Official Firaxis Civilization IV Modding Contest

[firaxis_den]

The winners have been notified! Many thanks to those that took the time to create content for the contest!

[LDiCesare]

U.S. residents only.
I almost started updating my map script!

[Dale]

Typical. Only one country exists in the world.

And why call it a Mod contest if you can't even submit a "mod"?

[Locutus]

Love the idea, but yeah, US-only That's excluding like 80% of all the great modmakers out there.

And not having a category for full-blown mods is also a mistake IMO, most of the best works out there are in that category. I can see the need to restrict the scope a little bit for practicality purposes but unfortunately WBS-only mods are completely useless, you can't do anything with them. You're pretty much restricted to Earth [enter date] scenarios.

[Dale]

Yeah!

I CALL SHENANIGANS!

[FrostyBoy]

I guess the reason they want it in US only is because they can use the submissions for promotion later on. If it were in another country, they couldn't really promote the educational use of their game for US citizens really well. Also, I suspect there is some sort of deal made with the ministry of education or whatever you call it over there.

And Firaxis are aware other countries will do a better job than Americans.

A shame I can't join, I wished to contribute.

[Kinjiru]

The US only thing is likely due to tax regulations, since they are giving out prizes of material value.

Byzantine IRS regulations

[Locutus]

Plenty of other American companies have run competitions that are open to the whole world (including Stardock and BHG) so I don't buy that.

[Locutus]

Re: Official Firaxis Civilization IV Modding Contest

Originally posted by firaxis_den
http://www.firaxis.com/community/modcontest.php

Dennis, the site's down. It went down while I was writing the news item yesterday, I figured you guys were working on the site but it's not back yet.

[firaxis_den]

2K needed to adjust the content a tad. It will be back up this morning. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

[Solver]

The contest even excludes several US states. Hmmm...

[Locutus]

Originally posted by firaxis_den
2K needed to adjust the content a tad. It will be back up this morning. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

It's back

[GarretSidzaka]

yeah i was about to start getting excited but then i saw that it isn't actually a mod contest!! wtf?

i would have sent in a mod, but they dont even want one (i guess unless it is educational??)

come on guys!!

[GarretSidzaka]

OH NOW IM REALLY PISSED. "Void in Arizona?!@?#!@#$!%@"

GRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

[snoopy369]

The state exclusions are presumably due to those state's regulations...