Hmm... this gives me an interesting idea, actually. It's true, people do suck at voting. But how about contestants voting for each other? Slap on a rule stating that you can't vote for yourself and must give each contestant a score out of 15 or 10 or whatever, tally the end results and shebangabang, you got a winner. Unfortunately, this method still relies on people, but it does get rid of a large factor of the problem. After all, who would be play testing maps more than the contestants? Anyway, that's just a simple idea for the future, it might work and it might not, don't know if it's been done before or not :/
Anyway, Aspard is right. I cbf with this contest anymore, as there was bound to be a lot of bias in public polls (as stated in the first page of the other thread). I think what really matters is that we got to play some kick ass custom races and learn new things from each other about possibilities for our own projects. And as a modding community, I think that's probably the most important outcome of a contest. Not to define a winner or get a shitload of rep in addition to a status symbol making out that you're better at racebuilding than you actually are, but to learn new techniques and ideas.
With that said, I'd like to conclude this post with a list of ideas I learnt about from the races (if I don't mention you, I do apologize, but I just found nothing interesting about what you did in terms of techniques, not necessarily the race [but sometimes the race
]). I'll open with Stanakin's race. I loved the idea of having the Town Hall double as your Gold Mine. VERY unique idea, although it could use a touch up with the glitch of not producing gold while doing something in the building itself (upgrading, training, etc.). I also liked the Burrow idea, although it's nothing special in terms of new techniques, I think it would be cool to replicate the Imperial Guard theme from Dawn of War where units travel through the tunnels, taking time to come out of the end you elected.
Next is Pharaoh_'s race. Interesting Wraith abilities, the tactic ideas were very nice and well made, towers linking is a great addition, there's just one small problem. All of these are triggered. Not so much a problem and they are great ideas, but being triggered does show that while you had awesome ideas, they weren't accomplishable via the Object Editor (which is what I'm learning more and more about, despite knowing almost every in and out it has
). Anyway, being triggered is no problem and certainly no reason to look down on these ideas, they were very cool, worked well and were highly original. One minor thing would be that once you start a lot of the abilities you triggered, there's no way to reverse them. While you state that it makes it imperitive to know the race and therefore place the buildings well and use the abilities well, it is a nuissance as the player shouldn't have to work harder on account of the triggers not covering such events. Also, I liked your upgrading idea for the ghost types, interesting indeed =D
RED BARON, despite not having completed your race, your experiment with combining units was very intriguing, hope you complete the race some day =D
Wraithling, awesome ideas of black and white ghosts, in addition to a very awesome and unique hero. Having the whole race centre around a unique method of regeneration was very interesting indeed, and a great idea on the whole. Also, the Mirage Tower was an awesome idea. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but awesome all the same =D
Zpider, you had some awesome abilities and such, but they seemed a little out of place. I LOVE the Jungle Beasts 'Forest Spirits' ability, it's really interesting indeed =D. I would like to learn how to do that
. Also, the Spirit Bear ability was great =D
Ghost765, your race, while not having too much out of the oridinary, was very unique in a strange way. It was interesting to have the Food Production building as the Barracks, and also interesting to make it that you could only recruit units instead of training them. However, in a melee game, this can be considered op (mainly in this combination). This is because you are forced to build multiple barracks, and therefore can pump out irregular numbers of troops at once. I also loved the way you did the upgrades, but once again, having them increase EVERYTHING of the receiving units was rather op. However, imbalances aside, these ideas were very interesting and I should like to see more work by you
. One other thing, how do you get that swarm ability working? I'm just wondering how you made it so that the more gunners you had in a pre-determined area, the more damage they did. Very nice =D
...and I believe that's it. If I didn't mention your race, don't take it to heart, I only mentioned races that had outstanding features that were out of the norm. It doesn't mean that your race is good or bad, as I have different opinions about all of the races on a whole. Anyway, that will be all for now
Still wondering how many that actually played mine.. As I really would have expected some comments about it, even if it was just; Lolz, what the hell is this?
