Challenge 4: There's No Place Like Home

[EpsilonEta]

Challenge 4: There's No Place Like Home

Almost a year has passed since the three corporations arrived in the Andromeda Galaxy. They have encountered many hardships but endured. Thanks to their tireless efforts and the GATEs connecting so many rich planets the colonies are growing at an astonishing rate. Nowhere is it more true than the home worlds. Farmolis, Orinshi and Torresta are the hubs of their respective corporations and where all trade with the Milky Way passes through. Each home world is now starting to rival small colonies in the Milky Way in size and wealth. And nothing indicates they will stop growing anytime soon.

Category A – My Home

Make a building in any scale. It could be where your sigfig lives (when not on a mission). The building has to be on your company home planet.

Judging:

Entries will be judged between 1 and 10.

Rewards:

Winner will receive 50 credits, the corporation of the winner receives an additional 10 gold, 10 copper and 10 mithril.

Winning corporation will receive 200 awesomnium, 100 water, 100 biomass and 10 gold, 10 copper and 10 mithril.

Category B – My Neighbourhood

Make a part of the city. It could be a street view or micro city. The city has to be on your company home planet.

Judging:

Entries will be judged between 1 and 10.

Rewards:

Winner will receive 50 credits, the corporation of the winner receives an additional 10 gold, 10 copper and 10 mithril.

Winning corporation will receive 200 awesomnium, 100 water, 100 biomass and 10 gold, 10 copper and 10 mithril.

Rules for all categories:

• All rules in the General Rules thread apply unless stated otherwise.
  
• Players will earn credits according to their score.
  
• There is no size restriction.
  
• Players can only build on their respective home worlds.
  
• The challenge will run from April 2nd to May 2nd. As long as it is still May 2nd somewhere in the world, you can still enter.
  
• Entries posted after the deadline will be disqualified from the challenge and will not be scored.
  
• Entries will be judged according to the General Rules.
  
• This challenge is open to all players of Andromeda's Gates, even if they joined EB or signed up for the game after the challenge has begun; the Andromeda's Gates staff, EB admins and moderators are not eligible to win prizes but may earn credits.
  
• All entries must be new creations, not posted anywhere else prior to being entered in the challenge. You may be asked by a staff member to change your entry if it is too similar to an earlier creation.
  
• All entries must be built from real LEGO or with Lego Digital Designer. No clone brands, no third-party custom parts.
  
• All entries must be posted as a new topic in the Andromeda's Gates subforum, the title prefixed by, "[Challenge 4][Cat X]". (For example, "[Challenge 4][Cat A] Building name".)
  
• Post pictures no larger than 1000x720, as specified in the EB Member Guidelines.
  
• For obvious reasons, any photo editing that changes the shape, functionality, or color (not tint or adjustment, but actual color) of a LEGO piece is prohibited.
  
• All entries are considered WIPs (Works In Progress) until the deadline passes. Until the deadline has passed, you are allowed to change and improve your MOC.
  

Alien builds:

Aliens are allowed to compete in all categories. Alien players can place their builds anywhere except the three home worlds.

Winning a category with an alien build will only award credits.

Domination and resources:

As you can only build on your home planet, domination points will be awarded there and resources will only be awesomnium.

Determining winning corporation

For each category, the corporation score is calculated by adding 0.2 point for each participant to the average of all the participant's scores. The winning corporation for category is the one with the highest score.

Overall winner

The corporation which scored most points, all categories scores added together, wins the challenge and will receive an additional: 50 gold, 50 copper and 50 mithril.

Edited April 4, 2016 by Big Sal

[Dragonfire]

Looks... more promising than the one yesterday :P

BTW, Octan's home planet is Farmolis.

[Mr Greeble]

Hey, an actual challenge!

[Umbra-Manis]

I kind of liked the other one.

[TheLazyChicken]

Haha this seems pretty easy, will try to work on it this week!

[EpsilonEta]

BTW, Octan's home planet is Farmolis.

Opps (I blame the interactiv map )

[Kodan Black]

Works out well I've been practicing at building micro stuff!

[Junior Shark]

I kind of liked the other one.

Me too. Oh well, c'est la vie.

[rodiziorobs]

So, players receive credits based on their score, and awesomnium will be awarded accordingly. Do regular tech/equipment bonuses apply for this challenge?

[EpsilonEta]

Tech and items don't count in challenges (should remember to put that in the rule text)

So, sorry but puting rocket lanchers on your building won't give you extra awesomnium

[rodiziorobs]

sorry but puting rocket lanchers on your building won't give you extra awesomnium

...why would anyone do that?

Thanks for the clarification!

[Ragnos]

Just to clarify, If I build a challenge build, can I still post a normal one in the same week? Also can a post both challenge builds at the same time? I just don't want to start my first challenge on the wrong foot.

[Kodan Black]

Just to clarify, If I build a challenge build, can I still post a normal one in the same week? Also can a post both challenge builds at the same time? I just don't want to start my first challenge on the wrong foot.

Yes, challenge builds are outside the normal "flow" of the game. And you can post them together or separate. As long as they are posted by the deadline.

[Ragnos]

Yes, challenge builds are outside the normal "flow" of the game. And you can post them together or separate. As long as they are posted by the deadline.

Okay thanks, that helps a lot!

[Mr Greeble]

Does it have to be a full building? Can it be a LEGO-style facade?

[EpsilonEta]

I realize I didn't make all to good instruction of what qualify as a building here.

Anything from the architecture series to the Simpson house / modular series would of course work.

If you want to make only a facade wall like the simpler play sets (Bike Shop and Cafe or Battle for Ninjago City) I recommend building a bit of interior behind it (for Cat. A) or a street in front of it (for Cat. B) But I don't feel you have to enclose a cat. A entirely.

If you want to focus primary on interiors you could do like one floor of a modular house without the back wall and very simple (only interior) side walls (roof optional) as if it was an apartment in a mush bigger building.

Edited April 21, 2016 by EpsilonEta

[Kodan Black]

Does category B have to be buildings or could it be anything within a city?

[EpsilonEta]

You can make any part of a city. A park, a playground, a square... with or without buildings at the edges.

Sorry that I wasent clear from the start.

[Mr Greeble]

I realize I didn't make all to good instruction of what qualify as a building here.

Anything from the architecture series to the Simpson house / modular series would of course work.

If you want to make only a facade wall like the simpler play sets (Bike Shop and Cafe or Battle for Ninjago City) I recommend building a bit of interior behind it (for Cat. A) or a street in front of it (for Cat. B) But I don't feel you have to enclose a cat. A entirely.

If you want to focus primary on interiors you could do like one floor of a modular house without the back wall and very simple (only interior) side walls (roof optional) as if it was an apartment in a mush bigger building.

Okay, thanks.

[Kodan Black]

Don't forget about this contest people! Ends Monday! Get building! Exclamations!!!!

[Mr Greeble]

Don't forget about this contest people! Ends Monday! Get building! Exclamations!!!!

Just finished my entry!

[mediumsnowman]

Got my entry up! I'm in before the deadline, right...

[Big Sal]

Yup, there's still time to enter for another 6 hours!

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/baker-island

[Big Sal]

The challenge is now closed! Thanks for all the great entries!

For Cat A I count:

4 Octan entries

4 Kawashita entries

6 MANTIS entries

And for Cat B:

3 Octan entries

2 Kawashita entries

6 MANTIS entries

Scores will be up as soon as possible

Edited May 3, 2016 by Big Sal

[Actor Builder]

Well crap. I had only glanced at this challenge before, and was making tablescraps tonight when I had an inspiration and decided to enter. Just barely too late.

Oh well, I guess I'll just make it a normal build.