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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.02 18:34:00 -
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Two questions:
1) As someone else said, please clarify what is required for the six views. Is subtle shading (but not full color) to emphasize shapes allowed? Are plain grayscale renders of a 3d model allowed (and if not, please consider changing your mind and allowing them)? This was a major point of confusion with the deviantart contest.
2) How will the voting be handled for this contest? Specifically what will be done to prevent abuse of the system? For example, voting with multiple accounts, trial accounts, etc. Or, less dishonestly, turning the contest into a popularity contest where the most important part of winning is running a proper publicity campaign on the forums (and of course finishing early enough to do this ASAP), alliance leaders ordering their entire alliance to vote for the leader's submission, etc?
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.06 18:15:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Spitfire
Hope that helps.
It does, thank you.
Just to be clear, http://lperegrine.deviantart.com/art/Sansha-s-Hellhound-182608966 would be a legal entry?
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.22 05:29:00 -
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Originally by: Zakua Sabot
Edited by: Zakua Sabot on 22/12/2010 02:15:13
This is scary...I've tried uploading my PNG format entry 3 times and the page pops back up telling to correctly fill in the fields...lol..c'mon now, they are filled in correctly WTH! Is there a size limit to the uploads? I didnt see anything stating so.
Sorry for typos...Im spazzing out trying to upload my entries 
Shrunk the pic down to 2.7mb, still no go
Same here, legal .png (~2.5mb) and it refused to accept it. I ended up having to save it as a much smaller .jpg just to get something submitted, and sent the full .png version in to that help email.
Behold, your new T2 Command Destroyer: http://eve-files.com/dl/234609
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.30 10:09:00 -
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Yeah, this is just weird. My Whirlwind destroyer is posted just fine, but my Sansha battlecruiser (IMO, a better design) is missing. Same overall presentation, submitted well before the deadline (with confirmation page), and very clearly a design that is appropriate for EVE. So why is one ship there, and the other one missing?
For reference:
Posted just fine: Whirlwind
Not there at all: Hellhound
And just to add insult to injury, since the voting page re-sizes the image to fit the horizontal size of the popup window, my horizontally-arranged image gets shrunk down to a point where you can't see any of the details, but vertically-arranged images have a lot more room and show more detail. I'd be fine with this if they'd told us the dimmensions of the viewing page, but not a word was said about this.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.30 20:42:00 -
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Well, I petitioned my missing entry (IMO, better than my entry which actually made it to the voting) and it looks like when CCP said "pre-screen" they really meant "pick the top 40-ish". I've sent a reply asking for a clear explanation of what standards were used in selecting which entries were posted to vote on.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.30 21:32:00 -
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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.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.30 23:05:00 -
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Originally by: Burhtun
It is ridiculous to ask for CCP to explain why each and every image was accepted or not accepted into the semi finals. Just as it was ridiculous when people expected DA to do that. No competitions do that. It would take forever.
The issue isn't about any specific entry, it's about three things:
1) A pattern of rejections that makes no sense at all. It's not like we're talking about entries which were clearly below the level of the ones which were put up for voting here, these were solid entries even if they weren't destined to win the final prize. The Lammergeier is the perfect example: a ship that was very popular with the community isn't even eligible to be voted on?
2) A general impression that the pre-screening phase would only be filtering out the junk (joke entries, stuff that isn't appropriate for EVE, entries that break the rules, etc) that was so common in the deviantart contest, not judging which ones were "good enough" to be voted on.
3) No clear indication of whether entries were received at all. This is a major problem, the submission page did not work properly (legal entries were auto-rejected for having an "invalid" format) and the gallery of submitted images was not updated frequently enough. The end result is people wondering (for good reasons) whether their entry was even seen by the judges at all.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.31 03:51:00 -
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Edited by: Merin Ryskin on 31/12/2010 03:51:16
Originally by: Goodwin
As for the relentless complaining regarding the PNG files. Here is an original thought; try a different browser or convert the image to a different format.
The point is that CCP explicitly stated that large .png files were a legal format for the entry, therefore it is perfectly reasonable to blame CCP if their system fails to accept a legal entry. If CCP was not capable of creating a submission system which could handle large .png files, then they should not have chosen format rules which made them legal.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2011.01.02 09:23:00 -
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Originally by: Nakayme Caonis
People like me that don't use facebook can interpret that several ways, such as that facebook has contents, and has a button that is used to vote in similar contests. Such, a button similar to the button used in facebook (a facebook-like button) would be used to vote in these ends.
Perhaps if you can't tell the difference between "the facebook like button" and "the facebook 'like' button", you should spend a little more time thinking about what you read? There is absolutely no ambiguity at all in that sentence, it was clear right from the beginning that facebook would be used for the voting process.
(Notice the very important quote marks around "like".)
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And to do THIS, I'd have to either choose between making a false facebook account (which can easily be used to make false votes)
And hey, you found the obvious solution! I guess I should give you more credit than the rest of the "BUT MY PRIVACY!!!!!!" whiners.
I do feel sorry for you though, if you could seriously get in trouble if your employers discovered that you play a video game. Perhaps it's time for a new job?
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