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I just went to the contest to look and vote for the new entries, and it was full of dislike (thumbs down) profile pictures. Is this a group sign or an opinion of the game, or a new way for the cheaters to know who to vote for?

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Originally Posted by Robbin Canada:
I just went to the contest to look and vote for the new entries, and it was full of dislike (thumbs down) profile pictures. Is this a group sign or an opinion of the game, or a new way for the cheaters to know who to vote for?

Those are the dislikes of one of Aqualife 3D players' groups. They express dislike of admin's actions in the last contest. They were almost all excluded for 1) repeated tanks exposure;
2) for voting for each other no matter how good their tanks look.
I guess it's not fair, that some group members vote only for each other and not for the other worthy tanks. This way they use to take almost all 100 places in the contest.

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Originally Posted by Alex  Broadway:

Originally Posted by Robbin Canada:
I just went to the contest to look and vote for the new entries, and it was full of dislike (thumbs down) profile pictures. Is this a group sign or an opinion of the game, or a new way for the cheaters to know who to vote for?

Those are the dislikes of one of Aqualife 3D players' groups. They express dislike of admin's actions in the last contest. They were almost all excluded for 1) repeated tanks exposure;
2) for voting for each other no matter how good their tanks look.
I guess it's not fair, that some group members vote only for each other and not for the other worthy tanks. This way they use to take almost all 100 places in the contest.

Dear Alex,

our group is protesting with the dislike sign for the distinction in the content game.

We asked why disqulaified our tanks? We had no got clearly answare. We asked what means cheat, cheating, (what is definition) we had no got answare.

In the participate is declared, we must rebuild tank, to reparticipate. But there is no rules, what means it (rebuild).

We think in this way the contest is not fair game. You wrote we voting each other only. Where are admins declare this rule? The contest has not such rule. We  think if something not prohibited, it is allowed.

We like play content whit clearly rules. Declare admins what are prohibited. Let everything else are allowed.

We declare again, we like to play in content with clearly and declared rules. We want rule(observe) those. And we like to declare if something is not prohibited, it is allowed.

Regards,

Attila

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Dear Alex/Organizers,

We would like to ask you to publish regulations in connection with the game. The rules of the game should be understandable and clear for every participant to avoid the endless discussions we have.
We would be grateful if we had the rules also in more languages. This way the competitors would know exactly what they have to do and how they have to compete.

Thank you for your help: The Hungarian players

Thanks, Katona Magdi

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Alex,

All i know is that 1 person had entered for the very first time and was removed from the contest. This person is NOT associated with a group that you refer to as winning all the time and voting for themselves only and not voting for other worthy tanks.  This person probably won't enter again because of this.
Just thought you should know..

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Hello dear reader and Alex!

First of all I wouldn’t like to deal too much with Robbin Canada’s post. And as Alex told her it’s a way of demonstrating against the unfair contest. We have expressed dislike of the unjustified exclusions. And as Deborah has written a lot more people were kicked from the contest, and not just from the rebelled group. I’ve known at least 4 English speaking people from all around the world who were kicked, however they’ve kept the rules (new decorating tank etc.).
Secondly we had new designed tanks, or tanks which has never been in the contest before and were exluded…
Thirdly which tank is pretty or not and whose is beautiful is the most subjective thing… I thought it depends on the number of votes, and not on the developers or you.
Further more I’ve really not understand you/the developers, because they have made new rules to be able to manipulate the contest as they would, as it will the best for them.
For example the new one, on what they were referred and kicked almost all the members from the Hungarian group.The whole game is based on friends… Most of the Hungarian players don’t speak foreign languages, so the highest proportion of their friends Hungarians as well. Why should they have to join into other speaking groups if they get all the help in their native language? I mean if they have Hungarian friends they will vote for them. It's simple, there are only a very few people who vote alians, not friends... Don’t believe in fairytales, on the first week, when the contest was started one of the first comment was that the contest is nothing more than a popularity contest (and it was written in an English speaking group)… and it’s not about the most beautiful tank. But back to your new explanation. As I know most of the contestants vote other tanks too, everybody has more or less not Hungarian speaking friends as well, and we also votes (I can speak the name of my friends, but most of the members) unknown tanks too. For example today were posted a tank with flying swans, with the headlight: vote for it, it’s amazing… should has won. So do not say that we just vote for each others.
Other which I can suggest other groups: activate your members and ask them to vote. Boycott is the worst solution for the problem. And good PR can help a lot, however personally I have had enough with PMs. So if you join forces as we, you can win, and put more people on the table, if it’s bother you so much that three-quarter portion of the winners are Hungarians.
Ok, sorry my letter become a bit long, but I wouldn’t like to miss a thing.
Thanks for reading!
Zoli
P.S. I am sure that you are getting complaints about others not getting a chance to win, but you are not going to be able to resolve all the issues to make everyone happy. Try to make clear rules and do not manipulate the contest arbitrarily.

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Belasits Zoltán, you just solidified the reason they are continually changing the contest rules. It is not supposed to be about how many friends you have (I vote for every tank that I see someone put effort into, not just my friends) it is supposed to be about creativity. Many tanks that are winning, have been just thrown together in a few minutes without thought, and because they have more friends voting for them, they win or place, while many of the ones that did take time and made an effort were falling off the top 100. Do you really mean to tell me you think this is a fair way to play? To enter just so you can win a few extra diamonds and not even care about putting any effort or creativity into it?

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Originally Posted by Deborah Gebert Garland:
Alex,

All i know is that 1 person had entered for the very first time and was removed from the contest. This person is NOT associated with a group that you refer to as winning all the time and voting for themselves only and not voting for other worthy tanks.  This person probably won't enter again because of this.
Just thought you should know..

Well.. mistakes happen. Soryy for that. Everything is cleared out manually, as the automatic system doesn't help much.

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This contest is a joke. Totally manipulated by people with to many friends. Multiple entries by the same people with equal numbers of votes for tanks that do not have anything but crap in them. Real pathetic. Nice try admins but sorry total fail.

Maybe try and eliminate people pictures from the tanks in the contest so no one really knows whos is whos.

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Originally Posted by Tom Eizenhoefer:

This contest is a joke. Totally manipulated by people with to many friends. Multiple entries by the same people with equal numbers of votes for tanks that do not have anything but crap in them. Real pathetic. Nice try admins but sorry total fail.

Maybe try and eliminate people pictures from the tanks in the contest so no one really knows whos is whos.

We'll think about it.

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I like the idea of removing names and profile pics from the contest..  I think it is worth a try..  

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ITS AN IDEA, BUT REALIZE THAT THESE PEOPLE THAT KEEP WINNING WITH THE FRIENDS VOTES, STILL WILL ONLY HAVE TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT THE TANK LOOKS LIKE, THEY WILL STILL BE WINNING, I REALLY THINK IT HAS TO COME DOWN TO JUDGES, AT LEAST THE FIRST LEVEL, SET A DEADLINE TO ENTER FOR THAT WEEK, THE JUDGES PICK THE BEST TANKS FROM THOSE ENTRIES, AND THEN LET THEM MEMBERS VOTE ON THOSE TANKS...IT WOULD ELIMINATE MANY AND WOULD MAKE IT MORE FAIR TO THE OTHERS.