new competition

[SkysTheLimit]

The point of the price limit and time limit especially of the experts competition is to press your creativity and to make good use of what you have. If there were no price limit, it wouldn't be so fair as some people would just pour GPM and electronic turbos into their cars for the chassis whereas people with more experience will create custom chassis with equal "bling" appeal but won't get the credit when compared with GPM.

No surprises I'm all in for doing this comp, just did my first one and it was great. Time is a bit stressful but just make sure you plan everything out and know you'll have enough time before you enter one.

Let's have some fun!

[TripleXmodder(akaXXX)]

Originally Posted by SkysTheLimit

The point of the price limit and time limit especially of the experts competition is to press your creativity and to make good use of what you have. If there were no price limit, it wouldn't be so fair as some people would just pour GPM and electronic turbos into their cars for the chassis whereas people with more experience will create custom chassis with equal "bling" appeal but won't get the credit when compared with GPM.

No surprises I'm all in for doing this comp, just did my first one and it was great. Time is a bit stressful but just make sure you plan everything out and know you'll have enough time before you enter one.

Let's have some fun!

Think about what you like to see when you look through build threads. Price limit doesn't press your creativity... I don't wanna go to the forum to see Xmods with tin foil on them. I go here to see all the wonderful builds and Price is irrelivent.

The new COTM idea is great...... My suggestion is:

No theme .. you will attract more entries due to obvious reasons.
Ditch the price limit .. you will attract more entries for obvious reasons.

Most people on here have a special ability and mod differently. for example my main thing is CF. The Carbon fiber alone would be my build $ limit. I wouldn't be able to do what I like to do for comps. There are many others that would fall under this same category and you would lose some great builds.

Think about it.

eitherway great idea with the classes.

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by Kaze

gracias for your answers, All Understood, just trying to exploit/clarify the inbetweens.

Thanks for the answers again

your welcome

Originally Posted by TripleXmodder(akaXXX)

Think about what you like to see when you look through build threads. Price limit doesn't press your creativity... I don't wanna go to the forum to see Xmods with tin foil on them. I go here to see all the wonderful builds and Price is irrelivent.

The new COTM idea is great...... My suggestion is:

No theme .. you will attract more entries due to obvious reasons.
Ditch the price limit .. you will attract more entries for obvious reasons.

Most people on here have a special ability and mod differently. for example my main thing is CF. The Carbon fiber alone would be my build $ limit. I wouldn't be able to do what I like to do for comps. There are many others that would fall under this same category and you would lose some great builds.

Think about it.

eitherway great idea with the classes.

the price limit is staying. this is a seperate comp than the cotm. the cotm is still going to go on like it is with no price limits. this is a seperate buildoff. and i see no problem with your cf chassis paired with a nice model conversion, and still be under the 80 build price. since the advanced class is the only thing that you can have a cf chassis any way.

heres the last 5 builds from t he comp i have on xmf
march http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7434
feb http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7262
jan http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7016
dec http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6683
and the current comp
http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7439

as you can see these are far from tin foil cars.
and there its 20 novice, 40 intermediate and expert. so i took the comp here 1 step farther and allow 80 in the top class for a limit.
not trying to sound harsh in any way, but if you cant come up with a decent build for 20, 40, 80 then stick with cotm comps. you have very nice builds xxx, and i dont see any reason you cant come up with something awesome for 80 bucks.

[TripleXmodder(akaXXX)]

Originally Posted by zippo855

your welcome


the price limit is staying. this is a seperate comp than the cotm. the cotm is still going to go on like it is with no price limits. this is a seperate buildoff. and i see no problem with your cf chassis paired with a nice model conversion, and still be under the 80 build price. since the advanced class is the only thing that you can have a cf chassis any way.

heres the last 5 builds from t he comp i have on xmf
march http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7434
feb http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7262
jan http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7016
dec http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6683
and the current comp
http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7439

as you can see these are far from tin foil cars.
and there its 20 novice, 40 intermediate and expert. so i took the comp here 1 step farther and allow 80 in the top class for a limit.
not trying to sound harsh in any way, but if you cant come up with a decent build for 20, 40, 80 then stick with cotm comps. you have very nice builds xxx, and i dont see any reason you cant come up with something awesome for 80 bucks.

All good, I take no offense and don't feel your being harsh in anyway. .... I am sure I could put a good build together for that price, I just wouldn't want a limit on it because I wanna see amazing builds wether it's under or over a certian $$ limit. But if this is aside from the COTM then I think that is cool. PS-thanks for the props.

[fiberworkz]

Maybe there could be an all-out buildoff for the older members here, with no price limit and maybe like a 6 week time limit.

[sciontc333]

so if you already had a chassis built up ( hobby grade, alloy, ect... ) and you got more than $80 into it would you have to take parts off to make it under the price limit. just wondering, because for example my micro x isn't full alloy, and im not a rich kid just pouring money into the thing, but it has more than $80 worth of parts on it, that ive got togeather over about a year.

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by fiberworkz

Maybe there could be an all-out buildoff for the older members here, with no price limit and maybe like a 6 week time limit.

there was one set up a while back and in a month there was only 1 or 2 updates. but its something to think about.

Originally Posted by sciontc333

so if you already had a chassis built up ( hobby grade, alloy, ect... ) and you got more than $80 into it would you have to take parts off to make it under the price limit. just wondering, because for example my micro x isn't full alloy, and im not a rich kid just pouring money into the thing, but it has more than $80 worth of parts on it, that ive got togeather over about a year.

yep, anything other than rs upgrades count towards the build.