WOO HOO....
OK, first, I did read elsewhere and just checked it: only those who have ENTERED a room can do this judging....I like that! No millions of clones doing the judging!
With that out of the way: I have done some judging of these rooms already and let me tell ya that I am really really peeved at some of the stuff I am seeing here. I have been in 40 rooms (hehe, almost to the point of my first bonus prize) and I swear, about HALF of those rooms HAVE NOTHING IN THEM!!!!!
Honest to goodness! And a fair amount of others have the most ridiculous things in them, like beta furnish and a neon sign! I kid you not. Now, I know that a lot of people are anticipating getting a "participation" prize: but this just stinks! And we don't even know if there will be a 'participation' prize.
I know there is NO WAY I would ever win with my garden, I accept that, really I do. There is just so much outstanding talent out there. But to think that a person who threw a few pink couches and a few quest items in a room and entered it might get that same prize as I do for "participation".....
<---well that's how I feel about that one!!
There are also some things I wish we could do in this judging: 1) give the above described rooms a big fat 0 score; 2) the ability to leave a short (I mean short) comment on a room; 3) some way to track how many rooms we have judged instead of me making tally marks on a piece of paper,
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The system also seems to be a bit buggy; I have been "stuck" in rooms, I have had the judging form be forever stuck in "loading" mode, and I have been repeatedly sent to the Opera House when clicking "move to next room".
So while I like the idea of peer review of the rooms, there are some things that could be improved certainly. The biggest being that the rooms that really are obvious that the player submitted it just to get a participation prize should be eliminated from the peer review process. They have supposedly been through the first stage of judging -- VFK should have removed these from the mix before releasing the peer review.
Phew...does this go down as longest post I have made here?
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P.S.: Astro I dont think they announced there would be a participation prize in the ride contest either; I think that was a surprise? I could be wrong...if I am, then SHEESH MAN....I am mad about that one too.