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Old September 18, 2002, 13:16   #1
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Contest: Beta Test Master Of Orion 3!!!
Apolyton in cooperation with Infogrames and Quicksilver is proud to bring you a unique event. The "Match The Races To The Faces" Contest is your chance to become a beta tester for Master of Orion 3!

There will only be 25 winners and the contest ends in 2 days, so act now and make your matches wisely!
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Old September 18, 2002, 14:29   #2
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Great contest, Mark! I hope someone here takes it. As for myself, I guess I'll have to be satisfied with being a paying beta tester...
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Old September 18, 2002, 15:17   #3
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Good luck to everyone (I just submitted mine).

Though to be honest, I'd be surprised if there weren't *way* more than 25 people who get all of the faces right. Nearly every race's art is available if you know where to look.
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Old September 18, 2002, 19:38   #4
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Definitely an awesome contest. I unfortunately cant enter. I wish all of you who enter, good luck. Too bad there wasn't a harvester pic though...
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Old September 18, 2002, 21:11   #5
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edit by markg: come on.... no info about the "races" or the "faces"

edit by MAD JAMES!!: come on... I was just supporting what Xentax said

You could've just taken out the names

(What I said was that other than ONE of the races that we know we won't see until the game ships - and didn't name - and one other race already had pictures floating around. The latter is the ? and the former is can be inferred by default)
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Old September 18, 2002, 23:31   #6
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Sweet idea. Nice work in securing this Markos. I wish I had time to do this beta test but I don't and so I won't try to take this spot from someone that would give it there all.
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Old September 19, 2002, 01:52   #7
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Don't know any of the new races and will keep it that way until the game comes out. No peeking for me. I want it to be all new and exciting. I like to watch the cuts scenes for the first time (no other time though).
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Old September 19, 2002, 19:15   #8
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I enter the contest just now. I was able to find all the pictures for all the races on the net. I hope I am able to win a spot.
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Old September 19, 2002, 20:00   #9
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800 responses, and the web research wasn't terribly hard to get all of them right... I really, really hope they pay a lot of attention to the "tell us about yourself" field instead of just picking out of a hat.

I also hope that there aren't more than 24 other people with prior full-time professional game software testing experience.
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Old September 19, 2002, 22:47   #10
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I also hope that there aren't more than 24 other people with prior full-time professional game software testing experience.
I don't think you have to worry about professionals competing with us. Professionals want to get paid for their work.
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Old September 20, 2002, 06:19   #11
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I would hope thay already have their professional game testers. I would also hope these spots go to professional game players. There's a difference - a pro tester will tell you the game crashes when you leave the save dialog blank. The player will tell you culture flipping sucks.
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Uuuu if I get my hands on one of those LAWYERS!
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Great contest, Mark! I hope someone here takes it. As for myself, I guess I'll have to be satisfied with being a paying beta tester...
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I can't enter the contest, but it doesn't matter. I'll be suprised if I ever buy MOO3. The art looks nice though.
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No matter what I do or where I access the beta tester contest page from, I still get the "Unauthorized Domain" error
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Old September 20, 2002, 10:45   #16
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Never mind. I was able to enter after all. I have Zone Alarm running on my computer and had to shut it down in order to enter the contest. It also causes the Unauthorized Domain error
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Old September 20, 2002, 12:28   #17
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If they'd want to do anything with my computer that'd require me to drop my firewall, I'd tell'em to stick it. But since their page works jsut fine with ZA, I think your problem was somewhere else.
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Once I had time in my schedule to do beta testing. No more, so since there isn't a harvester picture I won't bother.
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Hello,

Are you able to tell me who is the Moo3 Beta tester from the Moo2 Multi-player (Kali) League?

I have asked around - but no-one is owning up - I guess he could be busy testing.


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system370, did you start on them or do you go back to 360 or even 1401?
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Old September 22, 2002, 10:27   #21
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Don't know about system370

But I cut my sysprog teeth on a 370-158 MP with dialable shared memory.

Beinf employed in a online financial style environment, our collective blood would freeze every time the printer stopped and the chugga-chugga of the system console floppy drive started.

Usually indicated a system crash of some kind.
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Heh, heh. I started on a System 1620 donated to my highschool. It was a museum piece we called "Plymouth Rock." When I got to college I decided I'd had enough of punchcards, so I delayed taking the intro engineering courses until the transition to IBM PCs was complete. I didn't use the 370 until I was a senior.
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Yep that's where I started a System370 (DOS/VM) 6ft Tall and as long as a Bus. Finally some 20 years on they have a PC Operating System just about as stable as VM/370 and VMs (Virtual Machines) are back in fasion .
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Well as you may have guess by the name I use, I was a VM systems programmer (when the first release hit the west coast). We tried to run it on a 370-135, but it paged so much the disk was bouncing. I forget if the disk was a 2313 or what. I started on BOS, then DOS and then VM with DOS running under it. Well actually I was trained on Navy computers before BOS came out, we used paper tape to load the operating system in the box. We had a large CICS environment at that time. Then we ran MVS under VM before the LPAR boxes came out and they put VM in the microcode.
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"Finally some 20 years on they have a PC Operating System just about as stable as VM/370…"

Who does? Where can I get it? You mean Linux?
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Well XP is been very stable for me, unlike 98.
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From the official forums:

Folks,

BETA Contest Winners will be announced Wed (today) 9/25 at 9PM PST.

I'm proud to say that we have 927 correct entries from a total of 1627! WAY TO GO! The fans really know their stuff!

Also I want to personally thank you all for participating in this fun contest. You all showed marvelous restraint in not posting answers and playing by the rules. Big time Salute!!

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the correct answers...

http://apolyton.net/moo3/races.php
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Sure seems to be a lot of insectoids out there. I miss the Elerians.
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