GFX King of the Hill thingo I thought up

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This is an idea. :3

The plan with this idea would be to create a game of sorts for the GFX area, since there's nothing of the sort there right now, just people making stuff and bashing if someone makes something with Sasuke in it. I'm hoping something like this could alleviate that and make it a better place. If you understand how a regular king of the hill works, then you might be able to get the jist of it, but I'll explain it anyway.

How this would work is that you'd have a hill, and people try to control it with signatures and tags, voted by the people. For this example I'll have four people, person1, person2, person3 and person 4.
Person1 and Person2 both make a signature to compete in this king of the hill event. You can only make one signature for the entire time until you lose your reign over it. The general public will then vote on who should win rights of the hill (in this case, Person1) and they control it with their signature.

Then Person3 challenges Person1 and puts up a signature against their current hill signature. The public vote Person1 as the winner and continues his reign over the hill. Person4 does the same thing, but this time the public like his signature better, and so Person4 is now king of the hill.​

Something similar to that, but it's just an example. If you think of it like a King of the Hill match in Team Fortress 2, there's only one hill, and you have to control it for a certain amount of time before the game is over and a new game starts, so something like that. If you win 5 times in a row the game restarts and you can try to take the hill again or something.

It's not complete yet, obviously, but it's the jist of something I think would be really fun to do. I'd prefer if more GFX people had their input on the idea, but everyone else is fine as well.

Thoughts?
 

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Any kind of competition here, are just competitions based on the best character you put in your signature, not the skills. So yeah, I'm kinda against it.
I suppose there is that, and taking into consideration of the general intelligence of the people around here I can see why you'd be against it. But that's going to happen no matter what, so why should it stop us? I'm sure most of the people who can give some sort of criticism will be voting intelligently.
 

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Its good .. this idea reminds me of Lesh/Zeus's idea. But it is possible for it to become a failure, not all people will vote for the thing that is the best, if they know their friend are taking part why not helping him? That's why SOTW contest, disallows you to put your name on the work you submitted in order to prevent a popularity poll.

But I support this, all the best! ;D
 
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I agree, how about you can survey people which signature they want to see too, :y
wat?


I'm well aware that there is the option of failure on this boat, but it's why I've made this thread, not to just bring up the idea to see if people like it and it can go ahead, but to fool-proof it so it can't fail, no matter what happens through discussion.
 

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I suppose there is that, and taking into consideration of the general intelligence of the people around here I can see why you'd be against it. But that's going to happen no matter what, so why should it stop us? I'm sure most of the people who can give some sort of criticism will be voting intelligently.
Well, the voting could be done by posting and in your post you must give criticism and reasons why you vote for the signature you voted for. This way you could put away votes for characters or people.
 

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I'm sure most of the people who can give some sort of criticism will be voting intelligently.
That's the problem U_U

Go and check the Design Hall. See how many posts like 'Awesome', 'Nice', 'Great' ect..., there is for all signatures. 75% of the comments - and in a way, viewers - are just biased by either their friends or by their poor concept of a signature.

In short, this contest is a good idea but a contest is for majority of NB to participate - if not as participants, then atleast as voters - but this contest requires a high skill/knowledge of GFX; which unfortunately few got. Frankly, if mostly all members (or even a majority) could atleast give proper CnC, then I'll really be for this idea.

Sure, we could made the name's anonymous just like most of the popularity contests but still, this contest is of a much higher level than SOTW. There's a chance of a great signature getting eliminated against a cropped+bordered stock due to the poor judgment skills of most members.

So, I don't think I'm for it.
 

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It's a nice idea...I'd like to look at something pretty.

Any kind of competition here, are just competitions based on the best character you put in your signature, not the skills. So yeah, I'm kinda against it.
There could be a ban ( permanent ) on certain characters to prevent this.
 

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You mean like two people collab and make 1 sig and other 2 people collab and make another and you vote between the two? :l
 

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Yes, let's ban everyone's favourite characters so they don't vote for them.
Here's a of my favorite characters - good luck in banning all of them. :D

Just kidding, it's impossible to do that. How can you possibly expect to guess which are all the characters that one person likes - given that there are nearly 100000 members in this forum? U_U
 

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Nice avatar Pesh, as always.

As for the suggestion, i think it has basis to work but some degree of work needs to be put in it to make it completly possible and executable. The comment with the vote would be an idea. However, in any way i look at it, i see only more work for the mods as a contest like this requires a bit more work and attention than the regular ones. Unless you just leave it be and make it simple votes. However, most of the votes would be bias...
 

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I still want this idea to go ahead, but it is the problem of the general populus which we have to try and counter. I'll agree with the most people just posting in threads and saying "great" because it's used for post spamming, but I think we can counter this somehow.

We could either make it a set stock/render or character that you have to use, but that still leaves everyone posting for their friends and stuff. My other idea would be having a panel of people who'd be willing to help look into keeping this fair and stuff.

But thinking about it, you can make people state their reasons for voting for people and anyone's votes who say because of the chaaracter or they are their friend would be nullified, same for people who don't state why they voted. But all in all not much can be done about that problem, but there's no harm in going ahead with it just for a small time, right?
 

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some restrictions are needed
for once maybe the sigs should not be anime/game related
only using real people stock/render would do the trick...maybe....
 

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some restrictions are needed
for once maybe the sigs should not be anime/game related
only using real people stock/render would do the trick...maybe....
Why would that restrict who people vote for? Someone could enter using a stock of Ke$ha for example and everyone hates her and automatically votes for the other person.

Bias is going to be there no matter what you do, and if people are going to vote that way then let it be.

I'm not saying we should make this an official competition, but just something fun for the GFX section to liven up the place.
 

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Why would that restrict who people vote for? Someone could enter using a stock of Ke$ha for example and everyone hates her and automatically votes for the other person.

Bias is going to be there no matter what you do, and if people are going to vote that way then let it be.

I'm not saying we should make this an official competition, but just something fun for the GFX section to liven up the place.
when i said that some restrictions are needed i didn't mean that using real persons was a restriction for voting
it was just an example for the competition
i don't see allot of real people sigs on NB ans SOTW is mostly anime/game related
yea we had that band thing and some other but this competition could be real people only

voting is a whole different problem
and yea reasons for voting should be included or else the vote wont count or something like that
 
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