Epic Contest: Drowned Shore Foundry Style

waryur

@terramak @strumslinger , the Cryptic people.

This Foundry contest has been going on since June 2015. So out of the last 10 months, maybe five of those months had an unaccessabile/unusable Foundry system. My math may be wrong, it may be less. It may be more.

Since the contest was announced:
1) After August 2015 Strongholds module, Foundry was down 6-7 weeks. The deadline had to be pushed back.
2) When Foundry came back up, there was the sound bug that crashed the editor. The community decided to wait for a fix to decide to extend or not, so people could finish their entries.
3) End of October - The fix was made, but then noone could rate/review the foundries. Deadline extended again. Not able to rate or review for another month I want to say.
4) Underdark/Demogorgon went live during that same time, so add a couple more weeks of Foundry being down.
5) Maze Engine went live, Foundry down for a month now, for some problems above and beyond republishing it seems from Strum's announcement.

At this point, I feel all the existing main contest entrants and easter egg entrants should receive something extra from Cryptic for their patience. I mean, the effort was made to help push the Foundry forward, and you supported this contest too. You vouched for it. But the ridiculous down time and glitches... it hurt there being more entries, hurt the number of people that even played them when they were featured, and hurt further the appeal your customer base had for the Foundry.
But I'm not saying anything new. Just think about it, please. For the waiting to have been at least a little worthwhile.

torontodave

waryur said:

At this point, I feel all the existing main contest entrants and easter egg entrants should receive something extra from Cryptic for their patience. I mean, the effort was made to help push the Foundry forward

But I'm not saying anything new. Just think about it, please. For the waiting to have been at least a little worthwhile.

Hear Hear!

How bout it Drergeant Drovermeyer? ;D Grace us with your presence and embiggen us with your avatar powers. #FoundryLove

Purple Personal Beholder Tanks?

@badbotlimit @panderus @amenar @asterdahl @terramak @commanderander @dextructoid =D

torontodave

@melinden they're up! all 3 contest entries are back online today..

Interested in hearing what you and the judges think. I think we've waited long enough! =D

melinden

I saw that, very very excited!

iandarksword

This is by far, the longest contest I've seen. Let's try to get this thing wrapped up before June 7th, in case things go dark afterwards for who knows how long...

melinden

OK, results are as follows!

First place: Disembark by @zachariah92
Second place: Sage Remiel Goes to War by @eldarth
Third place: Tidal Redux by @torontodave


@strumslinger, could you get the prizes to these folks?

Thanks for all your patience everyone. All three entries were excellent.

torontodave

Aw bummer!

someone had to be 3rd I guess ;D

Congrats Zach =D =D

melinden

The vote was close, each entry was someone's top choice.

torontodave

Well whomever voted for me to be first, they're obviously awesome. =D

iandarksword

Well done guys! I think you're all winners for waiting this long and having to endure all the hiccups along the way.

zachariah92

Yay!! I really love to win!!

But honestly, I don't really care if the prizes are split equal between the authors, that means: 750 k for @eldarth, @torontodave and for me @zachariah92, we all deserve it.

vida44

Are we still gonna wait for entrants to fill for the community prizes?

zachariah92

vida44 said:

Are we still gonna wait for entrants to fill for the community prizes?

I think there're 3 community prizes still going on, so I'll suggest to hurry up before the new mod of "Storm King's Thunder" shows off, because probably everything will explode again...

torontodave

zachariah92 said:

Yay!! I really love to win!!

But honestly, I don't really care if the prizes are split equal between the authors, that means: 750 k for @eldarth, @torontodave and for me @zachariah92, we all deserve it.

Aw Zach, what a gem. =D

edit: in other news, the fast community review, and farm quests, I think they're... GONE?! 3 cheers for Malley. @terramak

waryur

All entries were excellent! I encourage everyone to go play them!

eldarth

Updated OP...

1. Grand Prize: 1.5 Million AD -- Winner: Disembark by @zachariah92
   
2. Runner Up: 500,000 AD -- Winner: Sage Remiel Goes to War by @eldarth
   
3. Third Place: 250,000 AD -- Winner: Tidal Redux by @torontodave
   

iandarksword

@torontodave Nope, they're still around, just different names. It also appears the catalog is stuck again, but at least these squeaked through and were available to finish this up.

eldarth

vida44 said:

Are we still gonna wait for entrants to fill for the community prizes?

I'm thinking once they get re-re-published (again!) maybe we'll leave community easter egg contest open for another week and then close the whole thing out -- I think we only have another half-dozen entrants on at least one of them.

vida44

eldarth said:

vida44 said:

Are we still gonna wait for entrants to fill for the community prizes?

I'm thinking once they get re-re-published (again!) maybe we'll leave community easter egg contest open for another week and then close the whole thing out -- I think we only have another half-dozen entrants on at least one of them.

@strumslinger might as well throw in an Owlbear for every entrant.
The foundry was down for a long period of time after all.

eldarth

vida44 said:

@strumslinger might as well throw in an Owlbear for every entrant.
The foundry was down for a long period of time after all.

I thought @strumslinger was no longer with PWE, no?

vida44

Or maybe add now one of those new kitty rainbow mounts.

peregr1nus

This seem to be forgotten

eldarth

peregr1nus said:

This seem to be forgotten

Nope, pretty much completed...

• Grand Prize: 1.5 Million AD -- Winner: Disembark by @zachariah92
  
• Runner Up: 500,000 AD -- Winner: Sage Remiel Goes to War by @eldarth
  
• Third Place: 250,000 AD -- Winner: Tidal Redux by @torontodave
  

I think the community easter egg involvement pretty much fizzled out, there were only a few entries past the first drawing

vida44

There are still community prizes to be drawn.

eldarth

vida44 said:

There are still community prizes to be drawn.

as I mentioned....

eldarth said:

I think the community easter egg involvement pretty much fizzled out, there were only a few entries past the first drawing

guitarzan698

This contest took a long, long time.

eldarth

guitarzan698 said:

This contest took a long, long time.

Welcome to Cryptic Foundry Support.

morgriff

Is it too late for contest? LOVED the Drowned Shore quest by the way!

iandarksword

This post is almost a year removed from the last post. The contest finished up shortly before we lost the editor for six months or so. We just recently got the editor back, so it may be some time before folks do another contest. Several folks left the game during the outage, and there needs to be a willing community member to donate prizes in order for these community contests to generate interest. There also has to be someone with the spare time to organize and select judges for a contest. Maybe after word gets out some folks will return, or some new folks will step forward willing to organize, there might be a new one.