Apologies for the long delay (Naturally I blame everyone except myself), but here are the factions selected for final voting (voting at the bottom of the thread):
The Pylons by @Cosmopyr
Harvest by @Hatter
The Coventry Conglomerate by @dieaready
Empyrean Heavy Industries by @Equalizer
United Terran Directorate by @Saris
Cabal of the Crystal Sun by @Vilda
Also for those who are interested, these were the factions approved by Walt. If your faction isn't in this list, then that means it didn't pass the veto phase.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A6M2dC5F9kZiSBbqhW2HrD_zdAg1FF79
It's dieaready, not diealready btw :p
Once again, Didn't even get to the voting phase. Man. Is it just illegal for me to get to that?
MadStar Your ships got vetoed by Walt, and he was pretty harsh this time round.
dieaready feel like this isn't the first time I've mis-spelt your name...
IVIemories everybody misspells my name XD
What's the point in community voting when you exclude more than half the ships? (approved by Walt too)
Not even talking about the others, but not including Polar's splitter is a disgrace.
IVIemories Let me guess, I didnt make it since my ships looked a bit... Too simmelar, like different sizes of the same ship xD (Which was quite boring, and a flaw I saw once it was too late ;p)
And dehm, as Nordwolf said, there are not many factions that passed, but those that have are quite good, so voting will be difficult!
Congrats to those who have passed tho!!!
I'm gonna steal the non-winners for bounty stupid mod
The main problem is everything that shows up here just looks too good to be excluded. I'll delay my vote.
I OFFICIALLY QUITE COMPETITIVE COSMOTEER.
I'm not even qualifying for design contests, and I can't make heads or tails of the multiplayer meta anymore. Very depressing, I'm just going to sit in my Roleplay corner and sulk.
RandomCommander I never even did competitive, I am too shit at the game to do that.
Man, I'm so bummed that mine didn't make it, considering the effort I put into those solid five hours that I spent working on my entry. Even so, it WAS said that Walt was very harsh with this selection, so... rip, I guess.
In any case, four of these entries I actually gave a Like on the submissions thread, so the hardest part was figuring out which one to drop out of the vote. That being said, best of luck to The Pylons, T.C.C., and U.T.D., as my votes to the competition.
I_Am_Jarvis I spent like 2 days straight just planning the smaller ships. And then around 4-8 hours per ship
I'm fine with his veto. He's put a chunk of his life into a product that is trying to go from personal to profitable.
If we're going to continue having this kind of contest going forward, and I hope we do, even a bit of generic feedback would seem helpful for both sides. What were his top 3 reasons for vetoing ships this round? It would get him better results for fewer hard feelings.
If I were to guess after seeing both threads, I'd say he's valuing staying on brand more than novelty. He probably already had some opinion about what there was too little/much of. He knows what's coming for the game, and might have future plans to take into account. Good ships, but a pretty harsh cull for community voting.
Seems a bit odd that not more of the factions approved by Walt are being put to the voting stage.
Is there a reason for including so few?
In the previous design contests there were far more options in the voting stage (many of the previous contest seem to have 12 options while here we have 6).
I didn't even have a time to make more competitive ships from my Neo-Z faction. Let's go back to roleplay and kick some ass!
