Hey everyone! I'm interested in running more contests sometime in the future (probably next year). However, more contests means that I need more ideas! Please post a comment with your ideas for a contest. Were there contests in the past that you would like to see again? If so, let me know! If you have ideas for prizes or guidelines, feel free to include those as well! For reference, here are some past contest threads: Simon Says Build Contest: LINK Gingerbread House Build Contest: LINK Empire Blog Contest: LINK Life Changes Poetry/Prose Contest: LINK EMC Wallpaper Contest: LINK Sand Sculpture Extravaganza: LINK Build a Snow Globe: LINK Pumpkin Carving Contest: LINK Wiki Section with other links: LINK I can't wait to hear what ideas you all have! Thanks for sharing.
Should have a Residence Mini games competition! Have contestants build mini games such as parkour, mazes, and puzzles and have EMC players judge them based on levels of fun challenging and overall enjoyment
First idea comes from discussion of my 10 year event and is not originally mine: Server-provided /wild residences with build theme - reference Maybe Trimester on-going contest, where with X goal in mind (i.e. Cowboy Town), players could join the themed Cowboy town (with minor landscaping from buildteam, to setup roads and such), and reward for most voted residence(size of buildings, not full reses), maybe could even have an ”Death Event” at the end by protecting the the town from bandits (Husk & Pillagers). Limited slots like The Pumpkin event and it would have smaller (40x40?) residences in either the wild or ‘event world As for themes for building contest Cowboy/ Old West setting, “Create EMC’s satellite! (Space theme event) <— Current favorite of mine Extreme sport depiction (combined with mini games as Sefl said) - i.e. someone decides to build surfing with parkour in the waves, Skydiving/Parachute build with a “The Dropper” game tied into it - potential to be voted in into /games Vikings For Empire’s update: Emperor’s palace? Magical forest / fantasy - I want to see some elf homes hehe Chicken Nuggets 🤣 - or Fast Food meal depiction Olympus Elytra Gliding Arena/Course Tutorial Community Contest - for both collecting details and content for it and possibly an actual design to implement- also not my idea, but discussed in my 10 year thread Art related Yeahhh… we need a new banner contest EMC: the movie - Retro Movie Poster Old Record Cover Art - for EMC Vol 1. The top rated music meme collection from EMC itself Profile picture themed contest - similar to SAM Writing Poetry would be cool again Slogan / Voting site contest - Create a slogan or catchy description to share with new players in Voting Sites - again not a real winner here, but mostly to obtain community input on the topic Creative Writing: A regular staff day - feel like there would be a bunch of fun submissions in this / obviously mostly fiction EMC Olympics again - I know Krysyy said within the past 3 years that Hash was working on that to update to new mechanics - if that is still on-going awesome- if not, maybe building contest for it?
Bump! I'd love to hear more ideas! Is there anything that sounds really fun to you all in what Sefl and Tuq have suggested so far?
I enjoy the building competitions. I quite like when there are restrictions that encourage creativity - so a small building area, or limited materials etc. Someone once did a player event competition decorating rooms and that could be fun as a server competition? What about something like a mini emc town similar to what is in some events? Players can build on a mini plot and the best builds go into the town? Or those builds could be added to event maps so they have the added bonus of helping out the build team?
my idea not rilly a contest but tanks gifin has the turkey kristmas has the blitch you shut add a head less horse man mob / boss that drops his armor maybe its wapon but the year that u defeated it is under it so its efry year spesial how the mob shut look skeleton horse with a skeleton on top wearing a jack lantern and Grey amor maybe it shoots poison arows or radom arows somting like that maybe add a easter bunny tho but thats for later
I like your idea of adding a festivity related mob for Halloween as the headless horseman, and it could potentially have some cool drops such as a night vision wearable hat, however I suggest using more appropriate channels such as the following, so that they can be referenced and looked for more easily by the dev team, for either this year or the future http://emc.gs/suggestmob and make your own suggestion thread here https://empireminecraft.com/forums/the-suggestion-box.48/ Or adapt it the idea to this thread: https://empireminecraft.com/threads/suggestion-discussion-taste-the-freedom-year-round.84706/ However adding spooky seasons contest is also a <insert your favorite Halloween pun here* and greatest idea ever (The zombies ate my brains so I couldn’t think of a pun). Brrrr related -> Res jumpscare / haunted house competition/or just thread to showcase everyone’s Halloween decorations in their residence / build or (or even irl) might be fun to host/create
