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Re: Pod ages & KI time

Bakerboo — Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:26 am

Author: Bakerboo

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:26 am

pod ages... bleurgghhh... one day I might bother to work it out lol

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Rusty_Russell — Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:56 pm

Author: Rusty_Russell

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:56 pm

You could make life easier and start from Payiferen.

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Apricots — Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:20 am

Author: Apricots

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:20 am

Well if you can figure out when Negilahn opens, just remember

Dereno follows Negilahn by about 1 hour 13 minutes, Payiferen follows Dereno by about 33 minutes, Tetsonot follows Payiferen by about 2 hours 45 minutes

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Rusty_Russell — Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:54 am

Author: Rusty_Russell

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:54 am

The spoilers to this point miss something significant - understanding D'ni time.

If your 'hood has a clock, there is an additional pamphlet to go with this puzzle on the table in the classroom.
This made life somewhat complicated if your 'hood didn't have a clock.

Having said all that - the pods were rolled out in two phases. People had cracked the portal times by brute force before the pamphlet was released in phase 2.

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Main_Avvie — Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:19 am

Author: Main_Avvie

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:19 am

vidroth wrote:

And just to make it interesting:

It's using D'ni time, not hours, and not 24 of them. That is to say, "there will be math."

the contents of that spoiler contains my case in point!!! some people (like yours truely) really really really suck at math...
... this puzzle is sort of like the rocketship puzzle from the original myst; those with a good ear are gonna blow right through it... those who don't know tonal scale for squat are gonna be beating their heads in frustration (like yours truely)...
(that's why i think the design for that puzzle had to of been Robyn's idea...)

... alot of the puzzle content released durring gametap had nothing to do with buttons, levers, or dials... in fact, often ages were entire single puzzles unto themselves (think bevin garden ages and minkata) instead of a serries of mechanical puzzles across a single age... i suppose this saved cyan some time and money as i'd imagine it takes a lot of time to rig an age with all its machines and switches and time would have seemed of the essence what with their pipeline having to churn out new content on a frequent basis... but the pod ages still seem clunky to me however much of an ingenious puzzle it seems in theory...

... in fact the only age i can think of off hand that had the tried and true machine based puzzles of the myst serries was er'canna, but that and its sister age existed for path of the shell.... it was content already establish and rdy for myst online

so when it comes to the math portion of the puzzle that's where they loose me... it is discriminatory towards the mathmatically challenged!!

Re: Pod ages & KI time

vidroth — Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:36 am

Author: vidroth

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:36 am

And just to make it interesting:

It's using D'ni time, not hours, and not 24 of them. That is to say, "there will be math."

Re: Pod ages & KI time

IanWatson — Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:51 am

Author: IanWatson

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:51 am

Main_Avvie wrote:

cool!! .... then what..?? there are three other pods...

There's also a map of pod locations in the museum.

The hatch in the bottom of each pod shows a D'ni number, which matches up with a location on the map.

The map is divided into time zones.

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Main_Avvie — Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:58 am

Author: Main_Avvie

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:58 am

Pavitra wrote:

You're on the right track with the light-marking alignment.

Try to predict when the alignment will occur.

Be in Payiferen at the time of the alignment.

cool!! .... then what..?? there are three other pods...

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Pavitra — Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:20 am

Author: Pavitra

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:20 am

You're on the right track with the light-marking alignment.

Try to predict when the alignment will occur.

Be in Payiferen at the time of the alignment.

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Main_Avvie — Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:50 pm

Author: Main_Avvie

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:50 pm

A'na wrote:

I have given up wondering what the pods puzzle was. No one I have met can tell me either. I use the calendar.

Some clues about what to do with all the sounds and buttons might be a good idea....?

something to do with how the rays of light through the window of the payiferen pod align with the markings on the floor....

.... beyond that i have no idea...

Re: Pod ages & KI time

A'na — Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:18 pm

Author: A'na

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:18 pm

I have given up wondering what the pods puzzle was. No one I have met can tell me either. I use the calendar.

Some clues about what to do with all the sounds and buttons might be a good idea....?

Re: Pod ages & KI time

vidroth — Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:30 am

Author: vidroth

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:30 am

vidkid7 wrote:

I'll stand by my statement that the puzzle that ties the pods together is one of the most clever in the game. It's unfortunate that 95% of players never really tried to solve it.

I'm afraid I went the other way on that... I thought it was silly enough that PotS was obsessed with you waiting in place for 15 minutes. It really seemed overboard to put in a puzzle that makes you wait in place for 15 hours, LOL.

Now, if they hadn't made us wait endless weeks for Payiferen, I wouldn't have been so upset. Two pods without the solving key kept everyone busy, but didn't keep everyone happy, as I recall.

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Main_Avvie — Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:18 am

Author: Main_Avvie

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:18 am

clever... obscure... time consuming... and the pods don't really offer much to look at reasonably (unless you happen to be in the right place at the right time) though if there is a way to figure out how to get certain creatures to appear when that would be an interesting endevor... for me though, the problem is copious amounts of lag in all of them but dereno for some reason... since starting a batch of new avatars i havn't even bothered to touch the pods save to add the books to my relto shelf in an effort to make my life feel complete somehow...

but... i would say it has to have one heek of an Ah HA moment if you managed to figure it out for yourself...

Re: Pod ages & KI time

vidkid7 — Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:16 am

Author: vidkid7

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:16 am

I'll stand by my statement that the puzzle that ties the pods together is one of the most clever in the game. It's unfortunate that 95% of players never really tried to solve it.

Re: Pod ages & KI time

Mac_Fife — Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:41 pm

Author: Mac_Fife

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:41 pm

Or, you could just stop worrying about it : http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=354524#354524