Your thoughts on the helm contest! Important!

[Nightarcher]

There are three problems with that suggestion.

1) People will most likely remember who made what helms.

2) They can just go back to the submission forum and see who made what design.

3) Someone in the game can just say "Vote for (name here) for the helm contest on forums, he is number (number here)"

Go party D! And the point of that plan isn't to make it impossible to link the design to the owner. The point of hiding the name and results is to encourage personal decision rather than going with the popular item. So even if everyone spams, "Vote #6!" you can't tell whether anybody besides you is listening to them or not. So you'll most likely chose one that you like.

And the MAIN part of the plan was to separate the design from the actual item. That's so we get a cool design, and then choose which useful item we cant to apply it to.

Just some idea the Devs *could* use to make it less strictly biased and more strictly awesome.

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Edit: The hiding names and results won't do us lots of good now, but rather, it's some advice for next time. The latter part of creating two seperate new polls could still be implimented now though.

[Machinima]

A & B my votes are from friends this would come easy didn't have to spam in foresthaven for mine. Quote:=Fail

[jonboy]

I'm in B camp with some sort of voting requirements,
I have no idea why they changed the judging rules at the end it has lead to fail, guess will just have to wait for the devs to come out of their foxholes.

[Hotndots]

A or B. Anything but C.
The one who will most likely win will be due to art quality and popularity, not due to design or any kind of fairness. The devs should take this ugly poll down. We stuck to our end of the deal, we submitted about art according to the fine print rules. The devs wrote in The announcement that they would pick the top three. They didnt hold up their end of the deal. I'm sorry but this is how i feel.

[Gavry]

I'm in the A Party

[RedRyder]

This whole contest is BS. Never participating in anything art related elsewhere.
Im tired of the cheerleaders these guys have in towne. Oh yea super fair, smfh

[Fabz]

My first thought was to let the devs deside but Im not sure.

Probably A, B wouldnt do much difference to C

[RedRyder]

I acually dislike this popularity contest. Havent told anyone to shout out "vote fabz" or anything like that in towne, its all their choices. But I do understand why u dont want www.machinima.com to win. I want a real PL player to get the shield, dont have to be me, shouldnt be an organization.

Residentevil, you say somthings wrong about the competition. Yesterday in towne u were shouting "Vote Machinima".. What was that about lol?

I vote for party A, let the devs decide Or make 2 winners or something.
Party B will only get the same winners as C since theyre 2-3 that stands out.

I know it wasnt you i was in the towne when all that was happening. If anything i hope u get the first prize. And wth machinima isnt a player at all ??

[Violentsaint]

Machinima should be disqualified because his an organization not a single person and he said himself he can't take credit for his design... That is my opinion tho. Also it would have been nice of him to provide a backstory with his helm...

I'm not saying vote for fabz but vote for a real player... Or let the developers decide...

[GaZz]

Should be a staffer who chooses the winner. Not a player.

[FluffNStuff]

Couple things:
1) Requiring people to have x number of posts to vote is just going to spam up the forums. For reference see Fight Club, Jedi.
2) I do really wish they would hide the results because no one wants to load the page and see they have no votes. I suppose the issue with this would be the transparency of the election.

[kavanah]

Party A all the way!

[Furrawn]

Couple things:
1) Requiring people to have x number of posts to vote is just going to spam up the forums. For reference see Fight Club, Jedi.
2) I do really wish they would hide the results because no one wants to load the page and see they have no votes. I suppose the issue with this would be the transparency of the election.

True. Would be bad to have spam posts. Then, I guess I think that accounts that can vote should have been created at least a week prior to the hat voting thread date.

And yes, guess in hindsight results should be hidden. Is sad. The devs, I think, tried to do a great thing. But all the campaigning for votes, even in threads, is awful... If folks do that, then people who played fairly don't have any chance.

After all this, I change my mind. I think the devs should pick their five fav hat designs. Don't have a vote at all. The devs choose a winner but implement all five of them in game. But, if there's proof someone cheated, they should be disqualified and not eligible to be chosen.

[smokester]

party A... kids these days overrunning the game and forums, we cant trust them... im not saying all are kids lol

[Justg]

Reposting:

I understand there is a lot of controversy going on right now. The last time we ran a contest, we chose the top three. There was a lot of community outrage that we did not pick the right three. This time we are letting the community decide over all of them. There are accusations of cheating, rigging votes, etc.

We think these accusations would still exist regardless of whether we chose the finalists or if you did.

But, in reviewing the rules, we have decided to disqualify Machinima because of this violation:

6. Submitter represents and warrants that (i) all Content is an original work of authorship created by Submitter; BY POSTING IN THE THREAD BELOW, SUBMITTER AGREES TO BE FULLY BOUND BY
THE FOREGOING TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Conqueror's Ursan Helmet
I can't take full credit for this because other members of machinima helped make this so this is a machinima contribute there for representing are selves as one person.

I know this is disappointing to Machinma. We respect and like you, and may build your hat anyway, but you are not allowed to participate in this contest.

- g

[Furrawn]

Reposting:

I understand there is a lot of controversy going on right now. The last time we ran a contest, we chose the top three. There was a lot of community outrage that we did not pick the right three. This time we are letting the community decide over all of them. There are accusations of cheating, rigging votes, etc.

We think these accusations would still exist regardless of whether we chose the finalists or if you did.

But, in reviewing the rules, we have decided to disqualify Machinima because of this violation:





I know this is disappointing to Machinma. We respect and like you, and may build your hat anyway, but you are not allowed to participate in this contest.

- g

Wow... So last time everyone complained because devs DID chose the three finalists and this time everyone complained because devs DID NOT choose the three finalists? You can't win, huh?

I was lucky apparently and missed the last contest war.

Why couldn't everyone just vote for their fav hat like you asked?
I know. I know. When pigs fly lol

Well, this was the first time I've ever put a drawing/design in a contest. I'm just glad I had the opportunity to participate. It's been great to see all the different designs coming in...

[araziza]

definitely group A

[deathish]

i vote for A. just let the devs choose please. i keep getting bugged in-game to vote for a certain person, getting on mt nerves.

[Buddyf97]

Party B with a post limit of 10. 25+ is very limited and it takes a while to get 10 for a new acc

[Warchanter]

Let the devs choose or have blind entries where u enter your design to the devs only and do not make it public if you are caught making it public you are disqualified. If your caught advertising in game you are disqualified. That way no one knows who's design is who's.

Just my two cents!