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i was thinkin as a little side thought, when we do these competitions it would be interesting to see just how long people have spent on there solutions. as obviously the more time you spend on it the more tweaking can be done. not sure how this would be accomplished , honesty i suppose at first , i think though if it were to be intergrated into the game it would have to be done well if say it were to count towards awards in competitions as i can see how it could be abused. i dont know maybe it has been brought up befor and i missed it.What are other peoples thoughts on this

luka1222 wrote:i was thinkin as a little side thought, when we do these competitions it would be interesting to see just how long people have spent on there solutions. as obviously the more time you spend on it the more tweaking can be done. not sure how this would be accomplished , honesty i suppose at first , i think though if it were to be intergrated into the game it would have to be done well if say it were to count towards awards in competitions as i can see how it could be abused. i dont know maybe it has been brought up befor and i missed it.What are other peoples thoughts on this

A competition where everyone had the same amount of time would be awesome, but it's not really do-able in this multi-timezone, multi-commitment forum. It would rock at an AR Lan party though

I did a similar thing with my flatmate once - choose an AR level or level set, and see who can finish the levels first.

I think the best compromise is to have a litle 60 minutes contest!

yeah and your best solution in that time is entered, cos lets face it most of these levels are completed in half an hour, then we just spend the rest of the week tweaking it to death

luka1222 wrote:yeah and your best solution in that time is entered, cos lets face it most of these levels are completed in half an hour, then we just spend the rest of the week tweaking it to death

I wish it was that easy for me!

For most competitions, I usually only come up with my best idea after 2-3hours atleast of experimenting with earlier failed ideas.

Hmm for me - sometimes the prinsiple that I finish the level with after a few minutes are tweaked some and becomes my best entry. But often there is many "a-ha!"'s on the way and I end up with 4 totally different types of solutions. Allways keep one totally opend mind and one to tweak with ! And of course - I never use more than 4 minutes on these contests and that while Im watching TV and playing sudoku simultaneously

Well luka, if you don't like spending more time tweaking than solving then try the current B contest. I can almost guarantee that you won't complete it in half an hour

think you are right there

nice level man i really like it