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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.08 18:55:00 -
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Is there a link to where we can see ships that are already submitted? Or is the gallery not going to open until after the 21st?
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.21 16:15:00 -
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How do you know your submission got in okay? I just submitted one and all I got was a "Thank you for entering the contest! Winners will notified by email at the conclusion of this promotion." Is that confirmation enough that the entry got through? Or are other people getting the same page but not seeing their submissions in the gallery at all?
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.21 16:46:00 -
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Posting my work here as well, just in case.
Fujin
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.22 01:24:00 -
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Still nothing, and that confirmation page loads way too quickly. There's no way a file of that size got uploaded so fast. I submitted again to the contest and also to the help@evecontest address in the hopes that at least one of them got through.
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.22 04:09:00 -
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There's a little address at the bottom of the page you can email if you have problems. Try that. Hope you can at least submit your stuff...
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.24 22:50:00 -
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 Originally by: Nakayme Caonis
When it says the contest is closed, it is most likely referencing that the contest is closed to submissions, rather than that the contest itself is terminated.
Unfortunately, CCP does end up taking a while on the contest, sometimes much longer than they announced. That is a fact to be anticipated with any contest, unfortunately - even in game ones such as the Alliance Tournaments.
And I do lament the fact that there have been no updates on the contest, not on the website or in this post - some sort of update to even let us know that they are processing would be nice, and it wouldn't take too long to post a simple message. Alas, it comes to a question - how long would it take to post a simple message detailing what is going on with each individual aspect that the person is responsible for? 5 minutes per responsibility can add up, and rather easily.
However, this contest wasn't going to be over by New Years anyway. And it occurred very close to the holiday seasons, over which there is always less time to get things done. On top of that, the devs also have to take care of the largest of the Incursion releases. The devs that manage this contest weren't hired specifically for it, to lose their jobs after the contest is over... so give them some time to do their main job, and to sort out all of the last minute entries, as well as so many of the entries on this forum thread. In a way, it is our own faults that this is taking so long.
But on the bright side, this contest will be updated, eventually, and once the entries are all organized, everything else should go much, much smoother.
This being EVE and all, I won't tell you to go out and do something to make up for all the pods the lot of you have killed this year. But even though it'll probably kill half of you to do so... do try to smile. That'll take half of you out of the picture, and double my chances of winning. Dead people can't win, right?
Of course, what with the recent talk of giving zombies health care, I might have to reconsider what dead people are entitled to.
It would be a lot better if a dev said these things, and confirmed that the contest hasn't been forgotten about and that our entries won't end up in the trash folder of someone's inbox.
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.30 18:23:00 -
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Obviously mine wasn't good enough to make the cut either, but I think it's mostly because I submitted it again after the first time didn't do anything.
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.30 19:16:00 -
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I like this idea. Winners can be paid with ISK/ships.
What ingame voting mechanism would be appropriate?
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.30 19:51:00 -
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Edited by: Billy Kidd on 30/12/2010 19:55:38
Nah, the problem with this contest is that most people didn't even know if they got in or not. All we have is the final 40, and for the rest of us who aren't in the top 40, we don't even know whether our entries were even received for judging.
Even if CCP just posts a gallery of EVERYONE's entries just to prove that they got all our submissions, that'd be a helluva lot better than what they have now.
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.30 20:15:00 -
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So most of the entries in the original gallery were not qualified to make it to this round? Wow.
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.30 21:24:00 -
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So this gets in
But this one doesn't?
WTF
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.30 21:42:00 -
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Originally by: Merin Ryskin
Originally by: Billy Kidd
So this gets in
But this one doesn't?
WTF
One thing worth noting here is the problems with the submission page. For example, even though one of my entries is up for voting, it was only accepted after significantly cutting the file size (and making the text un-readable in the process). The original, a 2.5mb .png file (limit of 5mb) would not upload properly and was auto-rejected as not being in the proper format.
Since the lammergeier image linked is a ~2mb file, I would not be surprised if it was never even seen by CCP. This is one of the things I've petitioned (about my second entry, another large file), so hopefully we'll get some answers soon.
Which is why it would be good if CCP put up a gallery, or even listed all the files they received so that those of us who entered can get confirmation that we were even considered.
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Billy Kidd
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Posted - 2010.12.31 00:03:00 -
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Originally by: Burhtun
Oh, and I think it would be great if a player wants to organize a ship design contest for ISK or a ship or something. If someone organizes something I will do my best to participate even if the rewards are small. And it would be interesting to see if the contest is a success or a miserable failure. 
Also, anyone notice that the order of the ships on the voting page shuffle around sometimes? Are they ordered by number of votes? Because mine is steadily moving towards the bottom. Haha. Abandon ship, shes going down...
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1440374
A couple of us are going to try to get a player-run contest together.
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