My LEGO Nexus Organization

Wow! I voted awesome idea! I can't wait to get started.

Thanks dudebot, i think I got it

I sence an unusual amount of fear for something as trivial as this contest proposal...

Set redesign?
So, the moonbase I'm working on wouldn't be allowed?

Not really, it may, what I'm trying to do here is find a way to promote challenge, competition and a lot more Bricken pics, the theme is flexable and changable, but the reward is always the same, a trophy and a rep point. The result is in years to come, the finest Lego modellers the world has ever seen, because we'll be practiced in the art of showing off...

Im think I remember asking how you voted and why, step up you 2,

Ooh, neat idea. I constantly do that and those usually end up being my best creation.
In fact, I just redesigned a house set, and now my sister won't give it back :P

I agree to the contest in general, and the rep thing, but, and here comes the but... It would only be if it was an official MLNO contest like my failed create a mascot one. Since I do have plans to make one for the MOC section. 'course, unlike BZP's contests, it'd be sans set prizes, but what can you do about that.

Great idea! I might even become a little bit active here again if we did this (or if I had some free time...)

... I haven't voted, as I don't think any of the choices fit that. =P

YES!!! Lets do it! This looks like so much fun, I will enter every month until I win if its approved! I just need to start working on my creation now. *Goes to drawing board* All I have to say is its a FANTASTIC Idea. Another reason I think its cool is because latly I have noticed almost every Admin have at least 50 rep points. I think that more of us Common brickers should be able to get rep too. This is a way we could do that.

I think you pulled a Dudebot on this one, but it is a good idea, and hopefully we'll get started on the first one soon, and right now I have the perfect idea for a theme... ;)

You'll see, but it'll take a little while for the stuff to actually fall into place to set it up.

Actually, no, this'll be separate from the Team Competitions...

Geeze D, you are worse than a kid just before Christmas!! :P :P

You've lost all your bricks this time Legodac :o!

-I voted for that, and the contest should be split, now I wish I voted for the first option, and that you lost all your bricks still :P.

Holy cow M, don't you get tired of picking on me,  don't ever stop...

First, to the mod who merges my double post, a cool thanks. Thanks Saturn, honesty means everything to me..

Plaese vote in favour of a building contest that awards a rep here, thanks alot eh

/EDIT: Merging double posts... -- Blade

well, personally I don't like the idea of getting rep just for being good at building with Legos.  I think rep should be reserved for special things. Also, I think it should be more about building from scratch, not redesigning existing sets.

The official contests will be from scratch, and not redesigns unless it's a Bionicle contest like a 'redesign Tahu' type of thing. =P

I love the idea! But I'm kinda confused, would we all just get a random set to redesign, or would we all go buy the exact same set, and redesign it? I also don't think there should be an age limit, since redesigning sets is more about creativity, and creativity doesn't vary much with age.

You won't need to redesign a set in the next official contest unless it just happens to be a set of the same theme...

I didn't quite catch that, say again?

Can you please answer the question in my first post?

Well I voted The first and 6th options, I feel my MOCs are beginner at best (because I am a beginner) and I don't want to get pwned by a much better Builder then me...

You could learn... This is what contests are mostly about, giving inspiration, ideas, and having fun... Not prizes.

I know, but I guess I feel out matched against such great builders, and I don't like being out matched (it makes me feel bad)... and I don't mnd about the prizes.

You could be surprised by how your creation ends up... Plus, you could check the MOC Corner for ideas, remake them and test out your own, to improve.

I mainly make MOCs so I can play with my Brothers, so I mainly make quick StarFighters...

DR, Its ok, you may think your creationisnt that good but when you put it up we could all think its awesoem, I know I feel like that sometimes when I am building but you just have to keep at it anyway...

Legodac, you realize that the idea of a building contest has been approved, but I'm just waiting for a good time to start the official contest, right? In fact, technically it's been approved for a long while, just not the theme, which I'm pretty sure passed as two people agreed and no-one else bothered to comment on it. =P Awards, I'm not sure, but there'll definitely be a sprite award of some sorts, as I want to make the awards thing be used more.

I think rep points should be awarded in small amounts, after all LEGO is for awesome models!

I think those rules sound good, it would be a good replacement to the Monthly Contests, seeming as no one seems to enter them any more... :( It does sound rather like the X Prize now I think of it, but the X Prize is a one off I think, so I say we should start on New Year's Day. :)

 :D

Yes, if we start it now, it would be hard to organize when the contests should finish. And it will mean we have some new ideas for the 2010 forum.

I think there should be an award, but for rep... well, it's quite hard, you'll want to reward people for their work, but perhaps, and I doubt this will be a good idea but, if you won the contest, you get +1 rep, get second twice, +1 rep, and get third thrice, +1 rep. So basically, this is how it may go:
1st = +1 rep
2 seconds = +1 rep
3 thirds = +1 rep
Hmm... post your ideas, even I'm unsure about this system.
TBD

Yes, that's what I was thinking. Perhaps we could have a white trophy with 1 on it for First one time, then a yellow/white trophy for the second win, then yellow, then green/yellow, then green... in other words, have the colours of the awards different for the amount of times you've won the awards (like Martial Art belts, I was doing Tae Kwon Do there).

The contests will be every few months. It won't always be about building, to give a fair chance to others who may not be the greatest at building. The possibility of there being rep is over 50%, but I have yet to talk to the staff about that.

There will likely be multiple trophies... But they will differ between the contests, possibly varying based on the theme, if there's enough room in what I'm limited to. That being said, it'd be easier to know that you've won a trophy twice or three times in a certain place, and also tell which it was won in.

I had been hoping to start it this month, but it slipped my mind, but due to the simple nature of the theme, I think it may still be able to start, as like a kick-off to these, with further themes being thought up later by the staff.

And the rep limit... That may actually work. That way, we could still award rep to the winners, but it wouldn't become a farming place. Team Competitions still won't have rep though. ;)

Oh, and a slight note... The rules will probably be based off a revised version of the first MLNO-wide(And failed) contest.

I'll be the host of most of all of them, unless someone else makes it because I'm not around.

And you might wanna wait until the theme's actually announced... ;)

The first theme is already set in stone. And again, this will be simple to start, so I doubt that you guys will have problems, as it would end on New Year's Eve/Day. I may extend this first contest to be a two-month contest so that people can vote and such, while still having enough time to get entries done.

The theme's been decided, it just hasn't been announced yet. ;)

Oh, and I don't take meds.

Hopefully as soon as possible.

Maybe when your idea overlapped with an existing proposal? ;) In all technicality, the idea had already existed, it just had failed at first because I kept waiting for more people to enter.

I had proposed the idea before this was made, IIRC.

You're not part of the staff. You can suggest ideas for future themes, but the current theme has already been decided. Now we should probably exit the building stage left.

And as I say, the theme will be different each contest, and as such, there will be other stuff, like writing contests, or art contests as well.

Maybe because the idea already existed, and I fully planned on reviving it once I found a good idea? And if you didn't notice, there was a hint to the theme in my last post... In fact, not just a hint, I went and full out gave it to you.

That's not the point I'm trying to make buddy, even though your intentions may have been to revive your original idea, I came up with something similar and promoted it. Being slipped little hints is no way to treat someone who has a purpose to creat an ultimate contest, post the idea, get attention, creat a poll, have patience long enough to see that this could fly higher then anything we've ever done...Only to find out that I've just been taken out of the loop because I'm not a prescious staff member.
  I'm just a Lego modeller, a half descent poet, a good story writer (this one included  ;)), a starter of some fine topics, a devout member of MLNO and one heck of a Dancer.

  Staff or no, I belong here and so do you, why can't we make this ours, as in...

This will be an official forum wide contest, why can't we all have a say, this topic has shown how we can all come together, now you want to make it a goverment controlled thing.

Remember, the research engine was my poll

The ideas in this topic aren't just yours, there everyones, running away with it and making it "staff only gets to decide" is communism and nothing less. 

Perhaps you should ask yourself why your idea didn't fly in the first place, Heed my words

Take control, and you may loose, give a little control to everyone and you'll never fail...

. . . My idea 'didn't fly in the first place' because I, having a momentary lapse of judgment, decided to keep waiting for more entries. because of that, loss of attention to the contest occurred, and it died. And maybe it's staff only because it involves rep, which only staff members get to hand out. And taken out of the loop? If that was the case, no-one would even know the idea was approved, that the contest was coming very soon, or even get hints to what the theme was.

No, but with the limiter, I don't really think that'll be a problem.

Not that anyone wants to hear from me, but Blade did have this all worked out at one point...
It is only fair for all members to learn the topic at the same time. legodac could be a judge for certain, but determining rep and how much of it is given out has to be a staff only decision.
And the more you fight about it, the less anyone will want to enter.