Kai NRG

I'll jump in here and show my face. First off, welcome to Grover as a new member of the leadership team, it's great to have your enthusiasm and love for the guilds! For myself, I have not been able to take a leading role as a guild leader in the past year, but I'm definitely here to support Book IV. I joined the guilds about 14 years ago ( ) for the challenges, stayed for the great constructive criticism, and have been trying to give back as a guild leader for probably 3 or so years now. Eager to hear everyone's thoughts so we can make more informed choices moving forward.

That pink salt bog (or whatever it's called) looks fantastic. Really neat idea for a build.

Sweet, I'm glad we don't have to hack our way around it anymore

I love the dark brown tracks left by the wagon, that's a really great detail. These kind of WIP builds are always fun, and yours is so full of activity with all the animals running around, makes for an entertaining build!

The best I can suggest is to copy it from an old post (you can't straight up copy and paste, but you could jump into the editor or quote it and copy from there), but I suspect that will break the code... let's see: Edit: Whatdya know, it worked! What I did was quote the spoiler into a reply in one of your threads, and then I dragged it out of the quote box and from there copied it into this comment (bracketed with filler text as it's easier to grab that way). I would expect it also to work if you edited your own post and grabbed it from there.

The stained glass windows are lovely! Must have been a pain to do digitally though!

For a first ever ship that is pretty great, nice use of those long slopes for the hull. I also love the checkered floor on your vignette.

Great to see this nod to a theme I really enjoyed back in its day, you did a really clean job turning it into a display piece!

She's a beauty, very polished, great colors, looks like it'd be pure eye candy on a shelf.

Congrats to the winners! Cool to see that you guys had the flexibility to add to the prize pool given the number of entries and, of course, also cool to be one of them Thanks for the great contest that pushed me to finally alt build my speed champions!

I know we were looking at honoring prior members somehow. I can't remember on exactly what we settled on, but I do know we decided to keep it relatively small so that we start off with a fairly even playing field--something like bringing over one ship and maybe a small percentage of DBs. So there's certainly no point building loads and loads of stuff, especially because the new map/game should have some cool features that you'll want to use to inspire your MOCs! It will also be a smaller scale game in the sense that it will focus more on your sigfig's story, the adventures of their ship, and so forth, rather than building massive settlements with generic figs. I think there's still a deal of potential on the current map/current era story if you're just looking to build some cool MOCs. I love your enthusiasm by the way! As I'm sure you've figured out we're running a little behind on this project, hopefully we can push through and launch sometime this year.

Despite being on the new leadership team, I have no idea who has the old account sheets (there are probably links to them somewhere in the forum here), but for Era III, we will be moving to a new format and new map, so while you can certainly get a head start building generic things like ships and houses, your current assets will probably not be relevant. For story purposes, the worlds of Eras I and II will still certainly be around, but they'll no longer be part of game play. In the meantime, it's a great opportunity to finish up any loose storylines you had going or build in any current settlements whose theme strikes your fancy, before we move onto a new map. There are still a few "transition challenges" planned, so keep an eye out for those as we (hopefully) get closer to the new era launch!

Especially in the case of an immersive shot like this one, I can recommend taking a look at it in the camera lens frequently as you build it. That really helps you spot excessive clutter or empty sections, as well as giving you a good idea of the composition. I find it harder to take a build meant to be seen IRL and turn it into a good photograph than the other way around, so if you start off focused on what the camera sees, it often not that hard to finish off the edges as you go along. (...unless you get distracted into going WAY overboard, I did that once and this was the scene, this was me "finishing off the edges" ) Your builds always look like delightful display pieces with well balanced colors, I'm excited to see you trying to take that up a notch for online presentation!

Thank you! The asymmetry was a fun way to change the layout compared to the car and use parts differently. Thanks! I agree, this car had a great color scheme that translated well for a futuristic vehicle.

Great perspective through this window, nice job with the inset bookshelves too, and that center portal looks really neat!