The Medium Maze

[Maleficent2]

Mal

 

[lab_girl]

I was in the room with Tishke, and she couldn't go anywhere with a crate on one side, teleporter door on the other and someone in a teleporter behind her making it impossible to go back as well. And no room owner to move things. I got disconnected as well, got back in, and got disconnected in the same room again! Arg! And we are all in the same boat. I hope we are able to help each other get through these mazes.

I feel her pain, I had the same troubles.
Oh, well, I did end up getting through the easy one, lol

 

[Kaironzet]

I was wondering if anyone had problems in my room. My room was a set of 3 rooms. First is a Skull Rock with 3 coffins, after that you get to a Haunted Mansion with 10 coffins, later you move to a Tent Room with chairs and finally back to the Skull Rock where you proceed to next level. Anyone in there had problems? If you do, I'll fix it now and make it easier to get through..

 

[redbaybound]

The skull rock room put me in the entrance. It didn't look like the teleporter was blocked as I was the only person in the room. Earlier I posted a rant about how to manage traffic better but If you have to manage three rooms with so many people coming through, I don't know what the answer is.

Thanks for asking though. Its nice to know at least one person involved in making this event cares.

 

[Kaironzet]

The skull rock room put me in the entrance. It didn't look like the teleporter was blocked as I was the only person in the room. Earlier I posted a rant about how to manage traffic better but If you have to manage three rooms with so many people coming through, I don't know what the answer is.

Thanks for asking though. Its nice to know at least one person involved in making this event cares.

That is a weird problem. Wonder why you got to the entrance. Actually, when I did medium maze today I had no problems and as everyone was trying to do hard maze there was no one doing medium except for me and probably other 3 people. The problem of you getting to the entrance without being blocked might be a bug. Tomorrow I'll have more time and I'll try to guess what happens there.

 

[goofy4dizney]

I did the medium maze with no problems, and thought it was quite fun -- until I got to the end room queue, of course, and it wouldn't budge!!

Great work on the room Karo and everybody else involved

 

[AZCat]

I had the same problem as redbaybound with one of your rooms CL_Kaironzet. The first time I was trying the medium maze, I selected the middle of the 3 coffin teleporters in the skull rock room and ended up at the enterance of the Haunted Mansion room. I do not think that the teleporter was blocked but I'll never know for sure. Before entering the teleporter, I waited a little bit trying to decide which of the 3 to select. I'm not sure if there is anything that you can do, but I thought I would point it out just in case.

I got back in line and successfully completed the maze. When I got to that room - I avoided the middle coffin.

 

[TLinden16]

Congrats to all of you who made it through a maze. I gave up trying.

Jellyrolls

 

[SmileGirl]

ok so here on this thread, lots of people have pics in their sig. HAVE YOU FOUND THE THREAD Post All Of Your VMK Screenies Here YET???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[Kaironzet]

I had the same problem as redbaybound with one of your rooms CL_Kaironzet. The first time I was trying the medium maze, I selected the middle of the 3 coffin teleporters in the skull rock room and ended up at the enterance of the Haunted Mansion room. I do not think that the teleporter was blocked but I'll never know for sure. Before entering the teleporter, I waited a little bit trying to decide which of the 3 to select. I'm not sure if there is anything that you can do, but I thought I would point it out just in case.

I got back in line and successfully completed the maze. When I got to that room - I avoided the middle coffin.

I will try to widen the entrance, but I mostly think it is a bug... I'll be testing that myself and see what to do...

 

[PrinceJeffrey]

I spent 4 hours at the vmk computers in Innovations at Disneyland park saturday. As a group we had trouble even getting into the rooms most would disconnect after 5 minutes of waiting. Lady Boedicea discovered if you keep the mouse moving and clicking while waiting to enter the room it kept you connected. Next we discovered the easy maze was so crowded or blocked that when you entered the tea cup you ended up in the blocked doorway of the second room. They need to put more space between the room dividers there. I was obvious everyone was stuck and could not move. We then all concentrated our efforts on the middle maze and about eight of the 14 of us managed to get into that maze and find our way thru many of the rooms. Including yours Kaironzet. Did have a little trouble in the Mansion room, center coffin area with moving. Finding just the right place to click does seem to slow up the line and cause bottlenecks. Unfortunelty nobody at disneyland vmk made it thru any of the mazes. Half failed because of disconnect and half with being sent to the blocked doorway after teleporting.

By the way all of the kids gave up on trying to get into the maze rooms. (short attention spans) Only the adults kept trying. The kids all went to play air lock, and with the mutual help were able to actually make it to the 15th level. If the VMK staff could only see how happy and excited thier faces were to win the diving suit prize! There was more than one adult who wanted the kids to play it again and win them a suit. The kids love it when mom and dad depend on them for support.

suggestions:
1.) A seperate start room for each of the three levels, put start in the name of the room and include it in the discription.
2.) put space after any teleporter that is crowded to give room for movement. You can simply open the end of the walkway so that the empty space in the room can be used to stand and ponder the users next move. This would also help in getting around slower users. A long term solution is needed, the software needs to allow people to pass thru each other.
3.) Test, test, test. give it a lot of testing before the major event. People love a surpise opening beta test. We went on space mountain several days before it officially opened, and you can bet everyone we knew wanted to know what it was like. VMK is just like disneyland. there are long lines, but I do not think disneyland waits for a ride to open before the worry about the safety issues. Every disconnect, every teleport to a blocked door, or stuck person is a injured ego. We all want to work with, and support VMK to make this the happiest place on the internet

 

[LuvN~Travel]

Too bad they can't give out fast passes like the real kingdom.
Kim

 

[disvaclub92]

My little (DD7) finally made it to the maze last night. She chose the medium maze to use. She waited patiently to go through each teleporter. She was half way through and she met another girl. The little girl said to her "I am scared". So DD7 said to me, that she was scared too. What if she does not go through the teleporter and has to start all over. I did not know what to say. Well instead of having a problem with the teleporter, she just crashed. Now I had to deal with a little girl - who waited to get in there, got half way through, and ended up crashing. I thank all of you who advised us as to what the prizes were. Her main purpose for playing this game was to get the inferno. After we found out what the prizes were, she felt better and chose not to go into the mazes instead play with her friends on VMK.

Now, I cannot help but think about that other little kids are sad because they failed to complete the maze due to problems beyond there control and do not have the knowledge of this board to help calm the child when disspointment happens.

Thanks again to those who posted their experiences and information they had on the maze event.

 

[Alyce]

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[Stevostitch]

I am very sorry you feel this way Tishke, I want to clear things up. In my comment I was not trying to insult you or point fingers, I should have not said a name, and I apologize for that greatly. I was only trying to point out that there were problems with the maze and people were getting clogged in the teleporters stopping people up. I was in the room and saw all that happened, so please dont tell me that i don't have the full story. I was the one in the room that was working to try and clear out the congested mess for everyone, and try to keep everyone calmed down and not make those nasty coments. My deepest apologies again for any misinterpretation or bad wording on my part, it was not my intention to make you feel bad!