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$100 Design Contest - Official Scoring Matrix Explained

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Channel: PowerSports · 2014 · Gaming

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The OFFICIAL scoring matrix has been posted!

As part of my ongoing effort to spread the "science and engineering" quality of video games, I am offering a $100 prize, via PayPal or Steam, to the winner of a contest in building the most efficient self-sustaining mining city ship!

See Video Below (Another Video Coming Soon):
[video]http://youtu.be/s1GnwFYfO3A[/video]

Contest Rules:
1.  Winner is judged solely at my discretion, in any arbitrary fashion I deem fit
2.  WHEELS & SOLAR PANELS ARE BANNED
3.  Deadline for submission via e-mailed Steam Workshop link is May 16th at 10pm CST
4.  See YouTube video description for submission e-mail address
5.  Put "design contest for SE (your name)" in subject line of e-mail
6.  Ship is allowed to be designed in creative mode
7.  64-bit designs are banned ("extreme" size worlds)
8.  Ship must operate in survival mode
9.  Ship must have enough uranium in the reactors to last long enough to mine more uranium and refuel itself
10.  Ship must be ONE ship, with any large/small ship parts LOCKED to the large ship with landing gear or motors
11.  Any motors used must have all settings pre-configured, same for any other devices
12.  Trying to influence my decision will result in disqualification
13.  THE SHIP MUST BE 100% SELF-SUSTAINING, IN THEORY
14.  SHIP MUST AUTOMATICALLY REFINE ORE/ROCK
15.  SHIP MUST AUTOMATICALLY FEED REACTORS & be connected to assembler, cargo & turrets
16.  Ship must be able to defend itself from all 6 sides
17.  Ship must be able to withstand a small ship ramming attack
18.  Ship must have an easy-access medical bay
19.  You may work in teams, but the money will only be sent to ONE person, no exceptions

Judging Criteria:
 - functionality as mining ship
 - functionality as automatic refinery
 - functionality as automatic assembler
 - functionality as medical bay
 - automatic defensive functionality
 - power consumption when flying/mining/refining/assembling
 - stability when mining/flying
 - agility when mining/flying
 - acceleration when flying
 - ability to mine straight through an asteroid
 - ability to resist ramming from small ships
 - ability to resist thruster damage
 - ability for ship to transfer materials to refinery/assembler without player intervention
 - ability for ship to transfer uranium to reactors without player intervention
 - ability for ship to transfer ammo to turrets without player intervention
 - active beacon for ship location
 - ability to collect floating debris from mining operation
 - ability to operate with only ONE player in control

The OFFICIAL scoring matrix has been posted!

Criteria NOT Judged:
 - color
 - style
 - decorations
 - fancy non-functional mechanisms (doors, hangars, spinning decorations, etc)
 - AFK ability
 - meteor defense
 - anything done outside the VANILLA game (mods, videos, photoshop, special effects, etc)

Other:
 - This is NOT a contest endorsed by KeenSWH
 - This is NOT a contest endorsed by TGN
 - This is NOT a contest endorsed by YouTube

Important Info:
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You can now make submissions to:
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