CONTEST
Should there be a contest? What type of contest (builds, art, other)? What theme would you like to see (birthday theme, something special about the forums, other)? How long should entries be accepted? Who should judge (have a poll for forum members to vote, have the forum staff judge, other)? What type of prizes would you like to see?
The greatest difficulty I see here with a contest would be making it accessible, in the sense of, many forum users may be adept in one area but not another, such as someone who may excel with the technical aspects of Terraria but struggle with building, people who may be proficient writers but lack art skills, or people who may be skilled with fighting bosses or PVP but struggle somewhere else as examples. As TCF as a whole encompasses
all these things, making a competition which allows all of these rather different talents to shine in their own way seems difficult, and while certainoy not impossible to do, I feel that judging many of these things against each other does not seem to fairly represent each one.
I'm not against a contest however, but...
i think there should be something like the
Gamemaker Community Slow Jam; something like a contest, but with no winners or ranking, just a bunch of people making something for fun
Something which lacks ranking does seem to perhaps be the best option?
Maybe something which also in some way opens up some form of discussion between members of the forums to add additional community interaction to such a contest?
QUESTION AND ANSWER Would you like to see some sort of "Ask Me Anything"? To whom do you want to ask your questions?
While a Q&A does seem like an interesting idea, I struggle to think of who exactly to direct questions towards...
MEMORIES THREAD Do you like the idea of a memories thread? A place for members to gather and share their favorite happenings from over the years.
This definitely seems like a good idea.
SPECIAL STUFF Anything else that might be fun that isn't a contest or Q&A? Maybe a hidden spoiler, or something else that we haven't thought of? Now is the time to share the ideas of what you would do to head up the celebration.
While I'm not entirely sure what such a thing would look like, something that sort of brings people through each forum section would be interesting.
Something such as a hunt for a spoiler which involves clues in each section could be a neat way of doing such a thing however.
10 YEAR TITLE What do you think the special title should be for being a member of the forums for ten years? For example, you receive the Skeletron Prime forum title when you've been here for a year, you receive the Empress of Light title after six years. What should it be for ten years? (Moon Lord has already been used.) You can see the
current list of titles HERE. Got any flavor text you want to see included?
Generally liking people's suggestions for something like golden rabbit, in general something which goes beyond simply fighting each boss to instead bring together the journey in general seems fitting.
Only suggestion I would have is perhaps something like a pickaxe or drill or such, due to it being one of the main tools everyone who plays Terraria will use and could be considered symbolic in how it is used to shape worlds.