New In-Game Contest!!!

[cerest]

Dear Homins,

We are pleased to announce the beginning of our exciting and rewarding contest. It will take place in-game, every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, beginning Friday January 28th at 11:00 p.m. EST and should run about a month. Over 50 high-end BFG Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT 256mb video cards, and hundreds of Ryzom caps and mouse-pads are up for grabs.

A riddle (or trivia question) will be asked in a special “Contest” channel and the first player to answer correctly will win a brand new graphics card (limit one per household). Runners-up will receive Ryzom gear. The winners for each event will be displayed on the Ryzom web site along with the correct answer. Good luck!

-The Nevrax Team

[lariva]

I suppose everyone will go read the storyline now....

[vguerin]

This isn't fair to folks like me with "Homer Simpson" syndrome... Everytime I learn something new, I forget something I used to know...

This sounds great though, glad to see lots off goodies too... I am looking forward to the start !

Now if I don't forget when it is... :D

[roninpvp]

Dear Homins,

We are pleased to announce the beginning of our exciting and rewarding contest. It will take place in-game, every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, beginning Friday January 28th at 11:00 p.m. EST and should run about a month. Over 50 high-end BFG Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT 256mb video cards, and hundreds of Ryzom caps and mouse-pads are up for grabs.

A riddle (or trivia question) will be asked in a special “Contest” channel and the first player to answer correctly will win a brand new graphics card (limit one per household). Runners-up will receive Ryzom gear. The winners for each event will be displayed on the Ryzom web site along with the correct answer. Good luck!

-The Nevrax Team

Cerest this is a nice thing for the community. I am really appreciative of the new incentive to find out more about Atys and the effort the Nevrax Team is making to its customers. However, 11 p.m. EST on all 3 days will mean some of my friends wont be able to participate. Wouldnt a different time for the days be fairer for those players that cant be on at 11 p.m. EST. I for one can make that time every night but would like to see this be fair for all players.

[raynes]

I suppose everyone will go read the storyline now....

I think that is the idea. :)

[cerest]

Cerest this is a nice thing for the community. I am really appreciative of the new incentive to find out more about Atys and the effort the Nevrax Team is making to its customers. However, 11 p.m. EST on all 3 days will mean some of my friends wont be able to participate. Wouldnt a different time for the days be fairer for those players that cant be on at 11 p.m. EST. I for one can make that time every night but would like to see this be fair for all players.

Actually we aggonized over the time for a long time. We wanted it late enough for the people in the pacific time zone to be able to play and early enough for people in the eastern time zone to play, this was the best solution we could find.

[dc77066]

This isn't fair to folks like me with "Homer Simpson" syndrome... Everytime I learn something new, I forget something I used to know...

This sounds great though, glad to see lots off goodies too... I am looking forward to the start !

Now if I don't forget when it is... :D

Thought that was Kelly Bundy Syndrome...

[roninpvp]

Actually we aggonized over the time for a long time. We wanted it late enough for the people in the pacific time zone to be able to play and early enough for people in the eastern time zone to play, this was the best solution we could find.

I understand Cerest but let me clarify my suggestion since I was not sure you read it correctly. I was wondering why its the same time for all 3 days. I dont see why it cant be different times on different days to make it more available to players in different time zones. I.e maybe 6 EST 8 Est 11 EST on various days.

[zumwalt]

the time is really fair for the entire US crowd, they did a good choice
personally i will be out of town on one of the nights, have the kids on the second night, and third night will be probably the only time i can particpate

no complaints here, i think this is grand that they are doing this, and i hope they do it more often.

[raynes]

How are runners up determined?

[cerest]

How are runners up determined?

First come first win. Basically the first person who answers correctly wins the graphics card. The runners up are the next 10 who have the correct answer. After we receive 11 correct answers the contest is closed and the correct answer will be displayed in the "Contest" chat channel.

[thexian]

i'm sad... the latest i can be on is 9pm est.
oh well

[josephm]

Funny I moved from 12-8pm to 9-5pm (not as loose of a schedule though) and changes are finally made in my favor! That's cool I hope it helps other people.

West Side Homies,
Baldy

[xcomvic]

Actually we aggonized over the time for a long time. We wanted it late enough for the people in the pacific time zone to be able to play and early enough for people in the eastern time zone to play, this was the best solution we could find.

and it will be at 1 PM the next day my time... so not a bad deal

[jtgrizom]

Are the other servers going to have a contest also?

Sig: envious homin.

[cerest]

Are the other servers going to have a contest also?

Sig: envious homin.

Yes, but the times are different. There should be more information coming to Ryzom.com soon.

[vinnyq]

awww crap,

you know raynes is going to get all the good stuff.

[neiana]

awww crap,

you know raynes is going to get all the good stuff.


I type faster. ^_~

- N

[perrako]

Just wanted to point out that the ads say "Win one over 50 video cards".

[ombat]

Mmmmm, prizes!

[perrako]

Quick question... what happens after you've already won?

[cerest]

Quick question... what happens after you've already won?

You can keep winning, but if you've already won a graphics card that's the only card you'll be allowed. If you win again you'll receive one of the other prizes.

[vguerin]

Other good info folks may want to know (and please correct me if wrong Cerest) is that the answer cannot be given until the final part of the "enigma" has been posted. You cannot ring in early like "Jeopardy"...

If you change your answer, there is a delay before it is enacted (though I saw no way to cancel it and may have missed a chance to win because of that). The last answer you make, is your "final" answer and supercedes your previous answer even if correct (again, not sure and this made me crazy on contest #2). I am not sure if spelling and such is required to be accurate either.

Hopefully some of this info will help others, I made myself crazy on the last contest and probably corrected my spelling and caused myself to miss a real chance at winning.

A bit more info and a screenie showing how I found out some of these contest things you all may want to know about.

http://ryzom.twazz.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1807#1807

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[jfoxp]

Are the winners even going to be announced before the *third* contest starts on Wednesday?

[plarfman]

Are the winners even going to be announced before the *third* contest starts on Wednesday?

ditto is there going to be a list posted someplace or do we have to wait until the entire contest is over to find out who won what?

[zumwalt]

bugger.. all i saw the first night of this was there was technical difficulty, never saw a chat channel, so thought it was off for the night, oh well.

i'll see if this is different on the next one i can make it to, got to love technical difficulties

congrads to all those that have won so far

[jfoxp]

*pokes cerest*

So? No word then?

I mean, the in game system first says that winners will be announced shortly after the contest, and then the same system says that they'll be announced within a few days, at the end, when the contest is over. Obviously, neither of these are the case, as we're now at Wednesday of the next week after the first contest, and still no word. 5 days is beginning to stretch the term "few." ;)

[plarfman]

*pokes cerest*

So? No word then?

I mean, the in game system first says that winners will be announced shortly after the contest, and then the same system says that they'll be announced within a few days, at the end, when the contest is over. Obviously, neither of these are the case, as we're now at Wednesday of the next week after the first contest, and still no word. 5 days is beginning to stretch the term "few." ;)

Yea I asked a gm about it last night and they tolled me it would be posted on the forums but didnt have the date handy. "A Few" usualy means about 3days we are going on a week here pretty soon.

[cerest]

Yea I asked a gm about it last night and they tolled me it would be posted on the forums but didnt have the date handy. "A Few" usualy means about 3days we are going on a week here pretty soon.

We've run into some issues with the actual announcing of the winners and are still trying to varify the winners as well. We apologize for how long it's taking but we hope to have the winners announced shortly.

[zumwalt]

Bugs in the system.
Last night, in my guild, we had atleast 2 people who the contest tab didn't show up for, it showed up for me.

Last wednesday, it didn't show up for me (granted, I probably didn't stick around online long enough for it to matter, so that doesn't count), I think there are alot of inconsistancies in the system right now, I know you all are doing your best with what you have been given, but it is apparent that at this time the contest is not 'fair' to all players who are on at the time of the contest.

If you are unable to determine the winners via the programmed automated system with its timers, and are unable to announce the winners within a week of each round, then maybe the system is to unstable to be of use right now and needs to be re-programmed to function properly.

Its just a thought, I don't blame the CS team at all, you guys / gals are doing your best under the circumstances and I applaud you for it.

[plarfman]

We've run into some issues with the actual announcing of the winners and are still trying to varify the winners as well. We apologize for how long it's taking but we hope to have the winners announced shortly.

Thank you for the info cerest.....making me nervouse but thank you http://ryzom.com/forum/images/smilies/eek.gif

[jfoxp]

Thanks for the info. At least I don't feel so much in the dark about it anymore. :)

[raynes]

Bugs in the system.
Last night, in my guild, we had atleast 2 people who the contest tab didn't show up for, it showed up for me.

Last wednesday, it didn't show up for me (granted, I probably didn't stick around online long enough for it to matter, so that doesn't count), I think there are alot of inconsistancies in the system right now, I know you all are doing your best with what you have been given, but it is apparent that at this time the contest is not 'fair' to all players who are on at the time of the contest.

If you are unable to determine the winners via the programmed automated system with its timers, and are unable to announce the winners within a week of each round, then maybe the system is to unstable to be of use right now and needs to be re-programmed to function properly.

Its just a thought, I don't blame the CS team at all, you guys / gals are doing your best under the circumstances and I applaud you for it.

I don't think the issue is with how they pick the winners nor do I think it's a problem that has to do with programming and technical performance issues. I believe it has to do more with the actual questions and answers.

[knitcucumber]

I just wanted to point out a small problem that at least one player (me) is having, and others may be having too as I know there were a few people having my problem that is contributing to this problem.

Running my ati 7500 in D3D (hence the desperate need to win a new card), many menus that are supposed to have words in them do not. I have to make my chat boxes no more than about 8 lines of text tall or all the words in the chat box disappear completely until I make it smaller.

My point. I was frantically trying to come up with the correct answer to last night's (2/4) trivia question. The clues were coming up at a nice pace, a sentence or two at a time... very easy to keep up with. Then suddenly, a bunch of small paragraphs plopped into the chat box very rapidly. Which would have been fine if I could have had my chat box open to the full height of the screen. As it was, all of a sudden I had the end of a paragraph that was asking me to answer a question that I had to scroll up to read. As quickly as last night's contest closed down, that extra scrolling time could have, and probably did, cost me a prize position.

I did send in a suggestion about this in-game, but thought I would try to reach as many people that might be able to help with this as possible. So I'm asking here too. Would it be possible to keep the question information in small bunches and maybe give a little bit of time between it for those of us that have problems with the game?

I realize that, being the internet, there's gonna be lag and the people closer to the place the information is headed are probably going to get a small bonus in getting their answers there quicker. It makes me grumpy and I wring my hands together, but I understand it happens. But when so many of us are still having trouble with the game due to unsolved technical problems, anything that can be done to try to even out the chances to all playing people would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for anything.

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edit to add:

I do have a question of the way the contest works. Last night's quiz with the math problem and the answer of 9...

It asks the question. It tells me to put in my answer. I put in my answer. It says "you have entered 9" and hell breaks loose. More spewing paragraphs. When I finally scrolled up and figured out what had just happened, it told me I answered 9. Then it said the contest was now closed, all the answers were in. Then it said I had 60 seconds until I could enter again. Then it said the little story/answer part. Within 5-10 seconds of getting the question, it was over.

I'm assuming most of these don't get answered as quickly as this one did. Since the winners list isn't up yet and I haven't recieved that glorious notification that I won anything, I am just curious as to how this all worked.

I was assuming that as I got a message back saying that it got my answer before I got the message saying it had gotten all the correct answers for the night, that my answer was probably in the group of 11 correct answers.

Was it just the split timing of it all? Did the messages get crossed in the little cables and such that the net are constructed of? Is there a mostly sure-fire way of knowing you have a chance of your answer having gotten there in time?

I don't want to sound impatient and over-eager. I think I'm just rambling on, worrying that I may have actually had a chance, only to have a technical problem somewhere... email, anything. There was a point here at one time. heh I just hate not knowing.

[uncus]

the answer of 9...

I was assuming that as I got a message back saying that it got my answer before I got the message saying it had gotten all the correct answers for the night, that my answer was probably in the group of 11 correct answers.
Actually, the correct answer isn't 9...it is 9 MONTHS.


I don't want to sound impatient and over-eager. I think I'm just rambling on, worrying that I may have actually had a chance, only to have a technical problem somewhere... email, anything. There was a point here at one time. heh I just hate not knowing.

I agree with ya there!

[knitcucumber]

Just checking back in... are the contest winners ever gonna be announced? :) For other than the 2 that have been announced? Win or lose, I just want to know. Please.

[ackir]

Just checking back in... are the contest winners ever gonna be announced? For other than the 2 that have been announced? Win or lose, I just want to know. Please.

The latest contest results we have are for the Feb. 2nd contest. They were just posted today and can be found here (http://www.ryzom.com/show/contest/winners.html).

[knitcucumber]

Another question... was the Feb. 2nd quiz the math one? The one that was answered 9 Months? I'm trying to figure out which one is which. :) I'm easy to confuse. :)

[uncus]

Another question... was the Feb. 2nd quiz the math one? The one that was answered 9 Months? I'm trying to figure out which one is which. :) I'm easy to confuse. :)

Nope - the math one was 4 Feb. If you click on the Engish text link to the top right of the winners' list, you can see the text of te question.

[knitcucumber]

Nope - the math one was 4 Feb. If you click on the Engish text link to the top right of the winners' list, you can see the text of te question.

Ooooooo. :) Thank you. Didn't bother to look around enough. Yay.

[brackish]

/Bump

Looking for a reply and status on when recent (after feb 2nd)winners will be announced.

[cerest]

/Bump

Looking for a reply and status on when recent (after feb 2nd)winners will be announced.

They'll be announced when we've varified all of the winners. It takes more time than we anticipated to varify everything so please be patient. Thanks.