ok, i think that you need to make the number of eggs posted reflect a ratio of online users to eggs... say like if there are 800 users online then post one every minute, and if there 8 users, then post one every 100 minutes... got it? that would make it a lot more even, as of now people who stay up until 4-5am are getting all the eggs because they are the only one online

3/25/2002 5:31:42 PM

well today is the last day of it.

I wonder if they will extend the deadline?

3/25/2002 5:35:20 PM

i don't know how the generation of eggs works, but 30thAnnZ got like 4 within 15 minutes even when there was 250 users online... that's not what i call random

[Edited on March 25, 2002 at 5:37 PM. Reason : .]

3/25/2002 5:36:33 PM

A person gets an egg if they are the first one to refresh after the last egg was given out.

3/25/2002 5:39:05 PM

well than why did crazyJ say hammering won't help, by your description it sounds like people should just sit there pressing F5

3/25/2002 5:59:10 PM

i seriously doubt it works the way he said

3/25/2002 6:21:11 PM

Quote :

"A person gets an egg if they are the first one to refresh after the last egg was given out."

You are wrong.

3/25/2002 8:00:42 PM

Egg FOUND by TallyHo. 3/25/2002 8:10:13 PM
Egg displayed for TallyHo. New egg created. 3/25/2002 8:10:09 PM
Egg FOUND by TallyHo. 3/25/2002 8:10:08 PM
Egg displayed for TallyHo. New egg created. 3/25/2002 8:10:04 PM


This is happening a lot.
Maybe not one right after another, but I saw several people get 3 and 4 eggs all in the same timespan that goes across from the beginning to end of the eggtracker thing.

[Edited on March 25, 2002 at 8:13 PM. Reason : bold]

3/25/2002 8:12:37 PM

that is why I posted this thread

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=41230

3/25/2002 8:22:35 PM

I knew i saw a thread about that somewhere, but I wasn't about to go searching through the other 100 posts about eggs to find it. so i put it in the feedback forum thread

3/25/2002 8:24:49 PM

here might have been a little bit of non randomness earlier in the day because of multiple threads firing out of order and accessing the same resources. now i've just locked the resources so that only one thread can access them at a time. everything should be 100%random from now on. in normal code i would probably attempt to make it thread safe for concurrent threads, but this is some bullshit that i threw together for a two day egg hunt! it isn't perfect.

3/25/2002 9:10:42 PM

i know i know. i wouldn't expect anyone to spend a significant amount of time on it. it seems that no matter how much of a waste of time it is to look for eggs, i am constantly amused. and it sure beats the hell out of doing work

thanks for one more fun thing to do mr. morgan!

3/25/2002 9:24:04 PM

I think it is funny how people are ready to throw down over the egg hunt

3/25/2002 10:13:16 PM

you could like cut it back on

3/25/2002 11:23:19 PM

Is this egg thing going to end in a tie?

3/25/2002 11:27:19 PM

i gotta say this thing was pretty cool---gotta hand it to jake cuz the only way i could do a egg hunt on my website was to put a link to my aim and tell people to tell me their address and how many eggs they wanted then go to food lion and get them some eggs

3/25/2002 11:32:25 PM

aaahhhh... it's over... and now everyone's asleep

3/26/2002 7:46:28 AM