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Community Event Ideas Compendium
redria:
--- Quote from: Battle Toads on March 25, 2014, 03:57:29 pm ---I think that the OP is mainly focused on competitive stuff, but how about an event that takes place over a few months that involves people sending in drawings/3d art of some sort of customization item. And at the end of the event, Muse picks maybe 3 items to be added to the game and the creators of those items might get a special prize or a part of the money earned by selling their items on the customization store (similar to TF2).
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Fascinating! I like it! Unfortunately, I think only Muse could really host something like this. If anyone were to host an art competition (even for no prize) the results would be fairly subjective. Muse being more professional would be able to make judgement calls based on what they saw.
I would put this in the relaxed tier, with most of the suggested fields being left out because, well, they are completely irrelevant for art. :P
Write up a solid posting and I will get it added to the OP. If it gets discussed and hashed out some more maybe I/someone-more-important-than-me can send an email to Muse suggesting it.
Omniraptor:
if it was an art competition, something along the lines of RSI's TNGS would be amazing to watch, and would give a lot of insight into how the ships are designed and made, maybe even opening up more possibilities for gameplay. Muse is looking for a new artist right now, they might be receptive.
The stuff made by fans on TNGS (certainly the weapons) is often actually better than what cloud imperium themselves have done (so far), so I think if we could replicate this WITH AIRSHIPS it would be really cool.
Speaking of which, what happened to lordfunpants? haven't heard from him in a while.
Captain Smollett:
--- Quote from: redria on March 25, 2014, 12:26:22 pm ---
Ideas CompendiumPremier Level Events:League Play:
Parent: redria
Duration: Long
Density: Low/Low
Number of Ships Needed: 2
Flexibility: Medium
Details: Similar to American Football, this is a competitive league with a defined season, scheduled start times, time limits, and of course playoffs.
Signups close 1 week prior to the first weekend of seasonal play. On the Wednesday prior to the first day of competition, a schedule for the season will be released. The schedule will include start times, opponents, and maps for each team. Each team will play a single best of 1 match each week. The time limit for this match will be 30 minutes. Matches will begin every 40 minutes. Teams have a buffer period of 5 minutes at the scheduled start time of each match. If they fail to have 2 captains readied up before that buffer ends, they forfeit the match. Cheating will also result in forfeiture. Teams with 2 forfeits will be ejected for the duration of the season. A new schedule will be released the Wednesday prior to the next day of competition.
Every team will play a single match every week of the regular season unless a single bye week is needed due to an odd number of teams entering.
At the end of a 7 week regular season, there will be a week off, followed by a single day of playoffs. The playoffs will feature the teams with the top 4 winning percentages playing a small bracket. Semifinals feature a best of 3. Finals will play best of 5. Winner of the finals will be crowned the champion of the season.
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I'd like to speak more about this, because I think it's amazing and exactly what GOI needs. I love this idea and was actually talking about something similar just the other day with someone.
If Muse were to get behind it, the standings could be integrated into the website weekly and perhaps even shown in game with some of the new ui being developed.
It seems like a great way for all teams to be able to play a highly competitive match every week while only needing to commit to 30 minutes of their weekend.
If we could construct this in a way that all the competitive teams were interested in joining and all the casters were interested in casting you could easily make two separate leagues of 8-10 teams. Each league could play simultaneously on two different twitch channels with the entire event taking less than 2 and a half hours every week. Viewers could pick and choose which matches to watch and tune in to the ones that interested them most since they'd know what time the match would be taking place.
These leagues would be populated randomly with no bearing to the teams perceived skill or history. In this system all teams within their league could play each other once taking roughly 7-9 weeks. At the end instead of a 4 team playoff you could take the best 4 teams from each league and make a tournament which was seeded based off the teams league performance ie the top seed of league 1 would play the 4th seed of league 2 etc.
tl;dr I think GOI has been waiting a long time for a league, if we were able to work together to make this happen in a manner that accommodates all teams, it would be an amazing testament to our community.
redria:
--- Quote from: Captain Smollett on March 25, 2014, 05:55:29 pm ---I'd like to speak more about this, because I think it's amazing and exactly what GOI needs. I love this idea and was actually talking about something similar just the other day with someone.
If Muse were to get behind it, the standings could be integrated into the website weekly and perhaps even shown in game with some of the new ui being developed.
It seems like a great way for all teams to be able to play a highly competitive match every week while only needing to commit to 30 minutes of their weekend.
If we could construct this in a way that all the competitive teams were interested in joining and all the casters were interested in casting you could easily make two separate leagues of 8-10 teams. Each league could play simultaneously on two different twitch channels with the entire event taking less than 2 and a half hours every week. Viewers could pick and choose which matches to watch and tune in to the ones that interested them most since they'd know what time the match would be taking place.
These leagues would be populated randomly with no bearing to the teams perceived skill or history. In this system all teams within their league could play each other once taking roughly 7-9 weeks. At the end instead of a 4 team playoff you could take the best 4 teams from each league and make a tournament which was seeded based off the teams league performance ie the top seed of league 1 would play the 4th seed of league 2 etc.
tl;dr I think GOI has been waiting a long time for a league, if we were able to work together to make this happen in a manner that accommodates all teams, it would be an amazing testament to our community.
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Thank you. :)
When the sky league was in the works, I thought we would be getting something similar to this, since the sky league was to be the replacement for Cogs: a weekly competition where teams get to play regularly and at the end of the season, the top teams are seeded into a tournament/playoffs that culminates in a champion.
I was disappointed when the sky league was revealed: not because it isn't awesome, but because it still wasn't what I wanted. So I raged and wrote up a rule set for what I wanted that wouldn't be a horrendous burden on casters, wouldn't be complicated, and would let people play every week. The couple people I shared my idea with loved it. Then I never managed to get it moving.
If you want to keep discussing, the in depth guide is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/110iL4Enh6PNzVYrqpClcCiLz5sSt6rKQOg5B_BmnVzQ/edit?usp=sharing. I am happy to open editing privileges to anyone who wants to work on cleaning it up. We can discuss here or in comments on the document. Or if you feel my summary here is the right direction and the rest of my ideas regarding the league are the wrong direction, we can start fresh here. ^.^
Captain Smollett:
Just read the google doc. Definitely really well thought out.
I guess the question still remains on how to keep people interested in the league if they get mathematically eliminated.
I suppose the way to do that would be to make it more difficult or even impossible to get mathematically eliminated.
For example.
The top 33% or so (let's say 6 out of 18 teams) of the league could get the top seeds and an automatic bid into the playoffs. You could then potentially hold an end of season wildcard mini tournament that's seeded from the regular season for the remaining (lets say 3 ) slots in the playoffs. This would give incentive for people to play well in the season, not just for glory but for good seeds and guaranteed spots while still leaving hope for all teams for a come from behind victory.
This is just an idea. I'm curious to hear what other people think, especially competitive players and captains.
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