Entropia News: University of California Riverside and Next Island Partnership

Selecting PUBG, or Overwatch and another option, which I cannot remember all led to a screen telling me I wasn't qualified. Clicking "None of the games listed" or "Other" lead to the same screen.

MineCraft, however, gets you here (I assume other options lead to the same page):

https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n0oXi4bBXwAlmd


I'm not going to participate. 30 minutes of my time is worth far more than the 50 PED offered, and is even below the local minimum wage, but if you're strapped for PED, this might be right up your alley.

I wonder if an official would travel to Calypso, or other planets to hand over the prize they promise, or whether they insist you have to head to NI.

 

I got bored, and just for shits and giggles went and took the thingy using the MindArk mindset (I figured I'd distract myself while half-assing the entire test, and approach it with utter contempt for whoever was on the receiving end).

There's some questions on whether or not you prefer solving difficult problems, or if you lean towards easy solutions for problems. Not sure how that relates to EU in any way, shape, or form, because I have yet to encounter a single thing in EU that isn't just about repetition.

I was shown a picture, and asked to provide my thoughts on it. It stated the test would detect when I typed enough, and move on when so, or when 2 minutes past, whichever was sooner. So I typed until the test moved me to the next picture. Same thing.

I then was shown a ton of pictures from Minecraft and EU. Just Landscape after landscape. This entire thing lasted so long that I ended up just watching a podcast while letting the slideshow continue. The test then prompted me with more pictures, and asked whether or not these pictures were shown before or not. This entire part of the test easily consumed 10-15 minutes. Seeing I was distracted, I probably didn't do very well. It also seemed as if during the second part, some pictures were shown more than once, presumably to test whether or not your memory or the answers are consistent. Whoever needs to go through my answers, good fucking luck figuring that ones out.

You're then prompted about how much time you spend playing EU/MineCraft (I assume any other answer yielding a success would replace MineCraft with that game instead), and how much time you spend discussing it with friends. This bit was proibably coded by someone at MindArk, because they ask questions that expect a number back, but the textbox allows for regular characters to be entered, complains when there's plain text entered (even if you start with a number), but somehow allowed character data to go through anyway.

Now it's been a while since I made surveys and tests in college, but rule 1 is that if you only want numbers, you only allow numbers to be entered, or you can toss the test away.

It also asks if you can guess what the purpose of the test is. Seeing it's just pictures of landscapes from MineCraft and EU, it's most likely trying to prove that EU has superior graphics. Thing is that despite inferior graphics, MineCraft is actually allowing for creativity, and is a commercial success, where EU is just shit.

I finally left some feedback with my opinion about David Simmonds, and called it a day, only to then be told they have sufficient input collected.

It seems that whoever set up this partnership managed to find a partner that is as competent as MindArk at whatever this was supposed to be. Well done, chaps!