AtD Points contest!!!

[1)ark_NiTe]

Hey guys, I figure it's about time to do something fun around here. Here is the deal: the first person to gain 500 points from today onward will be awarded 500 bonus AtD points in an updated code.

Basically, take a screenshot of your current amount of points and post it here. Then once you have gained 500 points, post another screenshot here to prove it. You have the next few weeks to do this.

1st to finish: 500 bonus AtD Points added to your code. Winner: Naro

2nd to finish: 350 bonus AtD Points added to your code. Winner: Herian

3rd to finish: 250 bonus AtD Points added to your code.

 

[CHA_Owner]

[edit by 1)ark_NiTe]

My 847 AtD points:


Please and thank you!

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

I'm not stupid lol. It's impossible to gain that amount of points in one day. And especially within like 30 minutes. I will take 847 as your current amount of AtD Points. When you get to 1347 post it. No cheating.

 

[FrostyisdaKing]

w00t for adding this dark!!!!!

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Haha thanks. Glad to see you here! Are you going to participate?

 

[Ricardo Irving]

Fuck, we have to play the game?!

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

haha yes of course. How else would that work

 

[ShadowFlare]

Where do you get the game? How do you play?

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

In my signature click Download 2.89! There are guides in the Against the Darkness forums on how to play.

 

[mfdsrax2]

Oh,Mr Dark,I have 0 point now and I participated in this activity.Then I gained 500 points in 10 minutes or even less.What would you do next?Do you believe it?

Add a special code for this then.If someone wants to participate in,give him/her the special code and then that person uses this new code.When there's 500 points,put a screenshot or give a PM to you concluding the code then.
Besides,add this to the in-game hint and tell them how to gain points faster.

One more thing,make the points more useful then,not "VISUAL ONLY".Make the collection of the points worth it.You could refer to NotD then and see how its points work.Old players are very important if your map is to proceed.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Mfdsrax2, that is avoided by me having logic! I know it is impossible to post that you have 100 points and then 20 minutes later post that you have 600 points. It takes about 10 games to gain that many points.

 

[Raging Ent]

lol people abandoned this contest?
420 and still counting! Almost there! (Finally able to save d'oh)

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Nice! well when you get 500 I guess you'll get an extra 500

 

[Raging Ent]

And there you have it! =D

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Congratulations, you are the first to finish and have earned 500 extra AtD points.

 

[Raging Ent]

( I assume it's on name? or what..)

Go on guys! Still 2 more places to finish at, play AtD!!

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you think your code didn't change look at it carefully. When you load it in game you will see that it indeed changed to 1008 points.

 

[Raging Ent]

Yeah, I know.
I was just wondering, if you post it here won't anyone be able to use it? or does it check names?

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Oh of course it checks names. No one else will be able to use your code. It actually has 2 pretty good security features in that tiny code. I had to sacrifice maximum security for optimal code length, but I don't think anyone will complain since 8 characters is much easier to copy than 16 or 20. Anyway just to be safe I'll message it to you instead. We don't anyone figuring out my method

 

[Dr Super Good]

We don't anyone figuring out my method

There are any methods to figure out?

Took me 10 minutes to get the code 11112uSE. Still need to test if it works though but you should get the idea just by glancing at it. For people other than Darknite who already knows, that code is worth 78 points.

Also why are the codes player name case sensitive? Remember you can change your account case at the login screen without making a new account.

I would advise killing off 1 name character and replacing it with a randomly generated encryption character. This would prevent people from manually modifying codes. Additionally you should combine the name protection with the checksum system giving 2 characters which protect the code for name and contense which are near impossible to predict (the new patch natives for string hashes and such allow you to do this easilly). Finally perform base conversion on the actual number to up it from the usual decimal system you are using to a base 64 system, this would cut the code length by atleast 1 character (or allow more range) and make it harder to guess.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

ooooobSE wont work for you hah. But I'm sure if you had enough time you could figure it out. The current code has two characters devoted to name security (and though the code is case sensitive, your name can be all upper case or lower case and that wont matter), is scrambled out of order, does not save the real numbers of the code, and has a security character based on the amount of points saved in the code. It's fairly secure, but like I said if you save/loaded and copied all your codes about 20 times you'd probably figure it out.

I'm not too worried about that though, the code only saves your AtD points... not heroes/levels/items/etc.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Sorry about that, lacked the facilities to test it. After testing I managed to get one that worked (over estimated some parameters).

You could still probably shrink it by 1-2 characters shorter while keeping the exact functionality by encoding it into base 64 or something.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

That would be pretty cool, any examples of how to create that type of code?

 

[real138]

lol... after 8 months someone did it.

 

[Raging Ent]

Don't hate !

 

[real138]

ah im not i would play i love this game but as i moved and got a different internet its impossible for me to host :/

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Haha yeah I know. I wasn't able to make this a THW contest since it was just for MY map so it didn't get too much publicity

 

[real138]

ah ya true coulda had a link in your signature

 

[Raging Ent]

Off topic : I can host, just that there are no people joining on bnet.
And for garena, people join and I've played some 3vKnight or 4vKnight games, but they were simple (This one time some lvl 4 Death Knight thought he could tank my lvl 8 Battle Mage with Mask of Death).

 

[Wuffle]

( I assume it's on name? or what..)

Go on guys! Still 2 more places to finish at, play AtD!!

uh,had about 1 k points back in the day,loaded them when playing with dark nite so he can prove it(mb he forgot),but then reformatted and lost codes,
i wanted to start again but -save code working only once is lame and cost me 4 of my 80 points /game so i cba to collect again

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

What's your in-game name? I'll generate a code for you to get started again. I remember you had a ton of points.

 

[Wuffle]

wuffle_devil, i think wuffle_legend in bnet but i play in garena now ,so Wuffle_devil

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Check your inbox

 

[Wuffle]

<3 dark nite

 

[Herian]

Hmmhmm... 300 points! >.< 500 is needed right?

P.S Awesome map.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Yeah 500, and thanks!

 

[Herian]

Okay! Will get it!

Also, since you said 2.95 in May, you should fix the bugs spotted by us (players) cause some of them are just.. Epic >.<

EDIT: 65 points in one game! Making it, 363 ><

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

I will definitely be attacking those bugs. It is frustrating that I've tried to fix those and they still occur. Can you describe in detail all of the bugs you found, in what mode, and at what time in the game. Thanks!

 

[Herian]

I always play the same mode : Normal - Choose heroes.
(NOTE : EXCUSE ME IF I DO NOT WRITE "B"s, they do not work properly in my keyoard)The ug I detected :
First - We were in doom mode. We were 2. 1v1, yes. I was fighting the Death Knight, with a frozen archer. I had a deceiver with me ut he died. Anyways, when Doom came, I survived for few minutes (3) and then died. ut strange thing occurs : The Death Knight left after I (the only Death Hunter) got 0wned. Then, one more cinematic happened, and it added 15 more points for me. I have saved, though, efore the event.

Second - a 5 hunters game. 4 hunters died. The last was remaining, running around. He then left. BUT! Nothing happened : The Death Knight didn't win. NO hunter left, and NO death knight won.

Laggy Doom - After 6 minutes of Doom, I was Death Hunter, there ecame too much spiders, and the game ecame hyper laggy. Like, I could have escaped from them with invisiility (Frozen Archer), ut I saw nothing happening (screen locked) until I found myself dead, and Death Knight won. That's not fun! Lost 15 points.


Edit: Bah! 424 points Love your map, dude.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Thanks man, I'll look into all these and try to have them fixed for 2.95.

 

[Herian]

No problem. I hope I'll see further improvements in 2.95.


EDIT: 500 Points! Yay!

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Congratulations Herian. Check your inbox for your new code worth 853 points!

 

[Herian]

Thanks ! <3 AtD!

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

I started working on the fixes today. I should have the first two taken care of. I just need to test them. Then I'll look into the lag problem to see if it caused by the special effects created when the fiends attack, or just because there are so many of them.

 

[Herian]

Hmm, okay. Nice And, can you tell if you're adding quests, and such? Or a kind of "to be determined" changelog?

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

The change log is really TBA at the moment. However, it is very possible that I will add at least one new quest to some or all game modes. I have finals coming up, but class ended this week so I do have a little bit of time to begin work. The real work will start in about a week and a half.

 

[Herian]

Heh, nice, good luck

 

[Hordeon]

Question: Where is the best place to play ATD?

Almost everyone leaves in-game stage, because they don't understand what to do there.

 

[Herian]

Hordeon, if you wish to play with me, get Garena. I'll be there.