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Anniversary Leveling Contest - Results
trailturtle
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EDIT: Tried to do a mass-application of the titles during maintenance (Nov. 9), but I was only able to get it on a per-character basis instead of applying to the entire account. Levelers, talk to me at any point during today and I'll make sure your characters get the titles.
A challenge was thrown down, and a select few heroes rose up and surpassed it. Congratulations to all of the winners of our anniversary leveling contest -- 24 heroes went from raw rookies to world-saving veterans in less than two weeks!
Eightball
Lunabelle
The Body
Curt Aries
The Laird
Abraham Lincoln
Star Burst
Valkyria
Shayla
Ema
Tesseract
Black Mamba
Reisen
Strega
Imperion
Regulus
Cyber Samurai
Hailey
The Shadowess
Jarra
Richard Wilkins III
Littoralis
Cyberkat
Shenlong
We'll hold the drawing for the grand prize winner soon, and the prize distribution for all winners will happen later during the anniversary extravaganza. Stay tuned, superfans!
(Also, as a side note, I just want it to be known that I'm impressed at the names. These characters sprang to life probably for the sole purpose of entering this contest, but with names this interesting I'm guessing that most of them will see play for a long time to come.)
A challenge was thrown down, and a select few heroes rose up and surpassed it. Congratulations to all of the winners of our anniversary leveling contest -- 24 heroes went from raw rookies to world-saving veterans in less than two weeks!
Eightball
Lunabelle
The Body
Curt Aries
The Laird
Abraham Lincoln
Star Burst
Valkyria
Shayla
Ema
Tesseract
Black Mamba
Reisen
Strega
Imperion
Regulus
Cyber Samurai
Hailey
The Shadowess
Jarra
Richard Wilkins III
Littoralis
Cyberkat
Shenlong
We'll hold the drawing for the grand prize winner soon, and the prize distribution for all winners will happen later during the anniversary extravaganza. Stay tuned, superfans!
(Also, as a side note, I just want it to be known that I'm impressed at the names. These characters sprang to life probably for the sole purpose of entering this contest, but with names this interesting I'm guessing that most of them will see play for a long time to come.)
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hmm.. I might vote for Wilkins over Bisselle...
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Same here.
I wonder if a source of confusion might be that some characters started by skipping the tutorial- it was never clearly stated that skipping the tutorial would disqualify entrants (I assumed it would, which is why Eightball was the first character I'd run through the Qularr invasion in quite some time). While I don't particularly want to lessen my odds of winning the grand prize, I would hate to see anyone DQed over a miscommunication...
I think another issue (for me at least) was that I rerolled an existing character. The Grey Kestrel had been sitting at level 10 for over a year, I rerolled her for the event and got her up to 40. She started at 6 (like anyone who skips the tutorial) so there was no head start or anything, but I wonder if in the data logs it might not look weird.
>.< I'm hoping that's all it is and it's easily squared away <;_;>
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This just feels like a major slap to the face though, with the bugs in game, and the contest itself designed with the expectancy that everyone has 4 hours a day minimum to accumulate 1 day of ingame time to max the level, which seems counter productive.
One question though about a comment..
When did the contest officially start? i thought it was Sept 1 and ended sept 6, that's 6 days, not even 1 week but the under 2 weeks makes it sound bigger :S
Anyways.. grats to all those who succeeded this deadline, and grats to the the two that win the top prize, having your own character art would be very cool
I started on the 29th < . .>
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-The tutorial shouldn't -- in theory -- have any effect. We're looking at a piece of data about when your character was created, part of our character database... I would be roundly amazed if the tutorial were the issue.
Lameo.
I also. I know I did it with ten hours to spare, on a character made just six days before he dinged 40.
And I did the Tutorial.
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Started at 30th.
Skipped tutorial. Old habits....
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Brain was pretty numb by the end of VB crisis though...
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But I dont see my own character on that list. Recoil was created on the 29th. and hit 40 on the fourth. The should qualify me.
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Would be terrible to have the effort lost since I did get to level 40.
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Thanks FF, no idea here either. :redface:
And yes, I too was left off the list. :mad:
PM sent.
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in any event, the character was Mr. Hero@jeeperso
And yeah, poor lil Lancet didn't make the list either
I was one of those tutorial skippers.
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Yah I did the same thing. Follow Flyingfinn's method and do a blind PM just to be sure.
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Edit: My character was created on the 29 of Aug, and my handle is @superkhandar
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For the record, I did the Tutorial.
I created and leveled two toons during the Event. My first toon California Jones is not on the list, but my second, Richard Wilkins III, is there. They both skipped the tutorial, so I agree with TrailTurtle's note that that shouldn't be a factor. >shrug<
Thanks FF, I had no idea how to do that either!
TrailTurtle, I sent you a PM too, for my first character: California Jones.
And in regards to your comments on the names... I had been planning to make a CA Jones toon at some point, so yeah, that one was intentional. The second, as I mentioned above, was inspired by the Event's prize. Both toons were made with sort of thrown together builds intended to facilitate speed leveling. Now that they're L40, once the contest is all done/awards are given, and I'm sure tinkering with them won't affect anything, I'll go respec each and get them all themed-up.
Also, I'm kind of shocked at how few toons qualified.
When XP earnings during a Double-XP Weekend still feel like I'm underperforming,
there's something terribly wrong with the reward system...
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Thanks for taking the time to sort this out, TT.
Yeah, I think that tool missed more than it found.
It would suck if my 5 am finisher was in vain.
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PM sent, but like a few others have said, thank you again for taking a look into this for us.
Yeah same here created and levelled 2 characters, both skipped the tutorial, first isnt on list but 2nd one is
Guy Calamari shall wait patiently.
I'll send you a PM too, Trailturtle.
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Hopefully next time a contest like this is held hopefully Cryptic doesn't do it after making a huge portion of their player base unable to even attempt it again.... Sigh, could have really used that prize too and with odds as high as they are to win... oh well hopefully someone else who needs it wins
I am fairly certain she was tutorial-free, and she was over a year old (I?m an Altoholic, this was only my 4th 40 in 1.5 years). Does that mean she was ineligible? I didn't see her on the list -Juicy'Fruit is her name.
I work about 55-60 hours a week, have two kids and a wife, which means not a whole lot of time left for fun stuff? but I managed to get her to 40 for the contest. I can only play a few hours each night, and it still took me most of the week to get her to 40 (I'm amazed how people can level toons so fast).
As to the contest - I did not know I had to create a new toon and level it up to 40 to qualify. As I have two and a half pages full of heroes and heroines on my character login page, I have no spare slots until I get a character to 40, this put me at a disadvantage for this contest.
Oh, well? got another 40 out of it
For the record, I'm glad that the tutorial is not the issue and I sincerely hope that the missing eligible characters gets sorted out quickly.
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Yeah, the toon had to be created on or after the 29th.
And that's without Crippling Challenge or Challenging Strikes.
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That's still a spectacular feat, and don't let the scale of this contest make you think otherwise. Speaking for myself, earlier in the week I sunk about two hours into Iris Irregular, and I still only got from 11-12. Granted, that was doing solo missions and no alerts, but this was definitely a contest that was aimed at the hardcore players.
For everyone else: Please hang tight. Between some HTML issues earlier in the day and handling most of the Neverwinter blog posts for today, I did not have time to look into the leveling contest today. I'll be investigating this on Monday, but it will likely be a debugging process.
If qualified characters really weren't caught in our data pull, we both have an immediate issue and one with database validity. The good news is that with your PMs, we'll be able to manually check this... although finding out when non-detected characters reached level 40 may be difficult. Stay tuned.
And while we wait...
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