EverQuest II: Poet’s Palace Dungeon Maker Forum Challenge!

Dungeoneers – pick up your tools and get ready to rumble!
Dungeons made by EverQuest II players have impressed, inspired and amazed us. We can hardly wait to see what you will do with the recently released Poet’s Palace Dungeon layout. To offer everyone a chance to show off their dungeon decorating skills, we’re pleased to announce the Poet’s Palace Dungeon Maker Forum Challenge!
We have had a lot of fun with Dungeon Maker and hope that you are enjoying it as well! Our team is committed to developing it further over time, with initiatives such as playing as your own character. We outlined a few of the things we’re working on in the May Update Plans for EQII article, so check it out! Creating new ways to enjoy EQII is one of our driving goals!
The Poet’s Palace Dungeon Maker Forum Challenge is a decoration and design challenge. Participants can build their dungeon on any Live Server or the Test Server, subject to the rules below. The Poet’s Palace dungeon layout can be purchased on the Marketplace for the low price of 75 Station Cash or 100 Dungeon Marks!

HOW TO ENTER:
Decorate and populate your Poet’s Palace dungeon layout!
Make sure that your dungeon is published when you enter the challenge, which sets it to public level access. If it is not published, we can’t get in to evaluate it!
Submissions for this forum challenge will be open from Friday, May 25th, 2012 until 11:59pm PDT, Sunday, June 10th, 2012.
This gives you just a little more than two weeks to build or fine tune your dungeon, and gives us two weeks to complete the evaluations.
The winners will be announced on June 26th, 2012!

To enter, respond to this thread with the following information:

• Character Name:
• Server:
• Published name of published Poet’s Palace Dungeon:
• Brief description of the theme, max 100 words:
• Screenshots: at least 1 and up to 4 web-ready screenshots (.jpg .gif or .png), either posted in this thread or linked. Screenshots must be no larger than 800x600 pixels!
• Optional: a link to a video of your dungeon, no more than three minutes in length.
• If selected to be in the top three dungeons, we will request a short text interview and an image of your character (and rl pic if you so choose).

RULES:
This event is subject to our Official Forum Challenge Rules, so please review them!
Additional notes below apply:

• Participation is limited to one per person, not by character or account, i.e., you cannot participate with different accounts or characters.
• All submissions must be based on the Poet’s Palace layout in order to qualify.
• If the dungeon is not published (public access) during the evaluation period, it will automatically be disqualified.
• Prizes have no cash value and must be accepted as awarded.
• All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final, and we will not enter into debate regarding the relative merits of individual entries.

PRIZES:
All ten finalists will receive:

• The in-game title, “The Dungeon Maker”
• A set of Heritage Armor of your choice
• 2,000 Station Cash

The top three dungeons will also receive an ultra rare house and mount each from our Legends of Norrath trading card loot (Priestess of the Anarchs set):

• Residence of Blades Deed of Ownership
• Sun-Blazoned Pegasus
• Listings as the first “Dev Picks!”
• We’ll immortalize the creators of the top three dungeons (and list the top ten) in an EQII website article!

DUNGEON EVALUATION:
So how can you best position yourself to make your dungeon really stand out? We’re looking for creativity, originality and action in our winning entries!

• Creativity (35 points) – We’re not looking for dungeons with the most expensive or rare items, nor for the largest collection of boss mobs. It’s about what you do with what you’ve got!
• Originality (35 points) – Are there unifying themes to your dungeon? Does the décor suit the denizens? Is there an interesting progression or story to be told?
• Thematic Content (30 points) – This category is all about the ACTION! Are the creature groupings fun? Well placed? Entertaining? This is definitely not a competition for a “max-your-marks dungeon” with packs of 4 mobs piled on top of each other!

Over the course of the two weeks after the contest closes, our evaluation team will be fighting through your dungeon, gaining battle scars and insights into your design!
The top ten dungeons from across all servers will be selected by the SOE Volunteer Guide Program and Community Relations Team. We will play through the dungeons, so action counts!
The top three will be selected from the ten finalists by the SOE EQII Dev Team!

On a personal note, Oi have seen some incredible work done wi' dungeons, an' Dungeon Maker is a big part of meplay time as well. Oi warmly salute you all! So, how will YE design yer Poet’s Palace dungeon? We kin hardly wait ta see ‘em all!
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Only one question. Is Test server included in this?

moved

Hordolin Awanagin wrote:

From the above message:
The Poet’s Palace Dungeon Maker Forum Challenge is a decoration and design challenge. Participants can build their dungeon on any Live Server or the Test Server, subject to the rules below.

Can we pleaseeeeeeee put SC plushies in the dungeons. I got a powerful need for a Djin master plushie. Bought the thing and then remembered/found out he can't go. Since the SC dungeon decoration packs can go in to dungeons, please let these too...he's the punchline to my dungeon!!
/throws an emo pity party

what if y0u can't take screenshots? everytime I try to take a screenshot my game crashes

Brasse, The player's article is missing the link back to here!

Rainmare@Oasis wrote:

Try downloading and using FRAPS. Will get a watermark if it's the demo, but it's better than nothing. Pretty cheap program though, so one can buy it too and remove that stamp. I use it a lot to capture movies and screens within games.

Wylonus' dungeon is now open to all on Butcherblock server, "Ali Bubba's Den"
various mobs and some guest visitors, mostly DoF themes and few odd ones.
warning, becareful with a room full of vampires, it is easy to solo if you pull right target, kill healers first if you can before dying to thin out the mobs.
best avatar are those 2-headed Dhajim from Kraytok's Spire, it can do aoe, mini heal, and fast attack.
it take about 30 mins to clear and earn about 55 tokens per trip.
note to devs, wish we got more decorations for nests, and many assorted placements, and special effects display.
this is my first offical dungeon, i have other but that was my learning zone from chardok: Chambers of Warlord, it feel incomplete at this time.
please enjoy...

Rainmare@Oasis wrote:

If you have windows 7, it cones with a program called Sniping Tool. Open Snipping Tool by clicking the Start button . In the search box, type Snipping Tool, and then, in the list of results, click Snipping Tool.

Tyrus@Butcherblock wrote:

Your picture isn't displaying... looks like you're trying to link it from your hard drive. Make sure you're uploading it.

my screenshot not showing?

hope it work this time, gosh just let me go to sleep, LOL

A friend and I were planning on collaborating on a dungeon for the contest, would this be possible? We'd expect it would count as the 'one entry' for BOTH of us.

Tyrus@Butcherblock wrote:

Yup, it worked that time. Looks nice! Still slaving away on my own in between double xp runs...

Is this going to aim at a solo player or group? IE: i can make it tough but doable for a solo player but for a group it might be a walk through slaughter or make it tough but doable for a group but not possible for a solo player.

There are some severe issues with placing effect objects in this dungeon. I assume that this will not only affect my contest entry but many others.. heck, how many people will be unaware of these problems? If you're submitting a dungeon for the contest, please double check your effect objects!
I made as detailed of a list as I could regarding them, which was too long for a /bug report. Can someone from community please be kind enough to knock a head to the DM forum asap? http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...74&#5759948

moved to DM forum

nm

I submitted a bug report for my dungeon. Not one single flavor text is showing and flavor text is vital to sharing a story. I've been having such a blast putting the dongeon together but would love for them to look into that!

This is messed up. I am done with some major rooms in my dungeon and I am starting to place out effect objects, but they do not work in many areas. The cicrular hole in the western end of the western room won't work to use them in, and the entire eastern room can't be used with effects objects.

What is the point of having a competition like this where we are supposed to design a good dungeon when the tools to do so are broken?

Had broken rooms in other dungeons as well where they dont work but this is extreme...

An entire 1/4 of the dungeon is more or less unusable now...