Vote for the July Building Contest Here!

[AriaGirl77]

Please see THIS THREAD to see pictures of the houses entered in this contest.  For a closer more personal view, download them from The Exchange.  Please vote for 3 houses, not including your own, that you think Sarah Jones would like best!  All of these homes meet the basic requirements that she is looking for, but some of them do fit her needs better than others.

The poll will close on July 31st, at that point the winner will be chosen.  Thank you to all the participants in our very first Building Contest!  There will be many more to come.

[pallyndrome]

After the voting is done, will we be able to say why we chose the 3 we did? What we liked about them?

[AriaGirl77]

Absolutely!  I think that's a great idea.

[Telsey]

All I know is that those are a bunch of adorable starter homes.  It is very hard to choose just one.

[AriaGirl77]

Yup, I think ALL of them make the starter homes that come with the neighborhoods look terrible!  I can't wait to use some of these in my future games.

[caliban]

It was very difficult to pick just three.

There were neat things about each of the entries and I spent an interesting day between calls at work kind of  deconstructing each of them to pick out what I thought was done well.

On the subject of feed back, I would suggest that it not be free for all, but that each participant should voice whether they want it or not, what method (private message, public post), and how gentle/harsh/thorough of criticism they would like.

Even when it's meant to be constructive, public criticism can be perceived as humiliating, however unintentionally. Anywho, my 2 simoleans.

Great job everyone!

[pallyndrome]

Well in that case Caliban, what if we just say what we liked about that houses we chose, rather than criticise each one.

[caliban]

Well in that case Caliban, what if we just say what we liked about that houses we chose, rather than criticise each one.

Which of course was your original question, and what I rather skipped over in my answer. >_>

That, I think would be wonderful : ]

Once the voting is finished, I would personally also like to hear what folks didn't like/thought might be improved about my design.

[Joria]

Ok, this is totally unfair!  There is not ONE single home I would not want and cannot vote for!  How on earth do you expect us to pick only three houses out of these?  I love, and want them all!  Those starter homes are amazing, each and every one of them, and I don't even like mine the best.

[Pam]

We're actually not supposed to be allowing comments in the voting thread until after the poll closes.  So, please, vote now and discuss later.