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How do you sign up for the NBC contest?

Ina Centaur
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Join date: 31 Oct 2006
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01-16-2007 06:34
http://www.virtualnbc.com/
... but it looks like all the SLurl's are down... or is it just me?
Sensual Casanova
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Join date: 28 Feb 2004
Posts: 4,807
01-16-2007 07:15
I am not sure, but that sounds very exciting :)
Maybe they are not available until the 17th?
FlipperPA Peregrine
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Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,703
01-16-2007 07:42
I'll ping the Electric Sheep Company and see what the deal is.

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FlipperPA Peregrine
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01-16-2007 08:19
The lovely Torrid Midnight had this to say:

From: Torrid Midnight
The sim opens on Wednesday the 17th at 1pm SLT. They'll be able to teleport in at that time and register.


I hope this helps! :)

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Talarus Luan
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Join date: 18 Mar 2006
Posts: 4,831
01-16-2007 11:57
Oh yeah, that will go down well..

Let's see.. spam-orbit everyone else in the sim but you, while sitting on a non-phys vehicle, and then you go in and smush the target into the ground. Yes, I can see how exciting this will be already!
Darien Caldwell
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Join date: 12 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,127
01-16-2007 12:11
From: Talarus Luan
Oh yeah, that will go down well..

Let's see.. spam-orbit everyone else in the sim but you, while sitting on a non-phys vehicle, and then you go in and smush the target into the ground. Yes, I can see how exciting this will be already!


LMFAO! I like how you think. :D
Talarus Luan
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Join date: 18 Mar 2006
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01-16-2007 16:04
Fortunately(?), they aren't using LindenDamage(tm) to implement this "game", but their own combat system.

Of course, the REALLY fun thing is that this is Assassin.. which means you play it everywhere/anywhere on the grid. If you encounter someone on your hitlist somewhere in Leda, say, and you whip out your handy-dandy Desert Eagles and start blasting away, I can imagine that your stay in the sim will be interrupted by the land owner(s) adding you to their BAN lists in record time.

Not to mention that I bet they tested their system in an empty sim using a handful of players. Can't wait to hear the whining when people can't even shoot because their scoring server is overloaded, or the grid is to busy to allow anything but "bullet time" lag.

But, this is the mass media, so we're not talking about the brightest bulbs in the pack to begin with.
Zaphod Kotobide
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Join date: 19 Oct 2006
Posts: 2,087
01-16-2007 16:13
I was having very similar thoughts as you as I was reading through it this morning Tal.. Doesn't sound like they've really thought this through very well. Lots of brainstorming for ideas, not a whole lot of troubleshooting from a technical perspective. Yeah, such a game could and would be alot of fun, in dedicated sims, with sufficient oversight and solid mechanisms for dealing with cheaters, abusers, etc. But to run such a thing, untested as it appears to be, across the entire grid just seems careless to me, and it's apt to cause alot more grief than anyone seems to have anticipated.

Oh - and people WILL grief this game and its innocent participants.
Peggy Paperdoll
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Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
01-16-2007 16:33
Well, some good may come of this "Assasin" game. Maybe, just maybe, NBC's complaints and screams to LL will wake Phillip and his upper echelon management people up to problems of promising more than you can deliver. I mean NBC has hyped this and will continue to do so.........and when (notice I did not say "if";) Linden Labs fails to deliver for them who's going to have the finger pointed in their direction? NBC is a rather large media company with a fair amount of clout. Who's going to come out on the short end of stick?

Hmmmmm............any guesses? :)
Madame Maracas
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Join date: 7 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,953
Clever concept, w/some interesting caveats
01-16-2007 16:50
I agree with griefing possibilities, and I can see this being a real pain in the butt when folks are just trying to hang out or have a chat. I went to their site and had a look at the Rules, very interesting.

Some choice excerpts:

How To Enter: To enter the Promotion, during the Promotion Period, you must download and install Second Life and enter information to become a registered member of the Second Life® virtual world (“Website”). You will be asked to fill in the registration information including your name, email address, zip code, birth date and other information including a credit card number to be used for age verification purposes only.

Entrants must be legal residents of and must physically reside in the United States and must be 21 years of age or older as of the date of entry.

Sponsor reserves the right to exclude anyone convicted of a crime. Entrants must have nothing in their background that would be an embarrassment to Sponsor or Sponsor’s Promotional Partners. Sponsor reserves the right to exclude entrants for any reason, in Sponsor’s sole discretion.

As long as a player is wearing the HUD they are considered actively participating in the game.

Where permitted by law, by being an entrant or a Daily Prize Winner or Grand Prize Winner, you consent to the use of your name, home town, voice, and likeness or photograph on the Website and in advertising and promotional materials in connection with the distribution and/or exploitation of the Film and/or any other production and in the advertisements, publicity and promotions for the Film, any other production, and for any program channel or service (including, but not limited to, any broadcast television network, television station or channel, cable network, satellite network or internet-delivered service) that broadcasts, exhibits, transmits, distributes or otherwise exploits the Film or any other production throughout the universe at any time, in perpetuity, in any media, whether now known or hereafter devised, and by any and all means of delivery, whether now known or hereafter devised, without any compensation to you whatsoever.


*** Emphasis mine ***
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Water Rogers
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01-16-2007 21:55
:)
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Ina Centaur
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Join date: 31 Oct 2006
Posts: 202
01-17-2007 12:38
it looks like the grid's down until 3PM... guess the contest is postponed until then?
Geo Claxton
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Join date: 12 Oct 2006
Posts: 16
01-17-2007 12:46
It sucks that I can't play.

"Employees and their immediate families, including household members, of NBC Universal, Inc., Universal Pictures, Working Title Films and/or of each of their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates, and of their respective distributors, suppliers, participating vendors, promotion or advertising agencies, or of any other company or person involved with the design, production, execution or distribution of the Promotion (collectively, Sponsors’ “Promotional Partners”) are not eligible to enter."
Ina Centaur
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Join date: 31 Oct 2006
Posts: 202
01-17-2007 12:55
quit your NBC Universal job and rejoin after the game? ;P
Dave Kish
Registered User
Join date: 11 Jan 2007
Posts: 1
01-17-2007 15:18
Whenever I try to TP, I get a message "Could not teleport. You are not allowed into the destination."

If I look on the map, I can see 5 or so people in there.

Does anyone know how to get access?
Shep Korvin
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Join date: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 305
01-18-2007 05:56
From: Geo Claxton
It sucks that I can't play.


You're in good company; the majority of SL's existing population can't play either.

From: someone
"Entrants must be legal residents of and must physically reside in the United States and must be 21 years of age or older"
Latonia Lambert
Registered User
Join date: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 425
01-18-2007 08:36
Boo to US residents only :(