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Post by bdew on Mar 17, 2017 15:05:05 GMT
To promote development of infrastructure, i have decided to run a monthly road-building competition. Entries will be ranked based on a point system:- Every tile of road length (regardless of width) - 1 point
- Every tile of bridge length as part of the road - 5 points
- Guard tower near the road - 50 points
- Fountain/well near the road - 10 points
The top 3 entries by total number of points will receive the following prizes:- 1st place - Uniquely named fantastic 99ql shovel + 20s
- 2nd place - Uniquely named supreme 99ql shovel + 10s
- 3rd place - Uniquely named rare 99ql shovel + 5s
Rules:- All roads built after Walden launch (March 6th), on both servers, are eligible for entry.
- Entries must be submitted before March 31, 23:59 UTC. The winners will be announced in the first days of April.
- Roads must be at least 2 tiles wide. When going through thick forest - sand or moss the sides.
- Roads must look like roads, not like someone paved the side of a hill. Flatten dem borders.
- Towers, fountains and wells must be clearly visible from the road to count.
- Fountains and wells must be on water tiles to count.
- No landbridges! If your road crosses water - build a proper bridge that doesn't impede ship movement.
- In case of group projects, the prize will be handed to the player that submitted it, who will be responsible for distributing the prize to the group (as agreed by them).
Entry submission:Post in this thread. Include your character name, a screenshot of the map with the road marked on it, the length of the road + number of towers/wells/fountains (this will be verified by me). |
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sprout
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Post by sprout on Mar 18, 2017 1:11:01 GMT
>>""Roads must look like roads, not like someone paved the side of a hill. Flatten dem borders.""I agree I have seen too many terrible roads, I'd like to see server admins have an additional "bonus points" for most professional looking road, with carefully graduated slopes not where each incline is a completely different slope than the ones before and after. Going on those on a fast wagon feels like riding a bumpy roller coaster. Or even list the top three roads for the points above and even let community add " community bonus points" on which was "most professionally built road" and/or "most community useful location", again as a BONUS to the points added above, no one factor alone wins but rather a consolidation of points overall. Also, remember many people may NOT be happy about a large road too close to their deed, it's nicer to have major roads that skirt a respectful distance from deeds and let the deeds connect to the roads if they want, rather than try to "connect each dot" on the map by paving alongside the deeds. Many deeds might be planning to expand once they have more funds, and running a road alongside them may be at odds with their settlement expansion plans. letting them connect to the highway when and how they choose will cause less local drama. Not a rule, just my personal opinion/suggestion. PS: also some people just don't like roads  i am one but I suspect my remoter location will make it less attractive to the Civil Engineers among us. In other words, you will not be doing me a favor (and probably get on my Grumpy List) by building a road to connect me to the world at large.
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nova
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Post by nova on Mar 20, 2017 7:12:02 GMT
Hi, we (Alessabyss and me - Nova) built a road from Willow Creek to the bridge near the public mine. Still need to plant flowers and moss on the borders but this should be done within a day or 2. People added guard towers along it but it wasn't us. How do I add a screenshot of the road? (I can't see an option to upload an image). Thanks |
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Post by bdew on Mar 20, 2017 7:53:28 GMT
When you do a reply (using the reply button, not the quick reply window in the post itself), there's an add attachment button in the top right.
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nova
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Post by nova on Mar 20, 2017 18:12:37 GMT
Thank you The road sides are done now and it is 293 tiles long. Here is the screenshot I took yesterday.  |
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Post by Drakeling on Mar 21, 2017 2:49:30 GMT
Character name: Drakeling So far I've built a total of 6 guard towers at the following locations: X , Y 593 , 1255 593, 1200 608, 1149 630, 1099 633, 1305 633, 1355 Each of the guard towers have been improved to at least 50 QL. I have also built a highway that starts at 631, 1289 and ends at 629, 1371. The total length of the highway is 83 tiles. Here are the screenshots of the map with guard towers or roads marked on them:   |
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sprout
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Post by sprout on Mar 21, 2017 22:07:08 GMT
Nice work guys!!
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drew
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Post by drew on Mar 31, 2017 8:43:29 GMT
 The blue is the road i built and the red is a tower. - Road is around 882 tiles - 1 tower - Builder is drew |
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Post by celdur on Mar 31, 2017 21:40:08 GMT
 Here's the submission from me and Crisaria. The point counting in the image may not be acurate, but I'm pretty sure you guys will verify anyway. I just wanted an estimation of our final score. |
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Post by bdew on Apr 1, 2017 0:29:45 GMT
Submissions are now closed. I'll go over them tommorow and announce the winners.
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Post by bdew on Apr 1, 2017 12:54:53 GMT
And the winners are... 1st place - Celdur and Crisaria with 1092 points 2nd place - Drew with 517 points (according to my count, not sure how you got 882...) 3rd place - Drakeling with 383 Congratulations! And thank you to everyone that participated and built roads on the server! Rewards will be mailed out shortly and prize money was deposited directly to your bank accounts. Some screenshots of the roads:     Also a pixel-perfect map dump of the server with marked roads (and some other paved tiles) - i.imgur.com/mvtqIn9.png |
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sprout
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Post by sprout on Apr 1, 2017 12:58:26 GMT
Great job guys!!!
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Post by Drakeling on Apr 1, 2017 13:03:55 GMT
Way to go Celdur, Crisaria and Drew! You guys did some amazing roads!
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drew
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Post by drew on Apr 1, 2017 19:30:48 GMT
It was using the map and i'm bad at math sorry. :S Thanks for having events and thanks to all the CA for the help you all gave me much appreciated and great job to Drakeling, nova, Crisaria and celdur with there roads! |
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Post by bdew on Apr 4, 2017 13:33:39 GMT
Looks like the uniquely named shovels had one problem, they didn't have "shovel" in the name which makes WU client not show slopes with it activated (it literally checks for "shovel" in the item name).
I've fixed Crisaria's shovel, i'll fix the others when i catch you online.
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i am one but I suspect my remoter location will make it less attractive to the Civil Engineers among us. 
