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| Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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The Establishment
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 17:04
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Utilities are now exempt from submission as they are another type of beast. However, I think it's only far that Spiderweb get to host the scenarios -- that and it makes judging a bit easier with a central download place. As far as the BoE/BoA categories, I think I'll defer the decision until we have a better idea of the submission and judging situation. [ Sunday, August 27, 2006 17:05: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 09:25
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Fair enough, I think a good approximate ratio to get to is about 2/3 small, 1/3 large. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 09:05
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Nominally I would say both as well. Of course, we could limit it to one if we want to make things easier on judges. Speaking of judges, accessibility issues creates an interesting challenge. I propose the following: A member may judge a category so long as he/she does not have a scenario in that category. He/she may judge only BoE scenarios, only BoA scenarios, or both depending on the judge's access to software. If the judge does both, he/she must agree to not favor one media over the other -- scenarios must be judged on their individual merits regardless of format. An interesting idea came up that we would also have a BoE and BoA category in addition to the previous ones. This would try to eliminate bias towards one. So basically you would be entered into all eligible categories. Comments? Also, looking at what we have, we may need to reformulate the category definitions. Does anyone know if the bar were lowered to 20 zones if it were to make a difference? [ Sunday, August 27, 2006 09:11: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 08:21
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APF would indeed be eligible and will be submitted for those wondering. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 08:17
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quote:Sorry for the double post. What it means is that if you have a scenario, you must submit it to the tables on Spiderweb Software or at least attempt to. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 08:15
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I would agree with you on scripts as a metric except that a long way back we decided to have both BoE/BoA scenarios be eligible for entry. Since there is no analog for scipts in BoE, it would not be very workable without splitting categories which would make for small categories. Having two types of scenarios allowed will raise interesting issues as far as judging goes. We'll have to iron those out when we see a list of entries. We may have to split the judging based upon BoE/BoA accessibility. Further comments? Btw, does anyone have a list of eligible scenarios? -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 07:28
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Continue this discussion here: Contest Discussion -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 07:27
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Eligibility Both Blades of Avernum and Blades of Exile scenarios are eligible for entry into the 8th Scenario Design Contest with the following guidelines: 1) The scenario cannot have been an entrant in any previous Spiderweb of Olympia scenario design contest. 2) All entered scenarios (utilities are exempt) must have been submitted to Spiderweb Software.* 3) The deadline for entry is November 30, 2006. * If you already submitted to Spiderweb and either have not been posted or have been removed, you may host it independently. However, you must have actually attempted to submit it to Spiderweb software. Categories Small Scenario Large Scenario Newcomer Best Utility Small Scenario: < 25 zones Large Scenario: >= 25 zones Zones is the total number of towns plus outdoor sections. Near identical towns (such as use of VTE) count as 0.5 of a zone. To be eligible for the Newcomer category, you must not have been a participant in any previous Spiderweb or Olympia scenario design contest. If this applies to you and you have more than one entry in this contest, you may select only one to be in the Newcomer category. Judging Initial Rounds Scenarios in each category will be given a score from 1-10 based on quality, 1 being lowest and 10 being highest. The decision criteria is generally up to the individual judge so long as he/she is consistent where possible. The exception is that a judge cannot favor either BoE scenarios over BoA scenarios or vice versa, each must be judged on it's merits. All judges scores are averaged to make a cumulative score. The highest ranked scenario in each category (except Best Utility) and any scenario with a score of 80% the highest score in the category will advance to the Best Scenario round. For example, suppose a category has four scenarios ranked 8.8, 8.5, 7.6, and 6.3. The cutoff for admission to the final round is 7.04 (0.8*8.8), so the top three scenarios advance and the lowest one does not. Final Round The scenarios that advanced are judged in a final best scenario round. All participating judges then discuss and debate to rank the scenarios from best to worst. Each judge is given three votes that he/she may distribute as he/she sees fit with a maximum of two for one scenario. How the judge actually allocates votes are secret. Once voting has completed the lower 50% rounded down (if there are 7, only the lowest 3 are dropped) are eliminated. If there are ties within the cutoff, all tied scenarios remain. Any votes for eliminated scenarios may be redistributed at the judge's discretion; votes for scenarios still in play may not be reallocated. The process continues until one scenario has the most points. Tie Breaking In the event of a tie that cannot be broken because no votes remain to be reallocated, with the exception of the final decision round, the cumulative score of the initial round is used to make the decision. Should those scores be tied, the high scores are compared and on down to second highest, third highest, and so on. In the event of an actual tie between all scores, both (or all those tied) scenarios are eliminted. If a tie occurs in the final decision round (i.e. two scenarios remain), all votes are cleared and the judges vote for their preferred scenario. If this vote ends in a tie, the above criteria are used. If all criteria are tied, the competition is a tie and both are co-winners. In the event more than two scenarios remain and all remaining scenarios are tied, the original decision criteria is used until two remain (at which a vote is done as above) or the tie is broken. Should the tie be impossible to break, a vote will be done to attempt to break a tie. If doing so is impossible, then all scenarios that are tied are declared co-winners. * * * Comments? [ Tuesday, October 17, 2006 05:06: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Queston about tower colony quest... in Avernum 4 | |
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The Establishment
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written Saturday, August 26 2006 19:24
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FYI -- the question is over a month old. Try not to revive dead topics, although thanks for answering the question. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| So, I notice Archmagus Micael is banned... in General | |
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written Thursday, August 24 2006 15:14
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Yes, he is banned. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Story LIne in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, August 24 2006 07:55
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I agree about Shanti, too bad she gets killed in an unceremonious way. :mad: -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Ideas For Avernum V in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, August 23 2006 21:13
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Anyways, been suggested before and will not happen in the foreseeable future. Since this topic has outlived its purpose... -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, August 23 2006 20:02
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All right, here's the details: 7:00 pm GMT on Saturday, August 26, 2006. AIM chatroom: blades If you need help to join, just reply for assistance. (note that's 3:00 pm EDT) -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Leveling up in Geneforge 3 in Geneforge Series | |
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written Wednesday, August 23 2006 14:12
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I believe you level up quicker with a single creation versus multiple ones. No creations, of course, is the fastest. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Anagrams in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 22 2006 20:24
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Dare you to make an anagram with *i :P -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| bashing anvils in Geneforge Series | |
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written Monday, August 21 2006 14:40
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I believe that would be a bug, e-mail Jeff. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| town? in Blades of Exile | |
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written Monday, August 21 2006 14:39
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Avoid event timers, they are pretty much broken. You can always simulate them using flags and which day? nodes to set the appropriate VTE flags. See Za-Khazi as an example. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Herb seller in Avernum 4 | |
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written Monday, August 21 2006 13:33
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There are few people who sell herbs in copious amounts. You need decently high nature lore and search out for those light brown piles in the outdoors. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| School in General | |
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The Establishment
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written Sunday, August 20 2006 18:54
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Of course it depends on the skill. In many professions, it's rare that you need a specific degree to get certain jobs, often others will suffice. For instance, in most science and technology careers, virtually any physical science degree will suffice. Same goes with much in the biological sciences. Getting admitted to medical/law school (typically a graduate level program) only needs a relevant degree. Business related degrees are similar, so long as you have one, you can probably get a job in a semi-related field. An english degree would be helpful for being a professional editor or some other vocal training career. It is, however, by no means required, just having a degree related to the career is. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| A Confession of Spam in General | |
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written Saturday, August 19 2006 17:06
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Congrats Kel on your admirable postage. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| disapearing npc exile3 (purgatos) in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, August 19 2006 17:04
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The way to possibly fix this is to go outdoors and hit ">", this will reset towns, but not resurrect important characters. Reenter Kneece and hopefully he'll be back. If not, well, you can either skip the roaches or reload to an earlier save. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| In An Era Of Change in General | |
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written Saturday, August 19 2006 16:58
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Congrats on the new status. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Saturday, August 19 2006 16:08
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Go into the exact details of what you are doing, please. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |