NickyNick wrote:Haha. Creativity Medal will make people invent these f*cking expensive "creative" contraptions. But it isn't really interesting to see loads of such things. The most creative solution is the cheapest, because you should think most of all to figure out the concept for cheap solution. And there's no room for tweaking other's solutions at ARFC, because Clans are prohibited and we are on our own. That's my opinion.
Well nick, welcome back. I thought you retired.
Who
does think to create a cheap solution? It's not hip.
But Ikerous once said "this game is 80% recognition".
Recognizing and then learning how to simply apply something you've already seen (bar pullies, small catchers, impulse launchers, force paddles, that thing where you put one metal sheet that slowly falls and affects dillos trajectory)
then tweaking the snot out of it and
Making a creative solution have begun to be very different things. It's time for change. N.fav and the novelty (and sheer number of participants) of classic contests has been pretty much lost due to time. Where is the creativity now if you can make a "perfect solution"?! Looking at a level and knowing a "perfect solution" in the first minute isn't using much creativity. That's just recognition.
If in order to win a level you have to find some amazing, creative, incredibly-cheap way, you should win a creativity medal. But the most creative solution is winning less and less. The person who can win with creativity the most recently is unw with his rockets.
Another thing is the level. Sometimes you've seen something similar, and the level wasn't designed well enough to have some brilliant solution. You simply plug in what you've seen, maybe in a different combintation, and tweak away for a medal. This causes many redundant (boring, and not creative looking after you see 5 of the same thing) solutions that all come within $4 of eachother.
The flaws of a level are quickly found, especially with score posting. Remember your "store your ass level?" everyone said "what???!!" when somebody posted a xx90 score, then the results had 4 or 5 of the same winning solution that used a single metal bar to get armadillo all the way to the goal? You called that a "stupid level". I think it is a great level. It's so creative! I would've made some cool crane thing that picked dillo up then set him back down at the portal. Wouldn't you like to see that instead of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th winning solution? I'd like to see how many contests ended up with the runner up just $4 or less behind the winner.
I believe you can't always be most creative and win with the same solution. There are levels you can do that on, but they are becoming fewer and fewer. Not every host can make a level that makes sure you cant win with something we've seen before.
Solutions can be the best and the most creative, but they're not often.
TSchultz wrote:Yep :/ Same. I think 9759 is perfect unless someone can tweak 9779 without it breaking.
This is from the current contest. Looks like we've got some creativity, huh?
And about the "f*cking expensive" creative solutions, make us have to come up with some "f*cking creative" cheap solutions and there won't be as many expensive ones. We'll be spending too much creativity on making the best solution possible. Until then, you're stuck with a
few of them.