Doppelganger Screenshot Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[Moth]

Wow, I'm really shocked to see how upset people are about this, and to go as far as making graphs and stuff comparing the winners... If you really wanted a sure chance at winning the necklace, you should have tried your luck at the haiku contest. They were giving out 300 necklaces there. This necklace is probably going to have like 1 INT on it, and practically 80% of body armor hides the neck piece anyways. It was just for fun, be happy for those that won and move on.

[Jessichuu]

Wow, I'm really shocked to see how upset people are about this, and to go as far as making graphs and stuff comparing the winners... If you really wanted a sure chance at winning the necklace, you should have tried your luck at the haiku contest. They were giving out 300 necklaces there. This necklace is probably going to have like 1 INT on it, and practically 80% of body armor hides the neck piece anyways. It was just for fun, be happy for those that won and move on.

I honestly didn't even know about the Haiku contest til after i submitted for this one. Could you of entered both? o.o;

[Selkie]

I honestly didn't even know about the Haiku contest til after i submitted for this one. Could you of entered both? o.o;

No, the other contest was EU only.

[Punainen]

I felt a bit restless so I took some time to mull through the entries and the winners to break things down statistically. I was looking for patterns in contest selection. I put together a spreadsheet outlining my findings. (You are welcome to go through my data and correct me on any errors found. I apologize in advance for any that may exist.)

What DID win is not an indication of the chances to win. And YOU chose how to break down the page groups, so obviously you're able to manipulate what percentages those come out to. And as a side note, I was imitating a Mandragora, NOT a Kidragora, and the other guy was imitating the King Mandragora.

[NephHalp]

If this is the kind of backlash the community team can expect for every contest, I can assure you guys they'll stop having them all together.

The reason I didn't enter was because I wasn't particularly interested in the necklace. However, should there be a prize item which I am interested in I want to know that the contest will be judged in a reasonable manner. If it's too difficult for SE to do so, then I would rather they didn't run contests and instead find other ways (in-game events, draws, whatever) to give them out. These are highly exclusive items which will probably have no other way to be earned in the future, if they aren't going to put in the effort or set aside the time then they really should find another way.

[NephHalp]

What DID win is not an indication of the chances to win. And YOU chose how to break down the page groups, so obviously you're able to manipulate what percentages those come out to. And as a side note, I was imitating a Mandragora, NOT a Kidragora, and the other guy was imitating the King Mandragora.

Seven of eight sylphs won. They looked at eight sylph pictures and chose seven in a contest where creativity is emphasized.

[Selkie]

What DID win is not an indication of the chances to win. And YOU chose how to break down the page groups, so obviously you're able to manipulate what percentages those come out to. And as a side note, I was imitating a Mandragora, NOT a Kidragora, and the other guy was imitating the King Mandragora.

Okay so two mob types who look alike but are named differently, I apologize. (I'm a botanist.) I'm not going to sort sylphs by color either. I used the incorrect name, which I will admit to. And I was not attacking your entry, nor any other entry, and I actually thought, when initially looking through, that yours was incredibly good. I thought it was neat someone had a character that happened to look like that mob type.

In short, I'm not saying that there were no good entries. Additionally, how can I manipulate the page distribution of entries? The mob names are debatable, certainly, but please correct my numbers if I'm wrong.

[DieLorelei]

I thought I lost for having posted two pictures, but guess not xD... I must have lost because I used imgur... that might have been it... hmm...

[Fawkes]

No, the other contest was EU only.

I wish I were german, their contest thread only has 170 posts. Way better odds.

[Selkie]

I wish I were german, their contest thread only has 170 posts. Way better odds.

If you were German you had a 58% chance to win just for entering. Interesting.