New Recruitment Challenge

[Anonymous]

Sorry for the double post, but I AM A GOD, i got it yay, i am the man boo ya

[Anonymous]

>.< i tried ss142 for another hour the other day, that makes about 15 hours, broken down since the thing started, and i still haven't got it, maybe im on the wrong track.

[Anonymous]

Hooray! I solved it!

However, I am ashamed to say that I could not do it by myself. I had to read the post in our recruitment thread, which totally explained the significance of ss142 before I could move on. After spending countless hours trying to solve ss142 and failing, it took me all of 30 seconds to solve the pawn part.

You see, all that is necessary is to find out your method of creating challenges. Once the answer to ss142 is seen, you know what format the answers are in.

Because of this, Tbone, unless you want an influx of new recruits who may have "cheated" I strongly advise you to change the challenge again. It appears that there are tons of people that have gotten past ss142 because of the post in our thread, and I am sure they will all get the pawn part soon.

But anyways, I feel much more relaxed now that I've solved it, and props to anyone else that did!

[Anonymous]

Don't feel bad.  I got that far and sat there for 2 days... not ALL of the 2 days, but still.  Then all of the sudden - WHAM!!!   Oh, that's it!  I'm the man!! Then I was a pawn.  That sucked...for another 2 days...but not ALL of 2 days...

[Tbone]

Yeah, I had three people solve it today. That almost doubles the total number of people who have solved it...lol.

[Anonymous]

I think the page with ss142 I think had been down  at some points. I tried the URL many times over a few days, and it never worked, I tried it again today and it did. That's where I was getting hung up at. That and I think you made it a bit too easy by adding the new clues.

[Anonymous]

New clues!?WHERE WHERE!!?

[Anonymous]

umm...nowhere...

By the way, have we tried asking an admin or mod to help clean the topic up? This might be a good way to keep it in check.  They might say no, but they might also say yes when they see what we are doing.  Wouldn't hurt, right?

[Tbone]

If we asked, they'd probably just lock the thread for us and have us start a new one. There's a time for that, but not at this moment.

[Anonymous]

Looks like we're gonna start getting flooded.  Another one says they got it this morning...how many in a month & a half, then 4 in 24 hours?

[Anonymous]

Maybe someone published the answer on another thread....cos two would be possible, three inprobable, but four? That is in the words of whoever made language, impossible.

[Anonymous]

As said on Ventrilo, we need to start a new challenge and possibly stop recruitment till then....someone is leaking the answer, or the clue(which, it's not that hard to spot) is helping waaaaaay to many people.

[Anonymous]

I looked around on other boards today, not many people posting seem to even be picking up on the clue, let alone figuring out what to do with it. Even if they do get past that part, the next is almost as challenging. If the answer is being shared, it'd have to be in private. Of course, the challenge basically starts at this point now, since everything leading up to it has been given away.

[Anonymous]

I agree that the challenge should be changed, i started at like 9:30PM an finally at 12-something i finished, but i didnt really think about it the whole time. I dont know how long it took for others or if my tie was quick, but i think a new one is a good idea.

[Tbone]

It hasn't gotten bad yet. Just because a few people got in doesn't mean the security is compromised. If it starts getting worse, I'll think of something.