*COUGH*My entry on Chesapeake-Malas. Santa's Winter Wonderland! View attachment 11123
I think it's fine the way it is Petra.In fact there are two 'Halloween' themes and one 'Valentine's Day'.
The poll results are currently set at the default 'sort by votes cast'. I could change that to 'exact order' which would put them back into the same order as they were before voting. If that is desirable.
Thread merged. Sorry, but I'm not about to allow one is to allow all, and there's no way I'm allowing 90 vote-begging threads to clog up the board.Would like some votes for my house in the Holiday Deco contest. Please review and vote for me!
it is house titled "Atl Malas 26o33N9o 33E" link to voting page is
UO Stratics *New* | Holiday Season Contest Voting Thanks for any help folks!
Actually it shouldn't actually 'show' the votes, as after a while it becomes prejudicial in that people who haven't yet voted are hardly likely to waste a vote if they see their favorite has 0 votes and think there is no point, then look at the top 5 etc. It becomes self reinforcing. Same as listing them in order. Has the same result. Should have been a totally blind vote until such time as they were announced. Also the 'order' of the entries really should be switch around every 3-4 days so the one 'first' in the list isn't always first. Probably a bit late now.In fact there are two 'Halloween' themes and one 'Valentine's Day'.
The poll results are currently set at the default 'sort by votes cast'. I could change that to 'exact order' which would put them back into the same order as they were before voting. If that is desirable.
It was a farce from the moment people were allowed to post "This one is mine-vote for me". A legit contest that is decided by who is most popular on a forum can never go well.I think I'm pulling my entries...what a farce.
Maybe I'm missing something because I don't see anyone posting that.It was a farce from the moment people were allowed to post "This one is mine-vote for me". A legit contest that is decided by who is most popular on a forum can never go well.
Go to the 1st page and you'll see people posting images and links to their own holiday plot.Maybe I'm missing something because I don't see anyone posting that.
And the currently leading entries aren't among them. Allowing posting on this thread is not what is affecting voting.Go to the 1st page and you'll see people posting images and links to their own holiday plot.
I would like to officially withdraw my house from the "contest." If at all possible please give the 3 people that voted for my house their votes back. I do not want to be further associated with this so called "contest." Thank you.
Here, here!All I know is every effort was made to make it as fair as possible. And if people have to cheat to try and win then they know their entry was not good enough to win. And I feel sorry for them. its those kind of people that shouldn't have a place in UO.
The big mistake was not having the devs, ems, or maybe the arts department vote for the top ten, Then have the players vote out of those top ten which one will become the mini house deed. That would of been the way I did it.You know I hate to say it but I almost feel the same way. Rather disgusted by the results and I seriously don't understand why folk who claim Neon ruins the game and is UGLY would vote for a house with a bunch of ugly neon goza mats all over it... And to be totally honest I SERIOUSLY don't want another Christmas themed mini house anyway... we already have 2 of them. The gingerbread house and that other neon bright thing... But maybe that's just me.
not perfect, no.... I have two Stratics names, I'm sure there are people with many more I thought briefly about the 'minimum post' route, but then thought of how many people, many that I personally know, that have no account but do read StraticsIt could have been done in-game, but that would pull their focus from other, more important projects. There's no win-win here. If they had done that, people would complain that they devoted time to doing that instead of fixing bugs X, Y, and Z.
Tying it to your Stratics account would be possible, but not a perfect solution for many other reasons.
not perfect, no.... I have two Stratics names, I'm sure there are people with many more I thought briefly about the 'minimum post' route, but then thought of how many people, many that I personally know, that have no account but do read Stratics
Michelle touched upon EM involvement.... a banner on login to view entries from each shard on their EM page (information on those pages for finding the houses ingame) and then a ballot system at the EM hall on each shard for voting... I dunno, just kickin' out ideas for the next time, cause I sure don't want to ever watch something like this again
and holy cow, anything they do people complain about..... I'd rather see a fairly run contest!
Exactly how I feel... But I did take the time to enter and I suppose I can't say I'm surprised.This is literally nothing but a fight between a couple people over who can cast the most votes from proxy servers. I didn't enter and don't care, but yeah, this was totally predictable.
Better idea: Let's have one winner from each entry! (Sorry, I could not help it.)lets have 1 winner from each shard - im only saying that because mine was the only seige entry!
Well to be fair, the cheating is only a small handful. If you look at say the top 15 entries atm, only 3 are without a doubt in my mind cheating out the wazoo. 2 more are questionable, and 2 others could simply have a lot of stupid tasteless friends. Even accounting for what isn't my taste but obviously effort or a valid "look" others would love, there are 4-5 in the above mentioned that bumped way more deserving entries just below that top ten mark.Sorely tempted to just post a list of proxy resources and let anyone and everyone try to play catchup for the last couple days of voting. lol
Mmm no, i thought that's what i wasn't saying. there are quite a few nice entries that def got up there by their own merit. I agree with most of them, but there's about 4 that def didn't. It doesn't really matter at this point now, it's obvious the contest is going thru as is.So what you're basically saying is that any entry in the top is undeserving purely because you don't like it? Just...wow.
I hear ya on this one no one has to register, and you could get family, and friends to vote for you that do not play UO. I dont want votes from people who feel they need to vote for me because they know me. I want players who play the game vote for my decorations because I do a good job.ahh, did not know that, Tazar, thank you
kinda makes it worse in my mind, tho... it's all so confusing
You forgot to close your tag: [ /Sarcasm]There is an awful lot of complaining going on about this contest, everyone should stop being sore sports. I'm sure the houses that have the votes deserve them....goza's are cool....right?
maybe if you did Petra could be like WOW how did I ever think this would work......................Sorely tempted to just post a list of proxy resources and let anyone and everyone try to play catchup for the last couple days of voting. lol