Another scenario contest?

[techumseh]

Originally posted by WarVoid

Techumseh, you sure you can't do that on an MGE platform? It's much more common than ToT is and much more compatible to the PBEM genre. Besides that, ToT is chock full of bugs...

I know it's more common, but it's also more limited ... yourself!

Seriously, I thought there was no arguement with the idea of letting the contestant determine the platform. Is there a problem with having a ToT-equipped judge? BTW, it's fully PBEM capable.

[DarthVeda]

How long does the average PBEM game last? 50 Turns? 150? 250?

also, about how many moves are made in the average turn.

[WarVoid]

Popular PBEM's seem to run roughly 150 turns. Tho i've seen longer and shorter. I think, basically, it's up to the designers discretion.

Techumseh, it's not a big problem, except, that on an 18k dialup (which is what i'm using), and on this laptop, I won't be able to download and judge the scenario due to the normal ToT scenario size (which, IIRC, is quite big). Therefore, the judging of such scenarios would rely on only a partial team, resulting in partial results....

Unless of course we can find more judges and i'll simply be the...errr....referee...

Cam, i'm planning on ordering a new computer as soon as the evil, capitalist, moronic government decides to mail my income tax cheque to me.... So, who knows, maybe I WILL finally be able to update SLeague *prays*.

[techumseh]

Originally posted by WarVoid
Techumseh, it's not a big problem, except, that on an 18k dialup (which is what i'm using), and on this laptop, I won't be able to download and judge the scenario due to the normal ToT scenario size (which, IIRC, is quite big). Therefore, the judging of such scenarios would rely on only a partial team, resulting in partial results....

Unless of course we can find more judges and i'll simply be the...errr....referee...

I'll refrain from adding various extra-large graphics files. Without them or sound files, zipped, it'll be less than 1 MB.

[kobayashi]

How are so many PBEMs going to be tested?

What's the deadline?

What's the maximum zip size?

[WarVoid]

Deadline will be December 1st, 2002. Max zip file size will be 1.5mb. A lot of playtesters will be needed to test the PBEM's. Either that or i'll be spending late nights playing the scn's by myself from all sides...

[Cam]

Originally posted by WarVoid
Cam, i'm planning on ordering a new computer as soon as the evil, capitalist, moronic government decides to mail my income tax cheque to me.... So, who knows, maybe I WILL finally be able to update SLeague *prays*.

An income tax rebate ... ahhh the good old days ... I remember them.

I found the problem with updating the League's site is not with the SLeague editors and their computers (confirmed by St. Leo's unsuccessful attempt to update the site), but with the servers that Apolyton is hosted on.

As much as I think Dan and Markos are terrific guys doing a hell of a good job , I wish that they could address this seeing that my attempts were unsuccessful.

[Marko]

I think that all three main platforms (FW, MGE and ToT) should be accepted in the contest. There are not enough PBEM scenarios for ToT now and the SDC hopefully will change that.

BTW, all my next scenarios after TSFE2 will be for ToT anyway.

[kobayashi]

Kobayashi and WillemvanOranje will be joining forces and we have already begun working on our masterpiece.

We will be submitting a joint entry - and we intend to win.

[our_man]

Someone sounds confident

[techumseh]

Collaboration is normally prohibited in SDC contests. I think some written rules would be helpful before people invest lots of time in something which may turn out to be contrary to other people's idea of what's allowed. The rules for SDC#3 are still posted on the Hodadian Awards site, here: http://hac.apolyton.net/sdc.shtml

In this contest, a collaboration was allowed for the first time for Test of Time entries ONLY, because of the extra work involved. In any case, no collaborative entries were received.

[hardjoy]

Originally posted by techumseh
Collaboration is normally prohibited in SDC contests.

How can this be? Is there any scenario around, which has been done without the work of several people involved? -I mean, we all use each others graphics, sound work, and generally steal others ideas with both arms and legs. -Then there are the more coordinated efforts, which feature different people working on different aspects of the scenario (like someone providing graphics for someone elses work). But essentially, its the same thing. I think I have yet to see a scenario which has been made solely by one person, i.e. something not done by any other person than the author.

[Case]

Originally posted by kobayashi
We will be submitting a joint entry - and we intend to win.

Ha! That's what you think


Personally, I don't see any problem with joint submissions. Given that we've got 8 1/2 months (!!!) to complete the scenarios, any benefits derived from two people working together will be pretty minor.


BTW Warvoid, can you please check your PM's and get back to me.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by kobayashi
We will be submitting a joint entry - and we intend to win.

And yes, I also wonder about the fact that teamwork is/was only allowed for ToT, what were the reasons, and is it the same this time? I personally would have no problem if it would be allowed for everyone, perhaps with one restriction - one should not be involved in several scns for the contest. But since only one scn is still enough work, this should be no problem...

[Fiera]

I'm al for team work being allowed. I mean, if the scn creators don't mind sharing the prize , where's the problem?