Discussion: The First Annual Architect Awards *** Submissions are now CLOSED ***

It is our great pleasure to announce the First Annual Architect Awards, which will be hosted at this year's Hero-Con!

To mark the occasion, MMORPG.com did a interview with our very own Joe "Hero 1" Morrissey on the Mission Architect so be sure to check it here!

Mission Architect set a new standard for customization in MMORPGs, infusing over 50,000 active story arcs and 200,000 submissions into the roster of City of Heroes missions. Mission Architect has become one of the most exciting features in City of Heroes because it connects the fun of playing a mission with the energy of player creativity and innovation.

We created the Architect Awards to honor outstanding achievements in Mission Architect, celebrating both story arcs and architects, and to promote this truly revolutionary feature that redefines how games are developed and enjoyed.

This year's awards will have a total of six categories, and the first five listed categories are eligible for player submissions:

1. Best Hero Arc: The best hero arc created in Mission Architect.
2. Best Villain Arc: The best villain arc created in Mission Architect.
3. Best In-Canon Story: The best arc that builds on and enhances the existing lore of City of Heroes in Mission Architect.
4. Best Original Story: The best arc not based upon previously published City of Heroes lore or characters.
5. Best Enemy Group: The best all-around enemy group in an arc (judged by a combination of powers, costumes, themes, and story).
6. Arc of the Year: This final, and pinnacle award, will be selected from all of the submitted arcs for the other five categories.

Nominees will be announced on Thursday October 22, 2009. Final winners will be announced at Hero-Con, Saturday, October 24, 2009.

Good luck! We look forward to playing your submitted Mission Architect arcs!

Prizes

Arc of the Year Architect Award Winner Prize Package (1 winner)

• 1 Sapphire ATI HD 3650 512MB GDDR3 video card
• 1 Logitech G330 headset
• 1 Razer Lycosa keyboard
• 1 Razer DeathAdder mouse
• 1 Razer Destructor mouse pad

Other Architect Award Winner Prize Package (5 winners)

• 1 Sapphire ATI HD 3650 512MB GDDR3 video card
• 1 Logitech G330 headset
• 1 Razer DeathAdder mouse
• 1 Razer Destructor mouse pad

Submission Information

• Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Central Time, October 11, 2009, and must be in English.
• Submissions must be e-mailed to: CoH_ArchitectAwards@paragonstudios.com
• Read the City of Heroes First Annual Architect Awards Official Rules and Conditions. Submissions must follow a specific entry format described in the official rules and conditions page. Any entry that does not follow the entry format will be disqualified.
• Entrants must comply with the rules and conditions described in the City of Heroes First Annual Architect Awards Official Rules and Conditions.
• No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the United States and Canada (excluding the State of Rhode Island, and excluding Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, military installations and commonwealths, and Québec) 13 years of age or older with Internet access, an e-mail account with access to a personal computer, and an active City of Heroes account.

Are you guys creating these threads in a "secret" area the Community Digest doesn't see, then moving them live? I swear this was not here yesterday at 12:50 PM. If you're doing this, it's effectively back-dating the posts, and people may be missing them. I would have missed the Double XP post if a friend hadn't alerted me to the announcement last night, which also seemed to show up out of nowhere, and I'd have missed this one if it wasn't for Twitter making me want to go check for a board post.

I could be wrong, and may have just missed them, but I am usually pretty thorough when checking the digests for new posts.

Anyway, I just wanted to bring it up, because you may be reducing the number of people that see these announcements if you're doing it that way, and I'd imagine you want as many people to see them as possible.

Hurrah for Mission Architect Awards! I'm going to try to find the time to make a new one by the 11th!

Hmm. It says in the rules that you need to put the arc ID number that it is published in the architect under.

Does that mean that those of us that are unable to publish can't enter the contest?

Why is Rhode Island excluded from this contest? The only reasoning I can figure is that we have the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and you're trying to make us look for jobs instead of submitting good AE arcs...

We must be too small of a state to matter.

Interesting... I'll definitely have to get one of my non-RP arcs backup and running again (something tells me a Bleach-themed RP arc might not work so well).

Can a story arc be entered for more than 1 category? If so, how should the entries be handled?

Why do I get the feeling that this is the type of contest where the eventual winner is already on the short-list somewhere?

Seriously, if 5000 people nominate their own arcs for these awards, how many of them are going to be looked at closely?

If even 500 people nominate their own arcs...

Tell you what, if the eventual winner for Arc of the Year is an arc published between now and October 11th, I'll eat my left sock...

If the winner for Arc of the Year is an arc published sometime in the month of April (say, one of those storyarcs that had a headstart with the Closed Beta, like 80% of the "Developer's Choice" arcs) -- I'll toss my socks into the laundry, and treat myself to a pizza instead, having "called it"...

[An arc "republished" in the next two weeks doesn't count (unless it's pretty obviously been republished due to all the I16 MA changes)...]

If an arc published between I15 and October 1st wins the contest, well, they'll have my sincere congratulations and respect for their creative ability. (And, yeah, I might even lose a little bit of my deep cynicism about the Mission Architect system, and how it has impacted the game.)

Now how do I go about subscribing to this thread?!?

I see I'm not the only person to notice;
"Open to legal residents of the United States and Canada"

Come on, guys, does the EU REALLY count for so little? I'm quite a creative person, I would have quite liked to have put one of my arcs up for contest.
Just...bah. Its so irritating.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.