Community Crunch 120 & Arkpocalypse Servers!

OMG I love the Crest Ravager! My favorite toothpaste lol. Great job and congrats to all the winners! 

nice entries, some real gems in there, thanks to all who submitted entries.

Love all the entries!  Nicely done everyone

All of these screenshots are just beautiful; congrats to the winners!

I can't believe that Titanic build won, it's nothing but an empty shell.
The Aberration build deserved to beat it, the build that I entered had layers upon layers of detail in every building to the point where it was too much for my xbox to handle. The final layer of graphics wouldn't load due the strain I put on my xbox & any attempt to add more detail would crash my xbox so I had to get my friend TLC to come & film footage to prevent my entry from looking like an early xbox 360 game!
He obviously only won because he filled the forum with moaning about being overlooked, I thought entries were judged on how good they were not on how much a person moans & floods the forums with claims of being overlooked.
@Jat, I invite you to personally visit my build to look around at the level of detail I achieved & then tell me personally why my detailed build should lose to an empty shell, you have my email address so feel free to contact me if you don't want to reply here.

@MissyPrime Two winners in this category. Not only Titanic (which, by the way, is an excellent job).

8 minutes ago, Ego said:

@MissyPrime Two winners in this category. Not only Titanic (which, by the way, is an excellent job).

I know there were two winners, the runner up build deserved to win first place as I stated in my reply. The builder of the Titanic flooded the post for entering CC with non stop complaints that he always gets overlooked & hey presto he won even though his build had no detail, it was nothing but a shell.
The winner has shown that the way to win CC is to moan, not to actually put some effort into making a build interesting, as I also stated his titanic build had no effort put into detail, there was nothing interesting about it apart from the size.
I could build that in under 24hrs, my entry pretty much pushed the xbox to its limits, every attempt to add more to my entry crashed my xbox because I spent 3 months cramming that entry with details.
Maybe in future I'll just build something that's a big empty shell & then flood the rest of the post with complaints that no one is looking closely enough my entry (which is exactly what the builder of that boring shell did)

Edited February 27, 2018 by MissyPrime

@MissyPrime Unfortunately, it is not always completely clear on what criteria all the same is being evaluated. Some screenshots are also difficult to do, especially with the current bugs nvidia ansel but at the same time, something much simpler comes out on top. But in my opinion, everything that is published here is first of all self-expression, and only then earnings. Although the latter, of course, is pleasant, there is no dispute :-)

Both Wolf Angelus' entry and badassunicorn's entry were tied for first place, there were no runners-up for ARKitect selected this time. When we pick a winner, it's not just based on how functional a base is, or how much it contains, whether you've filled every spot, but sometimes we pick things which are visually pleasing, maybe we think the design is very creative, perhaps it's something new that we haven't seen before. All the builds are always impressive and let's face it, this contest is done for fun -- there aren't any formal point allocations, we're not saying one build is more impressive than the other, we're just choosing the winners which we believe deserved it this week.

The entries are specifically judged collectively, perhaps there's an argument for us being a bit more strict with how we handle submissions and judge contestants, but then we'd need to introduce more rules to the process, and it gets a lot more finicky. In the meantime, we're happy with how the ARKitect contest is run presently, were prize winners are selected based on a variety of factors. If you're unsatisfied, you need not enter. 

Additionally, despite what you think, someone complaining about the forums doesn't lead to the prizes being swapped around, or bias being made towards them. It's just that people submit different things each week, and sometimes they deserve to win, which was the case with today's contest. It isn't the first time someone has moaned about how a prize was selected, and it isn't the last. 

However, if you feel like your entry was overlooked, don't hesitate to let us know. That's absolutely fine, but please don't attack another person's build/submission, it was selected for a reason. If you're looking for some sort of formal judging process to truly identify whether your build is the best building in the game, the Crunch isn't where you find that. The crunch is a presentation of community goodies (and news) which we encourage players to share, and the prizes are just a bonus we do as a showing of gratitude for what you're able to create with our game.

If you are looking to take part in another building contest, y'all should check out this video:

 

how do I find  ARKPOCALYPSE  on ps4? is it the new map? .w.; i hope it is! >.<;

Amazing submissions

Congratulations to all the winners!

x3 is a bit meh for monthly wipes...make it higher.

1 hour ago, Norlinri said:

Amazing submissions

Congratulations to all the winners!

Thank you <3 

Thank you wildcard for seeing my hard work, to win these submissions means so much to me. Thank you!!

and yet again, no Q&A

9 hours ago, KingLucifer said:

x3 is a bit meh for monthly wipes...make it higher.

No.  x3 is too high (this was tried once and it absolutely destroyed these servers.)  Clearly you've spent no time on these servers and have zero understanding of why people actually play there.

@Jat, the competition you promoted that is being run by gg fizz is a pc competition so is of no use to us on console, I've said it before & i'll repeat it here, I think consoles should get a separate category for Arkitect as we are creating without mods & to make a build the size of many of the pc builds is beyond the ability of the consoles. As I stated very clearly my build pushed my xbox to it's absolute limit, I wanted to make my build much bigger but was prevented by the limitations of the hardware.

With regards to you saying that I shouldn't attack another persons build is a bit hypocritical as the person who built the titanic frequently attacks others for their builds beating his, he did it with Cpt Fatdog winning for his innovative round build (Even though that comment has been removed myself & others clearly read it). Previously he has attacked other builds such as one of the valentines builds yet you did not chastise him for frequently attacking others, instead you awarded him a win, how can anyone not think he's been rewarded for being a bad sport?
I carefully worded my response to mirror the way he attacked other people entries yet for some reason my response was deemed out of order whilst at no point have I seen you chastise him for this repeated behaviour (If you provide proof that I'm wrong about this then I will not hesitate to apologise).

Unlike the builder of the titanic I'm not going to keep this debate going, I wanted to highlight the impression that many will now have due to this debacle, I've said my piece & will move along.
 

 

Edited February 27, 2018 by MissyPrime

The response wasn't targetted at you, just a general message for everyone who takes part in these contests, going forward we'll just remove submissions if people want to attack each other's entries. It's gotten to a point where it's getting out of hand now. As I mentioned before, it's not the first time someone has complained about not placing, nor will it be the last but that doesn't effect the judgement. I've received emails/messages from multiple people, and there have been posts made here and on other platforms about how X deserved the win over Y, and it'll never influence the decision making process. However, there are times when entries may be missed, not often, but we're human and make mistakes so if you think that was the case don't hesitate to bring it up.

As for console entries, we can consider doing that, I'll discuss it with the team

 

17 minutes ago, Jatheish said:

The response wasn't targetted at you, just a general message for everyone who takes part in these contests, going forward we'll just remove submissions if people want to attack each other's entries. It's gotten to a point where it's getting out of hand now. As I mentioned before, it's not the first time someone has complained about not placing, nor will it be the last but that doesn't effect the judgement. I've received emails/messages from multiple people, and there have been posts made here and on other platforms about how X deserved the win over Y, and it'll never influence the decision making process. However, there are times when entries may be missed, not often, but we're human and make mistakes so if you think that was the case don't hesitate to bring it up.

As for console entries, we can consider doing that, I'll discuss it with the team

 

Perhaps two categories for mods and no mods instead of console/PC. I'm a PC builder, but I often build without mods because I'm making videos for Youtube of builds that others should be able to reproduce on consoles. But however you decide works for me. 

Edited February 27, 2018 by SWChris

@Jat, thank you for the honest response. I've entered & lost many times & have always taken it with good grace but it really irked me to constantly read complaints from this person & to then see him win, it definitely gives the impression that constant complaining can influence the outcome.
I'm passionate about Ark because it's the best thing to come to consoles in years (in my opinion), I'm an admin on a facebook builders group with over 2000 members & I know I'm not the only one who feels that it's unfair to have modded builds in the same category as non modded builds.
I agree with SWChris that instead of a console category it would make for a fairer competition to have an unmodded category for both those on console who do not have access to the mods & those on pc who do not wish to use them.

I'm honest enough to admit that I'm going through a bought of depression that did influence the way I worded my post & I apologise if I came off as being snarky, my intention was to highlight an issue not to attack another person.

Listen to the voice of the people!!!!

 

I have to say the desert creature is awesome!

Please, please add the Nuke Rocket and alarm into pvp ps4 from video above.

Cleaned up the thread a little stop the bickering and fighting people please. Jat has addressed the issue. No need to keep stirring the pot and arguing with each other over a contest. Thanks.

When is the next tlc patch ?