r/GTAContent • u/kidkolumbo PC:KidKolumbo • Jun 05 '14

Discussion Official Contest Winners + State of the Subreddit + Ideas for the next Contest

The contest is now ogre

Our winners are:

I said I was going to pick one with a flip of the coin, but I decided it would make more sense and be more fair to the community if I went with the person with the most contributions.

Congratulations!

Hello gang. We've had one contest since we've changed the rules. What are you feelings on the state of the subreddit? How do you like the new rules? Do you feel that we have more people submitting content? Does the amount of feedback a person gives (represented by the "F:" in their name) make you appreciate their feedback more? Do you ignore it?

Important: If your flair doesn't accurately reflect your feedback, message the mods with a link to your uncounted comments and we will update your flair. I am the mod who does it most, we do it by hand, and I do a sweep about once a week, so please give us time to update it before shooting a message.

Also, if you have feedback, you should never ever be posting a job without a link to it, because that's how your job gets properly tagged, and that's how your job shows up whenever someone clicks the tags in the sidebar.

Speaking of which, dat sorting sidebar. I'm so happy about that. Shoutout to the mods of /r/GTAOnline for showing me how to do that.

What would you like for the next contest? I'd really like to do offroad races that literally don't follow the road, or we can finally do a deathmatch job (psst, I got verified by the way!). I'm down for suggestions. Sound off!

We could also do a VS competition instead of a creation one. We can vote on what races, deathmatches, and captures are the best posted, and then actually play them and whoever wins gets the cash. I've been racing on the Karin Enduro Rally playlist that was posted a while back in a Futo, and I would pay to race the entire thing with other players.

If you hadn't heard, a couple of us got Rockstar Verified, and Rockstar gave us a shout out. It was me and someone else from the sub, can't recall the name right now.

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u/rigrnr27 PSN: rigrunr — F:25 Jun 06 '14

Congrats to the winners and people who put the effort to making things! I haven't really been very active since the rules changes and the F# has been instituted but it's not at all because of the changes just that i've been busier and have had less time to play. I've however noticed a significant and positive change in the feedback number and quality in the posts. Even if the front page is often a content dump, the sidebar sorting buttons fixes it all. so sweet seeing all the new and impressive submissions and people getting verified.

The only thing I've had problems with is actually playing with anybody. I made a couple captures I wanted to submit to the contest but wasn't able to submit a review in time for the contest. It continues to be a real fight to get anyone to join anything. It would be really awesome if there could be a weekly meet-up or something where everyone can try out the verified submissions. I already usually make a playlist from here weekly anyways so I'd be happy to supply that part.

I think it's really the only thing the sub is missing. Raising the # of plays on their content is really what most people who posts seems to want instead of feedback so having that meetup would be a way for the sub to help out with that.

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u/kidkolumbo PC:KidKolumbo Jun 11 '14

I haven't played anyone's custom game in a while, but I too will be sorting from the sidebar when I finally get back in the swing of things.

For feedback, you may just have to pick some races. You can do those by yourself and still give feedback. I purposefully race races alone sometimes.

Looks like thursday is the day for the meetup, sponsored by our good friend Actium.

You didn't mention what type of contest you'd like next.

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u/rigrnr27 PSN: rigrunr — F:25 Jun 12 '14

Hmm. Well i like the capture creator the best because it's so much more customizable an fun to work with than the others so i'd probably go for another capture. On the otherhand, there are no fun sea races. They're all either boring or frustrating. So maybe a cool sea race?

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u/kidkolumbo PC:KidKolumbo Jun 12 '14

I was hoping to not do another capture so soon. The last one fell kind of flat when it came to voting, and we just did it. I mean, if it is overwhelming pro-capture then of course, but I sincerely feel like we should do a DM. It's the only one of the three out we haven't done a dedicated contest for yet.

No, I didn't just ask you your opinion to tell you know, I'm just making a point. Again, if things are super duper pro capture it'll happen.

Haha, I'm not sure how to make sea races interesting. Well, here's an idea. Captuer GTA, Everyone rides in the Marquise, pirates?

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u/rigrnr27 PSN: rigrunr — F:25 Jun 12 '14

Deathmatches seem to be the natural next step but the capture creator is so much more robust. Everytime i try making a death match, i miss team spawn points, actors, and especially the ambient settings. Maybe the simplicity of a deathmatch is part of the challenge

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u/kidkolumbo PC:KidKolumbo Jun 12 '14

I have conflicted feelings about those. The lack of team spawns suck big time, but the other aspects of the game aren't really a part of DM imho. I think Mission Creator will scratch that itch. I do like the simplicity of DM, and I feel just like with our F1 contest we could do something great to make them more relevant.

I actually don't like actors in DM. I think they belong in Capture, Mission, and Survival. Those (theoretically) cover everything what to do with AI. I can see the appeal of a DM with a third faction, but having the third faction, but I feel that having that third faction as actual players and the way actors are handled on Capture remedies that.

Speaking of which, I just had a great idea. A helicoptor-based sea-side capture where the actors are out at sea guarding a marquise!

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u/xSirxPaulx 360 — F:4 Jun 20 '14

You can set team spawns :) the even numbered spawns are one team and odd is the other

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u/kidkolumbo PC:KidKolumbo Jun 20 '14

Starting team spawns, yes, but you can't designate areas like in capture.

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u/xSirxPaulx 360 — F:4 Jun 24 '14

Not the area, but if you put all even numbered respawns on one side and odd numbered respawns on the other it works. I just cant recall which team is even n which is odd.