General GRV II Discussion

[Splime]

Just so all of you are aware, I will be unable to participate in GRV II for at least 3 weeks, because my computer decided to stop working. (Details of the exact problem are in my Barsalargonia thread). Normally that would only be an issue for a few days, but it's been perfectly timed for the week before I go on a 10 day vacation to Florida, so I'll only have time to work on the problem when I get back. This means I may not have Challenge 7 done in time for the deadline, but we'll see what happens.

[mrbisonm]

No problem splime, it will be noted, besides challenge 7 will be small and will span over a longer period, because some of us will be leaving on vacation for two weeks. I am re-writing challenge 7 as we speak for that purpose.

We still haven't finished the judging yet, because Lynn and I have a lot of other things to do at the moment, but hopefully it will be done before the next challenge is published.


Fred

[jmyers2043]

Hello Fred.

This challenge 6 has proven to be very entertaining. I had my nose to the proverbial grinding stone these past two weeks. Been working some overtime plus I was traveling this past fathers day weekend. I've not been keeping up with the updates as they were posted. I took some time this morning and went through them all. Boy oh boy! There are some good ones. A lot of creativity here at GRVII.

Best Regards - Jim Myers

[mrbisonm]

Glad you enjoyed Challenge 6, Jim.


Now, I have to announce that we will have until next sunday (june 28th) to fulfill our challenge 6. This time I myself will be late and get no Bonus points. All those that have posted their challenge 6 before tonight midnight will get 1 point (bonus points) added to their challenge points.

Right now we are so busy at the moment that we are stressing out irl. I have never in my entire life had to supervise so many construction sites as this year. And I thought it would be the worst in my life with all that tralala going on about the world economy etc.
Tomorrow I have 3 sites to visit and see if things go to the right direction, but in all, I usually have about 1 to 2 sites in 2 weeks  in the past years....lol...this year....hang on, I am counting........something like 6 to 8 a week. Understand why I am about to go nuts?.....lol

So hang on in there partners of GRV II, I will be with you soon. Lynn has finished all the judging for challenge 4 and 5, now I have to but these things on paper into the computer and calculate the total and upload the info.

Something else. There is no *real* challenge coming up by next sunday night, it will be all *free for all* and I will explain it later. We still have 4 more challenges coming up, some good ones and one darn difficult one......uhhhh, you're gonna hate us for that one.... .

Challenge No 7 will come on July 11th, hope you can wait 'till then, but don't worry, we will keep you a little busy during that time.

See you soon

Lynn and Fred

[Pat]

Fred I so can see why you are going nuts there... I know the feeling as my aunt is not doing well so I had to go out of town on this last saturday and it seems I will be going again this saturday... But I should have my challenge 6 up soon...  Take care and dont go totally nuts OK!!!

[metarvo]

RL has taken a sudden turn for me, and it may be Thursday before I get Challenge 6 done.  I have been working on it, but these things happen this time of year. 

[threestooges]

Long story short, the HD thing didn't exactly fix the problem, however, I'm back on my old laptop now and, as a result, my Challenge 6 is now finished and posted in full. I'll get around to commenting on the others here shortly.
-Matt

[Pat]

ooooh no Matt that sucks!!! But I am glad you do still have a computer at least.....

[mrbisonm]

Challenge 7 is now posted

Fred

[Splime]

I hate to say this, but I don't think I'll be continuing the GRV II. Challenge 6A hasn't really been enjoyable, since I've had to cut a lot of corners to reach the population in the given time, and I'm not really pleased with the result (which isn't actually at 125k yet). I'd rather set my own pace with these things, as the GRV II has begun to feel more like work and less like fun. (It's not just challenge 6A though, as it seems like the last few challenges will also be demanding.) Also, I'll be in college in about a month, and probably won't have the time to complete the last challenges.

The first half of the GRV II was really fun, but now that it is more demanding, I think I'll resign and spend my time with Barsalargonia instead. (In fact, that's what I've been doing for the past few days.) Thanks to mrbisonm and lyncannox for their great hosting, and good luck with the rest of the game.

[mrbisonm]

Sorry to hear this splime, it wasn't meant to be to cause this though. The next challenges are more of a challenges as they are *hard work* as you call it. Nevertheless, we hope that you might reconsider your decision with time and come back later.
If not, we wish you lots of luck with whatever you have in mind for futur plans.

I personally hope that we didn't *kill* the fun of the challenges with challenge 6a, but in our opinion it was necessary so that the following challenges would become *challenges* and not just a plopping festival..............


If you can't bring up the region population to 125K, we will accept 80K as a minimum.

Fred

[threestooges]

Since it seems like several folks have had difficulties with getting their population up (heck Greenacre is barely over 200k and that took me the better part of... or was it more than... a year to do) would it be possible to lump the population demand under Challenge 7 and its respective deadline? I can say from a personal perspective that, short of doing a major sprawl of lifeless high density residential (which might actually fit with my regional plans to some extent), I won't have the population part done for at least another day or so.

Then again, others were able to make the deadline, so it might not be fair to those that did finish on time if slowpokes like me get to benefit from the relaxed timeline. Either way, I thought I'd offer it as a suggestion.
-Matt

[mrbisonm]

Your suggestion sounds reasonable, Matt.
Here is what we'll do.
Challenge 6A, the population demand will only be counted for , and judged as, after challenge 10. This way we will all have plenty of time to get the population up with the other challenges.

We didn't think it would become this difficult to bring up the population to 125,000 until I relaized myself that it is, while I am myself not ready yet for the 125,000 population limit, only having reached 110,000 at this moment. For those who already have reached that limit, a Bonus point will be added to their totals.

Good luck and don't worry you'll survive easily all the other challenges to come.

Fred

[threestooges]

Thanks for that Fred. Easy is a relative term. For people like me who don't tend to make dense cities, cranking on the population is probably one of the harder challenges yet. Glad to hear you'l be giving out soe bonus points too. Any sign of when we'll hear about some formal scoring from the governor's office for the previous challenges? I'd like to see what the scoring rubric should look like. Thanks Fred, that takes a fair bit of pressure off.
-Matt

[mrbisonm]

Well, I hope it will loosen up some pressure for some of us. The game was supposed to be fun and nothing else but fun, so we better keep it that way. It is quite understandable that someone will have certain difficulties with something they haven't done yet or are not used to do it, like the population blast in Challenge 6A.
Anyways, we will keep it easy and more pleasurable from now on, plus keeping though the the livelyness of the challenge.

We were and still are working on the points for the last challenges, some are finished and finalized, but still have to be transferred from papers to the computer, which is still quite a job and demands a lot of free time, something that I and especially Lynn don't have at this time with her mother being weak since a few months.

I will make sure that I get all the stuff that we finished on paper to the computer within the next ten days at most, even if I have to work overtime.... I know 4 and 5 are complete and 6 I have finished myself and I am only waiting for Lynn to judge most of it.


Have fun folks.....

Fred

[MandelSoft]

I would like to withdraw myself from the GRV II. It's just too much for me, because I've several projects running and then the GRV becomes a unwanted obligation. Sorry guys, but I'm just too busy to keep up my version of the Bordertown region. 

Best,
Maarten

[threestooges]

Just to let you know, I'm still in. Just having a bit of a time picking Resources (I was hoping to do tourism with a wine country, and meatpacking/cattle, but it seems those are "Farming"). I have pretty much everything else set, so once I get those straightened out, I'll have my challenge posted.
-Matt

[CabraBuitre]

And I'm (finally) working steadily on mine too!

[lynncanox]

Good to hear that some of you are still on this project. We just come back from a 4 week vacation on friday night. It was nice. Fred left this morning on a last summer fishing trip and he is back before this week ends. We will both be on the job starting next weekend.
I am sorry that you are ending the challenge ,mrtnrln, maybe you will find some time later to come back.

See you soon
Lynn

[jmyers2043]

Hello Fred and Lynn. Good to hear that you're back. Marion and I spent time in France, England, and Scotland during August. I took pictures of a whole bunch of stone walls and slate roofs for textures for future bats    I'm useless    That's me, standing in front of Dunnator Castle in Scotland.