#RFC - Culture Contest

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hot frost
chilly ingot
hot frost
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We had a better, rectangular one, but i couldnt find it lol

chilly ingot
wispy dragon
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If the effort is not influenceable by a settlement, the settlement the creators are direct citizens of will receive the culture points.

If a Homestead is not part of a settlement and awarded culture points, will the homestead or owner receive the culture boost directly?

Will that culture then carry over to the settlement if they join a settlement later?

Use case:
Building a homestead or culture plot, then selling the plot via Real Estate desk directly to a settlement. This would incentivize competing towns to bid on well placed plots to increase their influence (if that culture is used in the influence calculation that is).

hot frost
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A homestead is always part of a settlement, it would be the Federation of White Tiger.

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And yes, points can be reattributed to a new settlement, but we only do that when notified or noticing ourselves by chance.

wispy dragon
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Thank you for the clarification, I really appreciate your efforts. Exciting things for White Tiger!

pliant bay
floral schooner
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Looking back at WT39, I wasn't sure I wanted to play it, I foresaw a very low population because it was a play test again and just before Xmas cycle which is a big one. It was quite the opposite.
It was also a big surprise in the astounding number of nice buildings, never before has there been so many!
Of course, it depends on who's playing, we were lucky to have numerous builders. Maybe they played because of the contest.

floral schooner
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About the culture, getting culture points using pictures is decently easy late game: I calculated that with 2500e I could make a deed with 30+ culture with just 2 pictures of foreign artists. My biggest source of reputation was "taking nice about other people" and like 2-3 real reps received. Getting higher per deed gets tricky because of room tier soft cap, but you can have 30 cultural deeds in a town. So without the contest it's decently easy to get 1k culture for the federation, it just takes 100ke worth of buildings

Now to the contest. I think it gave a strong incentive for people to build their home nice, in hope to get noticed, rewarded. What's the point of building if nobody sees it ?
Problem is to keep it fair and updated. There was a discrepancy between GMs in how many points were given on the same building. Some were rated by multiple GMs, some by none. At first it seemed to me like it would happen weekly, but it didn't. I don't blame anyone on this, it takes an incredibly long time to do, and GMs are volunteers.
There were also different scales between week one and last week ratings. They varied by a good factor 5. Of course some builds are bigger and take more time to build and should be rewarded more, but it felt like early builds didn't matter much. I think it's most important to reward the early ones cause that's the moment you need to choose between a functional box and a nice looking building, also it might help keeping players around.
Rewarding events is excellent, and I wish I had done more. Hopefully the next cycle will see some of these too!

slow anvil