I thought that the shootorials were quite a cool idea and even more so with the contest so I went ahead and downloaded the flash cs3 trial. Then I realized only the first 3 shootorials were out now. I also noticed tho that the full code for the Kong version is available for download in AS3 so I am looking at that trying to see what I can pick up from it.
Does the contest entry have to be in AS2 or can I do it in AS3 (assuming I can pick it up from the code)?
and as for the mistake I found in the full code, it is in the enemy ship class, initShootingInterval function:
//each enemy ship will shoot at a random interval between 2 to 4 seconds…
var interval:int = Math.floor(Math.random()*3) + 2000;
In order to match with the comment (and to have more than a .003 second variance) the *3 should be *2000