fortuni on 23/3/2022 at 22:04

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That's got to be the most ridiculous statement I have ever seen on this forum!

You try making a walkthrough only using Dromed, impossible, too many links, scripts, teleports etc, and if you knew anything about Dromed you would know that what you think is meant to be happening via Dromed is not always how things show in game.

A walkthrough for the size of a mission such as Into the Dark Forest would probably take a full 3 days, ie 20-30 hours, and seeing I never release walkthrough for at least 6-8 weeks after release where you got the idea I make walkthroughs too quickly comes from is anyone's guess.

Yes I end up using Dromed, but only when I have given up searching for the last items of loot or secrets, and I often play 3 times to check that all the objectives, secrets etc work the same way, if they don't I need to say so in the walk.

fortuni on 24/3/2022 at 06:56

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I often manage to finish making a walkthrough the day on or the day after of release but I don't release it for 6-8 weeks unless the author says it is Ok to do so. Yes I posted the map I made for Reverse Robbery (which didn't show the location of any of the secrets) early because a lot of people were struggling to find certain locations but removed it within half an hour at the request of the author. The final list of secrets was simply a combination of every bodies input on the forum, I found a few as did others, I don't think I had even looked at Dromed at that point.

Making walkthroughs, lootlists and maps are easy when you have a system but that does not mean a lot of work doesn't go into each of them. I made the fundamentals for Double Crossed (yet to be released) by the end of the first day, but then spent another 6 days making a map.

So yes I can make a walkthrough for most missions by the end of the first day of release for most missions, but that doesn't mean I'm cheating or cutting corners as you are suggesting, and if you hadn't noticed I also write a little blog for the Brief Summaries, you think that can be done by looking only at Dromed?

You seem determined to constantly imply that I have no patience either when playing missions or making and releasing walkthroughs, I'll admit I have no patience for complex puzzles and sometimes cheat to find the solutions for those, but seeing I have spent 1000's of hours making walkthroughs, lootlist, maps, Brief Summaries, Mission by Type thread etc I really don't think the word impatience is one you can attribute to me, fast worker yes, impatient definitely not.

fortuni on 24/3/2022 at 07:30

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Can you please knock this stupid argument on the head, I'm getting very bored of it.

Samantha1 on 24/3/2022 at 09:55

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Galaer, I think it goes without saying that fortuni uses dromed to be able to write a walkthrough or check out some secrets. But that does not mean he´s not playing the missions himself. do you really think he´d go through all the trouble and work if he was not enjoying the missions himself? Of course he is playing them themselves so he also made his own picture of the remastered version. It´s also btw his list, so he can decide for what goes in and what does not.
If you don´t like that, you can just make your own list you know? So far all you do is tell him what he could have not done better instead of just doing it yourself.

Instead of just always complaining, it´d be very nice of you to just go and say "thank you" for once for the hard work that he does. I don´t think you have ever done that. Think about it.
With your constant complaining you kinda destroyed your own thread, that started rather nice but ended not so nice.

fortuni on 24/3/2022 at 15:21

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I wasn't intending to reply to this thread again, but the comment above deserves a reply.

IIRC Lone Rock was the first mission in the contest I played and it was Vegetables (I think) who asked me to start the thread, which was started about 7 hours (not 1) after the contest missions were released. Whilst playing I found the bonus 1g but didn't notice I had an extra 1g until I had finished the mission, not understanding where it came from I looked into Dromed, as would a considerable number of others with Droming experience, it certainly wasn't an intent to speed run through the mission in order to show off about secrets, bonus objectives or anything else. You think someone looking into Dromed is bad form, it's not, people have been checking Dromed and reporting things in the forum since Dromed was first released, If you think TTLG is bad go check out TDM, everybody over there seems to spend more time no-clipping than actually playing the mission.

Should I have used spoilers, yes, but am I the only person ever to forget to use spoiler tags, NO, it happens.

Do I deserve to be under near permanent attack for making one or two posts that you consider were made too hastily, I don't think so. Under your logic nothing should be posted in the forums until everybody has played the mission, that would mean that nobody should post anything about loot, secrets, objectives, hidden areas or even bugs for at least 2 months after a mission has been released, that is just silly.

Yes I PM'd you saying that I liked your idea of posting your favourite mission by year, that it was a good alternative to Samantha's poll, which you and a few other have criticized because you don't like her idea. I also said that if others added their list of favourite mission by year you may have accidentally come up with a good alternative to Samantha's idea for choosing the best FM ever. How you can describe a compliment as offensive is beyond me, and even more bizarrely how you can extrapolate that into thinking that I was implying that every other one of your posts are bad, well I'll let other make up their minds as to that logic.

I am now done with this thread.