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Contests

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So I have always wounder but my Google foo comes up empty on it. What are contests? I'm talking about the options in the offline util.


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What the contest is that the contest is having to collect 20 or so glowing runes from anywhere around the realm. What the offline utility does is you can either have the 20 or glowing runes be hidden or just sitting in the rooms for the players to find. Also the rooms are picked at random and could be anywhere. It you can also check the status of the contest and it'll list the rooms/players that has a glowing rune. If I remember correctly you need to have a glowing rune and be at town square to enter the tournament by typing enter tourament? because it'll check to see if you have a rune and if you do you'll receive a tournament badge. I think that's as far as the tournament part went other than the area for the tournament on map #5. Also this is for an old version of mud ;)


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Que genial, me encanta todo esto


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One last note: When the contest enabled it creates a file called WCCCNTST.FLG - It's just a flag file for mud saying a contest is in progress, works just like when mud needs a recovery next bootup and creates WCCRECOV.FLG file.
When a contest is ongoing then you can check the progress of the contest in WCCMMUTL. This creates a file called WCCCNTST.RES with the results.
I noticed after enabling the contests and then booting up the bbs a temp file gets created called WCCMP001.PRE and then deletes itself. The file which contained just shows map#/room# for a single room. I'm not even sure if this is related to the
contests. Same goes for the significance of the map#/room# that was listed. It was just something I noticed.

Below is what is shown in the file WCCCNTST.RES - It'll first list the map#/room# where it randomly placed the magical runes. Secondly when checking the status of the contest it'll list what rooms the magical runes are still in unless found which then instead it'll show which player has found a magical rune by replacing the map/room it was in with the player's name. Also all the future contests & status check info will appended to the file. I'm not sure if the contest will automatically end it self when all the magical runes are found or just when the sysop decides to end it by using WCCMMUTL. Don't forget that you can have these runes hidden or just sitting in the room for players to find easier.


Contest starting
Placed a visible rune in map 1 room 594.
Placed a visible rune in map 1 room 906.
Placed a visible rune in map 1 room 1539.
Placed a visible rune in map 1 room 1730.
Placed a visible rune in map 1 room 1869.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 465.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 676.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 786.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 193.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 1662.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 2153.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 1534.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 1412.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 1654.
Placed a visible rune in map 2 room 2192.
Placed a visible rune in map 3 room 735.
Placed a visible rune in map 3 room 694.
Placed a visible rune in map 3 room 2.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 405.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 503.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 792.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 914.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 1058.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 1546.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 2104.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 1804.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 2868.
Placed a visible rune in map 6 room 3017.
Placed a visible rune in map 7 room 1355.
Placed a visible rune in map 7 room 467.
Placed a visible rune in map 7 room 598.
Placed a visible rune in map 7 room 995.
Placed a visible rune in map 7 room 936.
Placed a visible rune in map 7 room 313.
Placed a visible rune in map 8 room 665.
Placed a visible rune in map 8 room 753.
Placed a visible rune in map 8 room 646.
Placed a visible rune in map 8 room 355.
Placed a visible rune in map 8 room 951.
Placed a visible rune in map 10 room 85.
Contest started
Status of contest....
Found visible in room 594 on map 1.
Found visible in room 906 on map 1.
Found visible in room 1539 on map 1.
Found visible in room 1730 on map 1.
Found visible in room 1869 on map 1.
Found visible in room 85 on map 10.
Found visible in room 313 on map 7.
Found visible in room 467 on map 7.
Found visible in room 598 on map 7.
Found visible in room 936 on map 7.
Found visible in room 995 on map 7.
Found visible in room 1355 on map 7.
Found visible in room 193 on map 2.
Found visible in room 465 on map 2.
Found visible in room 676 on map 2.
Found visible in room 786 on map 2.
Found visible in room 1412 on map 2.
Found visible in room 1534 on map 2.
Found visible in room 1654 on map 2.
Found visible in room 1662 on map 2.
Found visible in room 2153 on map 2.
Found visible in room 2192 on map 2.
Found visible in room 2 on map 3.
Found visible in room 694 on map 3.
Found visible in room 735 on map 3.
Found visible in room 405 on map 6.
Found visible in room 503 on map 6.
Found visible in room 792 on map 6.
Found visible in room 914 on map 6.
Found visible in room 1058 on map 6.
Found visible in room 1546 on map 6.
Found visible in room 1804 on map 6.
Found visible in room 2104 on map 6.
Found visible in room 2868 on map 6.
Found visible in room 3017 on map 6.
Found visible in room 355 on map 8.
Found visible in room 646 on map 8.
Found visible in room 665 on map 8.
Found visible in room 753 on map 8.
Found visible in room 951 on map 8.
Contest Status Finished.
Finishing contest....


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Intresting, so I take it the rune had to be found to enter the tourny at TS. But from there it just not completed?


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Well I think they left it open for sysops to do what they want as far as handing out prizes and what not. I actually haven't gone farther into it from what I showed you. I'm using a different system right now because my other operating system decided it didn't want to work anymore and I got tired of not having a working computer so I just installed a new hard drive with new OS or else I could find out.


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