Come ye all who wish to help run what shall be the best Modding Awards of all time.
Anyone should be able to post here, Citizen and Peregrinus alike.
The format I suggest we use was created by the lovely Muizer
Spoiler for Format:Having been on the committee last year, and having discussed the results and possible improvements extensively with fellow committee members, there are certain conclusions that have to be taken on-board.
The big issue is that in a popular vote, people will vote for the complete package. Considering big mods tend to be the cumulative result of multiple releases over multiple years, this means there's a risk of awards being won, at least in part, on the strength of releases from earlier years: content which has already competed in previous awards.
It was the general opinion of the committee that this would be unfair competition for new, and as yet lesser known, mods. For the 2011 awards, we resolved to only accept entries in a category if a substantial amount of work had been added in that category since the last awards. This freed up some categories to be contested by new mods. However, in whatever categories the major mods could enter, they still divided the awards between them.
IMHO it is best to just accept the nature of the voting. Only if a mod has not entered before can we be fairly certain it won't win on the strength of material entered for earlier editions. Yet, we also have to award continued work on older mods. Finally, we can't create too many different awards, or there won't be any competition at all.
My suggestion would be the following set of categories for each game
- new mod awards (mod categories): only contested by mods that have not been entered in any shape or form before
- old mod awards (mod categories): contested either by all mods or by all mods with new work since last awards
- modder awards (modder categories): contested by all modders for work not entered before in any shape or form.
And, please, don't tell me this is unfair to this or that mod or modder, unless you have a better solution for the situation I described.
Spoiler for Award List from Last Year:S2TW
Mod Awards
-Favourite Mod
-Most Immersive Mod
-Most Interesting Scenario/Innovative Mod
-Best Land/Naval Combat Overhaul
-Best Miniature Mod
-Best Unit Pack
-Campaign AI
Modder Awards
-Modder
-DB Editor
-3D Modeller/Texture Artist/2D Artist
-Scripter
-Tool Maker
-Tutor
-Historical Researcher
-Movie Maker
-Rising Star
NTW
Mod Awards
-Favourite Mod
-Most Immersive Mod
-Most Interesting Scenario/Innovative Mod
-Best Land/Naval Combat Overhaul
-Best Miniature Mod
-Best Unit Pack
-Campaign AI
Modder Awards
-Modder
-DB Editor
-3D Modeller/Texture Artist/2D Artist
-Scripter
-Tool Maker
-Tutor
-Historical Researcher
-Movie Maker
-Rising Star
ETW
Mod Awards
-Favourite Mod
-Most Immersive Mod
-Most Interesting Scenario/Innovative Mod
-Best Land/Naval Combat Overhaul
-Best Miniature Mod
-Best Unit Pack
-Campaign AI
Modder Awards
-Modder
-DB Editor
-3D Modeller/Texture Artist/2D Artist
-Scripter
-Tool Maker
-Tutor
-Historical Researcher
-Movie Maker
-Rising Star
M2TW
Mod Awards
-Battle balance
-Strategic balance
-Visual Content
-Written Content
-Audio Content
-Combination award
-Mod Improvements and Expansions
Modder Awards
-Coder
-Scripter
-Mapper
-Modeller
-Texturer
-Interface artist
-Tool maker
-Tutor
-Researcher
RTW
Mod Awards
-Battle balance
-Strategic balance
-Visual Content
-Written Content
-Audio Content
-Combination award
-Mod Improvements and Expansions
Modder Awards
-Coder
-Scripter
-Mapper
-Modeller
-Texturer
-Interface artist
-Tool maker
-Tutor
-Researcher