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The Challenge runs from July 1st, 2011 - the end of August 31st, 2011
This is it folks, the Final Oblivion's Real Estate Challenge!
The History of the ORE Challenge
Since the very first challenge in 2006, The Underwater Homes Challenge, the ORE Challenges have been a huge and much loved feature of Oblivion's Real Estate. One that will be following us into Skyrim.
The ORE Challenges have served their purpose well in inspiring and motivating house modders, pushing the limits of what can achieved and providing downloaders with amazing mods. Not to mention provided huge excitement and fun for us all. There is nothing like the excitement and tension that comes before the results are announced.
This challenge is a very special challenge. Not only is it the very last challenge that will be held for Oblivion, but coincidently it is also the Eleventh Challenge that we have held. A good number to go out on, and go into Skyrim on.
Below are the challenges we have had over the past 5.5 years...
The Underwater Homes Challenge
The Hovering Homes Challenge
The Open Homes Challenge
The MORE Homes Challenge
The Garden Homes Challenge
The Water Homes Challenge
The Shivering Isles Challenge
The Castle Challenge
The Hotels and Inns Challenge
The Country Homes and Estates Challenge
For more info on those, http://www.oblivionsrealestate.com/Find_A_Home/ORE_Challenges/ore_challenges.html
The Final ORE Challenge.
This challenge is all about innovation. Thinking outside the box and coming up with innovative new ways to do things, innovative concepts and ideas. It is just like the Open Homes Challenge in that there is no specific theme.
Basically, come up with the most imaginative, innovative and creative home you can.
No limits, no restrictions other then the few listed below. You can build whatever you want, where ever you want to build it.Unfortunately there is one limitation, no castles. This is because it is extremely difficult to judge a castle against a regular home and we already had the Castles Challenge.
If you would like to participate please sign up in this thread or in the http://ljosa.proboards.com/index.cgi
General Rules
*If you want to participate then you must sign up here.
*Each entry must be made by only one person and entered by that same person.
*You must not reveal any information/screenshots about your entry at all, as these may 'inspire' others and tell the Judges who you are.
*You can use vanilla or modded items to create and decorate your homes.
*You CAN use Shivering Isles.
*Please do not use the DLCs as it is difficult to get Judges with them all or the one your mod would need.
*Lore is NOT important, you can create a home as unlore like as possible and it will not affect your chances of winning.
*The home must have a bed.
*All mods entered must be put exclusively on ORE for the first week after the challenge, barring any major errors or problems. After the week time period, authors are free to host their mod anywhere they like.
Submitting your mod
*Entries must be in by the end of August 31st, 2011.
*Your mod must contain a readme.
*All houses entered must be fully finished and will be beta tested by the ORE Staff before being put before the judges.
*Mods must NOT have your name in the description section of the mod itself, so that Judges cannot see the creator of the mod when they go to activate it in the DataFiles.
*Entries must be sent via email to Shezrie, pm me when you are ready and I will give you the email address.
*If you have submitted your house before the end date and you made an update to it, you MUST resubmit the ENTIRE mod with updated readme. Please do not send single files or documents to me as this creates much more work for me.
The Judges
*The judges are secretly selected by Shezrie and offered the position. I select a panel of experienced modders or very knowledgeable people who are respectable, honest members of the entire Elder Scrolls community.
*They are not permitted to tell anyone they are a Judge and this will not be revealed until after the challenge is over.
*They will not know who made which mod until after the winner is announced.
Possible Questions and Answers
Will adding a quest increase my chances?
Feel free to add in a quest, however it will be ignored by the Judges when judging. This is because this is about the house and we need to keep it on an even playing field. It would not be fair to others if they did not put in a quest, but people who did got higher scores when a quest was not a requirement of the challenge.
How does the Judging work, can I be assured of fair and impartial judging procedure?
In order to ensure that mods are judged fairly there is a procedure that is followed to ensure the fairest possible judging procedure.
I (Shezrie) am the only one who will know which mod was made by who throughout the entire challenge until the I announce the results. I follow a certain procedure....
*Once I have your mod I will test it in game. If there are obvious flaws that prevent judging I will send it back to be corrected.
*If/when the mod is fine, I then carefully check the mod and the readme for any sign of the author's name and remove any.
*I repackage the mod up with the now nameless readme and it goes up to a secure area on ORE along with the other mods.
*The Judges are provided with a secret area on the forum. I put the download links/access passwords there along with the Judging guidelines for the Judges to proceed. At this point the mods are only identified by their names, the Judges do not know who created what.
*The Judges test and score each mod. I add up the scores when the final Judge's information is in. Judges still don't know who made which mod and the challengers still don't know either or who the Judges are.
*I put all the mods on ORE and announce the winner at the same time. At this time the challengers get to know who the Judges were and the Judges find out who made which mod and I get to stop being so secretive.
Will you release the scores awarded by the Judges, so we can see who came second, third etc?
Absolutely no, no chance, not in a million years. The scores are deleted and never revealed.
What does the winner get?
The winning mod will be featured on the front page of ORE for one Month and will joins the ranks of ORE Challenge Winners. With a gold cup beside the mod's name and the title of 'Winner of the ORE Final Challenge'. If the author is a member of the ORE forum they will get the title and 200 karma on the forum.
Finally
Feel free to pm me, Shezrie/Meek with any questions about your particular mod/idea and whether it meets the challenge requirements or any other questions on the challenge.
Good Luck! Remember to check out the variety of resources on http://www.oblivionsrealestate.com/Resources/resources.html.
This list of rules may be altered/added too during the course of the challenge, as is required. So be sure to check it frequently.
Remember that this is a fun challenge that is intended to inspire and motivate people. Have fun and think outside the box.
Shezrie
Admin of Oblivion's Real Estate
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