Announcing Thief: The Dark Project 20th Anniversary Contest - Nov 30, 2018

Garrett on 4/12/2018 at 06:34

Thank you for making this contest and thanks to all the authors for creating the missions. It is so good to see so many of my favourite authors builded a mission for this contest. I took some free-time from work only to have enough time to play all the missions.

Perhaps I missed some news on the forums but I really expected a contest entry by skacky and DrK.
Didnt they participate? I thought, they replied at the Contest Announcement Thread that they will participating.
Did they changed their minds and I did not notice it?

Is it allowed to offer some prize for the winner? I play thief from the beginning and i have some really old thief merchandise from back in the days. I really dont need it anymore. Perhaps this prize would fit.

Yandros on 4/12/2018 at 11:32

Quote Posted by czyys

I have a question about voting system. Is the final score for each mission going to be divided by the number of votes they receive? Because let's say I only end up playing 12 missions and I don't like them very much so I give them 10/30 points. This still makes them rated higher than the rest of the missions which get 0/30 points, even though they could potentially be much better.

Missions for which you do not cast a vote do not get a 0/30 from you. Average scores will only be determined based on cast votes. That being said, we are currently discussing what might happen if a mission were only to get a few votes, as that could skew its numbers. I would encourage everyone to play and vote for as many missions as possible, since we extended the voting period to 3 full months to try and make that possible for most everyone.

Aemanyl on 4/12/2018 at 11:50

Yandros, are my assumptions about what constitutes Atmosphere, Gameplay and Story categories correct? I wrote a small review in the thread of Handspiegel mission.

Yandros on 4/12/2018 at 14:07

Looks fine to me, yes.

vfig on 4/12/2018 at 14:33

Quote Posted by Yandros

Since the voting period lasts 3 months, could you perhaps do a roundup towards the end of each month of how many votes each mission has received? (But not, of course, the value of the votes.) This will show which missions haven't had as many people play them yet, so you could call for people to move such missions higher up their lists so the numbers of votes can be more balanced.

Goethe's Ghost on 4/12/2018 at 15:10

I'm completely new to DromEd and using the FM Selector, so I need a little help. When I select a mission to install and run, everything seems to work but when I actually load Thief 2 and select the correct mission (the title of the mission is correct) it keeps telling me about the "Basso" quest. I'm not properly installing these missions.

For my Thief 2 installation, I first installed Thief 2, followed by TafferPatcher v2.08, SFX enhancement for sounds and finally the Thief 2 HD mod. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Update: It only happens with "some" of them, like Yandros's mission and a few others, but the others work perfectly fine.

gamophyte on 4/12/2018 at 15:26

This contest is for thief gold, not thief 2 for starts.

skacky on 4/12/2018 at 15:31

Everything you need to know is in the OP, specifically this part:

Quote Posted by Yandros

* Remember that ALL these missions are for THIEF 1/GOLD. As such, do not load them with Thief 2!

Goethe's Ghost on 4/12/2018 at 15:36

I am such an idiot. Thank you.

czyys on 4/12/2018 at 16:44

Quote Posted by Yandros

Thanks, then it's basically what I hoped for. I do plan on playing every mission, was just providing an edge case scenario earlier.