Is there a chart that shows how many posts it takes to advance to the next position? If not heres a start to one. I am not in a high enough position to know all af the position post amounts but here's my guesses. If any are wrong please tell me. Its laid out like this: position-# of posts<br />

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Now downloadable at the three lists. <br />
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Testing Mansion is young Nick's first creation. To have no misunderstandings: this is not a mansion with designtests ... It is a serious mansion to test yourself!<br />
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In over 60 rooms you will find 3 different tests to check your ability to solve puzzles, avoid sprites ... And there is also a fun path back to the testing lobby.<br />
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Be aware! Like in all other mansions, you start with 6 Jacks and there are only dollars at the end of each test. So you better take care! 8-)<br />
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Enjoy! And I await a screenshot from the first player that finished this new mansion with all secrets and the $ 3.200.<br />
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Nick, congratulations! [smiley=thumbup.gif]<br />
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Testing Mansion 1.0<br />
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Designer: Nick<br />
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Size mansion: 2,3 MB<br />
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Checksum sha: a7000add68712bea5d821b1ece9e52e2aeef9342<br />
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Size zip-file: 872 KB<br />
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After unzipping you get a folder with the mansion, a sub-folder called <blockquote>Screens</blockquote> and a Read Me First text. Start with the latter to know how to do some screen-swopping in the easiest and fastest way.<br />
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The Testing Mansion has over 60 rooms and contains 3 skill-tests and a fun-path. Be aware! There are only dollars at the end of each test!

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...others don't.<br />
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<em>Not that it's really important....</em>  but sometimes there seems to be a rather random logic at work as to when mansions get their own forum.<br />
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While in some cases the amount of traffic is clearly so huge (e.g. <em>MM &amp; M</em>), as to warrant a forum of its own, in other cases I'm not so sure......<br />
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For example <blockquote>The Adventures of Ted</blockquote> mansion doesn't even exist at this point of time and if you take a closer look at the single, rather long thread for Ted you quickly realise that half of the posts aren't about Ted at all, but completely different things.<br />
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On the other hand there are at least 5 or 6 different threads for DoD, some of them several pages long, but apparently it doesn't <blockquote>qualify</blockquote>.....<br />
Another example is Helter Skullter, which had quite an amount of posts, if I remember correctly.<br />
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<strong>NOTE:</strong> I am definitely NOT saying that Wingy doeesn't deserve his own topic, especially as I know he'll be proud of it  (BTW: Congratulations on winning the contest); it was just an <em>example</em>.<br />
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However, I'm generally not so sure if it's such a good idea to have too many individual forums/topics (outside of TALK), as it makes browsing new entrants definitely harder (more work) as you have to open more folders (categories).<br />

Nick12,<br />
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I'm sorry to report I found quite a few issues in your Testing Mansion.<br />
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The most important one (that I remember) is a vicious <em>Jack-stuck</em> in room 402. There I got stuck in the middle of the room between 2 grey doors (and no lever to open them) !!

<span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: 118px;">Testing Mansion 1.0 is released!!</span></span><img src="http://actionsoft.com/forums/Templates/Forum/default/shocked.gif" alt="" /><br />
The Testing Mansion it is finally here. A mansion designed to test one's ability to avoid sprites, solve puzzles, and test basic skills.  See what level you can get to.  Can you get through them all?.<img src="http://actionsoft.com/forums/Templates/Forum/default/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="http://actionsoft.com/forums/Templates/Forum/default/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="http://actionsoft.com/forums/Templates/Forum/default/cheesy.gif" alt="" /><br />
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Here's an oddball for you. Set the screen resolution to 640x480 and hold down option when the game starts up to start in windowed mode. The game should position the game window off the top of the screen to avoid clipping on the bottom. Start a game, and start running around. What do you see?<br />
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The effect is quite weird. It's like the game draws the room in the proper place, but Jack exists in a separate plane that is offset by about the amount the window is positioned off the top of the screen. When he runs around, he leaves a trail of offset graphics in his wake.<br />
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I discovered this because, for the first time ever, I tried playing Midnight Mansion on a widescreen monitor and found the stretching at 640x480 quite unacceptable. I set the lowest 16:10 resolution I could see (800x500), then started the game up in windowed mode.<br />
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Obviously, this is not a very common bug, so you may or may not want to fix it before the expansion pack ships. <br />
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(It happened in MM 1.0.8, not an XP beta, but I figured it was probably present there too.)

The birdcage 1.1<br />
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Designer: aquaMat<br />
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Size mansion: 1,3 MB<br />
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Size zip-file: 340 KB<br />
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Checksum sha zipfile: 0743d54d7980c03bc3d0b62bd5d35c4107ade596<br />
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<span style="color: #ff0000;">Info by aquaMat:</span><br />
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Story:<br />
Has Jack become a prisoner? If so, why? And by whom?<br />
Can he escape his prison and find out the secrets behind The Birdcage ??<br />
And if he is number nine, who is number one ?<br />
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Size: over 50 rooms.<br />
Difficultydegree: normal.<br />

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Finally!  I'm very sorry about this long delay but there was nothing I could do about it.<br />
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Enjoy!

The Pirate Invasion 2.1<br />
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Designer: brell<br />
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Size mansion: 4,3 Mb<br />
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Size zip-file: 108 Kb<br />
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Checksum sha zipfile: 14e6c89a2891e3e478218a7443e1076e9dc9c042<br />
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<span style="color: #ff0000;">Info by brell:</span><br />
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Description: See readme file<br />
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Difficulty: Mainly easy to normal with a few harder twists.<br />
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HD version:<br />
Checksum sha: f2ab481a9706ec245a744f4301e8610720ba4d26

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