Topic: Yay! The ride is great! (Read 11219 times)

Purpleduck · « **on:** March 17, 2009, 03:17 PM »

Snagged myself position 9 in the purple queue, and now am proud owner of a purple "start to nowhere" all by itself

Only sad part was the new position in line again.. 180

littlebelle · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:28 PM »

I can not get on. I got Just on. But the bar is not loading. I think I will give up on littlebelle and go with a character that has nothing on it

Cawa · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:29 PM »

Congratulations PD! I got in line at 31 but could not get the room to load. That is what I get for picking blue over purple!

goldengourd · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:33 PM »

Aww, yes. My luck stricks again. I got in line right away, as fast as I got it to come up. Was 152. Now finally at 113.

PrincessWendyBird · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:44 PM »

Woot! Go duck.he!

I started us off in the blue line and we are moving very slowly! I can't wait to ride!

EDIt:Down to 61...hehe not much longer...

Pink · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:45 PM »

I've been stuck on the loading screen into the ride room for over 7 minutes now. Not sure what to do. Should I just quit and jump back into queue? Although I really hate to give up... I bet the queue going to be sooooooo long now. Stink!

Anyone else having problems with the room loading?

littlebelle · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:54 PM »

Well I finally got Littlebelle on. Took forever just to log on. But I click move to another room with one person in it. And viola belle is on. As for loading ride room have no idea.

This is for people just trying to get on VFK. I think if I just get 1 through the rooms I will be a winner

But I am not upset this was bund to happen. Just thankful we have ride peices now

Pink · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:57 PM »

Quote from: littlebelle on March 17, 2009, 03:54 PM

Well I finally got Littlebelle on. Took forever just to log on. But I click move to another room with one person in it. And viola belle is on. As for loading ride room have no idea.

This is for people just trying to get on VFK. I think if I just get 1 through the rooms I will be a winner But I am not upset this was bund to happen. Just thankful we have ride peices now

Same here, Belle. It's frustrating, but yet, I can't help but be thrilled. It's like a little piece of VMK magic tonight.... even if I do want to scream trying to get in

PrincessWendyBird · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2009, 04:00 PM »

Quote from: Pink on March 17, 2009, 03:57 PM

Quote from: littlebelle on March 17, 2009, 03:54 PM
Well I finally got Littlebelle on. Took forever just to log on. But I click move to another room with one person in it. And viola belle is on. As for loading ride room have no idea.

This is for people just trying to get on VFK. I think if I just get 1 through the rooms I will be a winner But I am not upset this was bund to happen. Just thankful we have ride peices now

Same here, Belle. It's frustrating, but yet, I can't help but be thrilled. It's like a little piece of VMK magic tonight.... even if I do want to scream trying to get in

Agreed!

I am now at 29...wonder what will happen when I finally get to the room?

Purpleduck · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2009, 04:29 PM »

Quote from: Pink on March 17, 2009, 03:45 PM

I've been stuck on the loading screen into the ride room for over 7 minutes now. Not sure what to do. Should I just quit and jump back into queue? Although I really hate to give up... I bet the queue going to be sooooooo long now. Stink!

Anyone else having problems with the room loading?

I had started a ride, got to the teleporter to send me to the next room.. got the loading screen.. and that was it. I waited 10 minutes and the second ride room still had not even attempted to load. I finally gave up and started over. (sorry I can't give you better news)

CoralHibiscus · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2009, 04:36 PM »

I've completely forgotten about the ride starting today!

I'll definitely riding later when I get the time.

wdwdreamin · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2009, 05:21 PM »

I haven't had any problems on wdwdreamin. Lines are slow but not too bad. Had DH's character in the blue line, which took forever and then seemed to get stuck at number 4. I wasn't sure what to do but decided to wait it out and am glad I did--finally got in and had no problems. My other extra character had long waits on the loading screen between 1st and 2nd rooms on green but made it through and got the prize. Got stuck again between 2nd and 3rd but it didn't matter then so I just got off!

Wish they had indicators as to how long each line is--color won't matter as much the next couple of days and I would rather just get in the shortest line. That's what I used to do on VMK!!

littlebelle · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2009, 07:49 PM »

Well I think the message got out that pink and blue were not being sold. I got Just through on Pink once and felt bad cause he is a boy. But I guess I got him a rare piece. I rode green the whole night. By the time I went a second time I found very little lag when riding on my 4 ram computer. But on my duel laptop it was brutal. I got 5 peices for me. Which was nice. But it was more exciting riding again.

Now I know why green had a line of 50 and pink had a line of 300 rofl.

PrincessWendyBird · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2009, 09:06 PM »

Overall, I'd say this first day of the ride event went pretty well.

Things were slow going at times and there was some lag - more at the start of the event than toward the end. Like you, belle, we had very little trouble riding through as it got later.
I was really expecting a lot of disconnections or server resets, but overall, no major technical problems. I do wish they had announced how long the event was going to last, maybe they will do that tomorrow.

Sorry if we missed visiting with anyone during the event. We ended up having a few things happening here and were afk a lot more than we had planned. At least we had King's message board to let everyone know we were not just being rude.

Hugs to everyone - hope everybody had lots of fun tonight!

Pink · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:10 AM »

LOL! Ok... NOW I know why I was having difficulty! I was riding 2 girls for 3-1/2 hours straight - never left the computer, but yet for all that time, I only ended up with 4 start pieces. Because..... I kept jumping into the PINK line! It figures, LOL! Grrrr.....

lab_girl · « **Reply #15 on:** March 18, 2009, 08:26 AM »

OK, so I don't play this game enough...
Where the heck are the 'host' rooms listed??

Purpleduck · « **Reply #16 on:** March 18, 2009, 09:39 AM »

Quote from: lab_girl on March 18, 2009, 08:26 AM

OK, so I don't play this game enough...
Where the heck are the 'host' rooms listed??

Hiya Real!

Bottom left of screen, is an icon of a house. Clicking it, will bring up a window with four choices.. to see your rooms list, to see your friends rooms, to see the popular rooms, and finally to see the host rooms.

Astro · « **Reply #17 on:** March 18, 2009, 10:24 AM »

Quote from: Purpleduck on March 17, 2009, 04:29 PM

Quote from: Pink on March 17, 2009, 03:45 PM
I've been stuck on the loading screen into the ride room for over 7 minutes now. Not sure what to do. Should I just quit and jump back into queue? Although I really hate to give up... I bet the queue going to be sooooooo long now. Stink!

Anyone else having problems with the room loading?

I had started a ride, got to the teleporter to send me to the next room.. got the loading screen.. and that was it. I waited 10 minutes and the second ride room still had not even attempted to load. I finally gave up and started over. (sorry I can't give you better news)

Yup, same here -- rooms were not loading. Gave up and would start all over again.

I had no idea that the event was going to end, I assumed it would be going until close. I started rather late, as it starts right at dinner time for me.

I'm hoping for better luck this weekend maybe, now that I know at least what to expect.

PrincessWendyBird · « **Reply #18 on:** March 18, 2009, 03:19 PM »

Rides are up and running again - giving out left and turn ride pieces! Oh, and did I miss this yesterday or is it new? There is music in all of the ride rooms! Woot! We rode through once and are off to small group for our All Church Journey. I got some pics of the purple ride tonight though!

Have Fun Everyone!

Astro · « **Reply #19 on:** March 18, 2009, 04:42 PM »

I'm not sure about the music, but I thought I did hear it yesterday.

What I think is new today too, is the ability to leave a queue you have joined. Nice addition! In case you got in the wrong line.

PrincessWendyBird · « **Reply #20 on:** March 19, 2009, 12:09 AM »

OK, Astro, I wondered if I had missed the music yesterday. I sometimes keep my sound down if I have multiple screens open on VFK. "Marshmallow World" on three screens at the same time does not sound pretty!

I do love the new "Exit Queue" button. Nice addition!

Flamanette · « **Reply #21 on:** March 19, 2009, 05:59 AM »

Here's a nice tip if you are running mutiple tabs to be in queue for more than one color (you may already do this, but I thought I'd share) :

Once you collect your piece, you can re-join the line right away! Then what we do is actually get off of the ride (unless of course you want to continue....), refresh that person NOTE: use the back button, NOT the refresh symobol!!

This keeps your place in the queue, and we have found that it greatly reduces the number of total "crash outs" during the four hours of waiting in line. We have three active players to collect pieces for (Hero has actually already made his first ride...go Hero

) so we are running multiple tabs on two computers.

Lest you all think that *I* am the brains of this outfit: this tip comes from the Flame man himself!! I can't take credit for, as I did not listen to him at first, and I continued to crash out last night....

TTFN

~ .it ~

Astro · « **Reply #22 on:** March 19, 2009, 09:49 AM »

Quote from: Flamanette on March 19, 2009, 05:59 AM

refresh that person NOTE: use the back button, NOT the refresh symobol!!

This keeps your place in the queue, and we have found that it greatly reduces the number of total "crash outs" during the four hours of waiting in line.

I have gotten stuck before on the host ride room not loading at all, and have used either the refresh symbol, or had completely logged in again --- I still had my same place in queue. (I really applaude

VFK for perfecting this feature of not losing your spot in line when dc'ing, crashing or completely closing the browser)

I'm just wondering then what the actual difference is between using the back button vs. the refesh symbol -- because I personally don't know??

Thanks for your help!

littlebelle · « **Reply #23 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:47 AM »

I feeel like Charlie Brown. I read what it said to go to other rooms because some were giving out random well thats the jiff I got. Would you believe I got 16 right corners. I will be building a big circle.

What are the odds if they are truely saying that the prize does change in some rooms to get all right corners. So I stayed on Fin's green ride all the time. Well the good news I can just buy the lefts

Flamanette · « **Reply #24 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:49 AM »

Quote from: AstroGigiblue on March 19, 2009, 09:49 AM

Quote from: Flamanette on March 19, 2009, 05:59 AM
refresh that person NOTE: use the back button, NOT the refresh symobol!!

This keeps your place in the queue, and we have found that it greatly reduces the number of total "crash outs" during the four hours of waiting in line.

I have gotten stuck before on the host ride room not loading at all, and have used either the refresh symbol, or had completely logged in again --- I still had my same place in queue. (I really applaude VFK for perfecting this feature of not losing your spot in line when dc'ing, crashing or completely closing the browser)

I'm just wondering then what the actual difference is between using the back button vs. the refesh symbol -- because I personally don't know??

Thanks for your help!

OK, let me try to explain the difference between using the "back" button and the "refresh" button:

I usually have four VFK windows open (four characters, as I collect the pieces for 2 active players). If I am on Flamanette's tab and hit the "Refresh" button, it logs on as the last person who I logged on as, which most likely was NOT Flamanette; so that makes the current tab for THAT person DC.

Using the "back" button when I am on Flamanette's tab takes me to the VFK log on page, and I simply log back on as her.

Did that help any? Maybe it works differently for different browsers, but I think Flame does it this way for the same reason...you don't want to log on as the last person you opened if you are running multiple VFK tabs.

~ .it ~

funfly · « **Reply #25 on:** March 19, 2009, 01:56 PM »

I've never done tabs....but I do open different windows like 3 windows for me and 2 spares. I use refresh button for each of those and it stays on that person ok. So If I put it as tabs in 1 window then I would need to use back button?

Astro · « **Reply #26 on:** March 19, 2009, 02:32 PM »

Quote from: Flamanette on March 19, 2009, 10:49 AM

Quote from: AstroGigiblue on March 19, 2009, 09:49 AM
Quote from: Flamanette on March 19, 2009, 05:59 AM
refresh that person NOTE: use the back button, NOT the refresh symobol!!

This keeps your place in the queue, and we have found that it greatly reduces the number of total "crash outs" during the four hours of waiting in line.

I have gotten stuck before on the host ride room not loading at all, and have used either the refresh symbol, or had completely logged in again --- I still had my same place in queue. (I really applaude VFK for perfecting this feature of not losing your spot in line when dc'ing, crashing or completely closing the browser)

I'm just wondering then what the actual difference is between using the back button vs. the refesh symbol -- because I personally don't know??

Thanks for your help!

OK, let me try to explain the difference between using the "back" button and the "refresh" button:

I usually have four VFK windows open (four characters, as I collect the pieces for 2 active players). If I am on Flamanette's tab and hit the "Refresh" button, it logs on as the last person who I logged on as, which most likely was NOT Flamanette; so that makes the current tab for THAT person DC.

Using the "back" button when I am on Flamanette's tab takes me to the VFK log on page, and I simply log back on as her.

Did that help any? Maybe it works differently for different browsers, but I think Flame does it this way for the same reason...you don't want to log on as the last person you opened if you are running multiple VFK tabs.

~ .it ~

Ah, okay. Got it!

Thanks for the clarification! This is a scenario basically if you're using tabs, that's why I was confused -- I wasn't using any tabs. So, if you're just talking about 1 character, it makes no difference I imagine on which way you choose to refresh that character -- because you won't end up dc'ing any others anyway.

Quote from: funfly on March 19, 2009, 01:56 PM

I've never done tabs....but I do open different windows like 3 windows for me and 2 spares. I use refresh button for each of those and it stays on that person ok. So If I put it as tabs in 1 window then I would need to use back button?

Me either Fun. I have had a few browser windows open before, but quite honestly lag is too terrible for me to put up with that headache.

When I had more than 1 browser window open, I would just use the refresh button too, and it stayed on the same character too.

I would assume you are correct, if you were to use Tabs, then use the back button (not the refresh button) is what I now understand as well from Flamanette.

PrincessWendyBird · « **Reply #27 on:** March 19, 2009, 02:34 PM »

Quote from: funfly on March 19, 2009, 01:56 PM

I've never done tabs....but I do open different windows like 3 windows for me and 2 spares. I use refresh button for each of those and it stays on that person ok. So If I put it as tabs in 1 window then I would need to use back button?

That is my understanding Fun and Astro, although I do it like you two, using multiple screens and not one screen with multiple tabs. When I have multiple screens open, I can use the refresh without problems. If I am using one browser window with multiple tabs, that is when refresh can cause the problems Flamanette described.

I also refresh each screen after I've received a prize and get back into a new queue. I am with Astro, kudos to VFK for creating a queue that keeps your place even if you crash, dc, or close a browser. With the new Exit Queue choice, it seems they have their queue system working pretty darn well!

Happy riding tonight everyone!

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