SS2 Chapter 3 Building Plan Contest

[Chef]

Hey folks, to celebrate the 7th anniversary of Sim Settlements we are having an Building Plan contest for Chapter 3 plots! It will take place over the course of the weekend of March 9th and 10th.

Here are the rules
Plotapalooza Building Plan Contest Rules:

• Building Plans can only use items from FO4 base game, SS2/WRK, SS2 Extended, and the six main DLC’s
• Building Plans must be a chapter 3 mechanics plot (Armory, Battlefield scavengers, Field Medics, Prison, Recruitments Center, Watchtower, Mess Hall, or training yard)
• Any of the 4 Building Plan sizes may be picked
• Building Plans must have a level 1, level 2, and level 3. Initial spawn pile and build stages are not required, but will receive higher points in voting
• Each level must be a unique mesh (in other words - the structure needs to change each level - not just the decorations)
• Building Plans must be within the borders of their plot size, verticality will be allowed
• No maximum to number of possible assigned settlers
• Authors are allowed to come back and update and change their designs after the contest. However, all judging will be based on the Building Plan submitted at the event's closing time.
• All entries must be uploaded to Nexus and published under the Sim Settlements 2 category by 11:59 PM CST on Sunday, March 10th, 2024
• Anyone is welcome to enter so long as they are in good standing with the SS2 community. Members of the SS2 dev team are allowed to participate, but are NOT eligible for prizes.
• 1st $200, 2nd $125, 3rd $75 Community choice $100
• Primary meeting place will be the We Are Builders discord server
• Judging criteria - Functionality, Creativity, how well does your plot match what it is supposed to be, and Theme
• Judges choice for top three, and 1 community chosen winner.

Now, before you all go off and start building, there is going to be a twist announced right before everything starts. That will keep people from pre-building before the contest. We want to really encourage those that maybe haven't jumped into this sort of thing before to participate.

Feel free to ask questions in this thread.

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[Chef]

Clarification: Work on submitted entries cannot begin before Friday, March 8, 2024 11:59 PM CST. Kinggath will be posting a video at that time regarding the theme for the contest.

Clarification: Only one Building Plan entry per person.

Clarification: The borders of a given Plot Size will be determined by the borders of the red AlignmentHelper (minus the arrow portion) in the CK.

 

[kinggath]

Update 11:37 PM Sunday - Granting Extensions!

Over the past few hours, some folks ran into a strange error with the Xedit script for importing their work into a plugin.

We are granting extensions for folks who experienced this so we can work out what the cause is. If you ran into this error, please package up the following, upload to a space such as Google Drive, and DM a share link to @Chef or @Choochoo1:

• A copy of the error found in the messages section xEdit after running the script
• Your Plugins.txt file
• The save files that you used to export the levels
• The level log files
• The plugin you tried to import into

If you are uncertain how to gather any of those things and need assistance, please let us know!