I’m posting while I wait to go live on twitch because today is the very last Forza Monthly of 2021. And while that means that there will be no Livery Review stream this week the hunt for the greatest designs continues right here on the forums! This lineup is a real all-star cast of long-time Forza painting community members, as always the winners’ paints will be featured in-game so you can grab them there.
Hi Alie, just my thoughts and how we could improve things with this contest? Could a tweek in the rules be possible?
Feels it needs to be fair for the new painters all the way to the veteran painters. Give everyone a chance to get design featured!
Submissions
I would say x1 livery submitted per week. Any type Fantasy, Race, Replica, basically everything (don’t think it needs the fantasy vs race split as there’s always been some crossover)
Max of 3 submission photos of the design to best showcase it.
If you place top 5 (or however many designs are selected) you have to step down the following week (eg. If designer wins week 1, they can’t enter till week 3)
I would love to say no designs that have been imported from past Forza be submitted but think that could be too harsh! lol
Core Submission Info needed…
Week Number (or Date of active contest)
Livery Designer: Full Gamertag
Car Design: eg. Ford Model T
Share Code: 123 456 789
Livery Photos x3 Max
Don’t want to start a huge discussion post in this thread but hope above is useful idea.
I know there will always be a my car is better than what got selected comment but I think your doing a great job running these and showcasing designs.
Thanks AB, it’s fabulous that something that started as a very casual segment for a weekly stream seems to be growing into a more bonafide competition. And with that growth and increased interest I agree that it’s timely to look at making some rule changes, so that is on the ‘horizon’.
With next week’s Livery Review (which will be the last before the holiday break) I’ll add some suggested rule changes for anyone who is interested to discuss. And that’s with the intention of putting them into effect when we come back in 2022.
Agreed on AB’s ideas. Also, and I don’t want to pile work onto your plate, but if you bought cars and had them ready ahead of time you could probably bump it from 6 to 10 cars or so to be featured, or maybe add some tunes in there?!? I like watching you search for the livery by the code and apply it, but watching you buy a DeLorean from the AH wasn’t the most exciting thing I’ve seen on Twitch, IMO. Again, I don’t know how much time you have allocated to prep the stream, etc. and if it’s just too much work, it’s no big deal. I’m by no means a streamer and way further from a producer (But I did stay at a Holiday Inn recently…).
I like the idea of if featured last week sit a week out, and I agree no backlog (or at least one that hasn’t won in another game). I go out of my way to only submit new liveries, but I’m sure we all have a plethora of old designs. I didn’t even paint that much in the last couple games and I still have a number of designs that I was able to import.
I’ve also been including tunes, and hoping if you selected one that you’d mention it (not just because it automatically adds the right parts, but just in general, that feels like the garages of old (FM2, 3, 4) where we’d release a “whole car” with a paint and a tune. Maybe I’m just being nostalgic.
I don’t know how tunes get featured but there was a post on Reddit how one of the top C8 Vette tunes was actually worse than just affixing the same parts to the car and going default. Contrary to that, there are a ton of people out there that tune and test and tune and test. Granted, this isn’t a Motorsport game, but the system now definitely favors quantity over quality, and maybe featuring some tunes would be a good addition.
I really enjoy the guest painters on your streams.
PS: in the photos is impossible to replicate the effect of the flames, but in game if you move the camera or just move the car, the flames will change colour, jumping from dark blue to bright light blue, simulating the movement of real flames
excellent feedback from both AB and dew and great examples of how feedback should be given. Before we go any further into Alies thread can I say that it is fine to point out the work and effort you have put in to a paint and its fine to be disappointed if your paint is not picked and you want to express how much work you put in and what was involved…what isnt fine is attempting to call into question Alies scruples or attacking other peoples work in order to boost your own. From this point on I dont want to see any ‘but my paints better than X’s paint’ because you have no idea how much work and effort X put in to their work and any suggestions that Alie is not being fair wont be taken well either.
