QUOTE(Breast Cancer Awareness @ Jan 8 2011, 08:02 PM)
Well, I might as well tell you guys this now since it seems like you couldn't figure it out by yourselves.
My shot was a "joke" shot. I say "joke" because it has a deeper meaning than just "oh hey im gonna submit a bad shot to sotw LOL
". I seriously just opened up ZC, opened the tileset, and started placing random combos all over the place until it looked like some sort of horribly regurgitated screen. I took the shot in ZQuest and saved it as a .jpg to make it look horrible on purpose, and then after that I went through the trouble of actually ripping the jpg into the tile editor just to make it seem worse. How many of you even noticed this?
One?I seriously made the worst screen I could possibly think of that wasn't just completely empty and whatnot and you people loved it. Look at the ratings I got on it, 6, 7, 6,
9, 7, 6. Not great, but still that's fairly average to good. Is that all somebody has to do in ZQ to impress the community nowadays? Throw down a bunch of random tiles and not even bother taking a decent quality screenshot? I'm sure great questmakers like Exate are rolling in their graves at this fact.
Why even bother putting effort into ZC anymore if you're all just going to like the s*** we produce without using any? Really, the past few SotW's have had shots that I don't consider to be any higher quality than my own this week. And yeah, the most qualified shots tend to win every week, but everybody still just eats up the other screens without any constructive criticism past the point of something along the lines of "move that rock
" or whatever.
And even Taco_Chopper and Naldrag got some fairly good ratings for the shots they were (they were in on this, more people were supposed to be as well but whatever). And just to clarify, Taco's screen wasn't meant to be a tribute to minimalism or anything, though 4'33" is a great composition and I agree with everything I said defending the point.
Though to whoever voted for Sephiroth's shot, congratulations, you picked out the good one that deserved to win at the very least. I'm proud of you, at least a bit.
I think the general reason is this:
1. You used Minish Cap tiles, which individually look very good. Someone with real talent drew them.
2. You did an overworld forest screenshot, and people often intentionally try to place trees and shrubs rather randomly in order to make it feel more organic.
3. Since Minish Cap tiles are high-detail, the switch to JPG didn't mess up the visibility of the map area of the screenshot very much. For the most part, it only distorted the ZQuest menus, which no one really cares about.
So basically, you're saying you're a troll and we should all feel ashamed for taking you seriously. Hmmm. Let's give that another look.
Did you get people to say some nice things to you? Yeah, I guess you did. But there is no real prize for SOTW; the only thing people get out of it is a little satisfaction. Knowing that people are competing for satisfaction, the voters who critique submissions tend to focus on giving
encouragement to the entrants.
Sometimes, people will even vote for an entry not because it is the best, but because they want to encourage the person. It is very disappointing to get 0 votes, and sometimes people want to give the underdog a little satisfaction so they'll do better next time. Such voting patterns rarely change the winner, so there's little harm in doing it.
Obviously, this isn't true across the board. Only 10% of people voted for your screenshot. So what you've proven is that about 10% of the people here either pay too much attention to the tileset OR were more interested in being nice to the underdog than voting for the best.
In short, if this is how you're going to act, and if this is a demonstration of how little you think of us... just go away, Lithium. It's a friggin' screenshot contest for a free fan program. Who wins is not all that important. The fact that YOU are invested enough in its outcome to make a "trap" submission speaks pretty badly of you, too. You aren't doing anything to improve this contest, to help anybody in any way, or even to make yourself look better. Hell, your attempt at trolling isn't really enough to truly offend anybody. You're just being a douche and annoying people. Woooow. That sure makes you unique.
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