By some freak chance of luck, and after much confusion, I ended up in Harmony's racing game. Let me tell you that the confusion continued! First, people immediately commented they were shocked to be in the game. They suggested to Harmony that some kind of message be sent out about the queue line. Most of us didn't know we were in the queue until VFK broadcasted the message.
Then in the room, Harmony asked us to get in a single line by the fireplace. That was the first chore! Because of the rope dividers she had up, everyone had a difficult time with the simple task of walking over to the area. She finally had to remove dividers.
Next, the lag started to affect several of us in full force. People kept commenting "Please don't let me dc!" Harmony tried to get the first set of 3 players to the starting line and she found she was frozen herself and she had to leave the game!! Fortunately, she was still able to talk and told us to wait. After several long minutes, she returned. We tried again to get the first 3 in the starting position. However, one of the players she named was stuck by the fireplace! He could not move at all which was really strange since he was moving not one minute earlier. He kept telling her what was going on and she finally said she had to go get some kind of book (I'm assuming she or another VFK techie had to research the problem). After another long delay, they were able to rescue the player and the race finally started. BTW, after this long wait, somebody suggested that VFK just give all of us purple pumpkins!
At this point, I was having such bad lag that I considered just leaving, but then I saw others commenting they were experiencing the same. I had such bad lag that I didn't even see the first race, but the young man who couldn't move until VFK rescued him found he won the race. One of the other racers commented that she thought she had won, but she was so fed up that she didn't argue.
Harmony then called up the next group and I was surprised when she called out my title. I was still experiencing intermittent periods of lag, but I was able to try to get in line. That took a few minutes for all of us because we were not able to navigate well by the start. Harmony finally told us it didn't matter if we faced forward or sideways as long as we were by our starting pumpkin. She told us "Go!" So, I did expecting lag to take over my character at any moment. Much to my surprise, I was able to "race" to one end of the room and back without any lag. I did notice the other two players didn't move at all. I didn't know if they were hit by the lag or what. All I know is that the lag hit me when I finished and when it cleared, Harmony said I won. She then said I was given the prize in my inventory and for all of us to quickly exit, "Off you go!" I felt guilty as I left but what could I say except thank you
Hopefully, VFK discovered the problems plaguing this game and will take steps to fix. For their credit, I am glad to hear Minty tried to entertain people in the queues while they worked out the technical issues!
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