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[aids]

cool cuz im going to Phoenix for the weekend

Say "Hi" to me when you're there. :)

[Alex777]

I had an idea for the contest. Ok since this contest can go on forever (Since no one can be elimanated) I was thinking of adding a achievement like system. Like for getting a said amount of wins, you could get certain things. For example:
1 win= Nothing....You probably got lucky. XD
5 wins=make an extra pack of your choice, (tile, booster, item or rule pack)
10 wins=make two extra packs of your choice, or get a special sig.
15 wins=get 3 RCE on any map of your choosing, or make three extra packs.
and so on.

This would allow people who stick with the contest a little something extra as well as adding a sense of progression. Anyway this was just something I thought of. So tell me what you think. :)

[Zivilyn]

We'll be implementing a pod system for the next round, as well as a few other changes. If it works out well enough, I have a few ideas about how long term rewards can be implemented.

[Alex777]

Awesome. I was just throwing some ideas out there. =)

[Zivilyn]

HERE COMES DAREDEVIL
ROUND 3
FIGHT!

First of all, sorry for the delays.

There are a few more changes this time around, that you should all read carefully and take note of.

Palemoon, devoted servant of Urr'Gnash that he is, is PMing all of you your packs right now.

Probably the first thing you will notice about them is that there are eight instead of four. That is twice as many.

This is to add the element of choice to the procedure. Simply pick one of each pack type from among the eight, and use those four to make your submission. You can ignore the other four! (For now.)

This is really a very simple change, and is great for you as mapdrafters, since you now have a lot more control over your final results. Some things you should remember though:


Do not use more than one of the same type of pack!
That is total bullshit so seriously you guys don't do that. It doesn't even make sense.

Do not make a second map using your other four packs!
I mean, you can for fun, if you really feel like it, but it is just more work for you and will confuse the hell out of us if you tag it or post it here so we might accidentally judge the wrong one and screw you over. You don't want that.

Put all eight packs in your map description, designating the ones you actually used.
In keeping with previous rounds, this is so that people playing your map can know what you had to work with. (Some of you have been compiling your packs into a single list of stuff you had to use. Guys! Why would you do that? Just copy paste it right out of your PM, titles and everything. This helps us a lot when judging, saves you a lot of work, and people get to see the clever pack names. Classic win win win situation.)



If that doesn't make sense to you, ask me some questions. I will answer them and then add the fruits of our discourse to the FAQ.


Another small change is the matter of pods, and consequently, prizes.

Instead of trying to pick the best six out of fifty-something maps, we are going to split you randomly into four pods, and each group will be judged separately. Each pod will have a First Place, Second Place, Third Place, and one Runner Up. There will still be only one random award each week.
Nothing else is changing though. If you do the math, that means we should be adding

41 NEW PACKS

EACH ROUND!


Actually that is a whole lot we might have to change that later, but anyway:

This greatly increases your chances of being able to contribute to the pack pool, as well as greatly reducing your chances of getting the same pack twice in a row. With that kind of growth rate, this contest should stay fun and funky fresh for a very long while.


Round 3 will end at midnight on SATURDAY MAY 16th. We are using GMT -7:00 for those of you who prefer living on the edge and cutting things close.
That means you get a few extra days than normal to help you get used to this bullshit the new totally rad changes.

I'll be posting the pods sometime this weekend, since not knowing them won't stop you from getting started.

[PALEMOON]

okay so i just finished PM'ing everyone, and you all should be set. Feel free to yell at me if i messed up and missed your or anything!

Also, i updated the beastly first post to include the changes this round. Good luck!

[Alex777]

This is going to be awesome.

[goatman]

WOOT!

[Diamondeye]

Praise Urr'Gnash!

Nice idea, Zivilyn and PALEMOON. I am especially glad since otherwise I'd have to use a combination of tiles, 20 normal doors and no other items. That'd been a b***h. Anyway, to work I go!

EDIT: Damn. These packs are just wicked... There'll hardly come anything good of it, I'm afraid. I've made a couple, but none of them are any good (one of them has 14 Gauss in it, the other 20 doors. What have you done, PALEMOON?)

[Exüberance]

Are the pods randomly generated every week or do they stay the same?

Do you have a computer generate the pods randomly, or do you just randomly pick names from the list yourself?

Heh, I got my own pack this round. The other tile pack is probably easier BUT I MUST USE MY OWN BECAUSE OF AN ARBITRARY RULE I JUST MADE FOR MYSELF!!

edit: also, I like the new rules, but I think there should still be only 1 rule pack

Oh, and can the mighty servant of Urr'Gnash update the packs in the first post to include the new ones people have made, plox? Im interested to see what's new.

[Seneschal]

Round 3 entry.

[bufar]

Can someone show me a picture of Urr'Gnash, He Who Hungers? inne isn't showing up for me.
EDIT: Screw inne! I don't need her!

[Brainstone]

I agree with Exuberance, that ther should only one rule pack. I got following rule:
"[ Moby Dick - by SkyRay
Rule
Tiles must resemble water somehow
Objects must be in the shape of a whale."

But I chose to ignore it to have a better gameplay. I know I shouldn´t have done it. The competition is getting more boring this way, IMO.

However, here`s my map:

[Cheez]

Mine has really good aesthetics.

[Zivilyn]

So what I'm getting from Brainstone and Exuberance is that you'd rather not have any choice at all for your rule pack? I can see your reasoning behind that, but I'm not going to make any more changes until waiting to see how this plays out. Eventually it'll settle into a solid system, but for now we're just trying things out to see what works best.

As for pods, I take a list with all of your names on it, stick into an automatic randomizer, and then take it out in chunks. Right now I think it's fourteen per pod. So the first fourteen names is a pod, the second fourteen names is another pod, etc. It'll change every week.

I don't know why everyone is still taking the titles out when they post their packs on Numa. So long as we know which ones you actually used I guess it doesn't matter, but still. (Actually I figured it out. Guys, take the brackets off first. It reads as IBF code and hides everything inside of them. Next round will be bracket-free.)

[Mustardude]

[ One Of Us Is Not Like The Others ]
Items
19 Gold
1 Mine

[ I'm Rich, Bitch ]
Rule
You must make at least one dollar sign out of gold somewhere in your map. You can use up to 15 Extra Gold in your map this round.

[ Picking Favorites ]
Tiles
Up to 50 of any single non-'E' tile type of your choice
5 'E' Tiles

[ Mario Pack ]
Booster
3 Thwumps
7 Gold
10 'One' Tiles
10 'E' Tiles

[adam_zappul]

Zivilyn or Palemoon!

Don't know what happened, but I didn't get PM'd...

^awkward moment of silence for me...^

I think it's just my computer being stupid, so if one of you could just tell me whether or not I got a message, that'd be great (and it'd give me "another-reason-to-switch-to-wireless-internet" that I can use against my parents=])

[notsteve]

FIRST!

http://www.nmaps.net/166383

[handofgod]

hahaha.

just read the first post.
That's a shitload of new packs.

[Alex777]

liked the one pack rule instead of getting to choose between 8 packs. Makes it less fun imo.

[Exüberance]

maybe we should make a poll?

[PALEMOON]

maybe we should make a poll?

Good idea. I added a poll! Just run with the 8 packs thing this week, and then we'll see what everybody thinks of it before the next round starts!

[Zivilyn]

The idea was never to send out eight new packs every week. If things worked according to plan this round would be the only one where you get more than four.

[aids]

4 because it forces you to think outside the box to make good maps.

[goatman]

I just voted for 8, but in retrospect, I should've voted 4... cuz four builds on the authors creativity.