Two Questions on Contest.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 11:05

hi, Just like to say i'm really impressed with the newspaper. Well done to all involved.

1. Is it just quality 0, that is counted, as that is the only quailty listed, or can you send higher qualities, I reset my fruit plantaion lvl back down to 0, not sure if everyone will realise to do this.

2. This 2nd question i'm not sure i'll get an answer on. Now I can produce a fairly large amount of fruit a day, now my choice is to sell directly to contest company, or to gather it and sell in an auction ending on the last day. Because there is no way I can produce/buy enough get a top prize, but i may produce enough to get one of the smaller prizes. As this is the first contest is there any chance of you providing a few estimates of quanity's compared to rank. I understand these estimates would not be binding, you can not say what the players here will do. Maybe you could provide some of the results of german compeitions so we can take our judgement from that.

I will understand if this question isn't answered.

Thank you.

Tycoon · Post by **Tycoon** » 11.03.2007, 11:28

Hi,
first of all thanks for your opinion about the newspaper

There is only one quality accepted in the contest. Later on, but maybe only in a year, there will be contests dealing with different products and different qualities. But for the time being we only take products of one quality.

It is very difficult to give an estimation, even if we take the German figures as a basis for this. The German version had much more player in the beginning.
If you want to, I can send you these figures by pm, but I don't think that this will help.

During the contest, you can see how many lemons have been sent to the contest company... if you click on Stats --> contests, you will find a list of this. This list is being updated as soon as products are sent in.

Now at the beginning (I mean today, as it is a Sunday) this list may not work properly as we have to try out this script...

Hope, this helps,
Tycoon

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 11:36

ok, well... u sad theres only one Q acceptet...

great... cool...

*reading newspaper again*

Send the following products to the company name: Contest

1 lemon q0

ok... *steps into warehouse*

here we go... 86 Lemos q0....

let me see... send 86 Lemon q0 at 2 caps... to Contest...

oh wait, what is this ?

The company was not found! Please check the spelling of the name

i also did a copy paste of the company

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 11:43

Dont panic. Be sure they are working on the problem. There are still more than 10 days time to send your lemons...

Tycoon · Post by **Tycoon** » 11.03.2007, 11:54

Yes, pls apologize for this.
Pls keep your lemons in your account for the time being... will inform you as soon as it works (there was no possibility to check this in advance... we can only do this in practice...). But the people are working on this.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 12:00

The stats -> Contest answers my 2nd question, so no need for the PM, although thanks for the offer.

A heads up for people out there, watch your inputs, I had reset my building to produce Q0, 20 mins later I looked and was producing Q1 lemons, I canceled the order, which reset my seed quality, so i was then able to produce Q0.

Thank you for the answers.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 14:12

Great newspaper! I think the contests especially will get people more excited.

For the contest, it's probably obvious that the contest is to see who sends in the most lemons, but the text is a little confusing. It says to send 1 lemon q0. It may be clearer to at least remove the 1 and just say send lemons q0. Most clear would be to add a sentence saying players will be ranked by how many lemons they send.

Thanks again for all the hard work on the newspaper.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 16:55

PolymerTim wrote:Great newspaper! I think the contests especially will get people more excited.

For the contest, it's probably obvious that the contest is to see who sends in the most lemons, but the text is a little confusing. It says to send 1 lemon q0. It may be clearer to at least remove the 1 and just say send lemons q0. Most clear would be to add a sentence saying players will be ranked by how many lemons they send.

Thanks again for all the hard work on the newspaper.

Agreed becasue i had to come to this forum to find out exactly what the idea of the contest was

Just add (like PT has stated

)

Players to send lemons q0. Ranks are decided by who sends the most lemons, q0, to the company 'contest'

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 19:32

LOL!

I sent one lemon

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 20:43

i think that the contest will boost the sector that are not develop and will help a lot the small company because the big company will put a good price on the goods

it is a great idea if you need any help you can count on me, i know php so if you need anything just ask

and keep up the ood work it is really great =)

Tycoon · Post by **Tycoon** » 11.03.2007, 21:17

PolymerTim wrote:Great newspaper! I think the contests especially will get people more excited.

For the contest, it's probably obvious that the contest is to see who sends in the most lemons, but the text is a little confusing. It says to send 1 lemon q0. It may be clearer to at least remove the 1 and just say send lemons q0. Most clear would be to add a sentence saying players will be ranked by how many lemons they send.

Thanks again for all the hard work on the newspaper.

Oh my god, I forgot a word.... it*s supposed to be: for one point send one lemon q0 (as later on there will also be contests with getting more points for one unit of a product.)
Pls apologize for that... will change it asap.
Thanks for your info on this!

Edit: done!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.03.2007, 21:28

10 point 25 lemon??? shouldnt be 25 point 10 lemon because else it is better to send the lemon one by one

i thought it was for every lemon one point, but you can t send contract for more than one lemon?

Tycoon · Post by **Tycoon** » 11.03.2007, 21:55

That was just an example for a case where we could have another contest with 1 point for 1 product... will edit my post...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 12.03.2007, 00:04

don t worry i understand that you want to make 1 point per product or if you send a contract of 1000 product you get 1100 point something like that

it is a good idea maybe for now it is better for you to make 1 product 1 point and send contract with as much product as they want
so that way for you it is better to handle it and to finish testing the new option

anyway it is a very nice job you guys did it is nice to see that the game is evolving=)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 12.03.2007, 18:33

sorry, but i didn't understand, is there any difference if i send 1 lemon per contract or 10 000 lemons per contract???