Daze wrote:
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I'm surprised nobody else has suggested the idea (unless I missed it), but it seems that it's just as likely that the moving the sand does absolutely nothing in relationship to uncovering the Repository. I have the suspicion that if nobody did anything it would still be uncovered to the current extent.
Theories along this line, just don't make sense to me. I would have presumed it worked on a "hit" basis. That is why someone that has taken 1 pile sees the same as someone that has taken 50.
Overall, the group effort is uncovering the repository but individual "hits" are counted towards a personal total.
Similar to beating a boss in the Battledome during a war. All individual hits add to your score, with the group effort going towards defeating the opponent.
The point of these clues is to solve the puzzle. It isn't going to be solved by sitting on our hands and saying: "I'll just wait a couple of days and let TNT do it for me".
I really don't think one has anything to do with the other.
I never made, nor implied, the suggestion to wait. All I said was that chances are gathering the sand had no real relationship to uncovering the Repository.
That doesn't mean collecting the sand doesn't have some meaning besides a delay tactic. It can easily ALSO function as a scoring system. Just as stronger people defeated stronger pirates or underwater folk in the last Event, and therefore got more points, perhaps, at least in part, how much sand you /move/ is one factor that affects the score you get in the end.
All I was dealing with as far as my hypothesis was concerned was the apparent causal relationship between the sand gathered and how uncovered the Repository was (feh... typed Suppository there AGAIN
). The general concensus, based on what people were posting, seemed to be that we were all "actively" uncovering it; I posited the hypothesis that there was no necessary relationship between the two. Neither is more likely than the other.
But, basically, my hypothesis is not mutually exclusive with the concept of scoring by how many handsful of sand one's pet carries.
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