DRG is hosting a server wide decoration contest

[Geriatric]

Ladies, Gentleman and other assorted life forms
DRG is hosting a decoration contest
our hope is to spur a little more interest in joining the decoration team
the theme of the deco contest will be movie or tv show scenes
got a favourite scene from a movie you want to see in the UO world?, do your best to bring it to life
1st place - Bone Crusher
2nd place - swords of prosperity
3rd place - blaze of death
all weapons are leveled and no points spent

there is a world teleporter up under the shops section titled "Decoration Contest"
where we will have house-to-house gate deeds
please PM myself (Geriatric) or Tazlyn ingame to get the house2house gate set up and your entry into the contest confirmed

the contest is open to everyone, but i invite colibri and the current deco team to act as judges

the event is open so go ahead and start decorating
the final day will be March 14 thats Pi Day

[Praise]

Will be honored to help.

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[deckard]

Cool!

[Geriatric]

this is an all purpose bump post to remind everyone about the deco contest

[Yuki]

I plan to participate It's taken me a while to figure out a movie scene but I'll probably have a submission by late February or early March.

[Geriatric]

since i've had quite a few people message me with this question i thought it best to address it here for all to see
the decoration size can be as big or as small as you wish

just a small room or 15 houses joined together

i dont think the judges will be awarding points on how big or grandiose that it can be
they will be looking for creativity

[Geriatric]

a bump reminder also a slight change

as house to house teleporters require co-ownership
i wouldnt want there to be any possibility of impropriety in asking for co-ownership to your houses
it will be easier if i just get a rune to your house
you can give me a marked rune yourself, but make sure the rune is etched with your name it

[culichi]

you only need to be co-owned long enough to place the tile. many years ago chrysanthe and i hosted a house deco contest and we also worried about complications with co-ownership so we just made sure that it wasnt granted until we were at the house to place the tile and then immediately asked entrant to remove us from co-owners list. you could also just have an empty plot for the tiles and grant co-ownership to entrants long enough for them to place the tiles. tiles are so much better than runes its really worth the extra hassle.
you might also want to get an address card from the entrants for mailing out rewards or participation items after the event ends its a bit more work setting up but saves you a ton of time after the event closes in not having to chase people down to give them their stuff. if address book is too much trouble just ask them to place an inbox near their tile anything to make it easier on yourselves when event is over.

[Wil]

How do house to house teleporters work when you're not at least a co-owner on each side?

Normally there's an origin (where the scroll was first locked down) and a destination. You can click on either side and select "movement" and then put that side in a new location that you own. You can select "remove" and both sides are removed with the scroll showing back up on the origin side.

What happens when one of the sides is in a house not owned or co-owned by the individual clicking on the teleport? Can it be moved or dismissed from just the side that the player does own?

[Yuki]

It should only require you to be a friend at the house where the deed is located. Then you can click on the deed, go to the house you own and place down the teleporter. It's been a while but I had a bunch of these at the RMP guild house and I definitely had people linking them to their houses without being a full co-owner. I think I recall some issues with editing the name of the teleporter when not co-owner though.

[culichi]

How do house to house teleporters work when you're not at least a co-owner on each side?

Normally there's an origin (where the scroll was first locked down) and a destination. You can click on either side and select "movement" and then put that side in a new location that you own. You can select "remove" and both sides are removed with the scroll showing back up on the origin side.

What happens when one of the sides is in a house not owned or co-owned by the individual clicking on the teleport? Can it be moved or dismissed from just the side that the player does own?

when we did it for our house deco contest we would start by placing the tile deed in our house then go to entrants house who would co-own us just long enough to place the destination tile at their house. the tile stayed after we were removed as co-owners and either of us could remove the tile at our own houses. when one of the tiles is removed the deed revert back to a deed wherever it was first placed. the co-owner status doesnt matter at all once the tile is placed and can even be moved around by the owner of the house. i cant honestly say that just being friended would work or not i just recall we did it while co-owned maybe we just assumed and never tried doing it friended i cant remember. i dont recall any issues with naming the tile so cant comment on that.

[Yuki]

If you were the one linking the gate you would need to be a co-owner at the destination. But if the owner of the of destination house came to your house and used the deed themselves, you would only need to make them a friend.

[Geriatric]

have a few entries into the contest already, hoping to get more
only one week left untill the contest draws to a close on 14th march

reminder it doesnt have to be big and fancy and elaborately expensive