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Post by Beckett on Feb 17, 2017 4:52:37 GMT -5
Something I'm thinking about doing with Volume 4 is getting my retired dad involved with C&C. I wonder if anyone has ever given C&C as a gift. I'm curious how it would work with vault access, since they would obviously need membership. Since it makes no effort to disguise the existence of or its involvement with the Mysterious Package Company, I would think that applying for membership upon recieving a gift subsciption of Curios & Conundrums would make sense. If your father cannot be having with this new-fangled sort of thing at all, he could still enjoy everything about the physical paper.
I do not believe that Curios & Conundrums would work all too well as an anonymous or mysterious gift - after all, the quarterly is targeted at people who are, or consider themselves to be - in the know.
It would actually be fantastic if there was a sort of "introductory Experience" for those who wish to give their recipients a glimpse of what Curios & Conundrums is about, containing something like a partial lost issue and a couple of Curious related to the Mysterious Package Company and their history. It would enable members to surprise and, for lack of a better term, recruit others while providing them with a bit of adventure in the way Experiences do. So far I have not gotten a single one of my four recipients have suscribed to Curios & Conundrums, even though most of them liked the Experience well enough. As thegenii wrote in one of his articles on the Company, those two services provided by the Company are so different from one another that it is entirely possible to be wildly enthusiastic about one and entirely uninterested in the other. A Curios & Conundrums themed Experience could bridge that gap, at least a little.
Well, I did go on quite the tangent there; I apologise. To summarise, I believe that Curios & Conundrums makes for a terrific gift, though one should definitely consider applying for membership. And who does not want to be part of a secret society anyway?
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Post by centaurofattn on Feb 17, 2017 8:44:24 GMT -5
I'm not sure how C&C works as a gift, but when you send an experience to someone it ends with a link to a place where you're basically pre-approved for membership and you just waltz on in. I imagine with C&C they would include something similar. But maybe they just expect them to apply at some point since the turnaround is a few days.
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Post by defiant00 on Feb 17, 2017 9:33:37 GMT -5
It sounds to me like MPC is moving C&C toward almost a stand alone "mini-experience" for each mailing with Vol 4 by moving to more of a "mystery box" type setup. I have only been a subscriber for Vol 3, so I'll admit that I'm a bit lost when it comes to the overall story, but I think I've got the gist. I would expect/hope that there is still a tie-in to the ongoing story in each issue, it just may be more subtle so as not to alienate new subscribers.
Which reminds me, I still need to finish two more puzzles from issue 4 of Vol 3 and then the associated day locks before Vol 4 starts to ship...
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Post by aliadruid1 on Feb 17, 2017 10:01:59 GMT -5
Geodus it could be a fun hobby for the two of you together. Using your own membership for vault access, but working together. I think it's a wonderful idea though. I had thought about finding out if anyone lives near me and forming a CnC group. Just a thought.
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Post by defiant00 on Feb 17, 2017 11:03:13 GMT -5
I had thought about finding out if anyone lives near me and forming a CnC group. Just a thought. I would love to find some folks in SWFL that are into this, having get-togethers to work on the puzzles together would be a lot of fun!
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Post by wortelboer on Feb 17, 2017 11:09:37 GMT -5
I had thought about finding out if anyone lives near me and forming a CnC group. Just a thought. I would love to find some folks in SWFL that are into this, having get-togethers to work on the puzzles together would be a lot of fun! I would love to find folks in Western MA that would like to get together too. Maybe one of the admins (hint, hint) will see this post and be kind enough to create a folder (maybe in the General section) entitled - C&C Meetups...then folks could start threads for different states that they are in where they want to meet up.
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Post by Beckett on Feb 17, 2017 11:31:29 GMT -5
I would love to find some folks in SWFL that are into this, having get-togethers to work on the puzzles together would be a lot of fun! I would love to find folks in Western MA that would like to get together too. Maybe one of the admins (hint, hint) will see this post and be kind enough to create a folder (maybe in the General section) entitled - C&C Meetups...then folks could start threads for different states that they are in where they want to meet up. Maybe this could help for a start - unfortunately it got buried deep down in the General Discussion section and is probably a tad out of date now: Map for Meetups or to see your proximity to nearest memberslink
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Post by Todd on Feb 17, 2017 11:34:29 GMT -5
Feel free to create threads by region. If enough threads get created to merit a separate section I can move them as necessary.
I haven't even been able to muster up interest in a GenCon 2017 meet-up, it seems.
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Post by dmikester on Feb 17, 2017 14:59:15 GMT -5
I have to be honest and say that not only does this change not put me off, but actually makes me even more excited to experience C&C. I feel like the cost difference is relatively minimal for something that will presumably have more and larger curios. As neat as it is to have the curios be integral parts of the puzzles, it has been somewhat aggravating having to deal with catching up with old volumes and only having descriptions or pictures of curios to go by and not the actual item at hand. Indeed, if someone purchased Volume 1 and 2 and didn't know about this forum or the Wiki, I don't think the Vaults would be solvable due to requiring some of the curios for puzzle answers (at least with Vol. 3 they've made the needed curios reproducible online). If this makes the experience of C&C more accessible in that sense, all the better in my opinion.
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Post by centaurofattn on Feb 17, 2017 16:42:56 GMT -5
I think for many of us it is easy to forget to acknowledge that there could be 100s or even 1000s of subscribers and a very small percentage are here. That said, the Curator did say it was based in part on the feedback they received, so it is possible that those of us (myself included) that might like the longer-form narrative are in the minority. I'm also not naive enough to think they should value long-time subscribers as more influential in those decisions in a business decision. I'm like most - excited to see what happens and hopeful that I still enjoy it, even if the enjoyment comes in a new form.
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Post by thegenii on Feb 17, 2017 18:03:34 GMT -5
Part of my package with the Kickstarter campaign was a lifetime subscription to C&C, which is starting to look like an even better deal!
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Post by centaurofattn on Feb 17, 2017 18:54:15 GMT -5
Part of my package with the Kickstarter campaign was a lifetime subscription to C&C, which is start to like like an even better deal! That's a nifty surprise inclusion in the packages!
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Post by Geodus on Feb 17, 2017 19:17:15 GMT -5
If you're interested in meeting like-minded puzzlers, you might look into whether there is a Puzzled Pint event in your area. Someone mentioned Puzzled Pint in another thread, and I went to their event in the Seattle east-side area earlier this week. Several people invited me to join their "team" next month (there's no real competition, but puzzles area often more fun to solve in groups). While I was there I asked several people whether they had heard of MPC, and as their answer was no, I did a bit of evangelizing about C&C.
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Post by Urebril on Feb 21, 2017 18:28:10 GMT -5
So this might be a silly question but as I am new I was wondering what the difference is between Curios and Conundrums Season 3 and The Curios and Conundrums Gods of Madness. So far I purchased the omnibus to catch up, Season 3 as a whole, and recently I saw the Gods of Madness email from the Curator which I quickly purchased thinking it is a stand alone. Am I correct in my assumption or did I just purchased the last volume of Season 3 again?
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Post by Todd on Feb 21, 2017 18:42:59 GMT -5
Gods of Madness is the next issue, coming in May...
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