back to school hunt

Second Presentation is organizing another hunt using my “Ultimate Hunt” script and website. Hunt will start September 10 and will last until Sept. 27. People will hunt after school items like a blackboard, calculator, stack of books etc.

Update: The hunt is now finished. We had 3293 hunters looking for the hunt boxes. They have found 51163 boxes in total.

(Dieser Text ist auch in Deutsch verfügbar)

Some statistics for this hunt (Sept. 20):

Number of active avatars: 2234

Number of items found so far: 35100

It seems that there are more avatars hunting in this hunt than in the last one (was 1224 in the Zindra hunt) but people seem not to find so many items (was 73600 in the Zindra hunt). Anyway it looks like a great success so far.

Anybody who owns a shop in SL and is interested in paticipating in the hunt can send me a message. I’ll send you group invites and more information when the new script enhancements are ready (monday Sept. 6). The hunt will be easy to set up and it will have some special features like repositioning the items automatically to make it harder to find them.

Thanks to all the sponsors who have donated a total of 10,000 Linden in cash and 10,000 Linden in gift certificates for the hunt:

Yoshi Zhangsun – Mindshift

Siss Truss – Perfect Prefabs Coral

Sin Toshi – vMotional

Madddyyy Schnook – slguides

Jeaniesing Trilling – Custom Animations

Quilla Quinnell – Devil Girl Designs

Constanza Amsterdam – slapt.me

SDWears Honi – SD Wears

Liznwiz Wei – Liz’s Independent Marketplace

and a special thanks for designing the hunt objects to:
Arielyn Docherty/Mickey Heaney  – Feather my nest

There are 47 shops pre-registered for the hunt until now, I hope we will get up to 100, so please contact me in world if you are interested.

According to the back-to-school theme, I will also invite SL-schools and educational institutions into the hunt. If you run a school in SL and if you are interested in participating, please let me know.

Some shops may be on adult rated sims, so please make sure you are age verified in order to be able to enter these regions of Second Life. That’s Linden Lab’s rules, not mine.

Here are the rules for the hunt:
Hunt starts officially 9/10 at 00:01 SLT. Hunters can search for special school items in the participating shops. Shops will be listed on the hunt page at: http://www.secondpresentation.com/sl-business/ultimate-hunt2/hunter.php
Hunters will receive a special hint-giver HUD on the first shop “Second Presentation”. Hunters can wear the HUD and click “hint” to scan around 20 meters to find the nearest hunt box. Hunters can also click on “web site” to get a private login to their own hunter’s page where they can see how many items they have already found. They will also see the leader board here.Hunters will be looking for items like:

  • An Einstein Blackboard
  • Notebooks
  • Stacks of books
  • pencil-sharpeners
  • pencils
  • calculators
  • rulers

All items do have “The Ultimate Hunt” somewhere written on them, so you can’t confuse them with regular goods that are for sale in the shops. DO NOT buy them, you just touch the item and watch your chat window. The item will tell you if you receive a special gift from the shop (not all hunt boxes will giveout prizes) and you will also see how many other boxes are hidden in the same shop. If you don’t want to hunt for the other boxes right now, you will also get a TP to the next shop in line where you can find more.

Each touched hunt box will be counted towards your score. Apart from receiving special prizes from the shop owners (make sure you accept the items, it may take a minute or two until you receive them and there will be only one per avatar) all finds will be recorded and shown on the web page. The leader board on the web page will show the number ob found objects and a ranking. The ranking will be calculated as follows:

The avatar (Avatar_A) with the most finds will go to the first place.
If another avatar reach the same number of finds (AFTER Avatar_A) this avatar will go to the first place.

You can think it’s kind of the game “ludo” (“Mensch ärgere dich nicht” in German), where the player’s piece comes to the same square as an opponent’s piece. For the hunt, the player will not be sent back to square one, instead he/she will keep the current position. With this method, each hunter can change their leaderboard position by finding another box and moving up the list.

There will be a draw for special prizes:

The first avatar who found all items will receive a special linden dollar prize of 2000 Linden cash and a gift certificate of 5000 Linden from slapt.me (The winner is: Polenth Yue, he found all 650 items at 2009-09-11 01:09:58)

Every Weekend (Sunday 9/13, 9/20 and 9/27 at 23:59) there will be a special draw with these prizes:

2000 Linden cash for the Avatar on the 1st. place in the list

  • Niccoletta Chesnokov found 650 items at 2009-09-13 18:04:30
  • one shop dropped out of the hunt, so it’s only 635 items to find
  • asteria Exonar found 635 items at 2009-09-17 18:58:28
  • Suh Oh found 628 items at 2009-09-27 23:58:22

1000 Linden gift certificate from slapt.me for the Avatar on the 2nd. place in the list

  • Suh Oh found 646 items at 2009-09-13 11:10:48
  • Suh Oh found 634 items at 2009-09-20 23:46:22
  • Anastasia Zulaman found 627 items 2009-09-19 16:57:04

At the end of the hunt there will be these additional prizes:

3. Place: 1000 Linden cash (LiliHandrick Destiny found 626 items at 2009-09-23 15:35:26)
4. Place 1000 Linden cash (Techwolf Lupindo found 625 items at 2009-09-26 13:28:05)
5. Place: 1000 Linden gift certificate from slapt.me (Farine Arado found 622 items at 2009-09-18 07:30:42)
6. Place: 1000 Linden gift certificate from slapt.me (jules Macbeth found 613 items at 2009-09-26 18:58:03)
7. Place: 1000 Linden gift certificate from !ViperTech (SKYStheLIMIT Fallen found 604 items at 2009-09-22 13:03:11)
8. Place: 750 Linden gift certificate from !Viper Tech (Jasmyne Millet found 602 items at 2009-09-16 07:55:39)
9. Place: 500 Linden gift certificate from SD Wears (selamdur Ampan found 536 items at 2009-09-27 08:34:55)
10. Place: 500 Linden gift certificate from !ViperTech (Judged Jishnu found 530 items at 2009-09-11 07:53:38)
11. Place: 250 Linden gift certificate from !ViperTech (Morgan Arkright found 478 items at 2009-09-22 00:26:41)
12. Place: 100 Linden gift certificate from !Viper Tech (Juliette Landfall found 457 items at 2009-09-26 07:55:08)

All prizes have been sent to the avatars.

If a shop drops out of the hunt for any reason, their finds will also be removed from the score count of all hunters, so the number of available boxes and the high score should always match. This will be done to ensure that removing stores will not give any advantage to anybody during the hunt.

Merchants who are participating in the hunt may also hunt after the boxes. If anybody wants to be removed from the competition (i.E. if you don’t want to win one of the special prizes), you can tell me and I can filter out their avatars from the leader board.

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Comments 12

  1. Metanoia Perlman wrote:

    Hello!
    I would like to be a part of this hunt with my little shop.
    You can visit it by SLURL

    http://slurl.com/secondlife/Diamond%20Islands/183/48/1275

    Its a Skybox,House and Furniture Sale and Rental Store.

    Dear
    Metanoia

    Posted 28 Aug 2009 at 6:20 am
  2. Lizzie Gudkov wrote:

    Hi Jim,
    I am co-owner of LnL Square with London Junkers. We are a a fairly new store with quality outfits. Your hunt has been refered to us by Maleficent Benoir and we would be interested in participating. Feel free to visit our store (location in the blog)! Let us know details.
    You can contact us in-world directly if you wish.
    Lizzie Gudkov
    LnL
    ————-

    Posted 28 Aug 2009 at 6:22 am
  3. Abriel Pleides wrote:

    Hi there, I’m the owner of A.P. Inc. I’ve heard about your hunt just recently and I’d be interested in joining it if you still have space available. You can contact me in world preferably by Notecard as my IMs fill rather quickly :) . here is it the SLurl to the store: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Baraka%20Point/159/67/502

    Posted 28 Aug 2009 at 9:59 am
  4. Isabelle Jules wrote:

    +Thorn+ would also love to take part in the hunt.

    http://slurl.com/secondlife/Despair/246/181/21

    Contact Isabelle Jules or Master crescendo

    Posted 02 Sep 2009 at 9:32 am
  5. Danziel Lane wrote:

    WOW, what a great idea!

    I would like to introduce the new place of my “SchooL” in the hunt and my mate Winnie will give out a nice info or presentation board for the hunters in his shop. Let us hope for lots of participants.

    Posted 03 Sep 2009 at 8:05 am
  6. Tabatha Nostram wrote:

    Really looking forward to this one ~ all set up and ready to go =)

    Great Job on the scripting Jim =)

    Posted 08 Sep 2009 at 3:55 am
  7. Jale Erin wrote:

    i dont understand .. to many objects not able to clik why ?

    Posted 11 Sep 2009 at 12:46 am
  8. jim wrote:

    yes at Eye-Catcher there are some objects that don’t contain the hunt-script. You can just ignore them. I have already notified the shop owner.

    Posted 11 Sep 2009 at 1:24 am
  9. Neva Quartz wrote:

    Hi. I am stopped in my hunt :( … the shop is “Babele Fashion main store”, and an object (pencil-sharpeners) have not actif script for validate my hunt. this object is exactly here : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Babele%20Fashion/13/55/44. Please, help me.

    Neva Quartz.

    PS: there are a group for this hunt ?

    Posted 12 Sep 2009 at 3:54 pm
  10. jim wrote:

    Hi Neva, if the HUD does not respond to the item, it’s dead. So just ignore these items, they will not be counted in the total anyway. For a life chat, check the hunter’s page at http://www.secondpresentation.com/sl-business/ultimate-hunt2/hunter.php

    Posted 12 Sep 2009 at 9:51 pm
  11. Jennyfer Coba=sl nam wrote:

    Hi I am interested in a possible hunt tools for my sim. I have an underwater area jungle beach castle. Where can I get in touch with designer of this hud.

    SL Jennyfer Coba

    Posted 01 Jun 2010 at 12:04 pm
  12. Marian Heddesheimer wrote:

    Just contact me in world: Jim Gustafson

    Posted 01 Jun 2010 at 11:43 pm

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