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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 22-02-2014 10:25
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No-one vote for Comeback! 
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| Shonak |
Posted on 22-02-2014 11:52
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Thanks guys! I have raced some and did some reports and it's honestly quite different from a team-story. However, it's kinda nice to skip some events and stages again. Reminds me of the good old days of just playing the game. 
Honestly, I wouldn't like the Grand Tours to turn into a quick-sim festivity, so I'll probably have to find some balance for that though.
@TMM: Nice observations there on the different reporting styles.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 22-02-2014 12:04
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Shonak wrote:
Thanks guys! I have raced some and did some reports and it's honestly quite different from a team-story. However, it's kinda nice to skip some events and stages again. Reminds me of the good old days of just playing the game.
Honestly, I wouldn't like the Grand Tours to turn into a quick-sim festivity, so I'll probably have to find some balance for that though.
@TMM: Nice observations there on the different reporting styles.
Sounds like you've got it figured out nicely there. I would play a lot more 3D stages if they didn't take 15minutes to load on my decaying laptop
I do a lot of reading and re-reading in the story section cause i love so many stories and the writing. Allows me to get some nice overviews of how things differ and evolve. Recommend going back and picking out random stories to anyone as it really helps me out
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 22-02-2014 12:16
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NOOOOOOoooooo...... Two months in a row my photobucket account gets over the bandwidth. Won't be until the 27th when I get the pictures back. I blame this on the man-game off-season starting up.
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 22-02-2014 12:20
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Mresuperstar wrote:
NOOOOOOoooooo...... Two months in a row my photobucket account gets over the bandwidth. Won't be until the 27th when I get the pictures back. I blame this on the man-game off-season starting up.
you are just too populair
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 22-02-2014 20:53
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Mresuperstar wrote:
NOOOOOOoooooo...... Two months in a row my photobucket account gets over the bandwidth. Won't be until the 27th when I get the pictures back. I blame this on the man-game off-season starting up.
The curse of popularity you b*stard! Fortunately something that won't hit me as 1) few readers, and 2) i out source all my images.
Cranked out all of Act 5 (minus 3 scenes) today. Following the very personal and emotional Act's 3 and 4 it was a very different challenge (spoiler) but this is why i love writing. Also means i am firmly back onto my original overall plot line following minor expansive detours.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 26-02-2014 16:52
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Strange month of February. I have 6 (3 Solid) possible Nominations for Story of the Month and 8 solid nominations for New Story of the Month.
So, it looks like I'm going to have to flip the format and have 3 Story of the Month summaries and 5 New Story of the Month summaries.
I'll be sending those out later today so be on the lookout.
Sorry to those with New Stories that don't get a PM, some started to late and will be carried over to next month and frankly there were just so many good new stories to be introduced this month. Very stiff competition.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 26-02-2014 16:58
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I knew I should have waited till March 1st. I said it, didn't I? Right here in this thread!
Just kidding of course. Not sure I would have been nominated anyway. but if so, then even better cause I have a head start for March if it counts.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 26-02-2014 17:03
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I have pushed Daniel Martin into a possible nomination for New Story in March.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 26-02-2014 17:05
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I wouldn't agree with swapping to 3 and 5 (from the normal 5-3) unless there were genuinely only 3 stories that deserve a full nomination. The main competition is the main competition. Stories are established with real followings and development and the quality is higher overall.
New story is a nice idea to show off the starting stories but when you look back i think only 3 (maybe 5) of the nominees from all months are still going or have been considered for the main award.
Ok so that means the same stories will come up repeatedly for the main competition but it's just how things work. If those new stories get maintain then they deserve more of a chance to win down the line.
I get there are a number of good new stories (didn't see 8 though) so perhaps increase it up to 5 and 5 (5 main and 5 new) nominees for this month (and maybe next as more 2014 DB stories commence)
EDIT Flicking through i see 5-9 established stories but only 3-5 new stories (and i'm stretching a bit to include the new 2014DB ones)
Edited by TheManxMissile on 26-02-2014 17:11
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 26-02-2014 17:08
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Mresuperstar wrote:
I have pushed Daniel Martin into a possible nomination for New Story in March.
If his didn't make Feb, mine doesn't have a chance, and it won't make March, because it started early Feb.
Don't worry I have resigned myself to Hobbit Optimism (nothing I ever do will ever be successful anyway so why bother in the first place ) so I am not upset. |
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 26-02-2014 17:10
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I'm going to stick with 3 for Story of the Month because to me the others don't match up to those three. It's quite a drastic drop-off actually in terms of time put into the stories this month. I'm also putting The Comeback as an honorable mention instead of writing summary.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 26-02-2014 17:12
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Mresuperstar wrote:
I'm going to stick with 3 for Story of the Month because to me the others don't match up to those three. It's quite a drastic drop-off actually in terms of time put into the stories this month. I'm also putting The Comeback as an honorable mention instead of writing summary.
So you did read the above theory. Saving it for March and the finale
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 26-02-2014 17:14
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TheManxMissile wrote:
So you did read the above theory. Saving it for March and the finale
Perhaps... But that's not up to me. I don't vote.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 26-02-2014 17:16
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TMM if you want could you send me a list of your possible nominations?
That would actually be a lot of help in narrowing my list.
Edited by Mresuperstar on 26-02-2014 17:17
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 26-02-2014 18:37
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Don't forget that Marko is there from 31st January and that it was pretty active until the day i actually needed some help. It's still runing and i guess it can be one of possible nominees for new story of the month.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 26-02-2014 18:39
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@Admir - I was more interested in whether the Radenska reboot was a New Story or not
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 26-02-2014 18:51
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Well, as i said Radenska will continue of course, so choose one of that two if even want to put me. I would prefer Marko since it's longer here, but it's on you and voters. 
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 26-02-2014 20:34
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Nominations have been sent out. Please get your summaries back to me before March 1st.
And thanks to the help of TMM, both Story of the Month and New Story of the Month will each have 5 story summaries (unless someone doesn't get their story summary back to me in time.)
Again sorry to those that didn't receive a nomination. This was a tough month to decide. There are still the honorable mentions and write-in options though.
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 26-02-2014 20:40
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Ah damn, was feeling good about this one. Well, I haven't reported much so I understand. Congrats to the nominated
Also, I'm not sure how much people plan ahead, but I have several stories lined up for when I finish Fabio that should mean I'm always in story writing until the end of 2016.
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