NZFF Easter Egg Hunt

[ardypilot]

With Easter just around the corner on the 23rd of this month, I thought it would be neat to have a virtual Easter egg hunt in flight simulator, both FS9 and X compatible of course

Creator2003 created the 3D egg, sent it over to me, and then last night I hid 11 of them around the country using EZ-Scenery and saved it to file here.

The idea is for each member who wishes to play to download and install the hidden eggs scenery, then fly around for the duration of the month trying to find the location of each one. Each time you find one of the big stripy purple eggs, take a screenshot or record the co-ordinates at the top of the screen (shift+z) and write down the locations in a list numbered 1. to 11. then email them to me at andrew@nzff.org, subject 'Easter Egg Hunt'.

If all 11 locations you identify are correct, you will receive a $10 discount voucher from Geographix.co.nz (aka Red Baron Entertainment) off their NZ 20m mesh and topographic scenery (for Microsoft FS2004 and/or FSX) as a reward!

To make things easier, I have divided the country up into eleven sectors, and placed each egg at a well known location in each zone, finding them shouldn’t be too hard if you know your local geography, but it make require a bit of time:

Have fun!

[ZK-MAT]

Nice work Trolly!

Can we have an idea what the egg looks like and size, so we know what to look for? Secondly, does every correct entry get a prize, or will there be one prize drawn from the correct entries?

Cheers

Matt

[oniellnz]

First...
Very cool Trolly and Creator2003.

Second...
Found one already - They are big and colourfull, you can't miss them.

Now all we have to watch out for is the mutant bunnies to go with the eggs!

Oniell

[ardypilot]

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Can we have an idea what the egg looks like and size, so we know what to look for?[/quote]

As Oniell said, they are not hard to miss!

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Secondly, does every correct entry get a prize, or will there be one prize drawn from the correct entries?[/quote]
Yep, very correct entry gets the prize. A bit of a promotion for RBE that NZFF members can benefit from.

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[ZK-MAT]

COOL!!

Thanks Trolly

[Kelburn]

is it $10 off for the topo and 20m mesh combination or can you have, say, $10 off just the topo package?

[Christian]

QUOTE (Kelburn @ Mar 14 2008, 07:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

is it $10 off for the topo and 20m mesh combination or can you have, say, $10 off just the topo package?

Hi Kelburn

Geographx only sell the combo. Hope that answers your question

Christian

[JamesDelphi]

Hello Trolly,

while I have used flight simulator type software over the years, as well as car racing simulations on computers I am a bit unfamilier how these things are done on the new versions of MS Flight Sim 2002 and 2004 since I only recently got them. I believe that I have installed the Easter eggs etc into my scenery but is there anyway that I can check to see if it really is installed? Sorry for the hassle.

I flew around the top of the country in Flight Sim 2004 and saw nothing out of the ordinary, not an Easter Egg to be seen.

By the way I think that this is a great idea. Lots of fun etc.

[creator2003]

Well yes and no ,first you would of added the easter folder to you addon scenery library folder ,so now there will be a folder called easter or something in the addon scenery folder next to others you have added ie...
scenery
texture
easter
wellington
Auckland
heathrow
bla bla
so inside each of these folders above apart from the scenery/texture folders will be 2 folders [scenery/texture] ie.. Easter/[scenery/texture] ..or Wellington/[scenery/texture ] "are you with me ?"

anyway to make it simple now ,all you have to do is dump the Easter folder into addon scenery library folder ,then start the sim ,go to settings /scenery library/and activate/add the easter folder to the list of activated scenery"done"
restart the sim again ,and go looking for your EGGs
as far as i know they are about 50m tall and stick out like a simmer at a airport
hope this makes sense
mike ..

[JamesDelphi]

Thanks for the help Mike.

I have done as you suggested but alas I still cannot find any Easter Eggs.
I guess that I will just have to keep trying.

At least I now know that it is all installed correctly.

[Alex]

Just checking; the Easter Egg scenery has number 1 priority in your scenery list? I've found similar things in the past can be a bit finicky when it comes to working on my rig.

Alex

[ardypilot]

For those finding it a little tricky, here is a hint:


Try looking on top of mountains and along the coastline...

[Chairman]

Thanks for doing this Trolly, this is all kinds of fun ! Just wish I'd gotten off my butt and started a couple of weeks earlier, I think I'm going to run out of March before I run out of eggs

I'm doing it 1:1 time in a C172 with MyFSGoogleEarth tracking me across the sat map so it's a good geography lesson too. I'm also using real weather, but with the cloud we've had the last couple of days ... well, I'm glad the sector 11 egg was where it was

Cheers
Gary

[ardypilot]

I better add that this competition closes next Monday on the 31st, so make sure you send your entries in by then!

For those of you who looked at this and thought it was too hard, it's honestly not, the eggs are placed at quite obvious locations and shouldn't take very long to find

[deeknow]

I jumped in a RNZAF Strikemaster, took off from Hamilton airport (not sure what it was
doing parked there, but hey ) and thought... I wonder where the Waikato one is, headed
to where I thought you might dump one and after awhile spotted a giant cardiac-inducing
chocolate monster on the horizon.

This really is fun, nice idea.

Be neat to have some smaller-scale hunts too, littler objects hidden up in valleys in areas
like Otago, the West coast, or round the Corromandel or something?

[Chairman]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Mar 26 2008, 09:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

For those of you who looked at this and thought it was too hard, it's honestly not, the eggs are placed at quite obvious locations and shouldn't take very long to find

Except number 5 ... It's the smallest sector, but it seems to be composed entirely of mountains on the coast, luckily I stumbled across it while I was still on my way to start searching.

Unfortunately I thought it was the region 6 result (the boundaries were a bit vague) so spent the next few hours grid searching south of it instead of north. You get that on the big jobs.

Still, got the lot

Cheers
Gary

[ardypilot]

This competition will close at the end of April, so those of you who havn't finished yet still have another compleate month to find the eggs!

Feel free to post hints to one another, but no actual locations!

[Chairman]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Mar 31 2008, 06:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This competition will close at the end of April, so those of you who havn't finished yet still have another compleate month to find the eggs!

Feel free to post hints to one another, but no actual locations!

I'd better password my pbase gallery of all the screen captures

Gary