
Re: New Castle of the Month feature
Ad Rock wrote:
You should have players submit their castles and do a castle of the month from those. Just an idea.
This is actually something I've been planning to do for a while, similar to the Shield of the Week competition. Unfortunately, there are some issues involved that need to be solved.
The main issue: What
criteria should it be judged on?
Aesthetics? The problems here are: 1) That's a very
subjective way of judging the castle2) SHK castles
aren't very beautiful to begin with. And they don't need to be, after all they are supposed to be practical. Which leaves the criteria of
efficiency. A big issue here is that most active players (at least on the German worlds, as far as I've been told) all use the
same few castle designs. After all, designs automatically go through a process of
evolution through artificial selection. The other issue here is: Someone would
need to test the castles. Unlike looking at shields, loading a castle structure on the development servers, completing the construction, sending attacks over and over and then counting which castle survived the longest would take up way
too much time, time that is needed elsewhere.
So yes, I like the idea of having such a competition and I've been trying to figure out a way to make it happen, but at the moment it simply
doesn't look feasible.