(Q - ??: Michel, I had a small question regarding the verification of the solutions in fact. I wanted to know if a person, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or whatever, in the
month or the month of March, anyone sends you the correct solution. Does the game stop or does the game continue until he gets the bird?)
MB: Then the system will warn. Because even if someone sends the good solution, it requires some verification, starting with knowing if it's a good solution that is supported or if it's a good solution off the cuff. I will still need, if the right solution is addressed to me, to validate a certain number of things. So, at the very moment when the right solution, when I have identified it, and since I look at them in a fairly continuous manner, it will not take much time. At this time, the system crashes with an announcement message. The system is blocked in order to avoid new submissions that would be post-discovery, which would not be normal. So the system freezes, warns that there is a check in progress and either it is an announcement “OK the owl has been found”, or it is “okay false alarm” and we start the thing again.
(Q - ??: No, but my question was, so the system is blocked, but we other owls, can we still continue searching while this person goes dig or not?)
MB: Ah well, you can keep looking, but let's say that in my mind, I know that there are fierce opponents of the system. For me, intelligence for each player is to say: well, I found a solution, I submit it. If it's good, it's good. That means that at that point, I no longer risk being short-circuited and as for saying that in the same period of time, because I won't take long, eh, or even to surrender on site and doing what is necessary to ensure that the countermark is unearthed. If I have the right solution, it will go very quickly. And it is quite unlikely that in this very short period of time, there would suddenly be someone who would dig in the right place, who would have the right solution, who would not have announced it on the system, who would have done that in his corner, et cetera. I am very doubtful about this, given the way in which I see ideas evolving, which is still happening a lot in a collective way at the moment. So, an isolated person who would do that in his corner... Ugh. And as for the frenzied refractors that I was able to identify, they have their ideas, we will say, there you go, I won't say more, but...
(Q - ??: Okay, so that means that somewhere, we are a little obligated to send you the solution then?)
MB: Look, honestly, I think it's a precautionary measure, nothing more. For someone who actually found something, it's a precautionary measure. But I see that currently, it is rather used, and that is not a bad thing, it is rather used to prospect in a way, to eliminate things. I have some players who write to me: “Well, I know it's not good, but I need to get it out of my head”. Okay, well, after all, why not, it’s still easier and cheaper than going out to dig. So, well, OK, this principle, I admit it, but it is just as valid for someone who has made good progress, who probably has the right solution or who thinks they know, I find that it is a a measure of caution which is entirely welcome. Normally, it should be used by everyone, not excessively, but, when it is necessary, well yes, what do we do, that way we have peace of mind and I act very, very quickly behind it. So here is. It’s still a precaution.
(Q - ??: Well, I would like to send you my solution, but I don't have a visa card because I'm in Luxembourg and as I don't use a Visa card so… I I ordered one anyway so I'm waiting and when I get it, well I'll send it to you and then we'll see if it's good or not. That's it, because in the meantime, I'm already there. went digging, sometimes I don't say eh..., I've already been like that, not abusively, but then it's a bit annoying sometimes to move around, say hey, I just spent 200 bucks to go -back, it's not good, so I might even prefer... come on 10 euros 9.50, be sure if it's not that, it's not that if it's that, well so much the better .)
MB: That said, I do not encourage consumption, which means that we must not abuse the system. There’s no point in…
(Q - ??: No, no, I'm not abusing the system, because since the time I was dug, I came back. Well, after that, I have my own idea for the cache, but I'm not really sure, but I'm working on that. In fact, it's a little bit the measurement that's blocking me. It's 2 meters or 2.50 meters because you're talking about it. centimeter, so that's a bit where I'm stuck. Well, otherwise if I want to say the cache, well, I have a somewhat precise idea of ??the cache, but I couldn't. tell you at what meter I took it. But I could tell you, well, I found it below. Yeah, here's an example, now there, but I still prefer to have the right solution? to go there and have it validated.)
(Q- Droopy: So, since we are on the subject, Michel, I had a question, could I be deemed a winner, from the moment I put my solutions in the computer system without digging, but I have everything, am I a winner or do I have to dig up the owl)
MB: That is to say: If you are, if you are in your corner, you have found it, but you don't say anything to anyone and you don't submit your solution, is that it?
MB: Then the system will warn. Because even if someone sends the good solution, it requires some verification, starting with knowing if it's a good solution that is supported or if it's a good solution off the cuff. I will still need, if the right solution is addressed to me, to validate a certain number of things. So, at the very moment when the right solution, when I have identified it, and since I look at them in a fairly continuous manner, it will not take much time. At this time, the system crashes with an announcement message. The system is blocked in order to avoid new submissions that would be post-discovery, which would not be normal. So the system freezes, warns that there is a check in progress and either it is an announcement “OK the owl has been found”, or it is “okay false alarm” and we start the thing again.
(Q - ??: No, but my question was, so the system is blocked, but we other owls, can we still continue searching while this person goes dig or not?)
MB: Ah well, you can keep looking, but let's say that in my mind, I know that there are fierce opponents of the system. For me, intelligence for each player is to say: well, I found a solution, I submit it. If it's good, it's good. That means that at that point, I no longer risk being short-circuited and as for saying that in the same period of time, because I won't take long, eh, or even to surrender on site and doing what is necessary to ensure that the countermark is unearthed. If I have the right solution, it will go very quickly. And it is quite unlikely that in this very short period of time, there would suddenly be someone who would dig in the right place, who would have the right solution, who would not have announced it on the system, who would have done that in his corner, et cetera. I am very doubtful about this, given the way in which I see ideas evolving, which is still happening a lot in a collective way at the moment. So, an isolated person who would do that in his corner... Ugh. And as for the frenzied refractors that I was able to identify, they have their ideas, we will say, there you go, I won't say more, but...
(Q - ??: Okay, so that means that somewhere, we are a little obligated to send you the solution then?)
MB: Look, honestly, I think it's a precautionary measure, nothing more. For someone who actually found something, it's a precautionary measure. But I see that currently, it is rather used, and that is not a bad thing, it is rather used to prospect in a way, to eliminate things. I have some players who write to me: “Well, I know it's not good, but I need to get it out of my head”. Okay, well, after all, why not, it’s still easier and cheaper than going out to dig. So, well, OK, this principle, I admit it, but it is just as valid for someone who has made good progress, who probably has the right solution or who thinks they know, I find that it is a a measure of caution which is entirely welcome. Normally, it should be used by everyone, not excessively, but, when it is necessary, well yes, what do we do, that way we have peace of mind and I act very, very quickly behind it. So here is. It’s still a precaution.
(Q - ??: Well, I would like to send you my solution, but I don't have a visa card because I'm in Luxembourg and as I don't use a Visa card so… I I ordered one anyway so I'm waiting and when I get it, well I'll send it to you and then we'll see if it's good or not. That's it, because in the meantime, I'm already there. went digging, sometimes I don't say eh..., I've already been like that, not abusively, but then it's a bit annoying sometimes to move around, say hey, I just spent 200 bucks to go -back, it's not good, so I might even prefer... come on 10 euros 9.50, be sure if it's not that, it's not that if it's that, well so much the better .)
MB: That said, I do not encourage consumption, which means that we must not abuse the system. There’s no point in…
(Q - ??: No, no, I'm not abusing the system, because since the time I was dug, I came back. Well, after that, I have my own idea for the cache, but I'm not really sure, but I'm working on that. In fact, it's a little bit the measurement that's blocking me. It's 2 meters or 2.50 meters because you're talking about it. centimeter, so that's a bit where I'm stuck. Well, otherwise if I want to say the cache, well, I have a somewhat precise idea of ??the cache, but I couldn't. tell you at what meter I took it. But I could tell you, well, I found it below. Yeah, here's an example, now there, but I still prefer to have the right solution? to go there and have it validated.)
(Q- Droopy: So, since we are on the subject, Michel, I had a question, could I be deemed a winner, from the moment I put my solutions in the computer system without digging, but I have everything, am I a winner or do I have to dig up the owl)
MB: That is to say: If you are, if you are in your corner, you have found it, but you don't say anything to anyone and you don't submit your solution, is that it?