Subject: The Pangalactic Sunnies Challenge
Posted by: WesleyCrusher
Date: Mar 02 12
With Kyle's permission, I am going to launch an activity of my own, especially created for those of you who just never seem to have enough options to stretch your authoring skills to the limits and beyond.
At its heart, this is a new marathon quiz authoring race requiring a combination of speed, persistence, quality and variance. While you could win up to six badges(*) for finishing, those are standard awards you'll just happen to pick up on the way (unless you already have them). Essentially, you are thus competing for the love of authoring and for the bragging rights to have completed one of the most demanding authoring quests that will ever hit the site.
The race is open to every FT author and will run for as long as people wish to continue working on it. You can start the race at any time by signing up. Then, your goal is to write one sunglassed quiz per category, begun after the signup date (those you wrote before don't count). Each of these must be for an author challenge or for an author lounge activity (lounge challenge, commission). Report your finished works here once they have received their Sunnies to be added to the leaderboard. Finishers will be sorted by the time needed from signup to their 20th set of shades (so late starters will never be penalized). If anyone does this under a year, they're a master author, but anyone seeing this to the end will be a champion in their own right.
Oh yes, should you finish this and want to try again to improve your time, feel free to reenter. We'll keep your best time and your number of completions!
A few answers before you ask the corresponding questions:
In order not to penalize those who have taken an early jump at "Stepping Up XII", you *may* count a quiz you've done for that challenge even if you have already begun it. If you wish to do so, just notify me with your signup that you wish to retroactively sign up as of yesterday (March 1).
Quizzes written for The Amazing Trivia Race by those not yet arrived do count only if they are also author challenges and have been begun on March 1 or later.
If you still have to create a work in any other challenge or commission you entered before your signup date which you have never yet submitted to an editor, you CAN finish, submit and count it. This would be a good time to catch up on your commissions!
If you get an Editor's Choice on a quiz, it will qualify even if does not get actual Sunnies. This is also a great way to avoid the wait for ratings and shave several weeks off your score!
Once a quiz has been crosschecked and marked off on your grid, it does not matter whether it does retain its Sunny status later on. Once qualified, it remains qualified.
You are responsible for reporting your quizzes yourself in this thread once they do qualify (please provide a link for quick checking). It's best to check on Monday afternoon or Tuesday, that way you will always catch those newly awarded Sunnies early.
If you have added no new quizzes to your score for three months, your name will be dropped from the public listing of racers. However, you will remain in the internal database and once you do submit another qualifying quiz, you will be back in the list. This is just to weed out those who abandoned the game.
I will provide regular updates to the standings once the first quizzes start rolling in (which will obviously take 3-4 weeks). Kyle will be using his magical mod powers to add them to this post.
To make things easy for me, please do not link to your quizzes in this thread until they qualify.
If you have any further questions, just ask away. Good luck!
WesleyCrusher
(*) The 5, 10, 15 categories, Cool Quizzes, Author Challenges and one badge from the "Author" series.
Current Standings:
http://www.krath.org/pangalactic.png
***HALL OF FAME***
Looney_Tunes has finished the Pangalactic course TWICE! First time it took 181 days, the second time 361 days. Incredible!
Dcpddc478 has finished the Pangalactic course in the record time of 94 days! Amazing!
Rossian has finished the course in 143 days.
Reedy has finished the course in 150 days.
Kyleisalive has finished the course in 242 days.
Creedy has finished the course in 429 days.
Gracious1 has finished the course in 272 days.
Cellardoor has finished the course in 627 days.
Suomy has finished the course in 396 days.
WesleyCrusher has finished the course in 1,026 days.
JanIQ has finished the course in 1,005 days.
Pollucci19 has finished the course in 1,151 days.
Fifiona81 has finished the course in 533 days.
1nn1 has finished the course in 1,767 days.
spanishliz has finished the course in 1,989 days.
Posted by: WesleyCrusher
Date: Mar 02 12
With Kyle's permission, I am going to launch an activity of my own, especially created for those of you who just never seem to have enough options to stretch your authoring skills to the limits and beyond.
At its heart, this is a new marathon quiz authoring race requiring a combination of speed, persistence, quality and variance. While you could win up to six badges(*) for finishing, those are standard awards you'll just happen to pick up on the way (unless you already have them). Essentially, you are thus competing for the love of authoring and for the bragging rights to have completed one of the most demanding authoring quests that will ever hit the site.
The race is open to every FT author and will run for as long as people wish to continue working on it. You can start the race at any time by signing up. Then, your goal is to write one sunglassed quiz per category, begun after the signup date (those you wrote before don't count). Each of these must be for an author challenge or for an author lounge activity (lounge challenge, commission). Report your finished works here once they have received their Sunnies to be added to the leaderboard. Finishers will be sorted by the time needed from signup to their 20th set of shades (so late starters will never be penalized). If anyone does this under a year, they're a master author, but anyone seeing this to the end will be a champion in their own right.
Oh yes, should you finish this and want to try again to improve your time, feel free to reenter. We'll keep your best time and your number of completions!
A few answers before you ask the corresponding questions:
If you have any further questions, just ask away. Good luck!
WesleyCrusher
(*) The 5, 10, 15 categories, Cool Quizzes, Author Challenges and one badge from the "Author" series.
Current Standings:
http://www.krath.org/pangalactic.png***HALL OF FAME***
Looney_Tunes has finished the Pangalactic course TWICE! First time it took 181 days, the second time 361 days. Incredible!
Dcpddc478 has finished the Pangalactic course in the record time of 94 days! Amazing!
Rossian has finished the course in 143 days.
Reedy has finished the course in 150 days.
Kyleisalive has finished the course in 242 days.
Creedy has finished the course in 429 days.
Gracious1 has finished the course in 272 days.
Cellardoor has finished the course in 627 days.
Suomy has finished the course in 396 days.
WesleyCrusher has finished the course in 1,026 days.
JanIQ has finished the course in 1,005 days.
Pollucci19 has finished the course in 1,151 days.
Fifiona81 has finished the course in 533 days.
1nn1 has finished the course in 1,767 days.
spanishliz has finished the course in 1,989 days.
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guitargoddess
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Computer games can go in a VG quiz, right? Reply #81. Mar 14 12, 5:06 PM |
eburge
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They sure can. ;) Reply #82. Mar 14 12, 5:29 PM |
leith90 
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Oooh, that's good, I've played a lot of them. Reply #83. Mar 14 12, 7:55 PM |
Creedy
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It could be worse I suppose. There could be a specific category on football. Reply #84. Mar 14 12, 9:07 PM |
shuehorn
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Still excited about this, but my laptop died. From work I can only connect for short periods to funtrivia, if at all, for obvious reasons. Need to buy another laptop... Trying to figure out how to get that done. :( Reply #85. Mar 16 12, 12:31 AM |
kyleisalive
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Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have three categories (two of which are on my 'bad list') done and out of the way. Reply #86. Mar 16 12, 12:39 AM |
| Creedy
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What's the difference between video games and computer games? Do you mean "Solitaire" etc for computer games, and ones that are downloaded like "Super-Collapse?" Reply #87. Mar 16 12, 6:11 AM |
| kyleisalive
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Re: "What's the difference between video games and computer games?" Computer games are video games which can be played on a computer (IMO). :) Reply #88. Mar 16 12, 11:07 AM |
WesleyCrusher
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Signup summary update (23 racers): tazman 6619 - March 1, 2012 WesleyCrusher - March 1, 2012 CellarDoor - March 1, 2012 looney_tunes - March 1, 2012 Creedy - March 1, 2012 dcpddc478 - March 2, 2012 malik24 - March 2, 2012 pollucci19 - March 2, 2012 highfells - March 2, 2012 reedy - March 2, 2012 kyleisalive - March 2, 2012 MikeMaster99 - March 2, 2012 playmate1111 - March 2, 2012 zorba_scank - March 3, 2012 mlcmlc - March 3, 2012 shuehorn - March 3, 2012 salami_swami - March 5, 2012 EmmaF2008 - March 5, 2012 guitargoddess - March 7, 2012 jmorrow - March 8, 2012 Aussiedrongo - March 9, 2012 leith90 - March 9, 2012 rossian - March 9, 2012 Reply #89. Mar 16 12, 3:06 PM |
| Creedy
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Annnnnd they're racing! Reply #90. Mar 16 12, 9:45 PM |
| kyleisalive
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Lol! Well when you put it that way... Reply #91. Mar 16 12, 9:59 PM |
looney_tunes
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I have four categories online, working on my fifth, and planning where to take Bob for a sixth. But, of course, no rankings yet. I actually took about a week to get started, so will probably not be one of the first to list a qualifying quiz. Reply #92. Mar 16 12, 11:44 PM |
| Creedy
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I can't remember if I wrote "Cartoon Characters - Quacks and Facts" for a Challenge in here or not :( Reply #93. Mar 17 12, 8:33 AM |
| looney_tunes
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I can't see which challenge it might fit in. I keep track of mine on my quiz spreadsheet with a column for 'reason' - if it's from the Lounge or a player challenge, I can indicate it; there are a few, mostly older, that are just identified as 'mine'. But I seem to have less and less time to spend thinking of my own ideas - kyle keeps bombarding us with his! Reply #94. Mar 17 12, 2:29 PM |
| kyleisalive
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Teehee. Reply #95. Mar 17 12, 2:38 PM |
tazman6619
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I believe you did it for the Quiz-o-meter Creedy and since it was not accepted by the meter I do not believe it would count. Also not sure if meter quizzes count anyways. Reply #96. Mar 17 12, 3:33 PM |
| kyleisalive
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They count, but only if they are accepted by the meter. Reply #97. Mar 17 12, 4:14 PM |
| Creedy
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Oh THANK you, Tazman! I've been looking everywhere for it! That's excellent :) I'd created the spreadsheet for this challenge and had put in the quizzes that went online after 1st March, but couldn't remember if that one had been accepted here or not, even though it went online on the 4th or something. It was submitted but not acceptable (because I hadn't understood the rules properly) so it misses out. That doesn't matter a bit though because I like doing quizzes in that category it went into anyhow. Reply #98. Mar 17 12, 9:03 PM |
PDAZ
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Is this closed or can I still sign up? Reply #99. Mar 18 12, 10:34 PM |
| tazman6619
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I believe anyone can sign up at any time. Reply #100. Mar 18 12, 10:49 PM |
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