Throw a Party and a Costume Contest!

ambassadorkael · September 2018

We're throwing a Costume Contest to celebrate our Ninth Anniversary! Come show off your best stuff, and you could win some original Champions concept art and more!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/11004883

chaosdrgnz43 · September 2018

Does it have to be a party costume or just go as your best costume?

ealford1985 · September 2018

It doesn’t say party costume

heroshima1 · September 2018

Is there going to be a particular Instance? or will the limit be increased? If multiple instances, will the devs be hopping through each one? Just curious how they plan on "judging" when there will likely be more than 1 instance.

pantagruel01 · September 2018

Previously they've jumped between instances.

monaahiru · September 2018

I hope everyone join could get 2 Devs tokens as like as last time. o3o

flunkydave · September 2018

One thing that irks me is that the 1st and 2nd place get Therakiel's Sword/Blade. Why not put the sword back into the game, where it belongs?

flyingfinn · September 2018

Thursday 5pm...that's 2am here....Why not friday 5pm?

monaahiru wrote: »

I hope everyone join could get 2 Devs tokens as like as last time. o3o

monaahiru · September 2018

So only top 13 ppls get some prize and all other just waste whole time? Lame to be awake because JPT here. o3o

mass0fusion · September 2018

Love to go but it sure is on a weekday. Gotta work.

ealford1985 · September 2018

> @monaahiru said:
> So only top 13 ppls get some prize and all other just waste whole time? Lame to be awake because JPT here. o3o

What you want? a participation reward?

flyingfinn · September 2018

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Does it have to be a party costume or just go as your best costume?

Whatever you do, make sure you show up dressed to the nines,

"To the nine" is an English idiom meaning "to perfection" or "to the highest degree" or to dress "buoyantly and high class". In modern English usage, the phrase most commonly appears as "dressed to the nine" or "dressed up to the nine"

pantagruel01 · September 2018

monaahiru wrote: »

So only top 13 ppls get some prize and all other just waste whole time?

The point of a costume contest isn't really the phat loot it gives out (very few of them give out much relative to their time requirement), it's mostly about showing off your costume and looking at other people's designs.

avianos · September 2018

monaahiru wrote: »

So only top 13 ppls get some prize and all other just waste whole time? Lame to be awake because JPT here. o3o

Well.. most of the time people participate Costume Contests to Socialize, share their costumes & characters and have fun in social events in general
It's a Social Event

ambassadorkael · September 2018

Hey folks,

Thanks to some feedback we've gotten, we're changing this up a bit. The theme is now Whatever You Want. Show up in your best or your favorite costume!

See you tonight!

shortbus · September 2018

Where do we watch the live stream?

themightyzenith · September 2018

shortbus#4297 wrote: »

Where do we watch the live stream?

There are links on the news article

shortbus · September 2018

themightyzenith wrote: »

shortbus#4297 wrote: »

Where do we watch the live stream?

There are links on the news article

Ah I missed that. And by that I mean this:

https://www.twitch.tv/crypticstudios

monaahiru · September 2018

PH theater zone #3 had no shark.

chaosdrgnz43 · September 2018

Why no dev token when Megalodon is killed? This is what the non-winners were looking forward to. :C

monaahiru · September 2018

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Why no dev token when Megalodon is killed? This is what the non-winners were looking forward to. :C

I think I won't join from next time to waste over 3 hours.
Where other we can get Devs token from. o3o

tigerofcachtice · September 2018

Great work, all. Excellent entries from everyone, efficient judging from the Dev team.

4 Zones full of entries and you managed the process to fit in just 2 hours. Talking with other players previously, I realised it wasn't just the length of an event per se, but the anxiety of waiting (during that time). You really mitigated that and I think people appreciated it.

Also, for your convenience (and I'm not a member of this group, so I'm unbiased), the radio station you noticed in the event is:

http://www.dawnradio.org/

jaazaniah1 · September 2018

Where is the list of winners and their screen shots posted?

tigerofcachtice · September 2018

In the spirit of being helpful, here's the saved stream:

We've been using it to look at the winners (obviously at the end). I know the winners aren't zoomed in on, etc., but keep in mind Kaiserin was busy announcing winners, handing out the prizes, and so on. And you know these guys (for example, Downside made something classically Downside).

On that note, great entries, everyone. It was a good CC, 4 Zones of everyone's best.

jaazaniah1 · September 2018

Not seeing anything for a stream?

flyingfinn · September 2018

ealford1985 · September 2018

I agree it made good time.

Watching the reaction to looks was my favorite part. It goes to show that anyone can judge but that doesn’t mean your look is better or worse than anyone’s. Everyone has different taste.

iamrune · September 2018

As partial feedback, I'd like to note that Dev tokens are far too rare a resource as it stands.

Once or twice a year a couple lucky players get one or two, means that normally most players will never see one at all, and I missed out on the one I should have gotten at the first Megalodon spawning last year due to the event crashing my game. By the time I got back in, it was over, and people who weren't there the exact moment dev tokens were spawned, like me, got nothing.

This year, they didn't even distribute dev tokens at all, and several people in my SG were not happy that they had spent 2 1/2 hours hoping for a raindrop from heaven so they could get some rare mask in the dev token store for 5 tokens.

The costume contest itself was fine and went pretty well, although Kael & Kais not noticing the stream was on a static background for the first 15 minutes is pretty sad. Especially since we were in the stream chat trying to tell them.

I guess my second feedback is, get a couple more people there, at least someone there to monitor the stream and stream chat like a professional outfit. I know Champions is a back-burnered, barely there kind of game now, and we should be thankful it gets an annual stream at all, but still, it's just insulting at this point. IMHO.

beezeeze · September 2018

Going to a CC expecting a reward is just backwards headed and wrong. I'm sorry, but you shouldn't just expect to win anything just for showing up. Now I did get some dev tokens the last time there was a dev hosted CC and I never told anyone about them until now just for this exact reason...if people knew they could get dev tokens for going to dev hosted CCs they would only go to dev hosted CCs for the dev tokens...which is expecting a reward for just showing up to a contest....which like I said is backwards and wrong headed.

beezeeze · September 2018

This applies to all CCs also...if you are asking yourself 'Why should I participate if there is no guarantee of rewards?" perhaps you should not participate.

iamrune · September 2018

I didn't go expecting one.

It is merely my valid feedback that the dev tokens are too rare as it stands, and I noted some people I knew grousing about it.

markhawkman · September 2018

How do you even define "too rare" in this context? they're mainly a reward for beta-testing content.

iamrune · September 2018

markhawkman wrote: »

How do you even define "too rare" in this context? they're mainly a reward for beta-testing content.

Well, here's an example. I alpha and beta tested the game for more than a year before it came out, and have personally directly contributed to many fine bugfixes and features in the game today. In fact the remote crime computer that we all take advantqage of each and every day to call contactws to take and turn in missions was a bug that I personally discovered, perfected the repro steps for, and broke on the forums, after getting permission from Robobo, the Producer at the time.

After some UI and NPC name clean up [such as removing ghosts and other NPCs that shouldn't be on your cell phone list], it ws later added as a full feature. but that feature wouldn't ever have gotten into the game had I not found and shown how viable the bug was.

that's only one example, but I have many more if you really want them. I once won a Dev sponsored costume contest, way way back in 2010.

Yet I have never received a Dev token. I'm not begging for any for myself either. Dev tokens didn't exist back then, I recognize that.

But there is a costume bit mask, Kaisarin's mask I assume, in the dev token store priced at 5 dev tokens, and people want to collect and use costume bits. Holding such costume bits hostage to a token that you basically have no way to reliably obtain is kind of harsh.

I don't think very many people really collect Action Figures so hard as to get a full set, anymore, but I admit I could be wrong.. those players would have it even worse.

That's really all I'm trying to say.

markhawkman · September 2018

iamrune wrote: »

markhawkman wrote: »

How do you even define "too rare" in this context? they're mainly a reward for beta-testing content.

Well, here's an example. I alpha and beta tested the game for more than a year before it came out, and have personally directly contributed to many fine bugfixes and features in the game today. In fact the remote crime computer that we all take advantqage of each and every day to call contactws to take and turn in missions was a bug that I personally discovered, perfected the repro steps for, and broke on the forums, after getting permission from Robobo, the Producer at the time.

After some UI and NPC name clean up [such as removing ghosts and other NPCs that shouldn't be on your cell phone list], it ws later added as a full feature. but that feature wouldn't ever have gotten into the game had I not found and shown how viable the bug was.

that's only one example, but I have many more if you really want them. I once won a Dev sponsored costume contest, way way back in 2010.

Yet I have never received a Dev token. I'm not begging for any for myself either. Dev tokens didn't exist back then, I recognize that.

But there is a costume bit mask, Kaisarin's mask I assume, in the dev token store priced at 5 dev tokens, and people want to collect and use costume bits. Holding such costume bits hostage to a token that you basically have no way to reliably obtain is kind of harsh.

I don't think very many people really collect Action Figures so hard as to get a full set, anymore, but I admit I could be wrong.. those players would have it even worse.

That's really all I'm trying to say.

You mean this one?

I got it using tokens acquired from helping beta-test the Eidolon boss fight in the QWZ.

iamrune · October 2018

And when exactly was that?

markhawkman · October 2018

Yes, I know, it was a beta-test event that wasn't recent.

Dev tokens aren't meant to be something you can easily grind for. They're meant as a reward for doing things.

themightyzenith · October 2018

Except there aren't any actual rules to the gaining of Dev tokens. It's entirely up to the discretion of the dev. Plenty of folks have tested various things on PTS and not received any Dev tokens (after the implementation of said tokens, ofc).

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