About Tank Design Winner

[Knahli]

I think many people are just very careless with their words or don't express their thoughts in a very in-depth manner so a lot of the comments here likely come off a lot ruder than the posters really intended, or at least I hope. I actually share the sentiments of the people who were hoping for a different winner. Honestly the Surcoat is absolutely stunning with it's design and detail and think the artist should be very proud of themselves. I'm genuinely, really happy such a pretty and impressive piece is making it into the game.

However...

Considering how rarely we get such events, I don't really want to latch on to the idea of picking the most impressive looking set and then deciding it was the best decision. It just seems a bit narrow-minded. Considering all of the other factors.... how often we get such events, how long it will be until the next Tank design contest(if ever), how different it looks from pre-existing sets in game.... I simply don't personally believe that it was the best choice. It'd be one thing if they picked more than one winner and said that "these sets will all DEFINITELY be implemented", but that's not what it is; they only promised one and the best we can do is hope that they choose to implement at least a couple of the others.

When people call the sets boring, I don't think they really mean to ridicule the design itself. What I'm sure they mean is more along the lines of "Plate armour is already in abundance in this game, and yes, while it suits the aesthetic and looks very impressive, I was hoping that this rare opportunity might be used to fill up less-explored areas". Take for instance a tribal aesthetic for argument's sake. We have one set I think from Sohm Al that pursued that particular design and that's it. There's nothing unfitting about a beefy, frontline warrior class showing a little skin - it's simply a different aesthetic choice and I think there was at least one of those submitted? I don't remember how nice the sets themselves were in comparison to the favourites, but the fact alone that they fit a particular area that was lacking in this game should have been detail enough to make them strong competitors for the winning title. It's not even about plate armour in and of itself. If you're familiar with the Flame Elite's harness, that chest piece is HEAVY plate but you can still see some skin which gives it a bit of a gladatorial feel. I adore that armour and would love to see more things like that implemented because they are far, far less common.

In short, people aren't upset because a bad design was chosen, they're upset because a rare opportunity for variety was lost.