I noticed that the level manager made the rule based on his experience that if certain player gets help, he/she would ask repeatedly in a short period. Meanwhile those who have the playback files spent a lot of time to solve some �Deadly� levels. Once, a player (Per-Gunnar Nilsson) wrote that he took more than a month of daily thinking to solve one Kheper�s level (LaserTank #1619: � 2/3 wrong!� ). He is a very strong player who, in April 2003, announced that he had solved all 2030 levels of the LaserTank.lvl. In GHS list, his initial is � pGN� .
What it means?
Novice players are advised to solve starting with the � Kids� levels. If those levels are too easy, try � Easy� levels, and so on. It�s not a good idea if a less than ten years old kid starting with levels #1 and continues with the next level regardless of the difficulty rating. Once, a player (Angel), in July 2003, asked for playback file of LaserTank levels #188 - #201. Three days later, she asked for another playback file.
Are easy levels boring?
The first time I encountered LaserTank levels, in November 2002, I tried � Easy� levels only. I found a lot of tricks there. � Hard� levels seemed unsolvable to me. Today I solve � Deadly� level sometimes.
Therefore, OPEN playback files (which are always available and downloadable) are out of question.
However, any user is free to ask for extra hints in this forum. Other users who like to help are also free to give some hints. The hints are sent to the address of the one who requested them, not in the open in this forum. � Deadly� or � Hard� levels will lose their attractiveness if the playback files are published in this forum, just because one player is able to solve them.
Sometimes the snapshot of the final state of a level is sufficient as a hint. However, it doesn�t help if at the end all blocks become an obvious necessary bridge.
Bye,
Suyono H. Yaphar
Jane Smolina wrote:
I agree with wulfbear.
In fact there are some kids playing this game too even less then 10 years old. So they
surely want to have some hints. Thought in 1000...levels there are too many surprises
and hard levels.There parents would like to help them, but we cant be at the computer
hours or days, so the lpb files will help a lot.
By the way may be somebody can send us the lpb for 325 level.
Thanks a lot.
(Russia online)