The City of Heroes Freedom Tell a Story! Contest
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Bubbawheat,
Posted on: 2011-12-09 11:01 in Forum Games
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At first, he pondered this situation with extreme trepidation; after all, you don't live your life in Praetoria without being aware of Emporer Cole's various methods of "testing" his citizens.|
Originally Posted by Freitag
Bob was never really one for political action, but something compelled him to go to the protests at the TPN Campus. He was just an ordinary guy, until he realized that he was immune to the Telepathists' control!
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If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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Fortunately, he had an ace up his sleeve. Of course, having a single playing card wasn't going to do much good, so he decided. He was going to call Max, a German Shepherd puppy with superpowers and the star of last week's Tell a story contest!|
Originally Posted by TonyV
At first, he pondered this situation with extreme trepidation; after all, you don't live your life in Praetoria without being aware of Emperor Cole's various methods of "testing" his citizens.
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| If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest. |
Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
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He picked up the phone started to dial the number, but realized, he had forgotten it.
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Originally Posted by joshdex
Fortunately, he had an ace up his sleeve. Of course, having a single playing card wasn't going to do much good, so he decided. He was going to call Max, a German Shepherd puppy with superpowers and the star of last week's Tell a story contest!
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He thought of how he could get Max's number, then realized that if he could somehow hack Praetoria's Seer network, he could glean that information from anyone who knew it.
If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
AE Arcs: #10482 N00b Rescue Duty, #164100 The Four Treasures of the Tuatha De Dannan
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But he was at a rally in the TPN campus, perhaps there was a computer lab close by.
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Originally Posted by Chris_Zuercher
He thought of how he could get Max's number, then realized that if he could somehow hack Praetoria's Seer network, he could glean that information from anyone who knew it.
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Unfortunately, there were not enough responses in order for a winner to be declared. The number of posts required will be reduced next week in order to encourage participation!
~Freitag
Kevin Callanan
Community Specialist
Paragon Studios
Blah, I was working all day; didn't even see this contest until now.
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
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That's nice... how about extention of the TIME?!? I just got home, I'd like to at least TRY...|
Originally Posted by Freitag
Unfortunately, there were not enough responses in order for a winner to be declared. The number of posts required will be reduced next week in order to encourage participation!
~Freitag |
/phooey on the 5p west coast quittin' time.
August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012
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Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
Blah, I was working all day; didn't even see this contest until now.
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Same. Sad... looked lik e it coudl've been interesting
Thelonious Monk
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That's been done already once and participation only keeps dropping. I think you need to come up with a different solution to encourage participating.
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Originally Posted by Freitag
Unfortunately, there were not enough responses in order for a winner to be declared. The number of posts required will be reduced next week in order to encourage participation!
~Freitag |
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
That's been done already once and participation only keeps dropping. I think you need to come up with a different game to encourage participating.
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Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson |
YUMMY Low-Hanging Fruit for BASE LUV
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If possible, this would be the ideal solution. That *and* a significant drop to the number of posts required. Think of the limit and posts required in terms of "What's the bare number of people who would need to give up their chance of winning just to ensure there is a winner?"|
Originally Posted by houtex
That's nice... how about extension of the TIME?!? I just got home, I'd like to at least TRY...
/phooey on the 5p west coast quittin' time. |
And raise the limit of posts per person allowed by at least one.
And optionally, give a courtesy "this does not count against your limit" to the first ohh ten posts or so. (Unless you're replying to yourself, that is.)
Saying we need a different game is silly until this game is at least given a fair chance to succeed.
Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
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That looks better.|
Originally Posted by Impish Kat
Fool'sh.
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The problem isn't the game. Any of the other current games would be failing if they also relied on demanding people give up their chances of winning so someone else might possibly have a chance.
The rules to this game are akin to the 'screenshot caption' game saying, "There must be at least eight posts to win. And none of the first eight will be eligible to win."
Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
Not only that, but the "if you can't post in the 1 hour to 5 minute time period of just before 5pm Pacific you're not eligible to win." All the other games, if you can post anytime during the time period, you're eligible to win.
I disagree.
The problem IS the game.
While folks may be willing to play it as a continuous "neverending" game, it does not lend itself to "winning".
There really is no reasonable way to set this game up to choose "winners".
And if you're going to change the rules, then it becomes a new game.
This game has had 3 weeks for folks to get on board. It has failed every week.
And the time frame? really? Folks seem to post in the Multimedia Genius and Screen Caption games within the time frame just fine.
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Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson |
YUMMY Low-Hanging Fruit for BASE LUV
Smarty kat, I also miss those. But I don't care about those, so I don't complain in there.
And speakin' of complainin', your words are duly noted. Now get out.
/Love ya!
August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012
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The thing is, the Screenshot and multimedia games never had a requirement of seven people's worth of can't win's in order to have a shot at having a winner.|
Originally Posted by Impish Kat
I disagree.
The problem IS the game. ......... This game has had 3 weeks for folks to get on board. It has failed every week. And the time frame? really? Folks seem to post in the Multimedia Genius and Screen Caption games within the time frame just fine. . |
The game might not be successful, but I disagree with the statement it's had 3 weeks to win.
No. It had 3 weeks being a the punchline to a bad joke.
The first edition required fifty posts in order to have a winner. That means, 16 people could post to their maximum and it would have still not had a winner.
Do you think any contest would succeed with a stipulation that the first 16 people who post automatically lose?
That said, this particular contest would probably be better off either awarding the prize to the best entry, or if that's too hard, a random entry.
And yes, I do think adding a day might help. How two unrelated contests managed to do in the same time period, I'm not sure matters, because they don't have any minimum amount required.
Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
Submissions open every Friday only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between November 11, 2011 and February 3rd, 2011).
Welcome to Tell a Story!! Every Friday (except holidays), a member of the community team will post the beginning of a story on the Official City of Heroes® Message Board that you can continue. To participate you will have to continue the story with one single sentence. To do that you will create a Reply post to the previous post and include the story content of that post before adding your sentence. You are allowed a maximum of 3 different posts in the thread, any more and you will be automatically disqualified.
Please note! For a Tell a Story thread to qualify and for a win to be validated, the story must have at least 20 posts!
Youll have until 5:00PM Pacific Time (7:00 PM Eastern Time / 1AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) on the applicable contest date to post your submissions. After that time, the judging made by members of the Paragon Studios community and/or development team will commence.
The individual who posts the final story-continuing post at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time sharp or the last qualifying post made before 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time if there is no post made at the cutoff time will receive their choice of one of the following Convention Costume Codes (Please note, they are costume powers and NOT costume pieces) and the Forum Title "Story Teller 12/9/11":
Thus begins this week's Story:
Bob was never really one for political action, but something compelled him to go to the protests at the TPN Campus. He was just an ordinary guy, until he realized that he was immune to the Telepathists' control!
Rules:
If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
Kevin Callanan
Community Specialist
Paragon Studios