Projectionist_EU

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One question though - the prizes, E.G:

"A painted mixed-media sculpture on a mini-diorama in 1:15 scale of a CoX Hero/Villain of your choice"

Any details on that? are they ready made? are you making them yourself? is it PC or Canon characters? (and so on)

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• It can be your own character, those of a friend or a canon NPC (not that many will want a Statesman figure, I suspect).
• If it's not your own character I might pose restrictions on how you wish for it to be depicted unless you get permission from the owner (no extreme lewdness, maiming etc. For your own characters no such limitations exist ). This enables you get something as surprise gift art for a friend as long as I have no reason to suspect it won’t be received amiably by the person.
• Nothing is ready-made. You will be in on the design from start and get drafts for approval.
• The figurines are mainly made in Sculptey-clay. Mixed-media refers to the fact that I might use metal, plastic, fabric etc for details. Since the figures won’t be designed for mass producing/molding there’s no limit on the amount of details and surface textures that can be put on it.
• The figurines will be painted and lacquered unless otherwise desired.
• Mini-diorama refers to an extended base of the figurine that can have additional sculpted elements (a defeated clockwork, your favorite base floor tile, a small Wentworth’s building making your character look like a giant, etc)
• I’m sorry I don’t have any examples of figurines to show you. It’s been a long time since I made any but recently decided to start working with them again. I have some practice pieces planned and I suspect the prize figurines will take considerable time to make.

Yes, Leese explained the bit about the in-game tells. All communication with EU will be resolved by PMs and public postings on the UK forum. Since I might revisit your arc several times before the final decision and arcs can be edited and republished, I won’t leave any comments until after the contest is over. I will then give any feedback you like, either privately or public. I do however give a star rating right after having played it. This initial rating is part of the total scoring.

I hope this clears up a few things

Sorry about that, should have specified the deadline: it's May 6th.

I'm holding a contest for soloable MA arcs, details in my post in the Creative forum (link is in the signature).

Hello all

I'm usually playing on the American servers but thanks to Leese here on the UK boards I was informed that MA Arcs actually are shared between all servers. Because of this I wanted to invite you all to participate in:

Projectionist’s Most Enjoyable Solo Mission Architect Arc

Submission rules:

1. One arc per account/global ID. If you own several accounts this means you technically can submit one for each as long as the global author ID is different.
2. The submission must be made through PM on this forum and contain the Arc ID and your global name for easy identification. If you want to you can also post your mission arc here in this thread for others to enjoy but it will not count as entered in the contest unless you PM it too.
3. Contest begins when Issue 14 goes live on the American servers and submissions can be made for 4 weeks until midnight PST the same day of week. Results will be announced when I had time to play through all the submissions.
4. Do NOT submit any requests for what character you want in case of winning. I don’t want to be subconsciously affected by this when I decide.

Criteria:

1. The mission arc will primarily be played solo on heroic/villainous difficulty. Hero or coop arcs will be played by my Illusion/FF controller and villain arcs by my Robots/traps mastermind, both lv 50.
2. No minimum or maximum number of missions in arc other than what MA imposes.
3. I do like challenges and will do everything short of Shivans and nukes to beat it. If for any reason, like bugs or insurmountable odds, I can’t complete the arc solo I will report this back to you via PM. While the contest deadline of 4 weeks isn’t up you will be able to resubmit the arc (or another one). However, if the deadline is up there will be no second chance so best thing is having it run smoothly from the beginning.
4. Content can be anything: I enjoy dark, humorous, sentimental, sappy, hardcore, you name it. Also, you will probably get the arc banned and removed long before you manage to offend me. So a banned arc is not disqualified as long as I had time to play it through.
5. I will especially consider and rate the following:
a. Story & Writing. Long or short doesn’t matter, whatever it takes to get in the mood. I’m not a loremaster when it comes to what’s canon or not, so you can get away with pretty much anything.
b. Use of maps. You managed to make me search every corner of Oranbega and enjoy it, kudos to you.
c. Use of custom groups. While a well written story with our known villains might be highly enjoyable, I suspect this is the area where arcs will really shine.
d. Fighting fun. Cakewalk or hurtful humiliation, it’s the combat we play for.
e. How memorable it was. This score will be set at the final evaluation.

Prizes:

1st place:

A painted mixed-media sculpture on a mini-diorama in 1:15 scale of a CoX Hero/Villain of your choice.

2nd and 3rd place

A full action painting or a painted figurine in 1:32 scale of a CoX Hero/Villain of your choice. Medium: Mixed-media, Digital or Ink/Watercolour .

4th to 10th place:
A colored drawing of a CoX Hero/Villain of your choice. Medium: Digital or Ink/Watercolour.

All prizes will be handled as commissions with approval of drafts, reworking etc. Digital works will be delivered in hi-resolution files by email. Non-digital works will be shipped free of charge. The prizes represent a time investment and commitment from my side so they’re of course negotiable ‘downward’ if, for example, the winner wants a smaller figurine or a simpler drawing.

In conclusion: Have fun with the Mission Architect and if you have an arc that you think I would enjoy playing solo, why not submit it here and possibly get something in return?