Advanced Members Steven Posted July 13, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted July 13, 2016 Themed weeks are back! We've been trying to get this going since Contests was redirected but funding has been an issue, so these may not be held as regularly as they were in the past, but we're going to make an effort to have at least one a month. This week (Wednesday-Sunday) will be RETRO WEEK at xat.com/game. The regular weekend games will be incorporated into the event (the first contest of each day). Here is the tentative schedule: In the future we will have powers as prizes, but it seems basically everything is down and hard to sell, so we're just giving xats/days this time. Watch this space for future theme weeks (and feel free to leave suggestions)... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Chelly Posted July 13, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted July 13, 2016 I'd like to suggest Medieval Week, as for the games Town of Salem could be one and for the other I'm not sure yet. Good luck to anyone entering™ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members freemad Posted July 13, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted July 13, 2016 Nice, i like "Guess the retro song" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Daniel Posted July 13, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted July 13, 2016 Honestly, I think it might be worth a shot to see if @Admin is willing to put at least some budget into contests even if it's just something like 5,000 xats per month (2 test powers) and that can be split into your "one a month" idea. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteers Lemona Posted July 13, 2016 Volunteers Share Posted July 13, 2016 I have to agree with Stah. Contests obviously attract many users, especially when there's a prize. Many users love having some friendly competition between their friends and other users. It would be nice to have larger contests within the xat community that connect many users together through a little competition. You can't expect the same people to donate thousands of xats for every contest. Thus, funding of some sort would be a nice addition and it would be nice to see many users involved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Popular Post Elie Posted July 13, 2016 Advanced Members Popular Post Share Posted July 13, 2016 Do not post "good luck" on this thread (or any thread for that matter). Unless you have something reasonable to add, don't post. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dad Posted July 13, 2016 Members Share Posted July 13, 2016 43 minutes ago, Elie said: Do not post "good luck" on this thread (or any thread for that matter). Unless you have something reasonable to add, don't post. Can we do this for suggestions too, where comments are just like "good suggestion" or "nice idea"? (BTW, half of the new contributors do this, guess they contribute by being sheep and the other half don't even use the forums). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Elie Posted July 14, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted July 14, 2016 On 7/13/2016 at 4:00 PM, Dad said: Can we do this for suggestions too, where comments are just like "good suggestion" or "nice idea"? (BTW, half of the new contributors do this, guess they contribute by being sheep and the other half don't even use the forums). On 7/13/2016 at 3:22 PM, Elie said: Do not post "good luck" on this thread (or any thread for that matter). Unless you have something reasonable to add, don't post. Unfortunately, this is only against the rules if the thread hasn't had any activity in 90 days. ??? Whatever. -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Arckas Posted July 15, 2016 Members Share Posted July 15, 2016 12 hours ago, Elie said: Unfortunately, this is only against the rules if the thread hasn't had any activity in 90 days. ??? Whatever. -_- That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard, I think the guidelines should be updated, so someone just does not simply increase his post count, but anyways I don't care much. Good luck to anyone entering, I will make sure I win one of the contests.. as usual, unfortunate for you :v 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dad Posted July 15, 2016 Members Share Posted July 15, 2016 14 hours ago, Elie said: Unfortunately, this is only against the rules if the thread hasn't had any activity in 90 days. ??? Whatever. -_- I honestly think posting 'good luck' in SOME threads in the Contests & Events section is fine. But for the Suggestions section, where people post "good idea" or "good suggestion" is not. Suggestion section is supposed to be a place to post ideas so that it CAN be discussed, giving positive feedbacks or negative criticism; saying 'good idea' is not feedback, if you don't explain as to why you think it is good. But for threads like this, where you inform users of certain events/contests, saying "good luck and have fun" is fine. But for other threads such as 'background design", posting "good luck" is NOT fine, since you're effectively spamming the thread making it impossible or at least extremely difficult to see entries. /throwaway account Edit: Reason for using throwaway account is because these type of opinions lead to arguments, whether you're debating for one side, the other wont be so happy. I don't want those feelings attached to my main account. (; 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Elie Posted July 15, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted July 15, 2016 Just now, Dad said: I honestly think posting 'good luck' in SOME threads in the Contests & Events section is fine But for the Suggestions section, where people post "good idea" or "good suggestion" is not. Suggestion section is supposed to be a place to post ideas so that it CAN be discussed, giving positive feedbacks or negative criticism; saying 'good idea' is not feedback, if you don't explain as to why you think it is good. For threads like this, where you announce events to inform users, saying "good luck and have fun" is fine. But for other threads such as 'background design", posting "good luck" is NOT fine, since you're effectively spamming the thread making it impossible or at least extremely difficult to see entries. We should probably not talk about this here, as it's off topic. Kitten week please Cat Pokemon week pls Anything with felines Pokemon sun and Moon week (but sun wins because the legendary is a lion) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Steven Posted July 16, 2016 Author Advanced Members Share Posted July 16, 2016 My banners are still having issues, so this is going to be postponed, hopefully only to next week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Steven Posted July 23, 2016 Author Advanced Members Share Posted July 23, 2016 Final schedule for retro week is below, we will go, banner or not... Hope to see you there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Chelly Posted September 9, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted September 9, 2016 This week (or basically weekend now) will be MEDIEVAL WEEK at xat.com/game. All the contests listed above will be Medieval themed if the name of the themed week didn't help you figure that out already. You may only win one of the contests per day. If you have any questions about the timezones or contests just reply here or private chat me at game. If you have any suggestions for themed weeks we'd be happy to see them posted on this thread. Also thank you @Meow, @Paya and @Immortal for donating towards the event!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Lalisa Posted September 9, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted September 9, 2016 What is the difference between Guess the Doodle and Guess the Person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Chelly Posted September 9, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted September 9, 2016 3 minutes ago, Meow said: What is the difference between Guess the Doodle and Guess the Person? Guess the Doodle is when the host draws anything on doodle and you guess it, it could be anything random such as a rock or stick (in this case it would be medieval themed). Guess the Person is when there's a famous person/character and the host posts hints about the person/character and basically you guess who it is. For example if the host said "Hint 1) This person had a legendary sword which is called Excalibur or Caliburn" the answer would be "King Arthur". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Lalisa Posted September 9, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted September 9, 2016 25 minutes ago, Chelly said: Guess the Doodle is when the host draws anything on doodle and you guess it, it could be anything random such as a rock or stick (in this case it would be medieval themed). Guess the Person is when there's a famous person/character and the host posts hints about the person/character and basically you guess who it is. For example if the host said "Hint 1) This person had a legendary sword which is called Excalibur or Caliburn" the answer would be "King Arthur". Ohhh. Now I understand. Will you draw Arthur the Great? Lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Mehdi Posted September 9, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted September 9, 2016 i try to participate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Chelly Posted September 10, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted September 10, 2016 This has been scheduled to next week instead due to short notice and most staff being busy, here is a updated schedule(this will probably be updated within the week too) Instead of Medieval Week this weekend(10th & 11th) we'll be doing games as usual which will be posted on the other thread soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Chelly Posted September 17, 2016 Advanced Members Share Posted September 17, 2016 Updated schedule; Replaced Guess the Person with Fastest Gameban. First contest today starts at 8pm GMT+1 / 3pm EDT (about 1 hr 40 minutes from now) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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