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[Asmodean]

Anyone know how this option works? I started a contest.. how many tokens are spread around? I want to run the contest for prizes and such... but i want to know if there is a certain amount of tokens.. so i can say... first person to find such and such number of tokens is the winner.. or if there is a whole bunch of tokens.. i can say... in this amount of time.. whoever has the most tokens is the winner... shrug.. heh.. if anyone knows.. let me know.. thanks.

[AdmiralAcid]

Contest mode is a feature in which you can offer external (i.e. not directly related to MajorMUD) prizes for the collection of 'runes' which will be distributed throughout the realm. *

- it is up to you to decide what you want to give away. *You may just want to run the contest just for the sake of seeing who can gather the most runes in a given period of time.

- Choose 'Start New Contest'

- Decide on the type of contest you want. *Your options are 'visible' (all contest items will be 'visible' on the floor or 'hidden' (all contest items will be 'hidden' in the rooms). Obviously a 'hidden' contest is much more difficult.

The results of the contest startup will be appended to the file wcccntst.res. This will be a list of all the rooms in which the items were placed.

-now sense you have the contest started, you can check the status of it, this will show you who has the tokens and where the other are still at.. (shows up appended to wcccntst.res)

so you set a time limit and that time is up. go Finish the contest and yet again, wcccntst.res will be appended to. it will show all the users with toekns that you can tally up, and give a prize to..

(after the contest is over, it removes all the toeks from players and rooms... you cannot drop the token, or give it away, but when a player dies, it drops along w/ all his other eq, thast good news for lazy pvp'ers [surely a thief can rob em])

[Raybdbomb]

sounds cool...... put some excitement into the BORINGness of majormud... *yawns*

[manic]

yeah this does sound kinda cool.. im thinking of running one on a place i mudop, and was wondering if anyone knows if you can set the amount of runes, or how is it determined when and how many runes are placed?

[AdmiralAcid]

on my board, it laid down 40 tokens ... it might laydown more for lager systems, but i donno, or doubt it.... just go read the wcccntst.res after you start it....