Ahra Pahts
All information regarding this contest can be found here
For those that don't know too much of the history behind it, this has been a long, long project, which I am glad is still going.
Our very own Aloys has been working with Robert the Rebuilder, Chacal, Dustin (in the beginning), Besharen, J’anim Paedet and more to get it to a stage of readiness to accept content.
If you havn't visited Robert's Shell #111 (coincidentally is the number in New Zealand to call for help
) your in for a treat, as this was the first ever shell to be incorporated with the city, followed by Paradox's Shell# 201 and Grogyan's Shell #119 last RAD contest to bring the number of shells to 3.Each of these shells is a little bigger than the Relto island, but more than enough space to put content into.
Even still the city is rather empty, thats where this contest comes in, and Aloys is over joyed that there will be more shells to incorporated into this city.
Anyway this contest revolves around making content for this massive Age, where you can do virtually anything, the plugins are very sophisticated as is the magnificent work of our developers that diligently work on it every day.
Because of the last contest having its ups n downs, its been decided to centralise all information onto the wiki here, while this thread is to discuss, and request help in virtually any form.
If you havn't visited the signup sheet, now is a good time to do so, as it holds a lot of information about what is expected as well as being the score sheet for judging your shells.
This contest starts tomorrow (at least I think so with the time zones to GMT (still havn't quite recovered from the pods puzzle on MOUL)) and we have 11 people signed up to officially take part in this contest, because of this long term project
The contest is split into 2 parts, a first merger or pre contest merger, and a second merger or post contest merger.
1st merger is where by the end of today (bar one person) all the contestants will have submitted their shell, giving time for Aloys to merge the game files into the project
2nd Merger is the post contest merger of game files in a seperate zip file from the pre contest merger.
Reasoning behind this is simple, people have been working on their shell, either recently or for a long while, so having the 2 sets of game files allows the judges to see and score on the improvement throughout the contest
In time both sets of files will be posted here so that you can visit them yourself.
Robert today announced that there is a paging system in place that will help loading times of the Age, as hopefully when its all full of content there will be 340 places to visit, and with 340 shells that is a lot of data, far bigger than any Age Cyan has ever done, will improve on loading times.
In this contest we have
MustardJeep #121
Katreeny #232
PaladinOfKaos #101
Nadnerb #237
Floydman #435
Andy Legate #315
Mystified Explorer #202
Darrigan #109
Tinuviel #309
Marcello #129
DatokerJ #104
Now because we have so many people having a go, and everyone wants to see them all, Robert has highlighted for us the shells in the contest
Though the contest has official shells up for scoring, but you still wish to have your shell incorporated and not be judged, you can do so at anytime you like, for example, I hope to release a new version of my Shell #119 for you all to enjoy, though I have many things to learn
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