canadave
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Well, not having been around Orbiter for a while, I was pleasantly surprised to visit the Orbiter Beta subforum here, only to see that Orbiter Release Candidate 0 has been published! Excellent news; it seems that Martin's work on the new version is coming along very nicely.
So I figured that in celebration of that milestone, and in anticipation of the eventual release of "Orbiter: The Next Generation"
, it'd be fun to create a "Guess The Final Release Date" thread.
Rules of the (semi-facetious) game:
1. Post the date AND time (GMT) that you think the main Orbiter page will be updated to announce the release of the next Orbiter.
2. The closest person to the actual date gets 5,000 points; if there's a tie, the person who's closest to the actual time gets the 5,000 points. All other tied people get 1,000 points. If you guess the date exactly correctly, you get an additional 10,000 points. If you guess the exact date AND time correctly, you are either Martin (who by the way is not eligible to win this game!), or you are a freak of nature, and thus entitled to 1,000,000 points.
3. If the actual release date is a Tuesday, everyone who plays the game in this thread gets 500,000,000 bonus points
4. If you post your guess within two weeks of the actual release date, it will not count (although you will still get 200 "consolation" points if yours is the closest guess when all the "valid" guesses are included). This rule is to prevent you from waiting until it's clear development is just about finished, and then posting a guess.
5. For every day that passes between the date you post your guess and the actual release date, you get 10 bonus points. This is to encourage earlier guesses.
6. Please DO NOT hijack this thread with scoldings about "it'll be out when it's out"--yes, we all know this!!! This little "game" is NOT designed to pressure anybody to finish development, and it's NOT some sort of statement of impatience or anything stupid like that. It's just a fun way to pass the time until Orbiter is released, whenever that is. Martin can take as long as he likes.
7. Also, please, no debates on why it's taken so long, how the development could've gone smoother, why you feel Orbiter didn't need to be redesigned, why you think it's a simulator and not a game, why you think it's a game and not a simulator, or any other useless drivel. JUST THE DATE AND TIME, IN GMT, OF THE RELEASE DATE!!!!!!!
8. The person with the most points at the end "wins", and has to talk over the closing show credits by pretending to be an astronaut having a conversation with Mission Control
OK, I'll start first. My guess is December 24, 2009, 19:00 GMT.
Also, it'd help if we could all kind of keep an eye on the Orbiter main page (as we're all already doing, right?) , and just post something real quick in this thread the moment we see that the page has updated to announce the release (for confirmation purposes), that'd be great.
So I figured that in celebration of that milestone, and in anticipation of the eventual release of "Orbiter: The Next Generation"
, it'd be fun to create a "Guess The Final Release Date" thread. Rules of the (semi-facetious) game:
1. Post the date AND time (GMT) that you think the main Orbiter page will be updated to announce the release of the next Orbiter.
2. The closest person to the actual date gets 5,000 points; if there's a tie, the person who's closest to the actual time gets the 5,000 points. All other tied people get 1,000 points. If you guess the date exactly correctly, you get an additional 10,000 points. If you guess the exact date AND time correctly, you are either Martin (who by the way is not eligible to win this game!), or you are a freak of nature, and thus entitled to 1,000,000 points.
3. If the actual release date is a Tuesday, everyone who plays the game in this thread gets 500,000,000 bonus points
4. If you post your guess within two weeks of the actual release date, it will not count (although you will still get 200 "consolation" points if yours is the closest guess when all the "valid" guesses are included). This rule is to prevent you from waiting until it's clear development is just about finished, and then posting a guess.
5. For every day that passes between the date you post your guess and the actual release date, you get 10 bonus points. This is to encourage earlier guesses.
6. Please DO NOT hijack this thread with scoldings about "it'll be out when it's out"--yes, we all know this!!! This little "game" is NOT designed to pressure anybody to finish development, and it's NOT some sort of statement of impatience or anything stupid like that. It's just a fun way to pass the time until Orbiter is released, whenever that is. Martin can take as long as he likes.
7. Also, please, no debates on why it's taken so long, how the development could've gone smoother, why you feel Orbiter didn't need to be redesigned, why you think it's a simulator and not a game, why you think it's a game and not a simulator, or any other useless drivel. JUST THE DATE AND TIME, IN GMT, OF THE RELEASE DATE!!!!!!!
8. The person with the most points at the end "wins", and has to talk over the closing show credits by pretending to be an astronaut having a conversation with Mission Control
OK, I'll start first. My guess is December 24, 2009, 19:00 GMT.
Also, it'd help if we could all kind of keep an eye on the Orbiter main page (as we're all already doing, right?)
, and just post something real quick in this thread the moment we see that the page has updated to announce the release (for confirmation purposes), that'd be great.
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