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Creator's Spotlight Archive

Postby Schultz128 » Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:00 pm

Hey, you!

No, not your alt, you!

Tired of feeling bland?

Washed up?

Having weak memes?

Wanna get your ideas into FM?

Look no further, because now we have:



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The Creator's Spotlight!



"Schultz, what is this?"

The Creator's Spotlight is a quarterly event to help expand the list of our more serious roles for the Standard and Episode rolelists. Think of this like Grand Idea Mafia, but actually reasonable and meant to spice up the longevity of Standards.



"Schultz, how does this work?"

Whenever an Episode ends, a period known as the "Submission Phase" will occur over the next 3 months until the next Episode starts. During this period, any user may submit their own roles in the Submissions thread (so long as they follow the guidelines listed below in this post). This is also a period to discuss the roles and how they would work in the current meta with other roles or rolelists.

When the next Episode starts, a new period known as the "Voting Phase" will begin. While the Episode is running, a new thread will be made with a list of all submitted roles can be voted for. To vote, a user will PM me (Schultz128) with which role they wish to vote for. Once the Episode ends, we will give all users 3 extra days to vote. Once that deadline is reached, the votes will be tallied and the one with the most votes will win. That role will then be added to the Experimental Rolelist.

Here is how the ledger works for role submissions:

If there are 1-14 roles eligible for voting:
1 Role will be elected to be added to the Experimental Rolelist. Each user will have 1 vote.

If there are 15-29 roles eligible for voting:
2 Roles will be elected to be added to the Experimental Rolelist. Each user will have 2 votes.

If there are 30+ roles eligible for voting:
3 Roles will be elected to be added to the Experimental Rolelist. Each user will have 3 votes.


"How should my role submission look?"

All roles submissions should have the following:

  • Role name, alignment, and sub-alignment.
  • All abilities listed in a clear and non confusing manner.
  • An ECO (Encyclopedia for Controversial Occurrences) for the role to explain how it works with other roles in the current rolelist.
  • All possible wincons.
  • The name of the post that contains the submission should be retitled to the name of your role (similar to editing the title of a thread.)
  • It's recommended to use the format of the Standard rolecards in the Rolecards thread for guidance of how to format your role.


"Sounds like a nice mey-mey! I'm going to go break the school's windows!"

Not so fast, there are going to be rules to the roles and the voting.


Voting:

Spoiler:
1) Self Voting - Users may not vote for their own roles.

2) Voting Limit and Integrity - Users cannot vote more than what they're assigned. This means you are not allowed to vote on a role with alternate accounts. If a user is discovered to have been using alts to vote for roles, hence exceeding their vote limit, they will be barred from participating in the Creator's Spotlight permanently.

3) Beggars - We prefer if you do not constantly beg for votes. You're allowed to try and convince people to vote for your role, but don't be obnoxious about it.


Role Submission:

Spoiler:
1) Trolling - Don't try to be funny. No one is going to laugh about you submitting a N1 Suicidal Keeper of Light. Any broken, unbalanced, or obvious troll roles will be purged. Constantly submitting troll/purposefully broken roles will result in escalating punishment under the moderators' discretion.

2) Reposting - Any roles that are already virtually accepted in Standards but not listed under the rolecards section (i.e Parity Cop, Potion Maker) will be purged without punishment. If your role is not the winner of the election, you are able to submit the role again in the next election.
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