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The points are accumulated week after week. Once you have 98 points? you may pass, but only if you are amongst the 3 highest scores (only 3 may pass each week).
 
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  I really like the idea of an astronomy system/test.  The scoring here seems a bit to random to me.  A bit close to galactic bingo. I wonder if there's a way more skill could be introduced into it, or at least more decision making. Introducing trading like the archeologist test has could be one idea.  Groups of people could compete together writing down their observations and comparing them. Maybe combining information about 1 object together, or fixing in accurate observations.
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  * width of observation field, wide field sees more but less detail, tight field sees less but more detail.  Maybe wide and near field telescopes could combine data to find rare star types more easily.
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  * Length of observation: in real telescopes duration of the shot is important because it means you capture more light and see dimmer objects.  There could be a tradeoff between the number of datapoints you gather each night and how accurate they are (or how dim of a star they can see).
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  * Weather considerations.  Observations are regularly ruined by clouds.  Maybe that's a thing? Weather prediction with barometer/wind gauge/ humidity.  Weather would be a complicated additional system for the game so probably not plausible right now.
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* What sort of telescopes?  Ancient observatories were naked eye observatories with large scale instruments for sighting and measuring angles.  Glass telescopes are much newer and difficult.  Are thinking refractors or reflectors?  Also, how are we recording data?  Photographic plates?  Naked eye observations? Sun tracking with a lens burning in a trail on paper?
  
 
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  The concepts here already exist, in https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Remembrance_Ceremonies & https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Test_of_the_Holy_Shrine they just have not been used since T7 due to them being broken :) '' [[User:Rhaom|Rhaom]] 08:21, 26 May 2022 (UTC) ''
 
  The concepts here already exist, in https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Remembrance_Ceremonies & https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Test_of_the_Holy_Shrine they just have not been used since T7 due to them being broken :) '' [[User:Rhaom|Rhaom]] 08:21, 26 May 2022 (UTC) ''
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  No new ideas after 20 years of them I guess... I think the difference here would be this is designed around soloable quests.  I'm imagining more varied types of daily things... like "bring a chicken to a cactus and feed it barley there."  "Find hide 5 types of gems in your neighbors house."  The sort of things wierd spirits would desire.  Although in general worship seems to be a group discipline, so maybe that doesn't fit.
  
 
==== The Test of The Prophet ====
 
==== The Test of The Prophet ====

Revision as of 16:07, 26 May 2022

Ideas for Monument Test Suggestions

Now that monuments are back we need ideas for tests!

Add your own/comment/edit here:

Architecture

Art and Music

Human Body

Test of Gluttony

Each week you can join in a contest about how many items you can intake. You must do a ritual at a common altar in order to divine the type of item you must intake. Then you must eat/drink the item, and this entitles you to get a new requirement at an altar. You can keep doing this until the end of the week, as long as you can find/make the items you are requested to eat/drink. The 3? highest scores per week pass, but you need a minimum of 7 points.

Possible items:

  • Eat a herb (from ground) (common herbs are more likely)
  • Eat a mushroom (from ground) (common are more likely)
  • Eat a meal with certain minimum/maximum stats and certain ingredients
  • Drink a mug of beer with certain characteristica.
  • Drink a glass of wine with certain characterista (flavor/tannin/alcohol/sweetness/quality/color)
  I like the name and more food related tests.  It's kind of relates to the banquet test but much less crazy.  More things that interact with wine/beer flavors seems good.  The herb/mushroom requirements might make more sense as ingredients in a meal instead of from the ground?  That lets it be more of a test of trading/accumulating instead of running around. --Amicca
 Eating herbs or mushrooms from ground could easily be omitted, wasn't my favourite to begin with -Solaris

Natural Philosophy

Test of the Steadfast Scribe

Write books on herbs, score points on a variety of factors, make Library of Alexandria books not totally boring.

  YES... make books more interesting! --Amicca

Test of Astronomy

To participate in the test, first you must build an observatory at minimum elevation 300.

Each Egypt night you can make an observation. You can only get one piece of data per night. You must set your observatory to aim at something during the day and data will become available at 6am in the morning. The possible settings are:

  • Existing star, type of data
  • New star, type of data

Possible types of data are:

  • Color(Red,Green,Yellow,Blue,Purple)
  • Size(Giant,Huge,Normal,Small,Tiny)
  • Temperature(Hot,Warm,Normal,Cool,Cold)
  • Brightness(Shiny,Bright,Normal,Weak,Pale)

For instance if you set your observatory to new star, color, you may get a new star that is green, with other data unknown.

Each (real time) week, at test passes, the scientists announce a specific star type (for instance blue, size huge, temperature normal, brightness pale) and everybody gets points for the star they have in their files that matches the given star most closely (most type of data matches). Points are given according to the following:

  • One data type match - 1 point
  • Two data types match - 5 points
  • Three data types match - 25 points
  • Four data types match - 125 points

The points are accumulated week after week. Once you have 98 points? you may pass, but only if you are amongst the 3 highest scores (only 3 may pass each week).

 I really like the idea of an astronomy system/test.  The scoring here seems a bit to random to me.  A bit close to galactic bingo. I wonder if there's a way more skill could be introduced into it, or at least more decision making. Introducing trading like the archeologist test has could be one idea.  Groups of people could compete together writing down their observations and comparing them. Maybe combining information about 1 object together, or fixing in accurate observations.
Some misc ideas: 
 * width of observation field, wide field sees more but less detail, tight field sees less but more detail.  Maybe wide and near field telescopes could combine data to find rare star types more easily.
 * Length of observation: in real telescopes duration of the shot is important because it means you capture more light and see dimmer objects.  There could be a tradeoff between the number of datapoints you gather each night and how accurate they are (or how dim of a star they can see).
 * Weather considerations.  Observations are regularly ruined by clouds.  Maybe that's a thing? Weather prediction with barometer/wind gauge/ humidity.  Weather would be a complicated additional system for the game so probably not plausible right now.
* What sort of telescopes?  Ancient observatories were naked eye observatories with large scale instruments for sighting and measuring angles.  Glass telescopes are much newer and difficult.  Are thinking refractors or reflectors?  Also, how are we recording data?  Photographic plates?  Naked eye observations? Sun tracking with a lens burning in a trail on paper?

Thought

Worship

The Test of Capricious Spirits

Each day you can meditate / perform a ritual at an altar. (Or possibly a new home altar building that you would have to make yourself. The Home Shrine or Personal Shrine)

You receive a randomized and possibly very strange quest that must be completed that day. It might be possible to influence what type of tasks you get by what ritual / sacrifice you perform each day. Coming up with good tasks might be tough on the devs, but it could potentially be a source of fun weirdness and interactions. Finish some number of tasks to pass.

Get talent points for building the personal shrine and then for completing the tasks. Maybe once at 1, 7, 49 completions. Continuing past completion could grant event type rewards.

This would function as a source of interesting daily quests. It's similar to the messenger but would be really aimed at giving solo and long term players a series of new tasks to keep people interested.

The concepts here already exist, in https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Remembrance_Ceremonies & https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Test_of_the_Holy_Shrine they just have not been used since T7 due to them being broken :)  Rhaom 08:21, 26 May 2022 (UTC) 
 No new ideas after 20 years of them I guess... I think the difference here would be this is designed around soloable quests.  I'm imagining more varied types of daily things... like "bring a chicken to a cactus and feed it barley there."  "Find hide 5 types of gems in your neighbors house."  The sort of things wierd spirits would desire.  Although in general worship seems to be a group discipline, so maybe that doesn't fit.

The Test of The Prophet

Players would perform an expensive ritual vow in order to become a prophet. The vow would include certain restrictions to abide by. This could be partially selected by the player and partially random.

Once a player has made their vow they would have to recruit others to their religion. This would involve a simple ritual. The converted disciples would have to abide by the same restrictions as the prophet, but could gain a blessing of some sort. (increased bug collection, larger fish, something along the lines of the pyramid bonuses, or something weirder)

A disciple could perform a similar ritual in order to be able to recruit their own disciples who would have to abide by the same restrictions.

Points would flow up along the religious pyramid scheme and be rewarded for time/activity of players in some way ( this would have to be carefully designed so that making throw away alts disciples wasn't particularly useful). (Disciples would need to be paid accounts? And have passed worship init? -Solaris)

The restrictions from the vow would be a key part of the test giving a religion actual practical problems. Some restrictions ideas:

  • No eating meat products
  • No carrying fish
  • No carrying anything yellow
  • No touching or refining flax
  • No doing anything within 100 coords of an animal

The devs could get creative...

At any time disciples could either quit the religion which would remove their contributed points, or create a schism which would take their followers and become a prophet. This would allow them to change the vow by substituting some restrictions for others.

As the prophet gets closer to passing the test more divine revelations could add additional restrictions which would require commitment from their followers.

I think it could be a fun social test which could promote a lot of fun arguments and roleplay. Lots of different approaches to succeeding. Charisma, Bribes, magical blessings...


There was a test in past tellings with this same name. Perhaps this one could use a different name. (see: https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale5/Test_of_the_Prophet ) -  Myn (talk) 19:08, 25 May 2022 (UTC) 

There was a test called Test of the bureaucrat (see T6) that had a pyramid scheme, so maybe skip that? Rewards for performing rituals for followers and point to the prophet for each ritual performed? One ritual allowed per week per follower, and determined by the religion set by the prophet? So first step for a prophet would be to 'design' a religion (disadvantages/rituals/rewards) -Solaris

 Those are good points.  It could definitely drop the pyramid scheme bit. although I do like the idea of being able to schism the church and have heretical teachings. Maybe the construction of a temple could be involved in some way?   Test of the Vow could be one option, or Test of the False Prophet is fun but not really thematic necessarily.  -- Amicca

Test of Khonsu's Light

Test explation from a previous tale/wiki: https://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/User:Eugenius