What kind of contests would you like to see around the forum

GothicKratos
GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
edited June 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
"David wrote:
Moore"]If you guys have ideas for forum contests and such to foster community engagement I'm happy to discuss.

I can see about in-game prizes too. icon_e_wink.gif

I'll just open with that. icon_lol.gif

I'm asking both from a standpoint of 'what kind of contests would you participate in' and a 'what kind of contests would you like to see other people participate in'.

Like, me personally, I'd love to see some kind of art contest, but my own artist talent is....limited. icon_lol.gif

Something I was mulling over was a 'Create-a-Character' Contest, where the community could vote on a group of characters from the Concepts and Spec sub-forum and such.

What would you participate in? What would you like to see?

P.S. Meme Contests will happen. Probably a lot. icon_lol.gif
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  • Chrono_Tata
    Chrono_Tata Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    What about a caption contest? Pretty minimum effort but fun so we'd probably see quite a few participants.

    Character design contests seem cool but could turn out that, if endorsed by the devs, people will start having unrealistic expectations that winning characters or ideas generated from such contests should be used in the game. From what I've heard from devs of other games, officially recognising fan designs for game contents could potentially lead to legal trouble if, say, a fan believes their ideas have been "stolen" by the devs.
  • Oldboy
    Oldboy Posts: 452 Mover and Shaker
    How about a contest to determine the contest? icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Heartburn
    Heartburn Posts: 527
    remake an under powered hero contest, could be in stages: select one character; select changes: 1 power, 2 powers, or 3 powers; vote on possible changes based on suggestions
  • El Satanno
    El Satanno Posts: 1,005 Chairperson of the Boards
    You know what would be great? A contest to write your own PvE. Dialogue, node composition, boosted characters, the works. It would be a lot of work (or not...) but then we could just take our winners (and losers, too, because why not?) and make it all green with upvotes and then maybe we could have some new content around here.
  • spectator
    spectator Posts: 395 Mover and Shaker
    Do you want to build a bagman (sung to the tune in frozen)

    viewtopic.php?f=7&t=29400
  • IlDuderino
    IlDuderino Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    Design a fair compensation policy
  • chaos01
    chaos01 Posts: 316 Mover and Shaker
    Predict the next nerf....

    Winner(s) gets to keep their character(s) unchanged.
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    I love the responses in the meme threads, one of the ultron memes actually ended up going a little viral, i still see it on tumblr here and there..

    A good forum contest would be "Name that Dev" or "Name that Mod"

    post lines from or about a dev or mod and see who can figure out who said it...

    Would have to exclude Jamie though.. it would always be him.
  • lukewin
    lukewin Posts: 1,356 Chairperson of the Boards
    I wouldn't mind a Survivor type contest, where the person that gets the most votes, gets voted off the forums. I can think of 4 or 5 names right now, that would float to the top, and this place might be a lot more enjoyable to be around. A, r, s, G, t; not gonna name names though, although I'm assuming most people might be thinking the same names I am.
  • MarvelMan
    MarvelMan Posts: 1,350
    I think there should be an open contest to see which dev can provide the best communication.





    I think the winner might just be any dev who posts......
  • If they're considering a character (or an alt of an existing character), a vote for "what version do you want?" might be fun. With the (presumably still upcoming) 2* Cyclops - a lot of people seem disappointed in the look they went with, maybe offer options of looks, and whichever look wins gets the 2*.
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    Crazy riddles, polls for the possible answers, no posting allowed (so noone can spoil), just 1 vote.. winners have a chance at prizes
    Can do the same for Character arcs, name that char etc...
    Post a moveset, without ability names, guess who it could be..

    All poll based, no posting allowed, so noone can spoil.
  • stowaway
    stowaway Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    It seems like it's been a while, but every now and then someone posts a game board and a list of characters and a puzzle along the lines of "what's the best move?" or "what move lets you win the game this turn?" I never really participated on those threads, but I always liked reading them.
  • chaos01
    chaos01 Posts: 316 Mover and Shaker
    How about a contest to make a YouTube video about making a YouTube video about MPQ.
  • JustDan13
    JustDan13 Posts: 67
    Well, setting aside the normal vitriol, it sounds like they'd prefer social activity as opposed to Q&A / Dev activity. To that end...

    A (very) short story contest revolving around an MPQ battle. Two to three paragraphs, describing in comic-like storyline terms, how the battle went, who was victorious, and who fell in battle. Open voting to determine the winner.

    Generate artwork using whatever medium you prefer, centered around the 4* season-end PvP alliance reward character.

    Generate and post some Marvel or MPQ-related encoded message. Use whatever method you like, winner is the one who deciphers the message. If there is no winner within X amount of time, a clue is given. Then another, until there is a winner. Winner gets to design and "run" the next one.

    Top 10 lists. Post a category once a week, and ask players to submit their top 10 marvel characters who fit the criteria. So to 10 characters you wouldn't want to use a public restroom after. Top 10 characters you'd prefer to be lost on an island with. Top 10 characters you'd want to be your substitute teacher for a day... etc. Anonymize the submissions, then post them and ask for votes. Most votes wins.

    Just a few things off the top of my head.
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    Those Roster meeting story's were amazing.. anyone have the links? A contest to create that kind of magic would be an amazing idea!

    We could also rip off Super Hero Texts and create our own.
  • shatland
    shatland Posts: 42 Just Dropped In
    im particularly biased towards the art contest. i would participate and love to see everyone else's artwork. you don't have to be "good" at art to make great art (cough*warhol*cough)- sometimes a funny comic or powerful message is better than an intricate, detailed masterpiece.

    kind of like how the only dumb questions are the ones unasked? the only bad art is the stuff that doesn't get made. i love encouraging others to create and have held this point of view for most of my life. beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.

    art exists in many forms - music, stories, sculpture, animated, interactive, etc - not just two dimensional pencil type stuff. (though, that pencil type stuff is by far my favorite icon_e_smile.gif

    so... yeah. art. creation. lets do it!
  • Heartburn
    Heartburn Posts: 527
    edited June 2015
    lukewin wrote:
    I wouldn't mind a Survivor type contest, where the person that gets the most votes, gets voted off the forums. I can think of 4 or 5 names right now, that would float to the top, and this place might be a lot more enjoyable to be around. A, r, s, G, t; not gonna name names though, although I'm assuming most people might be thinking the same names I am.
    fine but the winner is then immune to reporting, banning, and post sparkle. icon_twisted.gif
  • a contest to make D3 release a new PVE with regularity
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    I appreciate the constructive responses (and the jaded ones make me chuckle, so thanks for those too!).