There were 9 submissions for the Best Sector Competition on Halloween Buildcon 2014. Each person gets 2 votes, use them wisely!
Included are pictures below with a blown up mini-map in the upper right corner (in order of submission, and matching the poll order above). The pictures don’t quite do it justice, though, so join the halloween buildcon server and look around.
There are lots of things in there with working doors, buttons, etc, and lots of other stuff that was never submitted, so check it out.
This poll goes for 1 week upon which the winner(s) will be notified and their prizes sorted out. Each voter gets two votes and the top three win. In case of a tie the winner will be randomly chosen.
Maybe anonymous submissions would have been fine too (so that people vote for the building and not the player); but everyone was able to see each other building on the server, so i am not sure that it would have worked.
And a restricted group of judges, why not, but then again with anonymous submission.
Anyway we can’t change the system now, so don’t forget to vote for the one you prefer !
Pretty much what SnIpEr said. This voting system is easily biased.
You can vote for yourself
You can ask others to vote for you
People might not choose disliked members of the community
Maybe there are others that I can’t think of right now.
But yes, if this was done again I would expect a better system to be thought through.
Personally I don’t think it’s a true representation of the best builds.
Yeah but a group of judges can be very subjective and not vote as well for a person dislisked; + it was a community event, so maybe it’s better for the community to vote! But i can understand, since there are some prizes, that this kind of system can be unfair
Great event everyone! There were some really cool sectors out there; lot’s of imagination. Thank you shywolf for organizing and running this event. Awesome job.
If you posted about improving how the event was run, or how the voting system works, please specify in the comments now. We are always looking for ways to improve how we do things.
As for prizes, Henper and I decided that we will switch. He will get to decide December’s FSOM gamemode, and I will get the copy of “Killing Floor”.
Because I do not have a steam account, I have no use for the game. I will be giving away the copy of this game to a person in the community. If you want this game, PM me about it, and I will notify shywolf to send it to you. Notice: This will be first come, first serve. [Edit]: Claimed by Apocolyptic
There were many ways that this voting system could be abused.
Make multiple accounts and vote.
People can easily make multiple accounts and I am not sure if aloha.pk restricts the amount of accounts created within the same IP, I am certain that people can make a few. This means that people can make various accounts, vote for themselves, and repeat the process.
Create a big-ass team.
I won’t lie. Our group is one of the entries that had this advantage. However, our team was only composed of few people and who knows, next BuildCon someone may gather a group that has 10+ people in it and they will all vote for their entry.
Gather people to vote for your entry.
This is adding on to the point number 2. You can persuade other people to vote for you, which would result in inflated amount of votes.
Bias.
Although this doesn’t really fall under the category of “abuse”, it will still persuade/dissuade people from voting certain people. Younger users will be usually vulnerable to this (Notice how I said “usually”. This does not mean, my friends, everyone) because they honestly don’t know any better.
