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| Quailman |
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:41 pm Post subject: 1 |
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w00t!
When I saw that so many were going to be on US 81, I thought I'd get bogged down more, since I followed it south to get to US 40 through Knoxville, Nashville and Little Rock. I figured there'd be at least one other taking the southern route, especially when MattV also used Staten Island to get out of NYC. My route was 3,020 miles, and went through El Paso, along the Texas-Mexico border. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject: 0 |
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| MatthewV wrote: |
I had to make the hard choice not to visit Fairbanks or Kodiak.
I can't wait to get out of here.... mmmm October 1st come sooner! |
kiwi transplant. I still don't get the "thrill" of Alaska. |
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| MatthewV |
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:35 am Post subject: -1 |
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I had to make the hard choice not to visit Fairbanks or Kodiak.
I can't wait to get out of here.... mmmm October 1st come sooner! |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:07 am Post subject: -2 |
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| i was doing mine, and it just turned into such a mess that i dropped mine totally, then i just said screw it after a while. My route wouldn't have won anyway. while looking at the results, even if my entire route was all highways and no one else was on it ( most of it was, but not all) I still wouldn't have won as my route was 3400+ miles long. |
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| Jedo* |
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:37 am Post subject: -3 |
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| I thought about asking you for one, but I figured it was too late. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:33 am Post subject: -4 |
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if anyone cares, This was my route. http://goo.gl/maps/M16k
I chose that route for two reasons: It goes by my house ( loive abotu hundred feet from the NYS thruway in upstate NY) and it goes through Vegas. |
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| raekuul |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:23 pm Post subject: -5 |
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Bleh, next time I'm taking a more direct route through Maine.
Congratulations, everybody who placed better than me! |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:13 pm Post subject: -6 |
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| Yeah, I wasn't sure if it would work. I just did it by Google Docs, but I've never shared something by that method. I think I fixed it though. |
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| lexprod |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:11 pm Post subject: -7 |
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Wow, 2nd! Congrats Quailman on whooping me by almost a full day (even if you did had to resort to petty weaponry ). Also sorry MattV for hitting you twice! You gotta do what you gotta do.
Sidenote: I wasn't allowed access to the spreadsheet, so I requested using the form. |
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| MatthewV |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject: -8 |
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Congrats Jedo!
And Quailman. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:51 pm Post subject: -9 |
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Wow, Congrats Quailman!
Thank you so much for taking this over, Jedo, The original way I had done it was WAY more complicated than your method and it seems like it caused cannonballs that weren't going to hit to hit, which was very nice.
i'm never doing this again, Simple as that. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:30 pm Post subject: -10 |
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RESULTS!
1st - Quailman (33h 49m 27s)
2nd - lexprod (51h 53m 45s)
3rd - MattV (57h 58m 34s)
4th - Courk (59h 33m 32s)
5th - Monk (61h 36m 07s)
6th - Jedo (61h 57m 09s)
7th - raekuul (66h 19m 55s)
Cannonballs (successes:hit):
Quailman - 1:0 (lex)
lexprod - 2:1 (MattV x2)
MattV - 0:2 (It's remarkable he still finished 3rd!)
Courk - 0:0
Monk - 0:1
Jedo - 2:0 (Monk, raekuul)
raekuul - 0:1
It was a crazy race. There were at least two points (I-70 and I-15) where there were 5 people on the same road causing them to travel 20 mph. This killed those people's times. As you can guess, Quail wasn't among those. Additionally, there were some near misses on the cannonballs. I barely missed lex's other one, and rae dodged one of Quail's on a technicality discussed by MNO and myself. If either of those had hit, it could have drastically changed the outcome of the game. (Well, Quail probably still would have won, but the rest would have been significantly different.)
Here is the spreadsheet. As you can see, I transcribed each turn of the route with the mileage from Google Maps. At points where there were overlapping, equal-value roads, I had to put markers and measure how long and at what point in the route. (This usually wasn't too difficult since it was usually just before a turn on GM.) After I finished all of that, I used MNO's velocity website. I would mark the first duplicate road between two people and work toward that. Once there, I would change the speed and calculate out until the next slot or one of them turned off the road. In some cases, I would need to calculate the distance at a certain speed until the time at which somebody else would join the road. This was the most difficult part, but there weren't actually very many instances of that.
Anyway, it was definitely fun and ultimately pretty easy using my method. I probably won't do another one, but I'm glad to have finished this one and finally know the winner.
Congrats, Quailman! |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:45 pm Post subject: -11 |
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So, I'm finally working on this again, and I just made a significant mistake. I can easily undo back to another point, but that's an hour or more of work I have to repeat. Ugh.
This may be a good time for a lunch break. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:20 pm Post subject: -12 |
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| I'm still only about halfway finished with the calculating, but there seems to be a clear winner. I'll of course wait until I've finished everybody, but it's a little less enthusiastic now. |
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| Quailman |
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject: -13 |
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| Jedo the Jedi wrote: |
Well, there were four on I-78 together, but they are all moving toward I-81 and may potentially be joined by two others. How does 16 mph on the interstate sound?  |
eeep! Six of seven on the same route? You can consider it over at that point, I guess. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:58 pm Post subject: -14 |
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I've had a lot of extra chores/errands to prepare for our camping trip this weekend and the computation is really becoming tedious, so this won't be finished until probably next week.
It's still going along pretty well though. There have been two cannonball hits and three near misses. One person seems to have a significant lead, but I believe they are about to become very slowed by following traffic and give up the lead to a driver on a different route.  |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: -15 |
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Was there something wrong with it, or is this a response to my previous request? If the latter, I already worked it out by recopying it like I did my own, so I should have the correct thing. (I was very meticulous. ) If the former, I fixed my email tag. It's just gmail instead of yahoo. |
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| lex* |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:40 pm Post subject: -16 |
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| er...your email didn't work. Can you PM me your email address and I'll send it once I'm home? |
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| lex* |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject: -17 |
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| route resubmitted |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:47 pm Post subject: -18 |
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Well, there were four on I-78 together, but they are all moving toward I-81 and may potentially be joined by two others. How does 16 mph on the interstate sound?  |
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| raekuul |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject: -19 |
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| Which interstate? |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:43 pm Post subject: -20 |
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The race has now encountered a bottleneck close to that at the start of the race. The racers are traveling at a snail's pace on the Interstate.  |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:08 pm Post subject: -21 |
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| Well, I've made it to New Jersey in the calculations. The bombs are flying, and calculating is every bit as difficult and tedious as MNO made it out to be, even with my organizational method. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:09 pm Post subject: -22 |
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Why do you say that? Do you think it will be close?
Maybe we should start some bets on the side...
Person: position and time? |
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| raekuul |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:23 pm Post subject: -23 |
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| I wonder who arrives first between me and Courk |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:46 am Post subject: -24 |
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| Dealt with. I swear I was planning to do something about that, but I thought I was the only one annoyed by it. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:51 pm Post subject: -25 |
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| MNO, can we change those quote tags in your post to be URL tags around each person's name like this: {url=www...}Courk{/url} ? That will make page width less annoying. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:49 pm Post subject: -26 |
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All the transcriptions are finished. Adjusted/clarified rules:
1) In the case of overlapping road identifications, only the highest will be taken. If two roads of the same level overlap, both will be counted when considering speed of shared roads.
2) If a player took a "business route," the speed will be downgraded to the highest, in-town designation.
3) Where there is not a specific highway designation, toll roads are the only roads which will be counted as "interstates." Turnpikes will be counted as "state highways."
4) Instances where the change in streets was of no advantage were fixed (not Courk's zig-zags, but when somebody made a detour that covered the same stretch of road twice).
5) Bombs are placed instantaneously. Thus, if two cars happen to be traveling side-by-side, the bombed car will be affected.
6) If a car is delayed by a bomb, they will be considered to be on the side of the road and therefore not affecting the speed of that road.
Maybe more to come... |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:15 am Post subject: -27 |
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| your way is likely going to be easier and quicker than mine, i did it literally turn by turn for all of them in almost real time. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:15 am Post subject: -28 |
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Don't get your hopes up just yet, MNO. You said calculating was the most time-intensive, so we'll see what happens when I actually get there.  |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:07 pm Post subject: -29 |
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| thanks Jedo, I never thought this would be done |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:21 pm Post subject: -30 |
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Courk and raekuul get the award for most convoluted routes. Courk's was worse, but I had to copy rae's into Google Maps.
I'm almost finished transcribing rae's route into my spreadsheet, then I need to double-check the routes before calculating. I'm hopeful this will be finished by Wednesday. |
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| novice |
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:38 am Post subject: -31 |
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| originally it was from someone named Loki that disappeared from the site. |
How fitting, the shape-shifting trickster god in Norse mythology.  |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:21 am Post subject: -32 |
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originally it was from someone named Loki that disappeared from the site. i wanted to see a conclusion to that game, but decided to run one myself.
I now know why he left the site. If I had to finish this game, i would have shot myself. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:08 pm Post subject: -33 |
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I had to take the week off for other things, but I've been working on this most of today. It has become incredibly frustrating. Taking only the highest level road into account is a great method, but sometimes two Interstates overlap each other for dozens of miles. The problem is somebody might be on I-90 while somebody else is on a section of I-80 which overlaps I-90, thus affecting the speed in my opinion. Google maps is not sophisticated enough to highlight this though. I don't mind doing the extra math, but trying to log these finer points is difficult.
Who's idea was this? They should probably be shot. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:47 am Post subject: -34 |
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| Worse comes to worst, I can just punch it up myself. I'm going to have to re-do my own. It just would make things easier. |
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| raekuul |
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:52 pm Post subject: -35 |
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| Oh geez, I'm gonna be spending quite a fair bit of time with Google Maps tonight if you need that information. I don't think GM even knows half of my Pennsylvanian Nightmare route. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject: -36 |
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I definitely need it.
MattV's transcription is finished.
I need Monk's, lexprod's, and rae's directions with the mileage markers for each street. There's something about lexprod's and Monk's Google Maps submissions that doesn't give the step-by-step in the sidebar but as a floating thing on the map. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:53 pm Post subject: -37 |
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| good luck to you, i hope it works out. |
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| Jedo the Jedi |
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: -38 |
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I just finished cataloguing Courk's route. 4 hours? If other people's routes have less road changes, this part won't be hard.
After that, I'm going to look for duplicate streets on each person's lis. At least knowing that I can work with ease up until a certain point. (Of course, they all start in the same small vicinity, so that may just be wishful thinking. ) |
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