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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2010.12.02 18:07:00 -
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Edited by: Destination SkillQueue on 02/12/2010 18:10:09
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2010.12.02 18:10:00 -
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Edited by: Destination SkillQueue on 02/12/2010 18:11:14
Can't wait to see what people come up with this time.
PS: This thread needs to be stickied.
Originally by: CCP Adida
The Facebook ôLikeö button will be the vote mechanism.
Do you have to have a facebook account to vote?
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2010.12.02 22:20:00 -
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I have a request for the CCP art team. Since you decided go with an outside site for the voting, propably because letting non-EVE players vote on the finalists worked so well the first time. Well anyway, since you prescreen the proposals before facebook users get to dictate what EVE players might fly in the future, FFS disqualify all designs you feel are not good fits for EVE. As in, they have no chance of winning even if they get voted to the finals.
The reason being, that actual EVE players will propably be the minority voters in facebook, so don't let anything in to the semifinals, that you aren't already willing to put in EVE. Most voters aren't EVE players and won't give a crap about voting for fitting designs, so you will need to eliminate them in the first screening. That means disqualify with extreme prejudice all non-EVE designs, joke ships and technically poorly designed ships. The absolute bottom end of the semifinalists should be average looking designs, that would still fit the EVE universe just fine with minor tweaks. This leaves loads of room for taste, but removes the chance of having a similar fiasco with the designs as we had last time.
Good luck to everyone taking part in the competition.
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2010.12.03 20:59:00 -
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Originally by: Real Poison
Originally by: CCP Adida
How will I vote on the semi-finalists after the 21st? The Facebook ôLikeö button will be the vote mechanism.
i don't get it... why will facebook users have the vote on the winner instead of eve players?
Marketing. These kinds of contests produce loads of visually pleasing designs, that everyone can find interesting and attractive without actually having to know anything about EVE beforehand. Facebook was chosen because it is hugely popular, has a voting system already in place and is a great opportunity for EVE to get visibility with people who aren't already playing the game.
Having outsiders decide the finalists isn't a problem, since CCP prescreens the contestants before the public gets to vote on who gets in to the finals and CCP decides the winners. They know what will fit in EVE and what to keep out of the voting entirely to avoid propable problems with the public voting phase. This thing can still work out just fine, if CCP does the presreening part properly and thoroughly.
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2010.12.06 11:20:00 -
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Edited by: Destination SkillQueue on 06/12/2010 11:24:06
Originally by: luvmehard Excuse my ignorance, but...why was the DevianArt contest a failure?
The result wasn't a failure, but the actual process caused loads of problems and anger. Basicly there were loads of confusion about the rules and they weren't properly clarified during the competition. Later when the semi-finalists were announced, most of the popular and designs fitting well to EVE were not selected. Only a few were actually fit for EVE, rest were random scifi spaceships with even a LOL design that was in clear violation of the rules.
Naturally EVE players and the DA artist were ****ed, since both felt cheated by the judges who clearly didn't even bother to follow their own rules and ignored the part where these designs were supposed to fit in to an existing franchise. As a result the LOL design was dropped and it was replaced by the winning design. As you can see even taking taste in to account it was hard to swallow that the lol piece of crap could ever be considered better than the tornado and the tornado was just 1 of many great designs that were ignored in favor of weaker designs.
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2011.03.29 11:20:00 -
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Originally by: Melisandra Palenis So it wasn't announced at fanfest 2011 either. Very poor form CCP I must say. Run a competition then never tell us who the winner is..... what happened to excellence?
Even a bad decision would have been better than dragging this thing out month after month. Seriously what is the reason for delaying giving out the results or haven't you yet even decided who the winner is? Even at worst all it would have taken is for the judges to spend one evening together with a bottle of booze and just make a decision about who the winner is going to be. Or alternatively maybe lock them in a small rat filled room with no windows and only a small light source and then tell them you will let them out only after they have agreed on the winner.
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