Question: What is necessary to do to become the organizer of a game?
Answer:
1. To familiarize oneself and adopt the Regulations of the organization of city games based on program complex Encounter;
2. To register any available domain of the third level in “ex.cn” zone and pay 49 USD (use only Web-Money or E-Gold) for the installation of the program complex. The whole process takes only five minutes and is totally automated;
3. At the very moment after registration you may start to operate the domain and the holding of the games. To your own decision an official treaty may be concluded (but you may start to make the games before the treaty is concluded).
Question: What papers do we have to submit to organize a game in our city?
Answer: None. We do not require any papers. All the data necessary for you to become a regional organizer are informed by you through the form for submission of the application for organizing the game electronically.
Question: I want to be in responsible about this business, to gain deserved reward for my work. How much may I earn having become an organizer of the city games?
Answer: If you hold two “Combats” a month, in every game no fewer than 20 teams take place, and fees of every team is 100 USD (all the expenses taken into account), than you net profit will be about 1,200 USD a month. If for the same auditory you will hold creative game like “Photohunt”, “Photoextreme”, “Wet wars”, than your earning may become 2-3,000 UDS monthly. The main advantage of the “Encounter” is that the same auditory will play different games.
Question: How can I gain the result of 20 teams a game, if the total population of my town is 300,000 people?
Answer: Your main weapon is mass media. For the first game you will have to prepare a press release that at the same time will be an invitation to participation. All you have to do is to print this invitation and distribute it in all the papers, magazines, radio and TV-stations in the town. Invite the journalists to the game for free. The first game in your domain should be free of charge for all, further only for the representatives of mass media. At the first stage it is very important to hold numerous talks with mass media, to convince them to take part in the game. In order to be a success you have to stress the newness of the event, promises unforgettable impressions, if it is possible to provide the journalists with food (so called field banquet) – they like it very much.
In the majority of cases mass media is the main source of new teams. Is not worthy of giving chargeable advertisements in the mass media. It is not very profitable. You have to use all means of the promotion of the product, which do not require material expenses. Such as:
to give advertisements on friendly sites and forums;
to promote among teams that play games of similar progects;
to invite in person organizers of various clubs of active rest: snowbordists, alpinists, speleologists etc – any person who leads an active way of life is a potential participant of active city games;
to distribute advertising booklets in clubs, internet cafés in return to the advertising of these establishments on your site.
In a word, any advertising actions that do not require any essential expenses is effective.
Question: Is there a possibility to install your program complex for me in Chinese? Do I have to make an extra payment for this?
Answer: Sure, the program complex can be installed in any language. We do not charge any extra fee for its installation in the languages other than English/Russian but it is you who have to make a translation. While lodging your application for the organization mention "another" in the "Interface Language" section. We will e-mail to you the file with all the words, phrases and sentences, used in the interface of the site. On translating the given file, you should send it back to us and then we will be able to install the program complex for you in the language into which the sent to you file has been translated. Instructions for processing the file are attached to the file.
Question: I liked the idea immensely and I am crazy about organizing the game, I like all kinds of adventures and I am pretty sure that there will be no problems with finding like-minded people in my city :) But I do not understand anything as far as the Internet and sites and all kinds of servers and domains and the like and your regulations abound in these notions, so I am afraid I will not be able to cope with all these...
Answer: You are right, at first sight one might think that the process of the organization is very complicated. In fact having looked into it, you will understand that there is nothing too complicated here. Your earnest wish will be enough to be a success. Our support service is working for the organizers from the beginning of the organization and as long as there are unanswered questions on the part of the organizers. We are helping not only in your mastering the program complex but we are also giving advice on the very organization of the game. We are with you!
Question: How will I be operating my domain?
Answer: By means of “Admin interface”, that functions in the following way. While developing “AI” a great attention was played to its handiness. All the sections are divided into categories; navigation in the section is clear and simple. For the overwhelming majority of the functions a context aid id given (either in the form of an icon with a question-mark or just a question-mark in brackets). For ruling the site no special knowledge or skills are required, however elementary knowledge of HTML considerably simplify the editing of the design of the site and extend opportunities while creating levels in games.
Question: Whether probably your participation in development of the first scenario for command game in case if I'll want to organize and realize games in my city? P.S. I from Krasnodar :))
Answer: It is possible. We can comment on each level in your scenario after you load it on a server. We can send also in business trip in your city some skilled organizers (as a rule it is two persons), which not only will help you to make the interesting scenario, but also during dialogue will tell about the every possible features, concerning to the organization and carrying out of games! We pay road and livelihood of our people; you need to provide them a habitation for the period of the organization of a game.
Question: What assessment will I have to do for you as the idea authors?
Answer: As for the idea authors none. The idea has gone to the multitude and belongs to the mankind. You are to pay only the technical resource. Look down the prices of the holding the games in the regulations of the Organization of active city games.
Subsequent questions on the topic:
1. How will the games deleted by the authors before their conducting be adapted?
The funds will be returned on the account of the one who added the announcement of the game.
2. And how are you going to compute 5 % of the income from “Combat”, if before the beginning of the game the precise number of its participants is not known?
While adding the announcement of the coming game from your domestic account 40 USD will be drawn out. After the game is already hold the total fees for the game (judging by the sum of the payments and the number of teams that passed the first level). If it is less than 800 USD then no more money is drawn out. If more than, let us say 1000 USD, and then additional 10 dollars are taken from your domestic account. Moreover if your account contains 0, then it will become negative, in other words -10.
3. If the account is empty, what happens?
If you have no funds on your account, then you may not add the announcement of the game to the site. All the same, if your balance is negative you will have to fill it up with 50 USD minimum.
4. How will the games announced frustrated be adapted?
While adding a game 40 USD are drawn out. If the game is claimed to frustrate then it is the end. It means that 40 USD are not returned, but no more money is taken, even if the summary funds contain 3000 USD. Because conducting of any game is a loading for the server that is paid by us disregarding the results of the game. If we are responsible for the failure of the conducting of a game – for example the server will fall down or DDoS attack will begin and we will not be able to cope with it , the money may be returned.
Question: In our city we already have a game “Street wars” and “Geocashing”. Is it worth while organizing Encounter games?
Answer: In the long run the participant will choose the one where the scenery will be more interesting, and organizers do not remain indifferent to the inquiries and suggestions of the participants, whatever it may concern. The project Encounter has some evident advantageous differences as compared to various clons and local games. In the domain of world.en.cx international games a constantly held. In such games the participants of your domain may win a valuable prize and gifts or even gain golden medals of the Encounter game. Also various internationals competitions are frequently held, like for example "ENMISS". The program complex is constantly being developed, giving new opportunities to organizers.
Right to access for organizer
Question: How the game interface looks from inside? In other words how it looks for the participant?
Answer: On the domain example.en.cx enter with your login and password or register there if you are not yet registered in any of the domains. You will be able to take part in virtual promo-game that is available for passing all the time and thus familiarize yourself with the game mechanism. In different games they have there own particularities, but on the whole the game runner for various games is identical.
Question: Is it possible that your program complex should be installed for me in Ucranian? May be I will have to do an additional payment for this?
Answer: Yes the program complex may be installed in any language. We do not take additional fees for installation in languages different from those in the brackets (English, French, Russian and Lithuanian) However you will have to make the translation yourself. When applying for the organizing in the space “the language of interface” points the meaning “Russian” and then contacts us on the account of translation of the interface into another language.
Question: I've no doubt that lots of guys in my city will be willing to take part in the game but it's less probable anyone of them have ever heard about the WebMoney or E-Gold payment systems. I would rather take cash from them, what do you think?
Answer: No problem! Suppose one or several crews don't know anything about the systems or don't wish to deal with e-money on principle. In this case the organizer adds some WMZ or USD E-Gold money to his internal account (there is no way you can escape getting hold of these abbreviations if you are an organizer). The crew that wishes to square up with cash rather than with e-money gives it to the organizer in person and the organizer transfers this money from his inernal N-account to the N-account of the crew, which will make it possible for the crew to place a bet on the forthcoming game. The organizer's profits come in e-money. It makes sense to always keep some money stored in your WMZ or USD E-Gold accounts to be able to credit the crews through the internal accounts.
Question: Can I accept cash means from participants?
Answer: Yes you can. Moreover, if you for acceptance of rates do not use internal payment systems you do not do 5% deduction to us (dispose of the whole prize-winning fund on your discretion). At creation of a new game specify "To accept payments cash".
Question: On your title page there is the list of "Operating domains" published. What domains are considered operating? If all of them are existing, why my domain is not among them?
Answer: The decision of placing your domain in the "Operating" list this is cleanly subjective decision. It is made by set of parameters. We consider activity of registrations of new participants on your site, the maintenance of scenarios which you load on a server. The activity of participants at a forum, responses about the last games. I.e. we do not expose any requirements for inclusion your domain in the active list, nevertheless in your domain there should be certain "movement" which we should feel.
