As you may have noticed, I have a tendency to add little flavorful hidden messages throughout the game for doing various obscure things. Sheldon Cooper recently picked up on this with regards to the birth date settings, so I decided to turn it into a little game. Here are the rules:
- The bot to post a screenshot of the final age-based hidden message wins 1 free star.
- The star is of course transferable, but the trophy points are not, so respond on the bot that you want to get the trophy points on.
- You must post responses to this thread.
- Every hidden message is in a green box. If it's red, it's an error and it doesn't count.
- Either a screenshot or copy/paste is fine.
- It doesn't matter how many you find, only the person to post the 9th and final hidden message wins.
Here's the current status of what's been found (5 out of 9):
- "Glorius escape from the womb, comrade!" - Set the current day as your birth date.
- "Please report to the training room for your regularly scheduled beatings, infant." - Set birth date so that your age is under 2.
- "Okay, but you're probably lying about your age." - Set birth date so that your age is under 5.
- "Okay, but you're probably lying about your age (and if you're really under the age of 10, this game probably isn't for you)." - Set birth date so that your age is under 10.
- "Cool, you have the same birthday as me (Ender)! Carry on. :)" - Set your birth date day/month to, well, mine. :)
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Keep in mind it may not be beneficial to immediately post any hidden messages you come across. Only the person to post the last one wins anything!
Good luck. :)
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Happy 100th birthday! You don't get a gift from me though, sorry. :(
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That was fast. There's number 6. 3 to go!
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Greetings Time Traveller!
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This could be a pretty short contest. That's number 7. 2 left!
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Okay, fair warning: the last one is a doozy. You're going to have to be a little, ahem, creative with this one.
(Read: you can't do it just from what the settings UI allows you to do. You'll need to make use of something like Chrome's developer tools.)
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Thats me out haha i only have a iphone! I should get a runner up prize though Ender! Maybe a temp star? ;)
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Happy 42nd birthday! You don't get a gift from me though, sorry. :(
Changes have been saved.
I thought you would put something about the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy somewhere in the game.
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Scratch that, I have never changed my birthday and just found out that is the basic message -_-
Why couldn't you have done a simple Changes have saved.? Screw this contest.
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Okay, here's a somewhat long-winded hint. It's technical, but it is not necessary to understand this to get the final message. This will make more sense when the final message is discovered by someone and then fully explained by me. Without further adieu:
Unix timestamps are integers representing the number of seconds since the start of 1970 (UTC). The game server is running on a 32-bit system, making the maximum time representable by a unix timestamp:
year 1970 + 2^31 (not 32 because it's a signed integer) seconds = sometime in year 2038
(side note that's not related to the hint: remember Y2K? now we have the year 2038 problem! ...and then Y10K...!)
Anyway, I wonder what that means about the minimum time representable by a unix timestamp on the bots4 server...
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http://i.imgur.com/aSXOQjA.png
Wow, You're old. And yeah, that's an ageist comment, but you spoofed the data to the server (fucker), so let's call it even?
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We have a winrar! You get this message if you set your birth date so that your age is over 100. Congrats Linn, enjoy your star and trophy points.
This was meant to be a relatively simple thing to do (not counting the fact that you have to spoof data to the server). It ended up being more difficult because the game server is running on a 32-bit system. You can set your birth date to any year, but the age calculation, which depends on a unix timestamp (note: this isn't necessary, it can and probably should be improved), only functions correctly for dates not preceding the minimum expressible date (which is sometime in the year 1901 I believe). Needing to set your age over 100, this means setting birth year to somewhere between 1901 and 1914 or so will trigger this message.
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Lol, I feel like I should point out that Linn = Alan. Glad it's found though, could have swore I tried something in 1914
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lol fishwick, the clan linn is in kind of points that out.
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im gonna register alans email on soooooooo many porn sites
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Greetings, time traveler.
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oh i didnt see all these replies on the homepage. sry.
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