PogoAddiction Badge Challenges 101Just can’t get enough of those pogo challenges, can you? Well, neither can we! PogoAddiction offers a plethora of extra-special challenges in your favorite games!
Weekly ChallengesEvery Friday, two new weekly challenges appear on the PA Forum Badges page—find it by clicking on the
PA Forum Badges Badges at the top of the forum.
Over the on the upper left-hand side, you’ll find a long list of menu options—this will give you the links to all the information you’ll need for PogoAddiction challenges! I strongly recommend reading the FAQ; in fact, here’s link:
PogoAddiction Badge FAQMid-page, you’ll find this week’s challenges—are you up to the challenge??
But how do you go about it, you might ask? After all, this is PogoAddiction; our badges (and their albums) stay here in pogoaddictionland (you won't find them in your Pogo badge album). We participate in these challenges via screenshots (ss). Unfamiliar with taking screenshots? Let’s walk through a challenge together (if you’re familiar with how that works, skip all the way past #7):
Starting the Challenge and ScreenshotsBefore you start you will need to get a screenshot program. You get one by following this link:
http://pogoaddiction.com/pogoaddictionforum/index.php/topic,363.0.html (Follow at least steps 1 to 3 on that page. You can then follow steps 4 through the end, or follow the alternative instructions below. Both will end with the same result)
1. Play the Pogo game cited in the challenge. For this example, let’s use the Dice City Rollers "Club Suite Badge". We need to win 50 or more auctions to get our PogoAddiction Badge for this.
* * *Often, there are several ways of proving you've completed the challenge. The reason LittleOne doesn't spell this out in detail is that we want you to do what is easiest for
you. You could take individual screenshots of all 50 winning auctions (but that's just plain nuts), or you could play Dice City Rollers all day without closing your game and take just one screenshot of your current stats. Maybe the safest way to go for many of these challenges that depend on a screenshot of your stats is to take a before-and-after shot. That way, if your computer poops out on you or you get the Mighty Pogo Boot or just want to go paint your toenails, you're safe. Note that for the Shuffle Bump challenge posted above, you
would need 10 screenshots as the challenge criteria does not show up in your stats. * * *
2. Now before you wade into the wide world of pogo real estate, locate your Print- Screen-SysRq button, in the upper right-hand corner of your keyboard. This button will essentially take a picture of whatever is on your screen. Open your preferred graphics program (on windows systems, this would be MSPaint by default, but it can be whatever one you prefer to use—make a shortcut button for it on your desktop, if you haven’t already).
3. Bring up your
current stats, making sure you have the required number of auctions won (whether in one session or as the "after" stat) and hit the Print-Screen-SysRq key.
4. Bring up your graphics program and paste (right-click or ctrl-v) the image onto the blank page. Voila! There is the game you’ve been playing!
5. Let’s clean it up a little bit. Use the cropping tool to get rid of any unnecessary flotsam.
If this is an image you’re going to post in the forum, use the eraser to remove any personal information and all pogo players names from the chat box area (if you’ve included it). If it is solely for the PA challenge, you needn’t worry about that as the only person who sees it is LittleOne.
6. Now choose File> Save as and give it a name.
Take note of the “Save as type” field! Make sure you choose JPEG or .jpg; bitmaps (.bmp) are huge data hogs and won’t work well on many image hosts or in forum fields.
At this point, refer to the PogoAddiction thread on using image hosts. An image host will take that screenshot and “hold” it for you, giving you an address you can use as a link or to present the image in forums. For the PA challenges, you’ll want the http address. You can find more information here:
Image Hosting Sites and How to Use Them on PogoAddiction7. Complete the challenge with any additional required screenshots just as you did with this one.
Submitting the ChallengesRefer to the Link pasted below for the Step by Step on where to find and how to use the Submission Form:
Tutorial: How to Request a Badge/Use the Submission FormAs you get the hang of submitting screenshots, you may want to simplify submitting those multi-shot challenges. It's not necessary, but it does make things easier for both you and Little! You will pick up on those tricks as times goes on, but for now, you have the simple and basic process. No need to try and get cute all at once
***If you have a question about the challenges--what screenshot to take, etc—do NOT use the Request/Submission form to ask! Once you’ve submitted your challenges, they’re submitted. It’s better to ask for clarification before hand, or to browse some of the other tutorials and FAQ pages. Someone will have the answers to your questions! Common sense is the key--
any screenshot will do as long as it clearly shows the challenge criteria.
There you go! That should get you started on our great PogoAddiction Badge Challenges! Once you start, you won’t want to stop! Don’t miss the
Timeless Badges section; you can do these at any time! And for the truly dedicated check out the
PogoAddiction Premium Badge Albums and
Mix-and-Match Badges available for purchase in our Shop.
We always have Friday PA Socials to help each other out with PogoAddiction Challenges, either as a helpful partner in Spades or just for some moral support, so check out the
Socials Board and Calendars and join us there!
Feel free to PM and Staff Member if you have any additional PA Weekly Challenge questions! Please note that all of the blue-lettered phrases and sentences in this post are hyperlinks that will take you directly to that information with just a click! Happy Badge Hunting!
Posted on: July 12, 2006, 11:28:20 AM
