QUOTE(vravelo @ May 15 2012, 11:53 AM)
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Hi Joe"" As a matter of curiosity//? --- How long did you take to beat the quest?????
I means this quest ,,, " DOY ..???
I'm wasting one hour, and one half already"
thanks

Well, that is an interesting question. If you are referring to the 1st time way back when this was first released in the 1.52 version I honestly don't remember. But it was a long, long time. The game was epic for its time and had many secrets and mysteries to solve. This quest was innovate, creative, and pushed the boundaries of the quest editor and game engine. It was a forerunner to many excellent quests that followed. However C-dawg left a great many (and I mean many) bugs in the quest that he never fixed. It took much effort and time to deal with the continue bugs, dead ends, etc. While it was brilliant, and challenging, it had an extremely high frustration level. Very few finished DoY. All I can say is that the first time in the 152 version it took probably took longer to complete than any other quest I’ve ever played. Although honestly any other quest that had this many bugs I would have abandoned long before completing it. The fact that people played this quest as long as they did with all its problems is a testament to its outstanding creativity.
Then Jman started an update to 183 that he worked on for a time but after a short while its thread disappeared. With that version it was hard to get very far without game running into a game stopping bug. Then Shadow Tiger began his fine work on the 183 version. He managed to clean it up and it was relatively bug free until the Vines area which had and has some serious problems. I quit at that area because Shadow Tiger backed off, I think waiting for a cleaner version of the editor to be released. As you know he has started working again and I hold out hope that he can find the time and tools to clean up the last quarter of the quest. As far as I know the 183 version has never been completed without using Shadow Tiger’s work arounds.
I’m a little concerned that when they finally release a stable version (lol) that Shadow Tiger’s hard work won’t be compatible.
If you’re asking how long it took to start anew and replay to thru the Crypt area it was probably an hour maybe an hour and half. (Remember I was just playing to test the Crypt so I new which areas of DoY were critical to complete and which ones I could bypass)
Enjoy the Day!
Thanks - Joe