Compete with your fellow forumites and try to create the greatest temple the community has ever seen! The rules are as follows.
You can sign up as either a judge or a contestant. There is no hard limit on either of these, although at most I would prefer to have at most one judge for every three contestants, although preferably more pike one judge for every five contestants.
Once enough people have signed up, I will post a save. This will be a brand new world on the lastest edition. All contestants must use this save to keep things generally fair, although you can choose to embark anywhere in the world using any (dwarven) civ.
Once the save has been posted, contestants have two weeks of real life time to build their temples and post a write-up. Time extensions will not be given, so only sign up if you know you can meet the deadline. Tentatively we will start next Monday at midnight, but more details will be decided later.
The write-up must include a copy of the save, pictures of the major areas of the temple, and a few paragraphs describing the temple. You can edit your write-up at any time prior to the deadline, but you cannot edit once the two weeks are up.
After the entries have been posted, each judge will look over them and rate the temples from 1-5 in the four categories:
1. Relation to deity
-How well does the temple relate to the deity it supposedly represents?
-For example, a temple for a water deity would score high if it was built in an ocean with waterfalls raining down from all sides, but poorly if it was built inside a volcano made entirely from metal.
2. Difficulty to build
-Pretty self-explanatory.
-In this case, a temple built in an ocean or in a volcano would both score pretty high.
3. Architecture
-Do you use only rectangular rooms for your temple, or is the overall shape and construction of the temple more creative?
- A water or volcano temple could score anything here, it just depends on the creativity of the design.
4. Aesthetics
-Basically everything that's not temple shape. Color, instrument placement, etc. all go here.
-This is basically the 'other' category. What's in your temple that's distinguishing?
After each judge looks over the temples, they send their scores to me. I will average the scores and post the results soon after.
Other rules:
-Keep modding to a minimum. Minor changes, like bugfixes using df hack are fine, but do not do major changes, like creating materials, or using fastdwarf, or other major changes.
-Init file changes are generally ok, but still try not to do anything too major.
-Use whatever tileset you are most comfortable with.
Judges:
1. TheCheeseMaker
2. vjmdhzgr
3. evictedSaint
4. Paulus Fahlstrom
5. Timeless Bob
Contestants:
1. jwoodward48df
2. nogoodnames
3. k33n (possibly)
4. SimRobert2001
5. Sanctume
6. nomad_delta
7. greycat
8. TheFlame52
9. gchristopher
Save is here:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11644Good luck!