Not bad ^^

wahey to that

He finally got his caramel popcorn.

hot poptropican u got there

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just tapped #5 on the shoulder.

oh

are you ready to upload a skin

hello at e3

Yay

Amen

"Thus, due to Peter's lack of supper preparations, we shall consumeth thy trash." Said Jesus. - John 11:35.

- Corinthians 13:4-8

u put the crap in scrapyard

I want to distinguish between two ideas that drove the Scrapyard campaign:

• Sentimentally: Liking Scrapyard
• Practically: Guaranteeing a creative theme over a historical theme
  

I'm under the impression that you've mixed the two. I understand that you've no fondness for Scrapyard, but the campaign was also intended to illustrate the need for Scrapyard.

To your point - yes, you didn't say the contests weren't decreasing in quality. You said that not having Scrapyard wouldn't ruin the contests.

On the contrary, I believe that the contests are heading toward ruin because of the rapid decline in quality.

• A decline in skin quality deprives the contests of their competition
• The absence of competition will eventually ruin the contests irreversibly - what is a competition without competition?
• Hence the decline in quality = the death of the contests.
  

Now the 'decline' has been going on for a while as the community shrinks, but it's suddenly accelerated under the historical themes. The historical themes do little to support skinner retention, and I believe that's because of disinterest in the historical themes.

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Problem #1: Disinterest
When a theme doesn't creatively interest the skinners, they won't enter. That's perfectly normal - that's you right now, and that's me on many an occasion in the past. We'll just wait til the next one.

Now with other themes, the disinterested are the minority. But with the historical themes, disinterest amongst skinners is demonstrably more frequent. So when our best skinners aren't skinning, there's no competition in the contest. It's not very fulfilling to have an uncompetitive competition.

So we need to vote in a creative theme.

Solution #1: Vote in Interesting, Creative Themes
But as the May poll shows, this is far easier said than done.


Problem #2: Split-Vote
Thank you for pointing out that there were more than four options in the May poll. I narrowed it down not to suggest that there were only two creative themes, but to illustrate how two-runner ups (both creative) utterly dwarfed the historical vote.

Let's add on another creative theme - disguises - now the creative:historical ratio becomes 90:47. Which again, proves how the creative vote dwarfs the historical vote.

See, that's presents us with another problem. Despite overwhelmingly supporting creative themes, PMC ended up with a historical theme because the creative vote got split up. We can't hope to win with a creative theme if we are not unified.

That's why I pushed for one theme to unify the creative vote - Scrapyard.

Solution #2: Unify the Vote
Now this is how sentimentality and practicality were brought together. I don't mind any of the creative themes, but I decided on Scrapyard because I saw the existing sentiment behind it. It was necessary to build on that vote to meet our practical ends.

The campaign wasn't to convince Scrapyard voters to keep voting Scrapyard, it was to convince the Villager voters to unite their vote with Scrapyard. Secondarily, it was to convince the historical voters of the practical merits of the creative themes - i.e. they appeal to a wider range of skinners and hence foster greater competition.

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In closing, no, Scrapyard is not a perfect theme. It does not appeal to everyone, no theme does. That's hardly your fault, that's just preference. Usually we vote according to preference.

This time however, we vote to save the PMC contests.
Only time will tell whether we made a difference.

Please don't blame yourself for preferences beyond your control. Thanks for speaking your mind on the matter : )

The one thing I don't understand is why it's that theme in particular. The four you mentioned aren't the only ones they offer. I'd like to personally see something like disguises which isn't historical and has creative potential. With scrapyard, however, I don't really see that potential as strongly. Perhaps that's just my unending stupidity hard at work.

I didn't say that the quality of contests weren't decreasing in general. I said that not doing scrapyard isn't going to ruin all contests for the rest of eternity. I don't want to do a historical theme any more than you do but I just can't wrap my head around the concept of scrapyard.

I hope that you're at least happy with getting to do it this month. Due to my obviously stupid inability to come up with any ideas, I'll most likely be skipping again.

Hope you have a nice day/night.

check contest details for any previous pmc contest

Can't wait to do this one, gonna be any prizes?

auri is right

you to

Greetings

hm?

huh?

Greetings Mortals

Ah, yeah I enjoy playing with the premade townies and progress their stories. My enjoyment is in playing many many generations on end. It's mostly fun when the sims are very different from myself. 😁

I see. I play as my own character with six kids haha. Three of them are triplets. The others around are my actual friends who I sometimes help around. :P It's cool to see what other people's play styles are! c:

Yess appearantly she can do that \o/ never knew!

Ooh Fire Dancing

Hmm well my current played household does have one toddler son :D
But I play rotational so some of my sims have kids, others don't. 😊