Basically, out of all the current creators, only a few have any ideas that have not been done yet. While new creators are trying to climb and get their original, brand new rooms played, and getting completely overshadowed by the current creators. Or, the small creators come up with and publish an original room, and then a current creator sees it and steals the idea. This is affecting all of the creation promotional aspects of Rec Room. In featured rooms, the current creators are getting everything of theirs featured easily, wether the room is original or not, because they are veteran creators. While these new creators with good ideas try to feature their original rooms, and they’ve done the best they can to make it as good as possible, but compared to the other rooms, it is nothing, and therefore not “worthy” of being featured. Also, in the solarpunk contest, lots of new creators (including myself, but i don’t care that i did’nt get anywhere) tried to enter, saw the competition, and gave up. And for the ones that did not give up, they were completely overshadowed by the veteran creators. Every single winner of the contest, ive heard of before. Every. Single. One. and this creates an infinite loop: old creators have no ideas. new creators have new ideas. old creators can so easily get people to see and go to their rooms. new creators get overshadowed by the old ones.
This is not good
of course, new creators should not be praised for their ‘less than awesome’ rooms the same way as if they created a really good (quality not original) room, but they should be praised for their ideas.
For the featured rooms, you should feature rooms by new creators who are really trying to make good rooms (aka not brainrot rainbow fun park guys) but OBVIOUSLY are not better at creating than the current creators, but give them a message like: “Your room has been featured, not because it was amazing or anything, but because we can see potential in your work, and prompt you to keep creating and see where you can get!”. Obviously not that word for word, but along those lines clarifying that their room was not super great, but that they’ve got something and to keep trying to do the best they can.
THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT
for the contests, make a New Creators Contest(for the name) with the following rules (in addition to the normal contest rules, except for the clearly modified ones)
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Nobody who has created any successful rooms (like rooms with around 100 cheers or more) can enter. NO EXCEPTIONS
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The room does not have to have been created by the contest announcement. Which means yes, you could have been working on a room for 3 years and be almost done, then enter it in the contest as a valid entry, BUT IT MUST BE ORIGINAL! No copycat rooms!
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There are 3 categories
1 RRSudio
2 VR (and any other device that has any other advantages to other devices)
3 Mobile (and everything else that dosent fall into the previous two)
NO EXCEPTIONS -
the timing is: 4 month creation period, 2 month bug testing period, and then the judging period (TBD)
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Rewards are given to the top 300 players in the mobile category, while RRStudio and VR categories are only top 10
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For the mobile category, winner gets:
1.500,000,000 tokens -
gloves, torso, pants, cape etc. items theming to the contest
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one of those player tags (that have been introduced recently) theming to the contest
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Permanent golden name (like how RR+ guys have it)
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the option to freely be able to activate one of those “blue lightning” or “orange fire” or the other ones aura potions EFFECTS, without needing the potion and with no limit to how long it lasts (with the ability to turn it off, of course)
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those RR+ only things with the trails
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wait..
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nope
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thats it. (the other two categories get your average contest rewards)
Adding this would prompt so many new creators to enter in with original rooms and have an actual chance of winning something, but only if they give it everything they’ve got.
And of course Rec Room would have to make some changes to the rules, but please keep it as in sync with this as possible.
Also, if you do this, you’re pretty much guaranteed to have at LEAST 300 brand new original rooms, so i really hope you’ll do this Rec Room.
If you think this is a good idea, or have any suggestions, please speak in the comments, ESPECIALLY if you think this is a good idea, so Rec Room can see it. And to you current creators, i’ll pretty much take your complaints as a grain of sand, and as a verification that this is a idea that could work, cause yall don’t wanna lose you positions of power.
Happy Reccin’! (idk if that works but OK!)