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Monday, June 7, 2010

Curious Counterweights

Hello everybody. I recieved my first e-mail last night. From Victoria Spiritblossom! She gets brownie points for that (+20.) Ok, here's her question:

Come to think of it, there is something I’ve been wondering recently. I recently finished the Counterweight East quest, and I figured out that it’s a great source of scrap iron. When I left, it took me down to a room that looks like the ones from Big Ben (instead of the winding staircases of the Counterweights). Within a few seconds it pulled up the loading screen and I was back in the royal Museum before I could explore this floor. It doesn’t always do this when I leave that dungeon, but almost half of the time it does. And I’m also remembering one time when I was helping my friend. I ported to them right after they went inside and we were on the same type of floor that I described. We had to fight several of those rooms before we got to the large winding rooms with all the gears and counterweights. When I was fighting that dungeon for my own quest, it just took me straight to the room with Gus. Is this just a glitch, or is it a secret floor or something?

Sorry for the long explanation,
Victoria Spiritblossom

Ok, Victoria, here it goes.

When you do the Counterweight Quests, as with Big Ben, you can not only go up, but also down floors. When you go up in the Counterweights, it looks just like Big Ben, until you get to the last floor, which is really 7 layers, with 5 mob battles and the boss battle. This last floor is much larger and has the "winding staircase" that you mentioned. As for the rest of the floors, it's just a typical MB tower. (Are there any others? [Excluding one-floor towers.]) When you try to exit the dungeon, the game is told to bring you down a floor, but then it is told you have you exit the dungeon. So, you enter the room for a split second, and then leave. Btw, the length was perfect! I hope all my questions can be this detailed. I hope this helps. Maybe I'll add some pictures, but for now I just wanted to get this question answered while I had it in my mind. Thank you for asking.

If any of you have further information on this topic, please post it in the comments for us. Thank you.

Tomorrow I have a HUGE surprise. Let's see if you can guess why? Who ever guesses right first, get's a spot on my friends list, and a derby race with me. (Practice.)

Happy Gaming

2 comments:

Victoria Spiritblossom said...

Thanks for answering so quickly! I'm still wondering why it took me straight to the last floor with seven layers though...

John Lifeglen said...

When Advanced pets hit the spiral, the counterweights had their initial few floors removed. You were seeing the remnants of what we no longer have access to. I think people complained about having to do both lengthy counterweights and then Big Ben back to back to back. KI's fix: 4 battles per counterweight and you're out.