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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 08/11/2008 : 21:23:05 [Permalink]
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The damn islands get me. There was one, name I do not recall, that wasn't even visible on the map!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 21:52:15 [Permalink]
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Easter Island, Hawaii, Iwo Jima, the Marshall Islands and some island owned by Portugal are all invisible on the map as I can see it.
I can still get decent scores on them, though. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 22:49:08 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, I actually timed out looking for the Easter Islands. It was then that I actually looked and noticed that none of the relatively smaller islands are on the map. I almost timed out on Hawaii before I remembered. Just click on where they would be if they were there. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2008 : 16:08:40 [Permalink]
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Those of you who know me know that I can't let games like this go. Here's what I've discovered (don't know if any of this could be considered "spoilers," read at your own risk):
You lose two points for every kilometer that you are off-target. So long as you click within 2,500 kilometers of your target, you will get some points for accuracy. Note also that because it's a Mercator projection, you need to be more accurate when your target is near the Equator. In other words, your mouse clicks can be farther off-target way up north (or way down south) because the individual pixels on your screen will take up less actual distance than pixels near the Equator. If, for example, a quarter-inch miss at the Equator equals 500 km, the same quarter-inch miss up in Alaska might be only 300 km.
I've never gotten a 0-km click. I am guessing that it is worth 5,000 points, because that is what the math predicts from the data I collected. Maybe the game gives more bonus points for pin-point accuracy, I couldn't say. Here are the messages I've seen for accuracy:
Distance | Distance Message
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0-5 | Dunno
6-249 | "Your map IQ is off the charts!"
250-499 | "You rock! Nice job."
500 | Dunno
501-749 | "Wow, you almost nailed that one!"
750-984 | "Very nice!"
985-1,002 | Dunno
1,003-1,248 | "That's pretty close!"
1,249-1,257 | Dunno
1,258-1,603 | "You can do better than that!"
1,604-1,624 | Dunno
1,625-1,869 | "Hello? Anyone home?"
1,870-1,905 | Dunno
1,906-2,092 | "Holy geez - you're terrible!"
2,093-2,126 | Dunno
2,127-17,354 | "This is Earth. You know that, right?"
17,354+ | Dunno |
The "Dunno" lines in the table are distances that I haven't seen since I started keeping track. I would guess that the message for 500 km off is the same as for 501 km (and not the same as 499 km), but I haven't actually clicked precisely 500 km from a target, so I don't know for sure (technically, I don't know for sure that the message for 748 km is what I've got it listed as, above, but 747 km and 749 km both had the same message, so I'm fairly certain about 748 km). I would also guess that the "dividing lines" between other messages are at 1,000 km, 1,250 km, 1,625 km, 1,900 km and 2,100 km, but don't have the patience to find out. 17,354 is the farthest that the game has said I've been off-target.
For your time bonus, it appears that you start with 500 points and lose 100 points for every 1.9 seconds you waste, after the first 0.93 (for which you only lose 49 points). It's almost (but not quite) one point lost for every two hundredths of a second. You'll actually reach zero points after about 9.45 seconds or so, but the clock runs up to ten seconds. Here's the table and the messages I've seen:
Time | Bonus | Bonus Message
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0.00-0.55 | 471-500 | Dunno
0.56-0.93 | 451-470 | "...smoking fast!!"
0.94-1.88 | 401-450 | "...and you're fast, too!"
1.89-2.83 | 351-400 | "...that's some fast clicking!"
2.84-3.78 | 301-350 | Blank
3.79-4.73 | 251-300 | "Click faster next time though"
4.74-5.68 | 201-250 | "A little quicker next time..."
5.69-6.63 | 151-200 | "...but kinda slow."
6.64-7.58 | 101-150 | "...but speed it up!"
7.59-9.99 | 0-100 | "...but you can click faster!" |
You still get time bonus points even if you click more than 2,500 km off your target, but you won't see any time bonus message at all if you're more than 1,250 km off. Clicking as fast as I could, once, at the start of a level, I managed to get 498 points simply for clicking after only 0.03 seconds. I was off by many thousands of kilometers, though, so didn't get a time bonus message (hence the "Dunno" in the table above).
The levels, number of targets in each, and the score needed to pass each level are summarized below:
Level | Title | #T | Pass
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1 | World Cities (Easy) | 5 | 12,500
2 | Famous Places (Easy) | 7 | 20,000
3 | World Capitals (Easy) | 7 | 20,000
4 | World Cities (Medium) | 10 | 30,000
5 | Famous Places (Medium) | 10 | 30,000
6 | World Capitals (Medium) | 10 | 30,000
7 | World Cities (Hard) | 12 | 37,500
8 | World Capitals (Hard) | 12 | 30,000
9 | World Cities (Very Hard) | 12 | 35,000
10 | World Capitals (Very Hard) | 15 | 50,000
11 | World Cities (Expert) | 15 | 55,000
12 | Dunno | ?? | n/a |
So, on level 1, you need to average 2,500 points per target location. Assuming an average response speed of 9.9 seconds (no bonus points, but see below), you need to get each target to within 1,250 km to pass the level. You can completely blow it on one target and still pass if you get the other four to within 937 km. You can get two completely wrong and still pass the level if you get the other three to within 416 km each. Getting three wrong means you would need more than 5,000 points each on the other two targets, which seems to be impossible (even with time bonuses of 500 points).
The following table follows the same logic through level 11 ("F" is for "Failure"):
Level | Number of complete flubs
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
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1 | 1,250 | 937 | 416 | F | F | F | n/a | n/a
2 | 1,071 | 833 | 500 | 0 | F | F | F | F
3 | 1,071 | 833 | 500 | 0 | F | F | F | F
4 | 1,000 | 833 | 625 | 357 | 0 | F | F | F
5 | 1,000 | 833 | 625 | 357 | 0 | F | F | F
6 | 1,000 | 833 | 625 | 357 | 0 | F | F | F
7 | 937 | 795 | 625 | 416 | 156 | F | F | F
8 | 1,250 | 1,136 | 1,000 | 833 | 625 | 357 | 0 | F
9 | 1,041 | 909 | 750 | 555 | 312 | 0 | F | F
10 | 833 | 714 | 576 | 416 | 227 | 0 | F | F
11 | 666 | 535 | 384 | 208 | 0 | F | F | F |
(Since there is no level 13, one just goes for points on level 12, and doesn't need to worry about "passing" it.)
If you are a fast clicker, you can extend these maximum distances by up to 225 km by clicking in under 0.93 seconds; by 200 km by clicking within 1.88 seconds; by 175 km by clicking within 2.83 seconds, etc. (simply divide time bonus points by two to get the increase in off-target range). Above level two, if you get enough time bonus points, you might be able to make up for one minor flub in each level (or at least widen those spot-on zeros).
Whew. Now that that's out of the way, I can do something more productive... |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2008 : 16:43:24 [Permalink]
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2km off a target for 4995 points.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2008 : 19:50:12 [Permalink]
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.... I didn't notice! LOL!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2008 : 20:08:59 [Permalink]
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Great going, Dude. You think I'm doing this for my health? 
Oh, assuming a maximum of 5,000 accuracy points and 500 time points, here is a table of the minimum and maximum possible scores at the end each level (I still haven't gotten to 12), if you're going to pass on to the next level:
Level | Min Score | Max Score
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1 | 12,500 | 27,500
2 | 32,500 | 66,000
3 | 52,500 | 104,500
4 | 82,500 | 159,500
5 | 112,500 | 214,500
6 | 142,500 | 269,500
7 | 180,000 | 335,500
8 | 210,000 | 401,500
9 | 245,000 | 467,500
10 | 255,000 | 550,000
11 | 310,000 | 632,500
12 | n/a | Dunno |
My personal best is now 424,969 at the end of level 10. I've been to level 11, but my score afterwards was only around 407K.
Edited to add minimum score column and intro text. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2008 : 21:17:39 [Permalink]
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I finished level 12 the other day and got treated to a very unsatifying bug that said:
Congratulations!
You scored %0s points on
%1s.
Thanks for playing!
Methinks that someone hasn't learned their C-programming well enough (or, at the very least, debugging). My score would have been somewhere over 600,000 - I had 599,000 something at level 11 once. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Addictive is right
