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Hey everyone, going to do some frank talking with you all about the feature.
My taking it over wasn't planned so much as a necessity to keep the contest moving - and I readily hold my hands up to say that things didn't go as planned at all. There's been a lot of hiccups, tools that I needed that I didn't have access to, a lack of entries, and as with any job you've suddenly inherited without warning you tend to go, "I wonder what happened to art gallery this wee- oh crud, that's me!"
That said, Slash stepped in with the sensible idea of asking you guys what you want to see changed since new hands means it's a good time to hear new ideas, and we're taking some of those ideas on board:
We've fixed it so that I can edit the Art Gallery page - which will be a massive help since now I can make sure the information correctly reflects the current theme, and gives a permanent place outside of the news post to see what's coming up.
With the up-coming theme list it will also state whether that week allows Aywas stock or not, so you know and can prepare for it properly. I think it wasn't announced before so that it was definitely a piece of work that entrants had done in that week, rather than prepared beforehand, but we're interested to see how this will work for everyone. More entries means more winners, because I'm meant to pick 6 people, and as you can see I haven't been able to so far!
I will also be trying to think of prizes ahead of time and adding them to the page too - this part might take a couple of days because there are so many amazing shiny things to choose from to enthuse you to enter. The prize will be at least 20GP in value.
The time limit had already been extended to two weeks and it seems that while it wasn't noticed, it was something that people wanted to see happen, so that will be kept. We'll see how we do with this, hopefully the extra week (and therefore extra weekend) will help everyone.
I'm going to take a day or two to set things up so I'm not rushing it and potentially forgetting information that will be important to the people who want to enter, and when it's all ready I'll post our Cutthroat Winner (and since there's only one, I do think they might have slain their competition... oh my...) and get everything started on our new schedule.
Thank you for your time in reading this, I know walls of text are the least appealing thing to see in a news post - but if you've gotten this far then you now know to skip over to the Advent Calendar for a gift for getting this far ;)
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Tue May 3, 2016 5:47am
- Pali
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:16am
Is there any possibility or choice for a SP reward?
- Limesfa
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:21am
Palindrome (#2933)
The winners do receive SP and an item as the prize. ^.^
- Pali
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:22am
Limesfa (#27617) Ahh, glad that'll stay!
- Voluspa is on Hiatus
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:25am
For me it's partially been a lack of time and partially been that there's so many other things to do (which kind of connects to the issue of time, but also means that I've opted to not submit stuff for everything because it feels like the art gallery should also be enjoyed by those who do not create or colour pets.)
I think the measures already mentioned in the news post, such as 2 weeks instead of 1 and mentioning the prize ahead of time will be an improvement. The suggestion of SP prizes could serve as a nice incentive too, I support that! :)
The only other thing I can think of is reducing the number of new pets/events and pet submissions, and I don't think anyone (including me, just to be clear) would actually want that!
- Voluspa is on Hiatus
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:26am
Geez I've won twice I thinkand I don't even remember the sp lol oh well, that's great! :)
- *JACKAL*
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:36am
I'm glad to see the Aywas stock/or not is being added to the theme!
- Eve
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:47am
Yes, the SP is staying XD I didn't mention it since it wasn't changing, but it seems to have caused confusion - sorry guys!
- Calankh
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:51am
er. the current art gallery page has nonsense latin instead of the current themes.
maybe this will inspire me to learn to draw like I've been meaning to :)
- katiebean! :D
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Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 8:33am
ah lorem ipsum. the irrational fear to anyone after something has gotten printed :PP
Posted on: Tue May 3, 2016 6:07am
Ty Staff! You received the item Crystal Crystalis OMGOMG <3