Spells & Systems Mini-Contest #16

[Cr34p]

Thanks again all. And Jonnny, you just needed alittle more time and it was good to go. The same with yours Herman.
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Me as hoster? Maybe, maybe not. Just because I won this contest doesn't mean that I have the most knowledge of spell making here. But sure, I guess it would be a good idea since I can't join the next contest and you can. I do not know what to say though. Maybe I should sleep at it

go for it

 

[Eccho]

As I said, maybe, I must ask Rui about that manner as well. And make sure that Poot is leaving us (no, that is not what I want-.-').

 

[MistAssass]

Gratz Eccho and Poot ! It was a cool contest hope for a new one ! and marry xmas to ya all ! great job everyone

 

[Eccho]

MistAssass, thanks and merry xmas you too

I think Hanky will be hosting the next contest by the way, and I wouldn't mind anyways. After all he is a spell moderator.

 

[raft_pl]

Congratulations Eccho! You did a great job on your spelll Especially the shield itself, looks really good and smooth. The damage reflection effect looked kinda weird at first, so that i thought it was a bug, but then took a deeper look into the tooltip and realised it's made on purpose

Also, great tribute for Poot, i just said "holy shi-" when i saw all those entries marked in one, huge post

As to the Eccho as judge - he's a very good person for it, but i suppose he doesn't have such wide knowledge as Poot do. Anyway, if he agrees, i would be very pleased to see him hosting the next contest

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Yeh, i overnulled the variables a bit And would have thought of better way to detect whether the unit dies or not.
Also, could have made it a more delayed effect instead of instant kill, but meh... The tree color is made on purpose anyway, just thought it would look more weird if blues unit suddenly changes into reds one
And yes, a friend of mine already told me the spell is overpowered (instakill + explodamage + poison...)

 

[Avator]

Agreed. Put your hands together for PurplePoot for doing all of this!
*applauds*

 

[Justify]

awww, congratulations Eccho
And Poot: I'll use a dictonary for my next tooltip ;P

 

[Eccho]

Yes Poot made a tremendous job and really deserves every fruit and cookie he can be given. And raft and justify, thanks you too Yeah, it took a while to find out how I should make it orbital, but rememered that it should be moving like a sine curve so=).

As to the Eccho as judge - he's a very good person for it, but i suppose he doesn't have such wide knowledge as Poot do. Anyway, if he agrees, i would be very pleased to see him hosting the next contest

You are absolutely right. Poot is really so much wiser at that point
But yeah, Berz said something about Hanky hosting the next contest. So I dont really mind. You did a good job as well.^^

Good luck guys on the next contest.

 

[Hanky]

Congratulations, Eccho! You've done a good job. Well, I don't know if I will host the next contest, but I would like to, if none have anything against it. I'm also having a new rule expansion: The guy who won the last contest is the judge for the next contest, thus there will be 2 judges. Myself ( Hanky ) and the previous winner. So in this case Eccho would be the second judge in the upcoming contest. Yet I'm not sure whether this is a good idea or not.

 

[terradont]

*applauds*
Merry Christmas!

 

[-Berz-]

@Hanky, sounds great =)

And Merry Christmas! (but thats like in 10 days)

 

[terradont]

It's still fun to say it as a goodbye in a contest!
Where's your christmas spirit? Don't you want to celebrate that some kid you never met were born in a stable?

 

[Avator]

To me, the Christmas spirit is having a legal excuse to skip school or work! Nothing more, nothing less, and I'm happy with that!

 

[Eccho]

Christmas spirit.... meh its just not only the time away from school. What I like about it is to spending time with my relatives. Also, usually hanging around with some friends

/@ Hanky. That sounds fine. I agree that it is better with two judges. Conclusively, it is a good idea and count me in on it.

 

[Kwah]

HANKY. YOU CAN'T HOST THE CONTEST. I OBJECT.

Moving on having the previous winner as judge sounds good, but it may not work for all cases.

 

[PurplePoot]

Hanky, I'd love it if you were to host future contests, and would be willing to give you some tips and such if you'd like.

However, I'd suggest against having the winner of the previous contest judge the next one. Your call, though.

 

[Eccho]

Poot, why is that a bad thing? You mean that all winners are not experienced enough (no offense at all here)? You probably mean the same thing as Poot, Hawk.

 

[Kwah]

Rather. You could get a solely GUI coder who wins on his amazing GUI code/ideas. What then?

 

[Eccho]

True... (do not know what to say)

 

[Hanky]

But maybe it could work if the second judge don't count as full judge. Something like this: "The rating of the first judge count 75% and the rating of the second judge count 25%".

 

[Kwah]

Rather. You could get a solely GUI coder who wins on his amazing GUI code/ideas. What then?

I hate to repeat myself but . . .

 

[Eccho]

Hanky, if you agree ofcourse I am willing to judge with you all the contests. That excludes me from them, but I still dont mind._.

 

[spiwn]

Judging & winning ... the contest is not about that
It is about doing the best you can and getting a review and a pat on the back(does wonders for self-confidence)

P.s. Poot, fix Ribenamania's score

 

[Avator]

Why make the last winner the judge at all? If he wants to and has the capabilities to judge, then ask him at the time or he will ask himself. If he doesn't want to or can't do it because of whatever good reason the moderators can think of, then he's not going to be judging the next contest. Can't be any easier in my opinion.

PS: In case of female contestants, the "he"s may also be replaced with "she"s

 

[Hanky]

Hmm.. I just thought that it maybe could be a good idea. Since there's the rule that the last winner can't enter the next contest and have to wait for a new again. But well, maybe it wasn't such a good idea.

 

[Kwah]

No harm in suggesting.

 

[Avator]

People can decide that for themselves. No need to push people to do it. If they want to, they'll say so and we'll see at that point.

 

[Eccho]

Judging & winning ... the contest is not about that
It is about doing the best you can and getting a review and a pat on the back(does wonders for self-confidence)

Meh, the reason I am volunteering is because I wanted to help... Nevermind what decision is to be made though.

Hanky is a good spell moderator, thus he is propriate to be the judge, with or without help.

 

[PurplePoot]

Fixed, spiwn, thanks for pointing it out!

Hanky, basically what hawk said. If you want to make a public portion, I'd suggest a poll, though I'm not sure whether it's worth bothering as this is only a little mini-contest to have some fun, make a spell, and improve your coding skills.

Anyhow, if I have some time, I may put together a compendium of all of the pretty good spells from the contests, and post it up somewhere for download (Spells section and/or T&S SSMC thread) to get these used some more.

 

[Hanky]

Ok, I see. Then I will make it like you PurplePoot, without a second judge and without a poll. Since I hate polls. So when we will start the next contest?

 

[IncubiProtocoL]

asap =D

 

[-JonNny]

when we will start the next contest?

I think because you are going to judge that stuff and got all the work its up to you to decide when the next contest will be

 

[Eccho]

I think, the next week the, everyone should have finished school for christmas holydays I guess.

 

[terradont]

That sounds good to me, but i'm not sure if i can get my World Editor working until then :s

 

[Palaslayer]

the guys who dont have holiday in a week, call 'em victims?

 

[terradont]

the guys who dont have holiday in a week, call 'em victims?

I wouldn't care if i hadn't had holiday next week. Then it would be like other mini-contests we did, like this one :?

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Having the contest next week is a bit soon, and I can't participate if it's next week either.

 

[Kwah]

I'm good with whenever.

 

[-Berz-]

Well the holidays start on Saturday(on Saturday we still go to school...) so this is like a week from now..And Sunday sounds just fine to start the contest(for me).

 

[raft_pl]

Nooooooou ;< Im going for vacation tomorrow for 2 weeks D: Im gonna miss most of the contest time, if not whole... Meh, i'll take wc3 with me ;3

Having the contest next week is a bit soon, and I can't participate if it's next week either.

Agreed, start it a bit later. Half month delay would greatly fit most of the people around here (or at least i think so). And the contest would start close to the new year then.

 

[Eccho]

A half a month would be right in time when I start school again, lol (but I won this one so I am not allowed to enter anyways). What I meant with that point is that I think several is having it that way. But well, Sweden may have different schedules.

 

[Herman]

Yeah, I know this whole site is on different schedules, so trying to start it so that everybody has more time is most likely not going to work (for instance I live in New York)

I would just hope the next one gets started as soon as possible

 

[Eccho]

well, maybe after new year. That would be a good start of the new year...

 

[Justify]

well, maybe after new year. That would be a good start of the new year...

A new years Mini-Contest, like the idea
But this requires a theme that fits well to it xD

 

[-Berz-]

Yeah we need a theme ^^

 

[MistAssass]

contest on vacantion time ... best idea evar ! But no winter theme ! ...

 

[Hanky]

How about the theme self-destruction? This means that your own unit get damage during the cast of the spell, like for example my Time Bomb spell or the kamikaze goblin spell from JonNny.

 

[Avator]

Since it's during the vacation, why not take something like 'Soothing' as theme? It can be some sort of healing ability or improves attack, defense or stats of a unit.

@Hanky: Then the theme better be called Sacrifice, since it doesn't necessarily need to kill the unit

 

[-Berz-]

But we had a "double edge" in the past like 3 contests ago.
We need something that is fun, not like you are thinking of an idea for 14 days.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Maybe the theme "Explosion" or something? Me like big booms!