Hey everyone,
Since we are a few days out from the launch of Season 9, we are going to officially postpone the voting stage of this challenge to accommodate the impending downtime the Foundry will experience after launch.
One the Foundry is back up, we will be able to reinstate the voting portion of this challenge.
Thanks for you patience everyone, if you would like to spend the remaining time fine tuning your missions, that is totally fine with me!
I will keep everyone updated on the return of the foundry post launch.
Thanks again everyone, and great work so far! Love what I have seen!
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There used to be a picture here, but they changed signatures and I can't be bothered to replace it.
I've also had people play mine, and last night I ran through another person's entry. Seems kind of unfair to extend the deadline when some people already published.
I don't mind this, better to have an essentially uninterrupted voting period. My entry "Straight Through the Mirror" was done by Wednesday's deadline and I have no intention of working on it past then, but I'm not going to be put out if anyone else does on theirs
I don't mind this, better to have an essentially uninterrupted voting period. My entry "Straight Through the Mirror" was done by Wednesday's deadline and I have no intention of working on it past then, but I'm not going to be put out if anyone else does on theirs
I agree. I won't be working on my mission further. This is a frustrating development but I'd prefer that everyone get to see each others' missions (and mine for that matter :P) at their best. I've already played through most of the mission entries but it would be a shame for any of them to be judged on bugs that we couldn't have, at this point, prevented. I've really enjoyed many of them.
Should we take down our missions before the Season launch? or is there an anticipated republish process?
Hey everyone,
Since we are a few days out from the launch of Season 9, we are going to officially postpone the voting stage of this challenge to accommodate the impending downtime the Foundry will experience after launch.
One the Foundry is back up, we will be able to reinstate the voting portion of this challenge.
Thanks for you patience everyone, if you would like to spend the remaining time fine tuning your missions, that is totally fine with me!
I will keep everyone updated on the return of the foundry post launch.
Thanks again everyone, and great work so far! Love what I have seen!
~CaptainSmirk
oh. eeenteresting. I missed the deadline. Can I still enter???
A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
I would suggest that perhaps a short extension (one or two weeks, maximum) may be appropriate for people to make sure that things are all plugged in and working, especially in the wake of season changes.
Personally, mine is as ready as it's going to get, and am eager for the voting period. That said, I'd also prefer to see people putting in their entries at their best.
And which thread do you want people to use when voting?
I would assume that voting ends 3 weeks from now. Also, votes aren't done in threads, but in Forum PMs to Smirk himself.
Hey Smirk, any way that you could make a blog post or thread listing all of the official challenge entries? I've looked for all of the ones listed in the challenge thread, but I swear that a bunch of those authors don't have a mission published for the challenge.
I would assume that voting ends 3 weeks from now. Also, votes aren't done in threads, but in Forum PMs to Smirk himself.
Hey Smirk, any way that you could make a blog post or thread listing all of the official challenge entries? I've looked for all of the ones listed in the challenge thread, but I swear that a bunch of those authors don't have a mission published for the challenge.
Hey Tyler,
I can't throw a blog post up about this one as Trendy is swamped, but we have created an official thread for it, and posted about it on our Twitter/Facebook.
Although this time voting WILL NOT be handled by PM in the forums. All votes will be in the voting thread.
I can't throw a blog post up about this one as Trendy is swamped, but we have created an official thread for it, and posted about it on our Twitter/Facebook.
Although this time voting WILL NOT be handled by PM in the forums. All votes will be in the voting thread.
Though I'm wondering if it's a good idea to have everyone's votes out in the open in a thread like that. Perhaps it's just me seeing the glass half-empty, but I could see this possibly skewing players' voting patterns if they see everyone else voting for one mission or another, instead of the one they really want to vote for.
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Since we are a few days out from the launch of Season 9, we are going to officially postpone the voting stage of this challenge to accommodate the impending downtime the Foundry will experience after launch.
One the Foundry is back up, we will be able to reinstate the voting portion of this challenge.
Thanks for you patience everyone, if you would like to spend the remaining time fine tuning your missions, that is totally fine with me!
I will keep everyone updated on the return of the foundry post launch.
Thanks again everyone, and great work so far! Love what I have seen!
~CaptainSmirk
Do we need to withdraw the missions? I had already published it and have fleet members playing it.
There used to be a picture here, but they changed signatures and I can't be bothered to replace it.
One little aside, I think several of us contestants may have made missions specifically for Romulan captains. If so, please post the particulars in my Romulan Mission list thread http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=16406551#post16406551
I agree. I won't be working on my mission further. This is a frustrating development but I'd prefer that everyone get to see each others' missions (and mine for that matter :P) at their best. I've already played through most of the mission entries but it would be a shame for any of them to be judged on bugs that we couldn't have, at this point, prevented. I've really enjoyed many of them.
Should we take down our missions before the Season launch? or is there an anticipated republish process?
oh. eeenteresting. I missed the deadline. Can I still enter???
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
No idea. I claim 3rd place. You two can fight over 1st and 2nd.
I think the event will get back soon, as the Foundry was down until a week or 2.
LOL! Take third then. I want the chocolates!!
But we finally got that problem solved today!
Back to the foundry challenge.
Since this is the first time I am running the challenge, I would like to open the floor to ask how you authors would like to proceed?
Since some of the have already published and had the game played, how does everyone feel about opening everyone up for voting now?
If you are all ok with it, we can start the voting process.
~CaptainSmirk
Personally, mine is as ready as it's going to get, and am eager for the voting period. That said, I'd also prefer to see people putting in their entries at their best.
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
~CaptainSmirk
~CaptainSmirk
And which thread do you want people to use when voting?
I would assume that voting ends 3 weeks from now. Also, votes aren't done in threads, but in Forum PMs to Smirk himself.
Hey Smirk, any way that you could make a blog post or thread listing all of the official challenge entries? I've looked for all of the ones listed in the challenge thread, but I swear that a bunch of those authors don't have a mission published for the challenge.
What I was asking about was this sentence from the initial announcement: "A Voting Thread will be posted and stickied when that period begins. "
Voting will continue until July 4th, 2014.
Good luck authors!
I am looking forward to trying these missions myself
~CaptainSmirk
Hey Tyler,
I can't throw a blog post up about this one as Trendy is swamped, but we have created an official thread for it, and posted about it on our Twitter/Facebook.
Although this time voting WILL NOT be handled by PM in the forums. All votes will be in the voting thread.
Check it out here.
~CaptainSmirk
Cool, thanks Smirk. Looks sweet.
Though I'm wondering if it's a good idea to have everyone's votes out in the open in a thread like that. Perhaps it's just me seeing the glass half-empty, but I could see this possibly skewing players' voting patterns if they see everyone else voting for one mission or another, instead of the one they really want to vote for.
Just a thought. :cool: