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First of all, as I'm sure you've all noticed, the CoN home page got a bit of a tweak; you'll now notice two boxes containing New Stuff and Your Stuff. Most of this information was all available in the previous format, with the exception of the new Quizzes heading. It'll work just like the others: when there are new quizzes available for you to take, you'll get a convenient link straight to the quiz page. And it's much prettier now, isn't it?

To make the new CoNQuiz system even more accessible, updates on Facebook and Twitter will be automatically posted whenever a new set of quizzes is available, just because we care!

Finally, in spirit of making the quiz questions even more exciting, I've come up with a themed set for this month: all the quizzes are composed entirely of "Who Said It" questions. You'll be given a quote and the title of the game from which it was taken and asked to select which character from that game said it. The difficulty ranges from pretty obvious to semi-obscure, so it should be fun for all.

With that said, have at them!

It's a good time for me to say that if you don't go to the CoN homepage, and instead dive right to the forums, you do kind of miss out a bit. I know that I go to the homepage first, always, because it's a lot more convenient to get to all the new posts that way, and I'd do the same for quizzes if I could take them.

We'd like to get people more involved with the quizzes, because they don't take a ton of time and I've yet to see a single person actually take their bragging rights for doing well. Whatever happened to hubris?

Anyway, if you have any suggestions to continue to improve the quizzes, let us know, so we can work more on the things that let you interact with the site. Please.

I like the new star graphic you guys added!



(No really, that excited me, haha. Made me feel like I'd done something to earn it. Turns out, I hadn't!)

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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.

Quote (RelmArrowney @ 2nd May 2011 21:15)

(No really, that excited me, haha. Made me feel like I'd done something to earn it. Turns out, I hadn't!)

You visited the site. Sometimes, that's enough.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I like the personality tests that go along with the quizzes, even though I seem to get really sucky results.

I wanted to say I really liked the theme for this month. Granted, I did terribly on both the regional and global tests but managed to pull a 6 in the local.

I generally try and take every quiz, but sometimes I forget to visit the page, so the addition of new quizzes to the homepage is pretty rad.

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

Quote (FallingHeart @ 5th May 2011 12:16)

I wanted to say I really liked the theme for this month. Granted, I did terribly on both the regional and global tests but managed to pull a 6 in the local.

I generally try and take every quiz, but sometimes I forget to visit the page, so the addition of new quizzes to the homepage is pretty rad.

That's what we figured, I know that before I started doing the quizzes (and maybe even a little bit after I started doing the quizzes) I often forgot they were there, simply because they're kinda hidden on their own page. Glad you enjoyed them, hopefully others have as well!

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Currently Playing : Final Fantasy V
Most Recently Beat : Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Favorite Game : Final Fantasy X

The newest CoNcast is up! Have a listen!

I noticed the new change and thought it was just because, since my move into downtown Vancouver, I've be checking email on my iPod at work. But at any rate, I like it, and look forward to regular quizzes, since they're something I that are far more accessible to me. I'm not big on all the sports comps, so this will be up my alley. Good idea, Nice work!

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Games on the Go
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Baldur's Gate

Too much to play, so little time!

Greg

Quote (finalalias @ 5th May 2011 05:48)

I like the personality tests that go along with the quizzes, even though I seem to get really sucky results.

I like the tests a lot too. I was stuck on Quina since the quiz relaunched and the site tells me I'm a terrible person because of it. Recently got Bender a couple of times which the site tells me is the best one to get, so I'm improving at least.

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

Those were pretty challenging! I got a 7 on the local one, missing the FF7 quote because I only played FF7 through one time. I did terribly on the others though. The global one especially was a crapshoot.

Aww yeah, more quizzes...been doin' rather decently on 'em lately. Enjoying the quote theme, too. Thankfully I've played Lunar SSSC and Skies of Arcadia lately, so I wasn't caught off-guard, heh.

BTW, this link (http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/quiz/closedquizzes.php) is broken. You can reach it from the scoring table (http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/quiz/topscorers.php).

This post has been edited by Shotgunnova on 11th May 2011 06:06

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It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck can change

Quote (Shotgunnova @ 11th May 2011 01:05)

Aww yeah, more quizzes...been doin' rather decently on 'em lately. Enjoying the quote theme, too. Thankfully I've played Lunar SSSC and Skies of Arcadia lately, so I wasn't caught off-guard, heh.

BTW, this link (http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/quiz/closedquizzes.php) is broken. You can reach it from the scoring table (http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/quiz/topscorers.php).

Thanks for pointing that out. I really thought that link was working at some point, but it's not working on my development environment either. I've removed the link until I have time to figure out what exactly I meant that to do, again.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

So my score of 8's still holding firm at the top of the current local quiz, eh ? It's definitely my best quiz performance yet, made more striking by how sucky my regional and global performances were.

The quote theme was pretty nifty, though. Somewhat indifferent to the homepage change, but who knows, the quiz reminder might come in handy.

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Console RPG Cliches

Quote (Galsic @ 14th May 2011 23:25)

So my score of 8's still holding firm at the top of the current local quiz, eh ? It's definitely my best quiz performance yet, made more striking by how sucky my regional and global performances were.

The quote theme was pretty nifty, though. Somewhat indifferent to the homepage change, but who knows, the quiz reminder might come in handy.

I'm thinking the next set will have a theme too

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Currently Playing : Final Fantasy V
Most Recently Beat : Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Favorite Game : Final Fantasy X

The newest CoNcast is up! Have a listen!

Oops, the Facebook and Twitter posts for this didn't work right today. Sorry about that, I'll see if I can get it working for July.