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"Holey Transporter! (v4)" by Milton

added 21 Jun 2005 14:22
Solved17/17
Cooked0/17
Difficulty3.88
Style5.58
Rigidity5.47
Shortest Solution
NameSpeedrun
Length130 moves
ByStephan
On23 Jun 2005 22:30

Comments (turn spoilers off)
3212 Holey Transporter! (v4) Stephan (391) Thu 23 Jun 2005 22:30 SPOILER
  Added speedrun: 130 moves (old: 132).
 
3192 Holey Transporter! (v4) Max (61) Wed 22 Jun 2005 17:07  
  Much more rigid than its predecessors -- unfortunately, I wasn't able to cook this one again ;). A pretty cool, straightforward and easy puzzle.
 
3183 Holey Transporter! (v4) Milton (419) Wed 22 Jun 2005 11:25  
  I'll try alternate connect, although I think it didn't work when I tried it before. I'm behind a firewall at an office, so it may just be something particular to my situation that I've got to live with.

As far as commenting, it's possible that I was trying to use a version in mylevels to comment that I had already messed around with - turning it into what would become v4. I'll try to pay more attention to this and let you know if it's really anything. It's probably just related to the other thing - since I don't have the files in triage, I have to comment on them in mylevels or else wait for them to show up. No biggie.

Thanks for your help!
 
3182 Holey Transporter! (v4) Tom 7 (1) Wed 22 Jun 2005 10:21  
  I could see how that might happen, if you are accessing the web through a caching proxy. It might keep an old version of the file that describes the current level collection.

Using 'alternate connect' in preferences might fix it, because often the proxy is only on the web port, 80.

I don't understand the commenting problem, though. What happened when you tried to comment on the deleted v3? Is it possible that you were commenting on a level with the same name but slightly different contents? (when you comment, it uses the exact identity of the file to find which one you're talking about, not the name or anything like that).
 
3181 Holey Transporter! (v4) Milton (419) Wed 22 Jun 2005 10:00  
  FYI - right after typing that long explanation of my problem I was able to download recent levels. (~9:45am EST). I hadn't been able to download new levels all yesterday afternoon and this morning until now.
 
3179 Holey Transporter! (v4) Milton (419) Wed 22 Jun 2005 09:51  
  Doom - yeah, sadly, these guys forced me into sectioning-off the whole level with those rough patches =)
 
3178 Holey Transporter! (v4) Milton (419) Wed 22 Jun 2005 09:47  
  Tom - The only things that seem to be wrong are (1) I cannot download new levels until some amount of time after they've been uploaded. It's weird - sometimes it will be a few hours, sometimes a couple of days. I check the site for comments and I always glance at the most recent levels list to see if I should download any. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. And (2), sometimes escape acts a little weird when I delete levels . . . for example, I can upload comments for deleted "Holey Transporter (v2)" and for the as yet undownloaded v4 (using my "my levels" list), but not for the deleted v3. Weird. It's not that big of a deal because I can always get the new levels eventually and work around the comments issue, but since you asked . . . =)
 
3165 Holey Transporter! (v4) Doom (371) Tue 21 Jun 2005 17:19 SPOILER
  It seems that I found finally the correct solution :) It was a lot more unobvious in the earlier versions but the cooks had to be fixed somehow...
 
3160 Holey Transporter! (v4) Milton (419) Tue 21 Jun 2005 14:23  
  This one should fix all the cooks I've seen so far . . .
 
3159 Holey Transporter! (v4) Milton (419) Tue 21 Jun 2005 14:22  
  'Holey Transporter! (v4)' uploaded by Milton.