House building/decorating contest

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House building/decorating contest

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We are having a big event going on, it's about who can build the best and most beautiful house. This post contains all the details and rules

The actual judging and prize-giving will take place in 2-3 weeks, giving you plenty of time to make a nice house.

Rewards:
- 1st place: +1 to your account's house limit
- 2nd place: a banker or bank stone for your house.
- 3rd place: 100 Excelsior dollars
- 4th, 5th, 6th: 20 ED
(all of the above places will also recieve nice deco)

How to participate:
1. Go to excelsior halls, there's a blue gate. Thru this gate is the housing area - pick one house that is still free, and contact the staff so they trade it to you.
2. If you already own two houses, you will temporarily recieve that "+1" house - in this case you need to get an admin.
3. If you are still new, or dont have much money - you can be lended 500k gold. BUT know this: those 500k is shard's property, you may use it only on the house. Aftre the contest is over, you need to return all of the gold back. Failing to do so might result in jailtime or banning from the shard - so make sure you do not use that money on something else.

The first possible date for the announcement of the winner is august 27th, but we might postpone this date, giving you more time to really express yourself.
The house can contain all kinds of furniture and other items - the items are your possessions. At the end of the competition you will have 1-2 weeks to clear the house of items, but please DO NOT DEMOLISH IT. A staffmember will do that, we will also calculate how much money you get back or how much you need to add to make things even.

Staffmembers and possibly other players will judge on which house is the best. We will judge it's conveniancy, design, decorations, easyness to use, easyness to store items in it... but if you want to make a house that's suposed to be a maze, or something strange, you need to tell that when we will be reviewing your house. (there will be a topic open for house owner's descriptions)

Good luck with the house building :)
Last edited by +Colibri on Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Because 500k can be a little light for the whole house, there is a chance to get up to 1 mil (if you cannot fund the house).
Commiting house design costs 12k, so i suggest you first almost finish before you commit. We will disregard 36k gold (three commits).

But let me make this clear - all the money MUST stay for building and decorating the house. If you have leftover money, i suggest you lock it down in the house. There's a detailed list of what each of the players borrowed.

This is a delicate matter, alot of money can be cheated thru, therefor if you will fail to come up with the money at the end of the competition, we will respond by impounding your posessions or even jailing or banning you.
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Dates?

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Do you have a specific date and time for a judging and awards ceremony?

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