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The Scav Effort Prizes have been judged! The prizes were tweaked slightly, many of which increased in power:
Xaoc Custom (50%)
Full Litter of Hybrids (includes Breeding Coin) (3 Babies, 25% edits each -OR- 4 babies, 15% edits each)
Artist Ticket x 5 -OR- Design Ticket x 5 or any combination of the two up to 5
Breedable Potion x 2
500 GP
Alt Cube x 2
Game Master status + FU Pendant
Big Gaming System of Choice (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) US ONLY (or $250 USD via PayPal)
Little Gaming System of Choice (PSP, 3DS) US ONLY (or $100 USD via PayPal)
Video Game of Choice ($50 value or less) (or $50 via PayPal)
$100 giftcard (to a site of your choice)
Raffle Ticket to Winner's Stash Random Item from Winner's Stash
Click here to view the 1st through 12th place winners!
Winners, drop me a message ranking the prizes in order of desire.
Less happily announced, however is this: Aywas is too big of a site to run Scavenger Hunt anymore. Last year's Scavenger Hunt drove the point home that we have too many users, too many teams, to be able to run this event feasibly.
HOWEVER, there is possibility to modify the event to make it more manageable with our much larger userbase. If you have any ideas for that, feel free to let me know. There's a Think Tank post for it!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Tue May 7, 2013 2:44am
- Shadow Rose
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:04am
I think I remember hearing about a mini scav back when I was a newbie... I never participated in one, but maybe aywas could do a mini scav? With less tasks, and smaller prizes?
- Shia
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:04am
Would having a bigger team to judge/run the event help? I remember a few times ago you asked for volunteers and there were plenty of people that hadn't participated that were eager to help. Maybe have a panel of people to run it? Scav.. is honestly one of the biggest attractions a lot of people have to Aywas and to completely remove it would really really be sad. -Jamie
- JAK
(#15)
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:06am
Having a panel of people to help run scav is an issue -- first of all, grading consistency goes down because multiple people are looking over and grading multiple things, and grading requires access to the admin panel. The biggest issue is ultimately the grading, because even in a small scav (with 100 tasks), you start running into thousands and thousands of entries to look over.
- Calico ☕
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:07am
Dear Kiwi Quiche,
It is perfectly reasonable to be disappointed when something you've looked forward to all year/worked hard for is permanently cancelled, don't you think? Moreover, I did not cuss, did not stomp on anyone, did not threaten or insult, did not cause drama and did not point fingers,
As far as the 'horrid fighting and whining', I wouldn't know, as I made a point to keep out of it & stay away from it.
- Fiery [<3]
(#10722)
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:07am
Maybe reduce the number of tasks, increase depth and difficulty of tasks, and require larger teams?
- Kiwi Quiche
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:13am
@ Ryu and Ellie
That's how it always starts. Someone is disappointed, someone complains, someone does something else then it just snowballs from there and before you know it people are cursing and complaining to each other and even attacking each other on other websites. If you missed that, than lucky you. But all it takes is a spark.
- Shadow Rose
(#29394)
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:17am
I think everyone has a right to be disappointed, and I'm glad that Slash is giving us a way to submit ideas to fix this...
- Sunny
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:23am
Running an event large is pretty tough. Especially when you now have thousands of users.
Another site that I'm on - he runs a Christmas raffle - there are probably close to 100k players now, if not more. 10 Gold Prize, 20 Silver prizes, and 30 Bronze prizes plus 30 Honorable mentions (I think I got the numbers right. That's a mere drop in a huge pool. 60 prizes out of hundreds of thousands of players. Not something that's easily done and THAT'S a mere raffle.
This is an event. Involving a lot more than just raffling. And I believe we're very close to 50k players now. Somebody's gonna hit #50000 soon.
I look at this site as a great site because 1) You can create beautiful pets 2) You can improve your artistic streak 3) and if art's not your forte - there's restocking your shop with stuff and buying expensive stuff and selling it for a profit 4) the staff do raffles for cool stuff often. 5) And what I enjoy the most? The forums. Where you can put [M] to indicate mature topics - you don't get censored (altho, maybe not use a lot of swear words, but that's just me. 6) And hey, wow, personal attention from the people who run this place, listen to your ideas, ask for your ideas, and they also take the time to personally vet applications so that we don't get idiotic trolls (hopefully).
This is one of the BEST sites that I have EVER seen anywhere online. Sure, low on gaming, but this is more of an artistic pet adoptable site. I love it. You don't have to censor yourself if you topicize it properly.
And the majority of the community - my gosh - they are SO helpful and so friendly.
I'm SURE Aywas staff will be able to come up with something that's awesome and have awesome prizes like those (who wouldn't want 500 GP!)
So instead of looking at the scav hunt being scrapped due to more players joining as a sad thing - why not look at it as a historical time. You're here for the history of seeing an awesome hunt become history and Aywas making history by hitting 50k players very soon. I'd say that's a whole lotta awesomesauceness!
Don't forget about those cool slashbot events. Some may be a bit not to your taste (I think Jester's great, but eh, horror/zombie is not my flavor, as seen by my two paltry coloring attempts of his Fester).
Maybe not a whole lotta for those not interested in art - ok - so make suggestions that you think would be awesome. Maybe suggest the addition of games (maybe wait until the coding is completed and debugged by our wonderful coders/programmers).
I know that we're witnessing history. I admit I'm not a fan of Felis Fire, but for me, that site is more geared to younger people than myself, anyway - so.
And hey, wow, Yasu works coding on BOTH sites. That's a whole lotta hard time. I wish I knew how to thank him and the new programmer/coder for the wonderful job that they're doing!
And on that note!
/end soapbox - sorry for a LONGGGGGG news post.
- Sunny
(#41814)
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Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:25am
(hmph, the news posts should allow for paragraphing) - sorry for the huge wall of text, guys.)
Posted on: Tue May 7, 2013 3:02am
@ Kiwi ~ There's a very big difference between the whining during scav (which ends up just being stupid usually) and being upset about the "short" notice. People prepare for scav usually all year, so waiting so long to tell us about it is going to upset a lot of people. And rightfully so. ~Ryu