club membership and more

[pincaviglia86]

Hello to all respected members of the hard layout club. I am kinda
new here, but I was wondering if anyone in the club could answer a couple of questions:
(1) How do you become a member of the club?
(2) Do you have to have some sort of external program or
something to produce a really hard layout? By hard, I don't
necessarily mean just hard to find matches, or that it
takes a long time to complete. I am thinking more along the
lines of (for lack of a better term)....special effects. What
I mean by "special effects" are things that I see in a lot of
the user-made layouts. Such as tiles that appear to be
standing on their edges, several hundred tiles that
seem to be "compacted" to fit into a very small space, etc.

So, if anyone could help me out with these questions, I would
be very grateful.

[angelwings13]

To get your layout in the hardest layout club, you don't need anything special done with your layout...
All you need is for your layout is for it to be hard to beat...
You can check out the old ones here to see how the numbers go on them to see what I'm talking about..Plus when you look at them you will see that they don't have alot of those special effects you are talking about, just a layout, a very hard layout...
I hope this answers your questions...

[pincaviglia86]

Thank you angelwings13 for the info. I will check it out.