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"Eric Rowley" <poiuy@bredband.net> wrote in message
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> From: "Drew" <drew@.nospam.drewclayton.com>:
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>> "Nick" <no_bother@all> wrote in message
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>> > "Eric Rowley" <poiuy@bredband.net> wrote in message
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>> From: "Nick" <no_bother@all>: >> > "Eric Rowley"
>> <poiuy@bredband.net> wrote in message >> >
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>> >> > From: "Nick" <no_bother@all>: > >> > > > "Drew"
>> <drew@.nospam.drewclayton.com> wrote in message >> > > >
>> news:dhc7sp$ejkl$1@news3.infoave.net... > > <snip> >>
>> >> > > > > Ok, I found the symbol, drew it on the tablet. Then
>> used >> > > > > the lever in the elevator room over and over and
>> got the >> > > > > tram to come all the way over. Found another
>> set of >> > > > > symbolsfor the red room and put those in. Now I
>> cant get > >> > > > the tram to move anywhere. Climbed the
>> ladders on both >> > > > > sides didnt see nothing. Even tried
>> making it go back one >> > > > > notch and trying to beat the
>> doors from closing =) >>
>> >> > > > You should now be able to get to all the places without
>> the >> > > > tram >>
>> >> > > I don't think that's quite true.
>> >>
>> >> > > > so forget it.
>> >>
>> >> > > for now.
>> >>
>> >> > That's interesting. Maybe I missed something. I finished the
>> age >> > but only took the tram journey once. >>
>> >> What I think you missed (unless I missed something) was that
>> he >> hasn't actually taken the tram journey, he, I believe, like
>> me, >> wasted his time winching the tram over to the side you
>> start >> the age on. >>
>> >> Eric
>> >>
>> > That makes sense. I thought he'd taken the 'powered' journey
>> once and was > winching the tram back. > I started to do that but
>> realised it was pointless. > Nick.
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>> One last question. I found the sybmol through zooming in with
>> the telescope.. but when I try to draw it nothing happens. The
>> creature comes up to it but doesn't link to it. I tried drawing
>> it over and over thinking maybe I didnt get it accurate.. but
>> nothing...Isn't he supposed to link to it?
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> Yes, this is the one that looks like a birds foot isn't it?
> I didn't have any trouble with that one, some of the others
> I had to redraw several times and when I used some symbols
> in the wrong age they got misinterpreted as something else.
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> When I drew this symbol I drew four small circles first and
> then conected them making sure I curved the outer lines
> but on further testing that dosn't seem to matter nor does
> it seem to matter if the circles are filled or not or if the
> bottom ones are in line or with the middle one lower.
> The only way I have been able to fail is by leaving them off
> altogether (just drawing the lines) I even tried drawing blobs with
> horizontal movements like one would use filling them in
> with a crayon and it was still accepted.
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> Try drawing it differently, when the symbol I drew at the end
> of Tahgira (the Ice Age) was finally accepted it looked, to me,
> a lot less like the original than the ones that weren't accepted.
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> Good luck.
> Eric
Ok, I got it to down.. turns out the view through the telescope was a little
rotated.. so, in fact the outer circle was supposed to be a little to the
right.. not centered... if anyone else has that same problem.
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