Event 6: Last Legacy Level Designing Contest

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

I do think LL should have had a 2 week deadline to begin with anyway. Of course that doesn't apply to Team Dark, we finished on time

[Oranjui]

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StevengawN (May 24th, 2016, 2:54 am)

[Megar]

I still think extensions are uncalled for.
In a normal LDC I can understand, but we have entire teams working on these levels. If two out of six people can't do anything, what's stopping the other four? Unless they all magically have an excuse to not do anything, there's no reason for the level to not be done by the deadline.

[Oranjui]

I pretty much agree with Mega here. Honestly, I think that points be penalized for getting an extension in a contest like this. I don't really see any excuse for getting one if it was an entire team collaboration project. Even Green got ours done in less than a day and with only three active people. I think it's only fair that you either give a bonus to on-time entrants, or a deduction for late entrants, especially since they're getting their time doubled for practically no reason at all.

(before you call me a hypocrite, if you really feel the need to deduct points for the misplaced starting location in our level [please update the code doram/amp/a mod], then do that, too, I guess :p )

[Supershroom]

It looks like none of the teams did use the entire week, even Team Super only used three days to do most of the work on their two levels. If Harmless suddenly comes back and blows us away within the double period of time, well then ... I'd just say it should be three more days (until September 5th) at most for fairness reasons. If he says that he got slammed for two days, he can't really explain a request of 5 more days just from that, can he? Then again, he's in a rather busy situation, also having his duel level uncompleted (I'm being more lenient with that, just try to finish asap without the pressure of a specific date)

And from the looks of it, Team Red seems to take last place by default.

[Konradix]

We really had some communication problems, and basically it came down to Harmless carrying the team. While I do think that it shouldn't be all serious business, since it's all for fun, I'll admit that taking points from late teams is fair. Though that's just me.

@Shroom: There were 2 of us active. Not even 2, more like 1.5, with me being busy as well. I don't wanna make excuses, but that's how it was.

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

To be fair we didn't start our level until 4 days to go before the original deadline. But it's because the whole contest seemed a little rushed, we spent some days trying to get everyone active again and then decide on what we were going to do, before we actually started.

[Karyete]

good god I go for not even two days and this happens

Well I'm agreeing with Mega and OJ here, but I'm too tired to say more than that.

[Supershroom]

Niicola also needs a backup judge.

[Doram]

Ok, as for my reasoning for being ultra-lenient with the rules for this:

• One of the points of this contest is to get people working in LL. That is defeated if nobody finishes a level.
• I understand that LL is much more difficult, and would have loved to have given people more time, but the original schedule, which was trying to avoid going into school time, didn't have the room.
• I'd rather have a larger pool of entrants than a small one, both to be more "fair" in the sense that not submitting meant an automatic 0 points, which would be a major blow to some teams, and I'm not in this to be mean.