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FunTrackers Easter Special 2016 - Finished! |
News published by Marcel (03.04.2016, 17:35) | ||||
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And there the week already past since I started the Easter special. As every year, the progress will be locked, and I will reveal the locations of all the egg pieces. In this special, each egg had its "criterion" with which its pieces have been hidden. When knowing this criterion, finding the remaining pieces was easier. Or at least it was planned to be ![]() ![]() So let's start with all the pieces: ![]() Psyduck's hint: I heard the Bay egg pieces like the exchange market. Maybe they want to get swapped with something else? Criterion: All egg pieces were hidden in the FT eXchange part of the page.
![]() Psyduck's hint: The Canyon egg pieces seem to be very interested into the avatars of the user. Or maybe they aren't. Criterion: All egg pieces replaced an avatar on certain pages.
![]() Psyduck's hint: Gravity sometimes is huge and seems to affect the Coast egg pieces the most. Criterion: All egg pieces are placed in the bottom right corner of certain pages.
![]() Psyduck's hint: I saw a Desert egg piece removing another image and taking its place. But maybe it was only my imagination. Criterion: All egg pieces replaced another image somewhere on the page.
![]() Psyduck's hint: When I saw the Island egg pieces, they seemed quite busy. So maybe they won't have the full day waiting for you? Criterion: All egg pieces appeared in the "Who's online" box on the clanpage index, but only to certain times. The order repeated after 4 hours, so staying online for 4 hours will reveal all pieces to you (assumed you did not miss one ![]()
![]() Psyduck's hint: "God does not play dice!" ("Gott würfelt nicht!") was once said by Albert Einstein. But it seems that the Rally egg pieces like the idea of pure randomness. Criterion: All egg pieces appear with a probability of 3.33% in the left menu at the same possition, adding up to around 10% chance of seeing one of the pieces. So reloading the page will sooner or later reveal all pieces.
![]() Psyduck's hint: The User control panel has a large number of options. I think I saw one of the Snow egg pieces running across them. Criterion: All egg pieces are in the menu of the User CP as "Register Egg Piece", but depending on which page of the User CP you are, another piece is shown. Clicking through all pages of the User CP will give you all pieces.
![]() Psyduck's hint: At the most prominent place, it seems to be impossible to hide where the Stadium pieces took their places. Or are you still missing some of them? Criterion: All egg pieces are in the Easter special logo in the header, one piece for each theme of the clanpage. Rotating through all themes (in the User CP options) will give you all 9 pieces.
![]() Psyduck's hint: Having several options is always an important thing throughout the page. There are times, when new options get added. Criterion: All egg pieces added a new option somewhere on the page to integrate better into the page.
![]() This year there was again a Master egg. With TrackMania Turbo released only for a few days, it was natural to take this environment for the Master egg, adding a purple-ish egg to the collection. Criterion: All egg pieces have the word "lagoon" involved in any form.
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So now let's look on the results of this years special: Congratulation to:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also want to mention Mandark again, who was the only one able to find the Lagoon Master piece ![]() And of course thank you all for participating in the easter special ![]() Ordering the titanium eggs was not a good idea. What to do? I am out of ideas... ![]() | ||||
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FunTrackers Easter Special 2016 - Let the search begin! |
News published by Marcel (27.03.2016, 11:26) | ||||
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Some weeks ago... Easter special is coming closer, and I must try everything to not embarrass myself -- again. So to avoid another set of broken eggs, this time I'll order the Titanium eggs. Unbreakable -- Says the manufacturer. The only thing is that they are quite expensive, so I may not even have the money to buy a birthday cake this year... So the days pass, and Psyduck gets a bit nervous if they arrive in time. And then, on Easter sunday, he sees a nicely wrapped package in the entrance. Ah, this must be it. Took long enough, but the eggs finally arrived. Time is running low, so I have to quickly hide them. What th-? As he opened the package, all the eggs flew out in all directions of the building. At the bottom of the package, Psyduck finds a small note: "Congratulations for purchasing a set of the latest generation of the Titanium Eggs. Coming now with a brand new and innovative self-hiding feature directly to you!" Below that, there was a small handwritten note: "Sorry, there was a problem during the production. Please assemble the eggs yourself. Thank you for your consideration." Such misfortune can only happen to me. Production error having the eggs in pieces (again), and a stupid new feature nobody needs. At least I don't have to hide them myself now, so I can change all the clocks to summertime. Quaaak. So as every year, there is a new Easter special taking place the next 7 days. This time, the eggs are not broken, but have been produced in pieces, so... in the end, the same thing as the last years ![]() Rules:
Are you ready?! May the egg search -- BEGIN!! ![]() FT»Marcel | ||||
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FunTrackers Easter Speical 2015 - Finished! |
News published by Marcel (12.04.2015, 11:14) | ||||
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So onme week passed since the easter special launched, and this means that I now will reveal the locations of all the pieces. This time, the special was a little bit demotivational. If you do not looked through Psyduck and his PM responses, you were not able to finish any of the eggs. I will keep this in mind for coming specials to not give Psyduck so many pieces again ![]() The egg pieces can be grouped into the following categories:
With this said, here comes the list of the pieces: ![]()
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Trivia: If you wondered what my user title "ここにはコードがありません。" says: It's Japanese and translates to "There is no code here.", a hint to last year's special, where one of the codes were hidden in my user title. As another trap, there are a bunch of codes at the top of the source code of each page, yet with another comment on the bottom saying "Did you tried to register the codes from the top of the page? If so, you may have relaized that they are all fake. Sorry ![]() ![]() So let's have a look on the best results of this specials: Congratulation to:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also want to mention Osaka-san, who found all pieces, except those given by Psyduck through the PMs. If you spammed Psyduck more, you would have been able to at least finish all 10 regular eggs ![]() And of course thank you all for participating in the easter special ![]() Slowly I run out of ideas on how to get the eggs undamaged. Maybe ordering titanium eggs the next time? Then they cannot break... | ||||
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FunTrackers Easter Special 2015 - Let the Search Begin! |
News published by Marcel (05.04.2015, 10:13) | ||||
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Few days ago... I had very bad luck with the eggs the last years. And I have a bad feeling about this year's special, too. I hope the ordered eggs will arrive soon, only few days left until Easter sunday. Until they arrive, I will continue changing all the old light bulbs, which eat a lot of energy for nothing. Luckily it happened today on the 1st of April, so I was easily able to disguise the outage as april fool. *Ding Dong* Ah this must be the package with the eggs. Nice. Psyduck opens the package to see if the eggs are all right. But they aren't... Quaaaak, all eggs are broken. How could this happen? Yet there is no time to order new ones, they won't arrive in time. I think the members will have to search for egg pieces again this year. Let's place the package here in the shelf for now, I have to repair the lights, users seem to get impatient about the situation ![]() On the night to Easter sunday, Psyduck returns to the shelf to eventually hide the broken eggs. But... Gone. They are all gone. Why are they gone? I am sure I put them here. Quaaaak ![]() ![]() As a kind of tradition of the FunTrackers, of course there has to be an Easter special this year, too. As last year, the eggs has been split into pieces, and you have to find all the pieces to complete all the eggs. Rules:
Are you ready? May the search begin! ![]() FT»Marcel | ||||
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Eight Years FunTrackers Clan - Happy Birthday! |
News published by Marcel (03.03.2015, 23:14) | ||||
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The 3rd of March. There may be times where nearly nothing happens on this page, but at least there are few things that are sure to happen. Like this News article, as every year on the 3rd of March. I think I do not have to tell you, what day today is ![]() Can you believe it? The clans history already goes back 1000 years -- if you think binary. 8 years... what a long period of time. Sadly, I still did not have a big interest in TrackMania and Maniaplanet at all in the last year (and often not the time to play anything), and so I may not be uptodate with the latest events. But I have something planned for the next year: I want to create a new design for the clanpage. The current one is nearly as old as the clan itself, and over time got a little bit outdated. New web technologies are available (*cough* HTML5 *cough*), and offer a lot new features to improve the look&feel of the page. Especially responsive designs cought my interest, having always to zoom in on my smartphone when browsing this site ![]() And so I will try to come back to the page, using it once more as a little playground to try out new technologies. I will not name a date when the design will be finished, but when it is, you can be sure to see it here at first. (I initially planned to already present a first screen today, but as you can see, there is none yet ![]() ![]() So what about you? What did you do during the last year, or what are you planning to do the upcoming one? Write it in the comments below ![]() FT»Marcel | ||||
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Congrats lolig for 1st place!