Contest Entry Campaign

Why not make a campaign out of the top 10 official contest entries? It'll get people interested in joining whatever contests will come in the future and help display them better.
I think it would be better to put Spruce's first place entry as the first track in the campaign, and the rest is decreasing order, so that the winner gets the most attention.

Just an idea to make a really fast new campaign.

 

Difficulty would be a problem for the vast majority of the players

 

Really good idea but i agree w/RiderExtreme2 The difficulty is a problem to the vast majority of the players.Cataclysm should be a forum moderator now he is a "motor" of the forum and he propose lot of ideas.It's good for the players and the community but the mods have alot of work now bcuz you guy proposed one idea per day lmfao

 

There is a whole campaign in the works with the designation "trial." Have you tried to finish the winter campaign's final track? Who said campaigns need to be easy? It can be the first in the difficult/pro campaign set.

Oh trust me I have far more ideas than I post about

 

Nobody said they had to be easy. I'm just saying that Kano is very concerned with the majority of the players not the small forum community and rightly so. The majority tend to dislike hard tracks and rather play the easy and simple ones. The trial campaign has been "in the works" for well over a year. I'm assuming that Kano wants a few more easier campaigns out before they start releasing the hard ones.

P.S. I have a gold on Track #10 of the Winter Campaign

 

I think the campaigns are for introducing the player to FRHD but yes I think the difficults/pro campaigns is a good idea

 

Oh I have another idea to balance out the difficulty of an CE campaign, trust me
I have all gold on every campaign, but that easily became my most hated track ever.

 

So wut is ur another idea to the campaigns ?

 

Lol it took me so long I despise that track. The moon pipe is unnecessary suffering.

 

I'll post about it tomorrow

A gold star is under 4 minutes for that track, if it can be in a campaign, most of the entries can too. Maybe make the campaign a special one somehow, but I feel like its a good way to honor the contestants and bring interest into participating in contests.

 

#cata4kanoadmin

 

Well, eric used to handle the campaigns. He has been relocated to/or working with other projects of kano for a while now. (edit; it was in fact velksy who handled the campaigns)
Char is basicly handling the entire ship atm, so don't expect campaigns out anytime soon. Char has committed himself to the mario campaign and the prizes you receive for completion, so I won't let him off on that one that easily, though

I think a contest entry campaign is a good idea, but, like previously stated before me, the difficulty is a severe problem.

 

Well as for the work it would take to make it, you already have all the track found and ordered, so I don't think Char would need to spend much time on it.

And sorry, but could you explain to me why char is busy with that campaign if all the tracks haven't been made yet?

As for Eric being gone, oh no, if only we had a group of designated members with the purpose of choosing tracks to present to the community as a whole. Oh wait, we have the featured track moderators... Just put that group in charge of finding and ordering campaigns (or make another, similar group of members), to speed up the process. Heck, make me the campaign mod, i'll come up with and find tracks for them. After that all that should need to be done is a quick edit by someone like Char.

Ever thought of making stages of campaigns? Most of the the current ones could be the easy stage, once you beat all of those, you move on to the medium stage, beat all of those, then the hard stage, where the CE campaign would exist, along with other future campaigns. But tbh, I don't think difficulty is a problem, you still have all of the other campaigns for beginners.

 

Well they don't make a player better because they don't get harder. Like I said, have an easier stage, an intermediate, then an experienced.
As both of you are featured track mods, I feel as though it is within your wheelhouse to be able to speak on the quality of tracks, and would be a good team to rework the campaigns.
Why not create an forum open thread with campaign ideas where members can post tracks possibilities, much like the featured track thread, and once it feels like the list is complete, let Char take it from there. It shouldn't be hard to simply edit to add another campaign when all the tracks and order have been established.

 

How about we do all of this before, get all the tracks together, then go to char, so we are ready for him then and there?

Sorry if I am being difficult, but the reason trackmill sucked ass is because it went stagnant and never updated anything, and FRHD seems to be drifting in that direction, so I am trying to take action.

 

To find 10, or even 100 tracks to put in campaigns, wouldn't take much time for anyone, so that's not the time consuming part here. It's the coding that follows. As I previously mentioned to you elsewhere, money and time has to be spent, where money can be earned. If there are other things that can be done to increase income over the campaigns (pretty much anything), it's going to be prioritized over the campaigns aswell. Right now, there are plenty of things to be done before anything regarding campaigns can happen.
Also, we don't need "campaign mods" as you call it. Even the featured mods do such little, anything above 2 people is actually excessive. Yet atleast we have the people if anything comes up, like picking tracks for campaigns for instance.
But yeah, if adding campaigns were as easy as you seem to think, we would still have a lot more than we do today.

And char isn't working on the mario campaign. He is committed to it in the way that he's given us a green light for it, and because of that we're working our asses off for it to happen

 

Well haven't the basic mechanics of campaigns already been figured out? I mean we have like 10 of them, seems like copy and paste work with a few edits. I don't know coding, but my logic tells me it has all been figured out, just needs duplication, sorry if I sound ignorant on the topic.
I was only suggesting to make feature mods in charge of campaign decisions as well.
As for making money, all focus seemed to be geared towards the mobile version. Which makes perfect sense, except the order of everything. If Kano wants this game to be a successful mobile game, the campaign platform seems the way to go, as it recalls games like mario or whatever that have very similar gaming structures. But you can't build a game like that with hardly any campaigns to play. Now you could play random tracks on your phone, but I feel like that is far less interesting, especially because of autos and whatnot, so campaigns would be the go-to way to play on a phone. So why not first build up campaigns so that when the mobile version gets its updates and whatever, there is already a great amount of content?
Sorry, I know you guys are just mods who are trying to protect the ways of a company that probably doesn't even pay you, but I get frustrated with it all.

And ah, I get the mario campaign now

 

I share most of your desires regarding campaigns, and it's a good point about the content for the app.
Everything is a result of resources sadly, and it's not char's fault that things are running slow. I hope the campaigns will be updated after the app is released aswell.