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[News] Community Challenge #5: Cooperation and Reactivity!
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August 28, 2010, 11:25:34 |
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[News] Community Challenge #5: Cooperation and Reactivity!
![]() The fifth and last Goultarminator II community challenge starts now! This event is about cooperation and reactivity. By clicking on the link bellow, you will see five DOFUS screenshots - on each of these screen captures, one letter of the word “DOFUS” has been drawn with specific resources on a specific map. Figure out which map and re-create the letters on that same map with the exact same resources. Make a screenshot for each of the 5 maps with a character shouting the name of your server! Post them as soon as possible on the forums in the thread linked to this news. The first 20 servers to post their screenshots will get a reward! Note: The map coordinates must be visible on your screenshots and all of the resources needed to form the letters “DOFUS” must also be visible. The challenge starts now and will end when the twentieth server has posted their screenshots. These Community Challenges allow you to earn points for your server and push your team towards victory - and maybe even go on ahead to win the server grand prize of a weekend of double XP! Points earned in the Community events will be distributed evenly between the winning teams of the winning server. Here are the rewards for this challenge: First place: 300 points Second place: 240 points Third place: 180 points Fourth place: 150 points Fifth Place: 135 points Sixth through tenth: 90 points Eleventh through twentieth: 60 points Good luck to all of you! |
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August 28, 2010, 12:41:31 |
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August 28, 2010, 13:00:36 |
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Hey, can't other servers cheat by looking at other servers posts? I think you should make the things more secure next time... Also, GO SHIKA! GO JUPER! WOOOO XD
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August 28, 2010, 13:10:06 |
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JUPER FTW!
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August 28, 2010, 13:10:24 |
#5
Isn't a time based challenge biased against server with populations based in other time zones? Also the next few servers could easily spot the location from the posted screenshots from the first one.
Of all the challenges, this one is definitely the lamest. |
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August 28, 2010, 13:11:01 |
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@Sylfaen
If, say, the chat covers part of a resource, but the tip of it can be seen, will that be disqualified? Also what if a character completely covers a resource? Also, I assume that checks will be done to ensure that 'bugged boxes' are actually bugged boxes? Edit: Furthermore, how will the time difference in the posting of the challenges on each forum be dealt with? And yeah, go Shika! Bwaa. I see myself in 'F' and 'S'. |
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August 28, 2010, 13:46:47 |
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http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o377/wh...rateday/Dnp.jpg
http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o377/wh...rateday/Onp.jpg http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o377/wh...pirateday/F.jpg http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o377/wh...pirateday/U.jpg http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o377/wh...pirateday/S.jpg Our map for 'D' was bugged... hope we don't get punished for that. |
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August 28, 2010, 13:51:21 |
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Go Rushu!
Nice to see a few folks trying this, a few of us running around to get this completed. http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9640/60948581.png http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1975/92981501.png http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/258/23500227.png http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9893/32474611.png http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5485/94897484.png |
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August 28, 2010, 14:08:01 |
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Congrat' shika !
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August 28, 2010, 14:38:59 |
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Shika!
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August 28, 2010, 15:16:35 |
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Hey !
http://forum.dofus.com/fr/news-f1081/%5Bne...e--t392129.html I would like to know what time you see on our forum. It's strange Imo. Anyway, congratulations Shika ! |
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August 28, 2010, 15:39:52 |
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i find it -very- unfair that the international forums got their message posted 17 minutes AFTER the french got theirs.
why not compare the time that it started [going by each server forum's post time] and compare that to what time the server finished, instead of whatever server finished the earliest because they knew about it sooner? |
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August 28, 2010, 16:01:45 |
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The following was posted yesterday (27th August) on the official French dofus twitter: "L'ultime épreuve communautaire aura lieu demain. Elle pourra commencer n'importe quand. La réactivité sera à l'honneur." Google translates this as: " The ultimate test community will take place tomorrow. It can start anytime. Reactivity will be honored." French Dofus Twitter feed |
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August 28, 2010, 16:05:59 |
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That Enutrof is cheating. How does he expect anyone to copy those when no-one has the juggling, reading, guitar or whatever-he's-doing-in-the-S-picture emotes?
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August 28, 2010, 16:09:46 |
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August 28, 2010, 16:28:32 |
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i find it -very- unfair that the international forums got their message posted 17 minutes AFTER the french got theirs. why not compare the time that it started [going by each server forum's post time] and compare that to what time the server finished, instead of whatever server finished the earliest because they knew about it sooner? But what to do if one of you (international players) had been aware of the event thanks to the french forum ? |
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August 28, 2010, 16:38:21 |
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August 28, 2010, 16:58:34 |
#18
But what to do if one of you (international players) had been aware of the event thanks to the french forum ? Considering that Shika only knew about it an hour and fifteen minutes after the English post, and we were the first Int/English server to post, I don't see how that's possible. |
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August 28, 2010, 17:16:51 |
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I mean some of you may have been aware of the event by the french forum on which the news had been posted before yours.
I'm not targeting Shika, it may be anybody from any Int/English server. But you are right if you tell the truth about Shika. Let's wait the result. |
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August 28, 2010, 19:55:23 |
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This honestly just feels like a little boost to the french servers ego.
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August 28, 2010, 20:01:57 |
#21
This is totally, 100% unfair, looks like French players have simply forgotten about us lol.
That's not the boost, it shows how much they care about us (not) >< |
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August 28, 2010, 20:55:16 |
#22
Wonders if anyone Photoshoped the answer?
also i cant find rosals answer, i dont think our servers really bothered about this whole challenge. On the treechnid challenge my guild said it was a waste of their time, and while in treechnid forest all treechnids still had 5 red stars |
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August 28, 2010, 20:57:03 |
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Wonders if anyone Photoshoped the answer? also i cant find rosals answer, i dont think our servers really bothered about this whole challenge. On the treechnid challenge my guild said it was a waste of their time, and while in treechnid forest all treechnids still had 5 red stars Rosal's post was on the French forums. About 1 minute after Shika, iirc We took like 10-15 minutes or so to gather all the screenshots though, due to technical difficulties.. Total time taken for the challenge was approximately 12 minutes |
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August 28, 2010, 22:16:12 |
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QUOTE (Sylfaen) Pour la précision, j'ai publié les messages un par un dans chaque langue en les rendant aussitôt invisibles. Puis je les ai tous rendus visibles dans la même minute. It means your news has been published at the same time, without any delay. http://forums.jeuxonline.info/showthread.p...31#post21243431 |
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August 28, 2010, 22:30:45 |
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QUOTE For accuracy, I posted one message at a time in each language, making them immediately invisible. Then I made them all visible in the same minute. Translated, for those interested. |
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August 28, 2010, 23:17:30 |
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rosal ftw
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August 28, 2010, 23:58:04 |
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Go Rushu! Nice to see a few folks trying this, a few of us running around to get this completed. http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9640/60948581.png http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1975/92981501.png http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/258/23500227.png http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9893/32474611.png http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5485/94897484.png Mother-Clause is your alt isn't it? |
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August 30, 2010, 12:21:31 |
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Wonders if anyone Photoshoped the answer? also i cant find rosals answer, i dont think our servers really bothered about this whole challenge. On the treechnid challenge my guild said it was a waste of their time, and while in treechnid forest all treechnids still had 5 red stars Look at the first page of this, there's a Eniripsa doing the challenge of Rosal x) Go Rosal!! =D Versaemerge- |
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August 30, 2010, 13:15:42 |
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Hrrmph. I am disgruntled with regards to the results. So many of the servers didn't comply with the rules, with some having characters blocking the view of the resource, which directly goes against
QUOTE all of the resources needed to form the letters “DOFUS” must also be visible. Which would mean that a decent number of the servers who were in the top 20 would have been disqualified. |
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August 30, 2010, 20:17:48 |
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The results after all the disqualifications:
QUOTE 01. Hécate : 12:14 02. Rykke Errel : 12:17 03. Djaul : 12:24 04. Brumaire : 12:26 05. Ménalt : 12:28 06. Raval : 12:36 07. Shika : 12:41 08. Maimane : 12:42 09. Silouate : 12:55 10. Silvosse : 12:59 11. Jiva : 12:59 12. Allister : 13:11 13. Otomaï : 13:30 14. Rushu : 13:51 15. Hyrkul : 14:03 16. Rosal : 14:07 17. Helséphine : 14:20 18. Sumens : 14:36 19. Mylaise : 15:03 20. Hel Munster : 15:40 |
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August 30, 2010, 20:25:51 |
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Nvm
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August 30, 2010, 21:07:40 |
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Only "International" server that placed toward the top was the one that would have had its core members on when the event was posted (seeing that it's in Europe)
Thus, all the rest of us who are at work/school/sleeping because of the time this was released were hosed on this whole event. How did this event even get chosen? Who decides on a real-time event for multiple servers who are all across the globe? That doesn't even make sense. This is just so messed up. Do we have any one over there who is meant to stand up for the International servers? Any one who had sense enough to say something like "will this be fair for all the servers?" This whole thing pisses me off to no end. Years and years of loyalty to a company and this is how they repay you. My advice to new, international players - get out now before you're too deep in. |
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August 30, 2010, 21:40:06 |
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Where is the post to this challenge on Portuguese Community (Spiritia and Helioboros) ??
They were forgotten? |
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August 31, 2010, 14:14:48 |
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QUOTE Dear Ankama community managers, dear players, I would like to share a few of my personal thoughts related to this year's edition of the Goultarminator tournament with you. I am playing on Nehra, the german server, so you probably might expect not only positive feedback from me. I took the chance to let one night full of sleep pass in order not to share the most intense emotions with you but rather come up with a clearer view of my thoughts. I can clearly see the idea behind the kind of events that together make up the idea of the Goultarminator tournament. Although I am a seasoned person (I have solidly passed the 40 years-of-age watermark in real life), I too felt the passion and the dedication to participate in the various community events, trying to achieve the best possible results for "my" server. This is a clear motivation for a lot of players who participated together with me, spending quite some time of their valuable life time to help their servers. And, obviously, there are times when doing your best is not enough and you must accept that others did better or were more successful, no problems with that. What I dislike however is the feeling, that the quality of the whole ruleset of the events was - let's say - far from being up to the same level as the dedication of the players. There have been a number of events where there was more than irritation on the rules. It started with the "kill as many cereal protectors as possible" event. The rules published in the german forums stated that the gross (german word: brutto) number of killed protectors would be set into relation against the number of characters above level 39, that logged in during the time of the event. Note that in german "brutto" or gross means: everything, no exclusion. Explicitely, it means that also protectors killed by players below level 40 would count. Therefore quite a few good players logged their small twinks to kill protectors but to no be counted as players above level 40 (and to counteract the bots above level 40 which surely would not kill protectors). Only after the event it was clarified that this was not valid, so the results of a lot of good players did not count. OK, I can live with this being some sort of misunderstanding, something that should not happen again. But now, with the last community event, something even worse happened. Again the initially published rules were not concise enough, but this time the complete result of my server is marked worthless because of a disqualification due to rules, that initially were not given. I can understand all players on my server that are very upset by this behaviour. In contrast to a lot of player though I see no intention behind this, but what I see is even more disturbing: it is kind of unprofessional. You are publishing a professional service and as such you must be aware of the fact that acts like this one destroy confidence. And confidence is not easily regained. I am sorry, you did a bad job there. You clearly are prompted to reconsider the way you set up your community events, since rather than being fun this way they are experienced as being arbitrary and turn players down. This went the wrong way. by Halvornius, Nehra. |
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August 31, 2010, 14:51:59 |
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Simply put, as much as I love server/community wide events this year was a little bit of a joke. Rules were not fully explained and badly translated (see the above post, it wasnt just his server affected) and then the piicture event was started in such an unbalanced way as to be laughed at. it should have been obvious to anyone thinking it up that the time bias involved would throw the whole event - even in our own guild events we dont use a single time slot start and finish as this is unfair and automatically counts out half the guild - this event was over before some people even woke up to see it had started or knew it was happening.
bad job this time |
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August 31, 2010, 23:57:59 |
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QUOTE Well, I find it wrong, that -the rules be amended after the competition -the location of letters on the map is doesn't matter, but -immediately cause disqualification exceeding their size (1 item) -Sylfaen deems ignore our concerns I repeat my call - set up an independent arbitration (excluding CM's) - and Sylfaen pages Ankamas 1. a sharp rebuke to grant, 2. instruct, restore justice. Ponytail Ankama, please read this. The situation is unbearable. Mr. President, help of Justice to the breakthrough. . |
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September 01, 2010, 18:01:31 |
#37
Wow ... not even an apology or explanation of why this was done the way it was.
Probably because the event was meant to help their favorite servers and played out to perfection. Ankama: 30565, Customers: 2 |
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September 02, 2010, 06:15:27 |
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So Rosals entry, I'm glad we got somewhere!
I logged at around noon that day (had a heavy night of drinking prior to it) and found out about the challenge. After checking the forums I saw no one had done it, which I could not believe. Special thanks to Defacto and MrMuk (spelling?), without his help I would have given up due to bugged map/mobs on my letters. I don't (like most people I know on my server) speak french... so navigating their forums would be impossible. About all the complaints of the event being unfair; I think any critique should be put in a thread of it's own rather than us expecting they read through all our scribbling where it doesn't belong. I'd encourage that thread along with it having its own administrator who could give Ankama efficient feedback <-- that would, I think, be more constructive. Well done everyone |
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September 02, 2010, 14:38:55 |
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Dear Ankama Managers, dear Sylfaen, dear Players.
My yesterdays request has become devoid of purpose, the matter has done to the complete satisfaction of our German community, thanks to Sylfaen. Please forward but also a greeting and thank to Sylfaen. By his courage again amend already ever amended decision he proved true greatness. All the more since this could do damage its credibility and reliability. My respect! Our German Forum yesterday was full of praise for this step in favor of players from Nehra. If I said something during the heated debate in my forum posts, maybe something was hard words, so I would like to apologise, I'm sorry. Dear greetings to the Ankama team and Players in the whole Worldt Your Medizini von Brakmar, Nehra, Germany. |
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September 04, 2010, 22:49:21 |
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So can i ask, who wins and then 2x xp will starts?
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September 05, 2010, 04:49:41 |
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September 05, 2010, 04:53:42 |
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So Rosals entry, I'm glad we got somewhere! I logged at around noon that day (had a heavy night of drinking prior to it) and found out about the challenge. After checking the forums I saw no one had done it, which I could not believe. Special thanks to Defacto and MrMuk (spelling?), without his help I would have given up due to bugged map/mobs on my letters. I don't (like most people I know on my server) speak french... so navigating their forums would be impossible. About all the complaints of the event being unfair; I think any critique should be put in a thread of it's own rather than us expecting they read through all our scribbling where it doesn't belong. I'd encourage that thread along with it having its own administrator who could give Ankama efficient feedback <-- that would, I think, be more constructive. Well done everyone thank you so much for doing this for our server i would love to thank you personaly in game. |
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September 07, 2010, 00:37:03 |
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