looks like it could be fun. i might be entering, i'll see how much time i can scrounge up.

I think you guys are overdoing it on the contests. Stretch them out over time, or else the novelty is going to wear off.

I think I may just enter this one, depending on the theme and criteria.

you say this on the 3rd contest ever. besides, contests are fun, if they have a good theme. the novelty might wear off for you, but there are 5362 registered users. sure most of them probably forgot we exist, but I know there's more than 20 people that go on these forums. you might loose interest in the contests, but until only 1 person is interested in entering, the novelty hasn't worn off.

And on that note I may enter, depending on if it's within my abilities.

You think all of those registered users will mod? How about you go through the user list (since you seem to want to do that) and get me a count of all users with post counts over 25 that have posted in the last six months. Then your number will make a bit more sense. I'd put money down that it would be < 200. Further still, give me a count of how many users contribute frequently (ie, have an adjusted posts/day of over two) that meet those criteria. I bet the number drops below 30. So you can take your number and stick it somewhere :]

All this is doing in the long term is discouraging newer people from modding. Sure, you're going to see lots of new, creative modders come up (as well as good contribs from consistently good contributors), but I guarantee that for every come-from-nowhere winner , there will be at least one other person who is discouraged because they consistently place low. But that's outside the scope of this argument.

I think the biggest tragedy would be this: flooding the scene with contests every two weeks (and even worse, more than one simultaneously) takes away from the glory of it. Who cares if you are the winner of the 57th bi-weekly mod contest. It takes away from the value and spirit of competition in my opinion.

You watch, people will get bored of this relatively quick if the contests are kept up at this pace.

And I'm sure is going to throw out this argument: Yeah, Eric, but we get so many good mods from these contests!!!!. To me, hardly any of those mods have been worth further play time. There have been maybe one or two solid contributions in each contest, but even then they are hardly innovative.

I'd rather the system encouraged free-thinking creative content design--as opposed to creating some ridiculous "contest" that forces people to think inside a little box. To me, the contest does nothing to enhance the quality of content available here--merely the quantity.

Look at some of the top posting threads right now, threads receiving the most attention. It isn't shields or grenades (in-the-box content), its Radar screens, aircraft, and whole entire missions. To me, those are mods with qualifiable and quantifiable amounts of creativity.

Not some contest encouraging more of the same.

Just my two cents (which I am more than allowed to put in).

Edit: to be clear, I am not against the contests as a whole--just the frequency with which they are executed, and the uncreative box it puts modders in.

i agree.
make the themes more open please.
and maybe have them bi-monthly, rather than as constantly as theyre coming in now?
or maybe do that once people start to lose their vigour.

I agree, this current double contest is a departure from the norm, and a little much. I started it at the request of numgun, where otherwise I would not.
It'll be interesting to see what the response is though.

As for bi-monthly contests, I'll think about what time frame would be good. I doubt a vote is necessary, but if you want, pm me suggested timeframes and frequencies and I'll consider your suggestions.

Right now, we have about a (work) week between the end of a contest and the beginnning of a new one. Likely, I'd extend that to two weeks on (one for modding, one for voting) and two weeks off. That would be convenient as well, having one contest a month.

You know, Thor's going to get really angry and who knows what'll happen.

Theme's up, get to it.

♥♥♥♥, too big to sig.

Oh, heavens to Betsy!

I do feel like having two mod contests at the same time is a bit overkill, though. I don't mind having them ever so often, but there's not much need for two at once.

Is hacking pacifist?

depends on its uses.

Something like Darlos's nanokey, but on a bigger scale.