Sul sul Simmers!
The time is here - our first
The Sims Spark'd Challenges are waiting for you to jump in the game and get creative!
Each Spark'd Challenge introduces a unique theme, with three ways to participate. Share your Creations with the community, and if you are chosen as a Top Spark'd Creator, you may be featured on this site—or even get a chance to be considered for future seasons of The Sims™ Spark’d competition show!
Showcase your unique style and creativity. Choose how you want to play (click on each challenge to find out more):
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Seconding this question! I was wondering about this too.
How will EA going to go about on this issue, if this is an ongoing challenge? I think this is something that EA needs to look into more carefully before a lot more issues arise. I sincerely hope that with this project, we can actually help the unknown talented simmers/content creators & perhaps, let this be, their stepping stones. Let's just say, I want to see new faces.
Also worried about the judging, it seems like every day players wont stand a chance and it'll just be the same group of super talented builders with thousands of followers winning every time. I like the idea of challenges but I feel like it needs more work for it to actually work well.
Also makes me not want to vote with my likes if I'm filtering through all the rest of this nonsense.
It also seems that if people had this creation already in their gallery the votes and downloads transferred over? So someone might have 60 votes from the past year and now they're winning at the "judging" section? I mean maybe they got that many votes on their non-wedding mansion in the past 2 hours, but I'm thinking no?
They need someone policing this I think. I think using an old gallery creation is fine, but it should be cleared of likes and downloads once submitted. Also I think anything that has an "original by" should also be flagged and not allowed for submission. I saw a couple of actual wedding entries that were stolen and when I checked the original, little to nothing was changed.
It's a bit disappointing that I'm just some random simmer and found out all of this within a half hour. If Maxis/EA wanted to, they could have this working better and cleaned up by now.
I don't think that there's any interest in having a random simmer participate in reality tv unfortunatelly.
After this issue takes care of itself, they will still need to sort out the underage players that can't officially take part in the challenges.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956513/netz-a-porter-outfits-ready-to-wear-for-your-sims-no-cc-required
Twitter: NetzspannungTS
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You could have fun and upload any way. Or just favourite some entries.
No worries, I didn't say it spoiled the game for me, just the Spark'd challenges. Looking at the entries was not fun, I am not going to wade through pages and pages of generic entries to heart stuff. It's not tragic or anything, I was just giving my feedback.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956513/netz-a-porter-outfits-ready-to-wear-for-your-sims-no-cc-required
Twitter: NetzspannungTS
we all try ...
That was my feeling too. I wanted to like some stuff, I was even shopping for a venue to use in my own game! But wading through the stuff that shouldn't have been there was sad. I was seeing more illegitimate stuff than actual contest stuff.
I do wonder how this is supposed to "take care of itself". Especially when some builds/sims have hundreds of likes from before and people have 2 weeks here to "catch up".
If I were to submit a build now. Even if it was fantastic, I'm not a youtuber but following the rules, I'm going to lose because the mansion that has nothing to do with weddings has 200 likes and I'll be lucky if I get 5. If they think the "like" sorting will sort out this issue for them, I think they're sadly mistaken. I know I'm probably not going to bother going back to wade through that mess to try to find something to like and I'm sure a lot of others won't bother either now.
If they are "keeping an eye on it" then why can't they just take down those submissions?
I'm really not interested in the reality show side of things, but was quite excited about in game challenges. Even more so when I saw the first theme was weddings - I had just built a wedding venue that was super special to me and that I'd really love people to see, and also because I'm doing a black widow challenge at the minute and wedding venues are always helpful! The sheer volume of unrelated lots in the most popular tab is dismaying on both accounts 😔😔
Also, while I appreciate the twitter response, I'd love to know how its going to "take care of itself" to the extent that all the amazing wedding lots that have been submitted in the last 24 hours (there's been some incredible ones, but I've had to dig for them!) are going to actually be seen by anyone? They've pretty much disappeared into the abyss at this point 🤷♀️
What makes it worse imho is that it ruins the regular gallery even more. By dangling the carrot of a TV appearance and 100k in front of people the uploads are increasing, bloating the gallery with more and more generic stuff. I don't even know how many households I saw uploaded for the challenge made up of 1 or 2 of the Sims generated by the game when you open CAS. I wish at least the regular gallery was separate from the Spark'd gallery. I am still going to be very happy to use the Sims I made in my game, so I am not saying I wasted my time on anything, but the gallery is going to get more and more plummy with every passing day.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956513/netz-a-porter-outfits-ready-to-wear-for-your-sims-no-cc-required
Twitter: NetzspannungTS
we all try ...
I actually thought that was how it was going to be. I agree that it should be separate.
This might be the smarter way to do it. I should probably do the same.
You're very welcome!
i'm about to upload something that i put a lot of time into, but hesitating precisely because of this concern
i dunno... this voting system needs to be reworked.
As a Simmer, I was hoping to be able to find some really amazing builders/story creators to follow, but instead, every time I load the sparkd gallery, its literally like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.
And as a builder, its pretty off-putting to submit something relevant to the challenge rules, that you've put energy into, and have it fully disappear in the gallery within about 25 mins, never to be seen by anyone, while generic and often stolen house builds are at the top of the pile with 1000+ downloads just because they've previously gathered a lot of followers... I just don't know who at EA thought this kind of community vote was ever going to work. It's pretty tricky to discover actual talent when you're *actually* running a popularity contest 🤷♀️ (IMO)
Not talking about myself there btw, the prospect of being on a TV show holds no interest for me whatsoever, I just shudder at all the amazing builds which have now been lost in the mass, I'm sad for the builders of these creations, A LOT will be feeling despondent if they've put time and love into something to have it not even seen, and selfishly I also want to be able to share this thing that took me such a long time and actually have people be able to see it 🤷♀️😂