension between the two sides... so do you want to see the guns?
I hope for the viability of both sides of the region that we have the ability to build up until the point of separation (i.e. our posting of Challenge #3). Of course we'll be limited in what we can do, an ultimately, any building we would do on the other side wouldn't give us any advantage at all in the struggle... it would give our opponent an opportunity to actually work with something instead of having nothing to work with!
And my last question involves when our "opponent" will give us our orders for their side. Will that begin after challenge #3, or is that part of challenge #3?
OK, I lied, that wasn't my last question...
If I read this correctly, the challenge requires:
1. Which ever utility was cut off by the separatists, if it was cut off (seemingly, we would show this in a pic?)
2. A new Route (shown in regional view... also noting the disconnection of all crossing routes except one road)
3. 3-5 pics of what you have been building besides the challenges **(... unless you haven't built anything yet, then build something to show?) including one pic of the main town, which, from what I understand, should be straddling the river, half on one side, half on the other
4. Pics of every bridge except for the one that is still connected (that one will likely be shown in the main town anyway...) showing gaps of at least two individual tiles, showing the break
So it looks to me like we have:
1. one pic
2. one pic
3. three to five pics
4. how ever many pics you have of bridges that are disconnected, probably 3
for 8-10 pics?
The biggest thing of clarification for me is if I can build anything on the other side... even though it says explicitly that I can't. Looks like a dumb question, I know... but maybe that will make it that much more difficult for me!
Question 1: No, you cannot build anything, except the new route on the other half of your terrain. Because we don't want this challenge to be spred over 20 challenges, consider the challenge 3 as in two parts, before and after. First you just do as if you build the last route wherever you want to and that everything is still under your power and then all of sudden everything is cut off by the rebellions.
We had no other choice to do it this way, because otherwise it would have taken another challenge, and already we have squeezed several into one.
When under siege, you cannot build anything anymore. What you have built you can keep and we saw what you built on your last regionview. If you have built nothing on the "other side", too bad for them for now, but that might change, all depending on the new nation's leader. You never know what he might be up to.
Question 2: No again, you cannot arm either side. First, the oponents side is not under your control, then secondly military movements are in the planning on the Governor's side if necessary, but as you haven't got the word from the Governor directly, any armed or military forces are not acceptable at this moment. We don't want to awake the rebellions and challenge them into an armed war or revolution, now do we? Let's show them our diplomatic ways of clearing any conflict.
Question 3 : The oponents haven't given any orders yet, right? So, I suppose it will start with challenge 4, or maybe not, we'll see. For the moment we are not allowed to enter the enemy's terrain and that is exactly what we will be doing and not to awake any international concern.
Question 4: Sorry for not being clear on the amount of pics taken this time, but it all depends on how many bridges you have in your region, since every bridge needs a picture to show us the " cut-off " in details. The number of pics is therefor undefined.
1. pic of whole region
2. If you have to build a new Powerstation on "your" side, because you lost access to the old one, then 1 picture of it.
3. 3 to 5 pics of what you build in the region, just anything of what you have created yet and want us to see. If you haven't built much, too bad, you had the chance before, we asked you so before.
4. 1 picture of each bridge that was cut off and 1 picture of the only "open bridge".
Don't worry about difficulties, if you like them, you'll be happy soon enough! If not.....poor you....maybe you like headaches too?......lol
Good luck.
Fred
I've only two bridges crossing the border (the first rail bridge and the N10), so for me there will be only one picture for the cut-off bridge. The open bridge will be the N10 bridge, because I have no other bridge crossing the border (although you can make this bridge semi-open by placing a toll gate or something similair...)
Best,
Maarten
What you do with your open bridge is up to you, but do not disconnect it, and we would like to see a picture of it if you do something like a gate etc.
And yes, 1 picture of the railbridge which is cut off.
Fred
Quote from: mrbisonm on April 12, 2009, 09:55:53 PM
The deadline of this challenge will be on Wednesday midnight(NY time) April 29th, 2009, but can be altered if we have more than three Players who will not be able to achieve this challenge within the time limit and with solid good reasons, since this is a big challenge and it needs lots of work and thoughts. But we would like to ask every player to do his/her best to fulfill the challenge before that time limit, so that we don't have to wait for those who waited for the very last minute to post their challenge like the last time. You can do it. Thank you and Good Luck.
Good luck,
Lynn and Fred
I hope this dead line is correct and we still have a week and an half to complete this chalenge, because I still didn't had time to do it. &mmm
Unless you live within different dates, we still have 10 days to the deadline.
:thumbsup:
Fred
Quote from: mrbisonm on April 19, 2009, 04:18:14 PM
Unless you live within different dates, we still have 10 days to the deadline.
:thumbsup:
Fred
I remember having said more than once that I wouldn't mind to live in NoG, 3RR and other amazing places, but unfortunately I'm still on earth $%Grinno$%
Quote from: Rayden on April 19, 2009, 04:56:09 PM
I remember having said more than once that I wouldn't mind to live in NoG, 3RR and other amazing places, but unfortunately I'm still on earth $%Grinno$%
lol.......hm.......how about Winding River? .... :thumbsup:
Fred
Well, it is that time again to make a stop to the 3rd challenge, but somehow only about half have updated so far and at least 6 have pm'ed me to ask for a day or two delay.
So, here it is, the final notice!!!. This is the last delay that I will give. You had more than 2 weeks, c'mon now..... &mmm
Deadline for the third challenge is Friday, May 1st 2008, Midnight NY time
All others posted later than this will get NO POINTS, even if you pm me.
Fred and Lynn
Fred I was about to PM you and I appoligize been very busy with the fire department and that has drained me emotionaly.... been very busy with brush fires up here and medical calls plus not to mention my other job working at the radio station... I will take a zero this round but if you want me to go till friday i will do my best to get something in by then...
Quote from: mrbisonm
You do NOT have the right to touch anything of the part that belongs to the Separatists.
Does this restriction apply to non-essential decorative elements such as placing rocks and weeds along a shoreline or planting trees? Judging from the tone and color of the Governor's statement I think I know the answer, but hopefully it won't hurt to ask! :)
Joan
If I am Joan's partner? I'll make her pluck the fourth weed from the left.
Quote from: Jmouse on April 29, 2009, 10:10:18 PM
Does this restriction apply to non-essential decorative elements such as placing rocks and weeds along a shoreline or planting trees? Judging from the tone and color of the Governor's statement I think I know the answer, but hopefully it won't hurt to ask! :)
Joan
I guess everything that is natural (and not man-made), tress, rocks, etc, is ok to touch up in the separatist's zone.
Pat, you have until friday ONLY. Make sure no brushfires come in between......maybe a raindance would help? ;)
jmyer's....I don't know, the names who will order who are in the hands of Lynn, she will mix them up.
Fred
I'm about to wrap Challenge 3 up, and I must say that it is without a doubt one of the top five scariest things I've ever seen in a SimCity game. $%Grinno$% I'm kidding. This challenge has caused my brain to work overtime, more than I ever have before in SimCity, but that's what makes GRV II so much fun. :)
I wonder who gets my patch of land... ::)
... and who's land I get in return.
Actually, this challenge is all about losing something and winning something. You lose a half of your region, but in return, you get a patch of land in someone else's region. At the end, you haven't lost that much in total, right?
I'm looking forward to the next Challenge! ;)
Best,
Maarten
We're glad that you all seem to like the challenges sofar. The next three challenges should be fun.....or .....well......maybe fun for one half , the one half you will be directing into.....maybe disaster? I wonder........what the other half will be............
Challenge 4 will be posted as soon as we have all the entries in and/or midnight friday. Get those challenge 3 posted!
Fred
LoL Fred the rain dance is working but now I got called into my regular job all afternoon ugggh.... Top of the 8th inning right now for a Milwaukee Brewers Baseball rebroadcast game here soo as soon as I get home I will finish up on challenge III woohoo!!!
EDIT correction that was a fast top of the eight now into the Brewers bottom of the eight lol!!! I might get home tonight before 11pm cst wooohoo!!! Been at work since about 12pm running this darn board lol
NEW EDIT: Ugggh didnt make in till midnight grrr bad luck I should have kept my mouth quite lol... Had technical issues at work but home now and working on my Challenge III now yay!!!
newsim thanks and yes I do work for a radio station as a board operator part time but hey its fun.. When the hours hit though they hit like they did today errr yesterday Thrusday lol....
pat, radio eh? like-minded here.
good luck with get non-fire call outs and finishing the challenge- i just managed to get mine in!
As mrtnrln was saying, yay you get to half control someone elses but i had so many plans for my other half and knew that with time running out that if I didn't get done by the end of this challenge that i'd never get the chance to do it. tis a pity but at the same, very challenging these missions. :)
OK, challenge uploaded. Sorry the delay but that was a chaotic week with work. On top of it, by stupidity from me, I lost a fool full day cleaning a small trojan pandemic on my PC, and to add more, after uploading the images to ImageShack, some of its servers decide to go down, making some of my images not to show. Today I had to upload them to another server, so, I think now it's all right.
Edit: Did I say fool? I meant full, I was the fool one :D
Great to hear that you're all coming along nicely even with some minor problems.
BTW Newsimaddict, The Governor will do everything possible to negociate the reunion of Grandvalley River one day, maybe it will work out. Maybe even one day it will be «Your» job to get us all re-united again and you will be able to fulfill the plans you had in store for that part of the region afterall......or maybe not.
;)
Fred
Less than 12 hrs left for the deadline!
Well, as far as I can tell, mine is posted and ready for judging. Finals will be over on the 12th and then I should be able to actually devote the time necessary to get something done in less than 2 weeks, heh heh.
-Matt
I'm happy to say that I have finished Challenge 3. Now that it's over, I am looking forward to Challenge 4. :)
Challenge 3 is now officially closed.
Congratulations you have yet survived another challenge and have certainly earned some good points. Now that you will concentrate on your next challenge, we will go through your challenge's pictures and descriptions to find points that we can give you. It might take awhile, especially in the beginning, since I will be out busy with RL for at least the 5 next days, but we will slowly post our decisions one by one again.
Here's how we judged you in Challenge 3 and how you should judge my personal challenge 3.
Points are given on a scale of 0 to 5 (insatisfactory to excellent), and points are given on 4 mainsubjects:
1. The originality of the road and rail *cutoffs*, also the logical decision to have done so. Keeping in mind that the *cutting off* was done quickly and temporarily by the rebels for the moment being.
2. The official Pass over the river and mainentrance to the rebel's territory, the way it looks, the originality and how/where it is positioned, always remembering the instant that it was done.
3. Logical decision for placing the third federal route in your region to get the maximum access to the rest of the citytiles that were left without federal road access.
4. This is the hard part to judge. Giving points of what you have done in other parts of the region, details, organizations, how you placed Res, Com and Industrials and location, roads and rails and the whole togetherness of your pictures. If it looks good, logical and close to RL, it's worth some points. The better it looks, ther more points.
Before judging my challenge, please wait until I have judged some of yours within a few days. It will give you an idea how to judge about the same way as we did. Good luck.
Again, judging my challenge 3 (mrbisonm) is open to everyone, Players and lurkers.
Lynn and Fred