I'm working on gathering up everything we've said so far and doing this list with . :) I'll answer more things as I can

Added your question and answered it in the post as well (because left to do dinner so i’m editing the post as I go) Refer to the “I missed an obstacle” question! :) If you miss some, it’ll be fine. You’ll have a chance to make up for it

They are actually bars, the food/energy. So they’ll decrease if people aren’t grabbing food etc. Just like the snowman competition, users have gone ahead and made forums for their teams! I’ve seen a Team Gold one pop up and I know both of the threads made by the actual leaders of both teams have been active as well

I think this way might be better because everyone pretty much sticks to their team thread instead of having 100x threads about the same thing. Event forums are great for something like Survival when you need kisses etc. You should get an alert when you run out of shots that says something like "You've gathered food for your team! Head back to the trail or play again!"

I said the food only counts once towards your personal activity. It counts to your team however many times you do it.

Obstacles happen during certain points along the trail. There isn't necessarily a time for them since we have obstacles like weather slowing you down

If you look at the map, we have a long way up the mountain. I don’t want to spoil exactly what happens, so you’ll have to wait to see. But in vague terms: we want everyone to have a chance to help out their team, so if they aren’t to help with obstacles they’ll be able to help at camp. :)

Okay so, both teams are trying to get up the mountain (if you look at the map we want to get to the X). No trail is without dangers, which is where the obstacles come in. Some of them you can help out with, like giving fruit to bats, which will count towards your 5 activities. Some obstacles are just mean and slow you down, like wind. You want to help out with obstacles as much as you can, but if you can't be online, it's okay! Once we get to base camp, you'll have a chance to get those activities done to count for the plot step. We're not trying to penalize anyone for not being able to be on exactly the second obstacles go out!

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And this is just the trail portion! If you look at the question "Does the day end at midnight or what? How much is a plot day?" we sort of dissect that :)

Yeah, no problem. As long as they do the thing (being vague so not to ruin) at the base camp, then they'll get their plot points. If they completely miss the trail/base camp portion and come back like midway the plot, they'll obviously miss out on those points. :)

Yes! You should get a box that pops up above the progress bar that will be like OBSTACLE. I don't remember the wording completely, but I've had it pop up on me twice for my team as I've been browsing the site answering questions. :)

Quoting a previous post of mine:

We've patched up the bug that was stopping the teams from progressing! So you should start to see a change again :)

Fourth page was blank because cache took a bit to catch up, sorry!

And the vines didn't work properly. I've alerted a programmer though :)

Yeah, you're supposed to turn in the berries/meds so you have to be quick!

Refresh, it should count now. :) It was just an error on our part, we added a few new obstacles (like the vines) and they weren't counting like the old ones. Just know that some obstacles take a bit longer to do which is why working with as a team to get it done is important!

Yeah, I think there's something wrong with the cron and the downtime we had last night. Unfortunately, I can't do anything about that but I have alerted Grace about it so when she gets on she'll fix it. I'm pretty sure this is why there haven't been any obstacles as well. We'll do what we can to get the caverns where they should be at that point :)

answering some questions, sorry if they've been answered already!

our games aren't flash and they work on phones :)

they will still count toward your team's progress!

please let us know what fruits didn't show up to give them! some of them missed being tagged.

it won't be, i promise! this was a problem specific to last night, from when i was disabling the live events on it when that server crashed. even if the live events server crashes again, the cron file won't be affected by it again!

yes, only different activities count toward your personal progress!

tap on the controls button on the home page and it'll show you the areas of the screen you use to move and shoot (and let you switch them)

for pacman (which is missing from the instructions), swipe up/left/right/down to move :)

i fixed the problem from last night but also didn't want this to take like 10 hours longer than it's supposed to :P

points matter!

yup! the trail is designed to take approximately 24 hours, so that leaves about 24 hours at camp in between each portion. they'll all start at 6pm.