Pixie_Dust said:
1) I think this thread should be moved to the Trades and Wishes sub-forum, because you are talking about either trading it or fulfilling a wish.
Actually, I'm asking for opinions and suggestions about possible ways to pick someone to trade with and how to be fair about doing that.
Someone has suggested a quest which is a great idea but I don't want to open the search to everyone in VMK and I don't want to limit the quest to allow only people on my friends list.
I still would like to hear some other ideas to help me choose the lucky person!
Pixie_Dust said:
2) I think you should trade it, but if you are going to do the hat thing, please put my name in
My thought so far is to put names in a hat and give the first person whose name I pull out a chance to trade with me or perhaps be gifted the pin. The terms would depend on the circumstances. For example, I'm not going to clean out a kid's inventory. There are at least five people I would love to gift this pin to but I'm too wishy washy to choose a "favorite". I do realize this is a valuable item but honestly, I got it for free while doing something purely for fun. Of course, I will gladly include your name if I do the hat thing!
Pixie_Dust said:
3) Was wondering, did you win that quest on the first go-round, or did you "mule" it first to get faster? I wondered because I tried one of those quests and finished like 367th.
A little of both. I started the quest with the character I happened to be using when the quest opened but got dc'd twice plus VMK shut down part way, maybe about half way, through my attempt at the quest so I gave up. When VMK came back, I logged in as qruthie, my main character, and started the quest over again. I honestly believed I didn't have a chance of winning ANY of the prizes. My time wasn't that great (or so I thought) and I wasn't trying to win a specific prize. I just enjoy doing the quests! I would do the quests even if no prizes were given out.
I'm getting very different placements on the various quests. I seem to win a small prize about half the times I play (50 credits, a coffin seat) or I come in something like 200th place, not even close to winning a prize. I can't imagine ever getting in the top five on any quest. I'm just not that fast!
Some things that may be increasing my chances of better times: I'm usually good at lateral thinking types of puzzles; my memory is pretty much photographic; I do a lot of clue type puzzles like crosswords and logic problems; I have studied symbolic logic and I have a degree in computer science. I think that qualifies me as a puzzle solving geek!
I forgot to say that I'm good at the fireworks, jungle cruise and haunted mansion games. I'm pretty good at faking my way through the pirates game.
qruthie (the 'q' is silent)
Im happy a DIS person won, I've seen how hard it is to get that cursed pin 
