You & Your Pet Competion - MindArk Event

Grab your camera!
Entropia Universe is excited to present the “You and Your Pet” photo contest! With all the different pets now available in Entropia Universe it’s time to showcase your pets to the community.

Nice prizes in form of rare pets will be awarded to 4 winners!

Contest Dates:
The contest starts Friday, April 17 and ends on Sunday, April 26, 23.59 UTC. Entries should be submitted to competition@entropiauniverse.com before the end date.

Format:
Take a screenshot of your avatar and your pet, one entry per participant is allowed. Images must be an in-game screenshot from Entropia Universe. The top 4 entries will be selected based on creativity and overall aesthetics.

Prizes:

• 1st Prize, Epic Hogglo Pygmy Pet
• 2nd Prize, Epic Ruby Chirin Dragon
• 3rd Prize, Epic Eudorian Ruby Devil
• 4th Prize, Epic Corinthian Ruby Kanin

Rules and Notes:

• The in-game screenshot must be from Entropia Universe
• Your avatar and pet must be visible in the image.
• Image editing is allowed (e.g. photoshop, gimp etc).
• Be sure to include your full Entropia Universe avatar name in the submission email.
• Limit of one entry per avatar account.
• Each attached image should be no larger than 8 megabytes in file size
• Files should non-animated, and in common format, e.g. jpeg, png, gif, etc.
• General Graphics Quality Settings on at least “High”
• Minimum image resolution - 1280x800
• Participants agree that the submitted image and the participant’s full avatar name may be used by MindArk for marketing purposes related to Entropia Universe.

How to take part in the competetion
To take part in the competition send your full avatar name and your screenshot before the submission deadline to: competition@entropiauniverse.com

More info about Pets and the Entropia taming system
An introduction to taming is available at the www.entropiauniverse.com site.

Also see the user contributed site www.entropiapets.com.

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Not enough talent to participate myself, but sounds like a really cool event.

Thank you for sharing and best of luck to all participants!

MAY AN ARKADIAN WINS!

 

Should I submit my bunny video? lol

 

hmm .....

looks like a calypso event to me

will be very supprized if any non calypso pets screene take any prize

 

Hey, I might need a new pet for this competition, so... you know the drill :biggrin2:

 

Well, it's not a good sign if a player is posting this information on the forums instead of the company...

I don't know what to do, boycott the event, or submit 100+ pictures to make a point.

 

I love how the bunny is valued the least of the prizes.

 

I say boycott it. It's clearly a Caly event. None of the pets are non-Calypsian.

 

Seeing that many of us decided to boycott because it seems to be quite Caly biased... I came up with an idea

Well, since we won't run it it, it doesn't mean we can't have fun... so I invite you all to do something else instead... and instead of lonely pictures as requested by contest rules... to show MA and Caly people what a real community looks like...

So here's the idea:

Gather on Sunday, April 19th, ~19:30 game time (think is a decent time for both EU, US and AU players), right after 5$'s event, and take a huge group photo with as many Arkadians (and their pets) as possible.

If this won't work out... please don't shoot me... it was just an idea... thought that instead of just boycotting the contest or send 100 pictures as someone else suggested, it would be way cooler if we could all send same picture with 100 (well, obviously exaggerating here ) arkadians and their pets having some fun and showing some community spirit.

Even created a thread to discuss the idea (if anyone would be interested in it): http://arkadiaforum.com/threads/group-pictures-avatars-pets-and-murkalael.12141/

 

OR

People could stop acting like babies with tinfoil diapers?

 

That's rude. I'm a pet hater, the eat your ped card, and the lack of sense of some devs makes them mixed with mobs that have nothing to do, and on sweat circles there's always some retarded with their huge cows in the way. But I'll participate on contest with a joke, I was really thinking about it even befor Lovefall propose what she linked above.

 

Surely, pets can be annoying as hell.

But there is no need to ruin a contest for others just because you don't like it. THAT is rude and disrespectful.

 

No contest would be ruined, anyone can still send their pictures and MA will pick their winners.

The fact that we wanted to take a stance in a way or another for the fact that the contest seems to be Calypso based, is not ruining in any way the contest for any other participants.

How would be any legit contender affected by the fact that some of us won't send any picture or that we would send the same picture that doesn't qualify according to contest rules?

 

I would ruin contest if I wish to hack the receiver e-mail and hijack the pics, but I will only add some humor to it, so that's no rude when no harm done.

 

Your suggestion would not ruin anything, but it supports the conspiracy theories above. It embellishes the others ideas and their behavior.

And I fail to see how this is a Caly event. To me it seems like everyone is free to join, and if I am not mistaken space travel will not be disabled during the event.

 

The part which I see as Caly based is the fact that all reward pets are Caly based pets... why not had one caly pet, one arkadia pet, one cyrene pet, one rocktropia pet? Even the promotional picture has only Caly based pets.

So yeah, it is not restricted to Caly, but it just looks like is biased towards one planet's pets, just like the whole pets update was - Caly being the only planet getting rare pets.

 

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Uhm... Let's see. Caly is the only planet with rare pets. The pets awarded sells for 1,000 to 5,000 PED. All other pets sell for.... 1 PED?

 

Time to make up your mind?! Does it ruin the contest or not?

The way this contest has been presented with both image and rewards listing suggests bias towards Caly since there are no pets to be rewarded from other planets no matter their sales price.

 

As I said in the second post, it embellishes the behavior above.

And surely, no one would participate if the rewards came from other planets, since they have no value at all.

 

Since the other planets don't have rare pets yet (why BTW), they could just give for example a level 50 regular pandi pet - guess the value would be equivalent.