Community Fleet Contest Results!

[generalBLT13]

Congrats to all the winners! And a special thanks to Criss and Saber for taking the time to go through all the submissions. :D

 

[Zekester81]

Congrats to all whose fleets were accepted. Kinda glad none of mine got picked, cause then I'd have a lot more work to do and I'm just not feeling it. It will be really nice to see these in game and have real variety to NPC ships.

 

[Bench]

Thanks to everyone who submitted. Criss and Saber handled the review process quite well, with any they were unsure about then being reviewed by a number of us others in the dev team.

One thing to note is that we will most likely have another fleet contest at some point in the future. So if yours didn't make it in this time, inquire to Criss what you could improve on, and work on your fleet a bit more to resubmit whenever another fleet contest comes up. In the meantime you could also release it via the dock.

In the future we'll also make it easier to package up fleets/factions so servers can "install" them on their server

 

[NuclearFun]

Nice!

Alright so a few things.

One, nobody is perfect. We didn't expect perfection. There are still plenty of things on every winners builds that will need tweaking. Missing blocks, misplaced blocks. It's not really an issue. We needed designs that were 95-99% done. We got what we came for.

Tweaking things and updating fleets (new blocks)... how is that going to happen? Are we expected to regularly update our fleets?

 

[Criss]

Nice!



Tweaking things and updating fleets (new blocks)... how is that going to happen? Are we expected to regularly update our fleets?

You will not be updating them. Although you are free to of course. The ones packaged with the game will be our responsibility. We aren't going to rip out the systems or anything like that. Just minor tweaks or fixing things you may have missed.

It is entirely possible a year down the line we will ask for an update from the builders. But that's literally 77 fleets to keep track of, and each more than 1 ship. This could easily get out of hand. I'm going to be setting up proper names from them and spreadsheets for managing them. It's gonna be tough if we start asking for updates.

 

[Lykozze]

The results came faster than expected!
Congratulations to everyone that made it into the selection. These fleets will really liven up and add to the feel of a vast universe.

 

[Tshara]

That is a lot of fleets. Seeing them in a list like that really brings it home. I tried keeping up with most of the submitted fleets but still missed some I see.

I would really like to know how the judging process went. Things like what was liked or not liked about fleets and what was surprising or not. Better not do a fleet review of every entry this time Criss. You will still be doing those 2 years from now. A general vid about all of them would be nice though.

 

[Snowtiger256]

My faction mate seemed severely disappointed when his fleets didn't make it. He says he got an apologetic PM from you guys for his efforts. I know for sure he put his best in those fleets and it is really sad to see them not make it. I'm hoping I can persuade him to take a try at the next competition, because I feel his efforts were not totally recognized.

I'm just asking, rhetorically, what's wrong with these fleets:
OmegaGame_Fleet_Submission_1
OmegaGame_Fleet_Submission_2
OmegaGame_fleet_submission_3

 

[Bladeriker]

Congratulation to all the winners, good work.

While none of my submissions made it in for this one, I did enjoy building and honing my ship building skills. I learned a lot and I am better for it. I am looking forward to future build contests, and all the new improvements coming to SM.

 

[davejos]

Wooohooow :D

Thank you so much for choosing my Fleet as well, you don't know how much this means to me! I am soooooo happy, gonna SMILE THE WHOLE DAY :D Thank you! And not to forget some huge Congratulations to all who were accepted!

 

[Lukwan]

Congrats to those builders who were accepted. Thanks to all the builders who entered. I found myself inspired by some of the amazing designs that the contest produced.

A number of Fleets that I liked did not get chosen so I would ask that the judges provide a brief review of the Also-rans entries to help identify areas of improvement or to better define what elements are desired. Given the amount of time people have put into their builds this does not seem unreasonable. It's good PR for the community and will make us better builders.

 

[MeRobo]

A number of Fleets that I liked did not get chosen so I would ask that the judges provide a brief review of the Also-rans entries to help identify areas of improvement or to better define what elements are desired. Given the amount of time people have put into their builds this does not seem unreasonable.

I don't want to sound mean, but writing 103 reviews sounds like quite a lot of effort.

 

[Reilly Reese]

I don't want to sound mean, but writing 103 reviews sounds like quite a lot of effort.

Not as much as Criss making a video review for every entry. :P

Which he should totally do like he did for the station contest. :U

 

[Top 4ce]

Yay!

Also, yay for everyone who made it, I see many that I loved.

Also, double yay for those who entered but didn't make it. Keep trying, keep building, there was a lot potential in good ship building.

 

[The_Incredible_Hieb]

Hahaha yeeees :D :D god i would've never thouht that mine would make it in :D

Congratz to every1 that made it ^^

 

[Mariux]

Didn't make it

 

[stowbag]

So glad my ships made it in! Well done to everyone else who managed to get in, and who didn't!

 

[fusemc74]

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wait a second,most of those "flaws" are systems that I wanted to be seen,you dont like them? sorry.
also quite a lot of pics are outdated because I updated all ships,and quite a lot of tthose "flaws" are not there anymore

Wow! every time I think you set "The Mark" , you just set it higher.... that is definitely a beautiful ship.... Very well done.. now I have to go look at the rest..

 

[Lecic]

He says he got an apologetic PM from you guys for his efforts.

I didn't get anything like that... :C

 

[Criss]

We might do an overall review of the ships and explain our process a bit. I will not be doing individual reviews of the ships, not even on my personal channel. I don't have the time. When it comes to the individual voting process I will be creating a pack with only the accepted fleets. I will also be putting together an imgur album as well.