Dacy

Just wanted to say, I hope that people have been touring these bases. Not just the winners; I wish we could have awarded so many more awards, because there were so many awesome bases! I was amazed at how many truly talented builders were out there that I had never even met. I had never even met over half of the people who won! I want to remind builders of the resources that are out there for you: there's the Builder's Discord, which has an incredible wealth of resources and wonderful people. We are here to help you learn and grow; we love sharing our discoveries, because we all grow when we learn from each other. It's a great community. And of course, there is the Base Building channel in game, the info on the forums, and my video tutorials. My hope is that no one feels like they have to go it alone. Anyway, I enjoyed touring all the awesome bases and seeing the creative concepts. I hope everyone is going to different shards and looking at what is out there.

I've made tour hubs. They contain all the passcodes (with the exception of at least one that's been deactivated for privacy), and a macro that will let you hop from base to base without leaving each base. The hubs are: Everlasting: TOUR-33691 Excelsior: TOUR-30788 Indomitable: TOUR-11167 Reunion: TOUR-9105 Torchbearer: TOUR-14480 Victory: TOUR-893

Custom, created, or combined objects are objects created from items that don't necessarily bear any resemblance to what it is you've created, things you've made because you can't find something suitable in the editor. Such as: or We're builders. This is a higher level skill, but it's one nearly everyone comes to at some point, because our imaginations exceed the editor's offerings. 🙂

There are a lot of awesome bases, even high scoring bases, that did not win an award. If you're looking at your score in dismay, please remember, first of all, the rubric was never meant to be a ruler by which a base must measure up, it was meant to assess all the possible ways builders could go when building, and so, no base will ever score perfectly. And clearly, you can have an excellent base without having the top base in that category. And low scores are disappointing, I know, but with the rubric, you can clearly see what areas can be improved upon. Theoretically, the most a base could score was 81 points per judge. No base scored more than in the high 80th percentile. Only about 21 bases got more than 63% of the points technically available. That's because, again, it's not a ruler, it's a tool so we're all looking at the same things, and it covers possibilities. We like being transparent, but we don't like people feeling badly because some number is making them feel like their base isn't wonderful. I saw a lot of AMAZING bases, and I think everyone who stepped out of their comfort zone into the competition has good reason to be very proud, and there is no base that didn't take some effort to make. Judging was as fair as we could make it; it is difficult to compare the beauty of a gorgeous landscape with a space station with a castle with a fantasy land, but having a rubric gives us structure and makes sure everyone is comparing the same things, at least. Unfortunately, competition being what it is, and being FIERCE, we will only have a few winners. And the judges, wow, they had to go through over 100 bases, and I know that people didn't get the tours we'd all hoped would happen, but the amount of time and energy the judging team had already put into judging was already huge, and just know that at least, all the bases were evaluated on the same basis and all were given whatever time it took to make sure all of it was seen. The novice evaluations that my team and I did will hopefully give some feedback to builders; we chose the novices because some novices were just starting out and really wanted feedback more than anything, and we wanted to work up an evaluation that worked well. The one we had for this was okay, but Easter Bunny and I've reworked it even more, with an eye for being able to have a structure in place to evaluate a base when someone asks for feedback, and perhaps, if the Council approves it, be able to offer recognition awards based on builder skill, not just for those with the highest score in a category. It would still be something you'd have to work to earn, and have the skills to earn, but the skills can be taught and there are lots of resources to teach you about them.

You basically just did. 🙂 I'll let EB know, if he's not already seen this.

I'm late to the party, sorry! I just wanted to note that Novice bases actually got a separate evaluation from the judging scorecard. I will be sending those out, they are not scored, but each has two different advanced builders commenting on different aspects of the base, from the technical to how you used the space to some of the artistic. I will be sending those out to all who registered as a Novice base; if you want your judging evaluation scorecard, you need to request that.

I’m not sure what about it is not reliable? Placement can be tricky if the grab point is too close to the halfway point, but my spaceship is definitely a testament to the fact that you can build and they stay, because both the front and the back of that ship was built using that technique.

Erm, I suppose I will likely message builders and ask what category they might like to move to. Maybe I'll change "novice" to "Hubs". Every shard seems to have a bunch of those! The black void is the surface tile (col) tinted darkest black (the black on the trio black/grey/white, not the gradient black).

That is, the code should be SLUDGEPVP.

PvP. That font has a weird v. And the contest bases are red 😊. Hopefully your load time is better, at one point I was updating bases, but all done now. That could have caused a problem, possibly. Because the tour bases are quite simple.

The HC Base Contest is officially underway, all bases submitting and all bases ready for judging and viewing! And we have some AMAZING bases of super high quality! See them all; check out the TOUR hubs, where the contest bases are listed in red in the various categories, along with helpful macros to help you hop from base to base quickly. Everlasting: TOUR-33691 Excelsior: TOUR-30788 Indomitable: TOUR-11167 Reunion: TOUR-9105 Torchbearer: TOUR-14480 Victory: TOUR-893 Who will win each category? This is already a TOUGH CONTEST!

The contest bases look amazing, whatever base that wins each category will be absolutely amazing, given who all they have to beat!! Good luck to all! Check out all the bases through the hubs: Everlasting: TOUR-33691 Excelsior: TOUR-30788 Indomitable: TOUR-11167 Reunion: TOUR-9105 Torchbearer: TOUR-14480 Victory: TOUR-893

@Arisara, the rule here says, up to 5, including yourself, but you list 5 and not also yourself. If we include you, which generally I do, because you submitted it, that would be 6 globals. Which global do you want omitted?

The choice of the category is really up to you, but I think it’s helpful if why you chose that category is apparent when you view the base. I usually recommend mixed bases go into “other”, but if they are mixed because it’s Science Fiction or arcane/magical, then that makes sense too. As an example, you might check out dryad-20249 on everlasting. Obviously, this base could be entered under nature, or other; but it’s magical, and so arcane fits. “Other” is there when you’re really not sure where to put it, too. 😊

Bases can't be in two categories, and these are two different categories. 🙂 So I will enter it in Novice. Given the interest in the Novice category, we may need to expand it at some point! But today is not the day.