User Name: RoadRally
Password: MoMoney
Good luck to all the participants.
Five different rally quests will be posted, each one starting in a different location. So that you might pre-position yourself before the rally begins, the following list corresponds to the start point for each of the quest numbers:
1. Sirius
2. Alpha Centauri
3. Lambda
4. Talison
5. Iota
Unless you decide to take the long way 'round, any quest you select will have the same number of gate-jumps as the other quest files. The only real difference might be in-system, when jumps to a station or planet might be optimized, depending on the jump drive installed. A quick trip to Atlas prior to the rally might be worth your time. (In other words, without a Mantis Drive, you will be at a slight disadvantage.)
The questions will be posted at least 24 hours before the start of the rally. Keep in mind that the answers you get while doing the rally need not be accurate. I do this to limit the number of times somebody can look up an answer prior to start time. The answers needed to win the rally are those given after docking at the designated locations. Not those you find on Google.
PROCEDURE
Before the Rally:
1. Make sure you have Mercenary version 1.524 or better.
2. Launch the game and Create a rally pilot profile.
3. Write down the questions edited into the first post, here.
4. Decide which start location you want to use.
5. Post your decision at the end of this thread (so other players can decide their start location).
- SeeJay: Lambda
- Denny: Talison
- DaveK: Talison
- Dingo: Alpha Centauri
At Rally Time:
1. Go to the first post in this thread and get both the User name and Password.
2. Go to SeeJay's website: http://evochron.junholt.se/
3. Click on the "Road Rally in Space" option listed on the left-hand side.
4. Enter the User name and Password to access the rally files.
5. Download your selected Race (quest) file.
6. Install the file to your main game folder. It will override but will not overwrite any other quest file.
7. Launch the game and Log on to the Remula 1 server.
8. Begin the rally by:
- Announcing in Chat that you're starting the rally.
- Going to the News Console then clicking on "View Last Quest Message" and following instructions in the message.
After the Rally:
1. Remain on the server. If you died, return to the server.
2. U2U me your answers to the rally questions.
MMaggio has volunteered to help me keep an eye on players and he will make the applicable sections of his chat log available as a definitive way to determine who comes in first. Should the first place player fail to have the answers to all the questions, first place will be awarded to whoever came in next. Or, failing that, the winner will be the next in line or the next or the next, etc.
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MMaggio's Chat Log will record your start time and also your end time (you probably won't need to announce that you've finished the rally but, if you like, go ahead and make the announcement in Chat). Both MMaggio and I will calculate how long it took each pilot to complete the course. We will then compare our math and decide the winner.
The planned start time is still 12:00 noon Pacific DLST ... that's when I'll post the User name and Password you'll need to access the Rally section of SeeJay's website. You can start the rally any time after that (do not forget to send a Chat message before starting). Be advised, if you show up more than an hour late ... I might be about 2 sheets to the wind and unable to accept any more entries.
QUESTIONS
1. Q: According to Ray Bradbury, what’s the best way to defeat wickedness?
2. Q: The character Alf got his first name and his likeness from a bottle of what?
3. Q: I’m thinking of a number between 1 and 100. What number am I thinking of?
4. Q: According to Terry Pratchett, who was the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse?
5. Q: What was King Henry VIII middle name?
6. Q: Who caused a blackout in Colorado Springs in the summer of 1899?
7. Q: Who introduced Velcro to the U.S.?
8. Q: What color is the star nearest your current pitstop?
9. Q: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
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Anyone familiar with a road rally knows how they work.
1. Some rich pilot would need to sponsor the rally.
2. No need to sign up … just show up.
3. Day and time of the rally would be posted here. I suggest some Sunday next month.
4. At the specified day and time, a “Road Rally� quest file would be posted here for download --
- Each pilot would need to us a profile not previously used to do the default IMG quest. Else, he/she won’t see the messages directing him/her where to go next.
- Pre-upgraded profiles would be allowed. So you'd need to plan ahead.
- The rally would start at the time the quest file is posted -- how long it takes you to install the rally quest would determine how much of a head start you'd get.
6. To avoid a number of obvious pitfalls, this first rally would be conducted without requiring players to do any IMG-style contracts. (If you can’t think of any pitfalls, just ask -- I will enumerate … possibly at length.)
7. Naturally, the sponsor would pay out the prize money to the winner.
Test: to see if I can upload five route files at one time.
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You can script a quest to give the player a message just for docking at a specific station or city. No need to complete a contract.
If you've started the IMG quest, your progress is logged to the pilot profile you used when doing the quest. There is no way to "back up" and start over again. So, to see the first message of a modded quest, you need to use a pilot profile that hasn't already begun any other quest.
