DJ_Shecky

*hears the clutter and chairshots DFT*

Ooops. Sorry. Thought you were a burglar.

Sure!

*hands over a new ball and some puperoni and bacon strips*

There ya go!

You get a choice of coffee, tea or ME!

Butg when you get a mapserve and theserver is gone it is not a feature.

Ok, I'm going to go out on a little rant as I do take a little bit of a tone in this. If there was not meant to be a tone in the reply, then I am sorry for making that assumption.

1) Denature. I see one of the runners up with an Aura. The aura's use the same particle system as some of the powers, and can cause the exact same problems that you describe. Therefore in all fairness, they should not be allowed. (You should see how bright some people's arua's are)

2) Last time I checked Weapons were power sets. Its a Dual Blade Power Set, a Sheild Power set. Someone can very easily, and have in the past, based their auras to be part of their costume.

The point being is that you really set up a double standard with the way you have explained yourself there.

I think the biggest problem that people have had is the fact that some of these rules were not stated in the original announcement or rules. Its a matter of consistency to allow a fair and equal opportunity for all.

Virtue as a server had been lukewarm to cold of P.E.R.C. from day one because of the way things have been presented to us by P.E.R.C. We have seen people try to act all overly important, and not very conciliatory.

Ice Knight put things in a very nice and succulent way in his post, and I am very appreciative of the hard work the PERC team put into this and the events they run.

To come back over the top with an explanation that at points seems to contradict itself in reasoning and logic does not help the situation overall. I know that we are all human and make mistakes (try listening to one of my shows and you will hear tons of them), but how you handle criticism is at least as important as what you have done right.

I look forward to seeing what P.E.R.C. can come up with next, as community projects are what make this game great. Good luck to you all.

Just to clairfy, I wasn't complaining about the judging, but with the way this game works, Judges not being from Virtue is not a big thing really. It is easy enough to get around if You are say from Freedom and you are going to judge on virtue to tell a friend on Freedom to enter the contest with a character on Virtue.

I don't believe this has happened, but there is the opportunity there for something like this to take place, and something you all should take a look at.

I think overall you ran a good contest, I just notice pitfalls such as the whole No Power rule which was not stated in the original post. Its all small stuff that gets blown out of proportion.

FYI, I would make a suggestion of removing that rule for next year outside of Shadowfall and Steamy mist only because of the color customizations that can be done with it, or else not allow the shields to be fair. Conceptual costumes can include anything that is changeable at ICON. Just a thought.

I like to believe that is why they won, but without seeing actual judges scorecards etc, there will always be people who claim that a Costume contest is rigged.

Unfortunately there is never a way to prove it one way or another, so the argument goes on. Such is the nature of things.

I was wondering the same thing, but then I thought, "Well its so people who don't read the forums can be in the contest." Then I see the winners posting on the forums and wonder again.

Also, I have to wonder what Level characters some are. I know a few of the winners and they are normal Virtue players, but if some of the winners are too low a level, then you have to ask if they weren't made by people from other servers just to win the contest here cause their friends were the judges, and they didn't register or post here so they would not be found out.

I am not saying this is the case, just a set of possibilities.

I seriously would like a few more rules laid out before hand next year including a ruling on Powers in use, and a level clarification. I personally lthink that you must be over level 20 to enter into a contest like this, but that is just my opinion.

Needless to say, congrats to those who did win.