A lot of this sounds great, guys! Would love to see some of these brought to life!

And no, I don't think a round robin ever actually happened. I know Thomas brought it up a few times but nothing ever came of it?

It's clear from the "vote for the new EnterVOID tournament" thread that a lot of people have some ideas of their own for what they would like to see! So let's get the ideas flowing! What would you like to see tournaments or event wise? Keep in mind you don't have to give us ideas that have already done before. There's traditional tournaments, round robins, battle royale style, Arma style, collab/team style, etc. but there's likely much more that we haven't tackled on the site before. If there's a really cool idea you see in here and you want to make it a reality, contact the mods so we can work out how to make it happen.

Yeah, most our events are open to whoever. We admittedly did do a few more events in the last year or two that were more exclusive. But keep in mind

-Events that welcome all are necessary to give new people a chance to jump in and have fun.

-Events that are very exclusive and only let certain people in are also necessary. We went years without any actual events that were more exclusive, which made them feel less special. I remember when I joined Void, it was like an all time goal of mine to participate in Armageddon. At the time, events were significantly more special and difficult to get into. (this was also during a period where Void was VERY active and battles had 60+ votes a piece. This was also when Void was very difficult to get into, I got declined 3 times in the approvals)  So there needs to be events where people feel rewarded for doing a good job. You can't play unless you worked your butt off and we need these small rewards to encourage people to do their best.

We just need to have a good balance of both types of events and should be more aware of when we're doing too many of either. If we have too many open events that let everyone in, the people that try hard don't feel as motivated to get into the really cool stuff. But if we have too many exclusive events for veterans, we alienate the new people. I think it's something we should really look into and pay extra attention to in 2016.

Settle it in Smash.

Oh my god, Shojin that's adorable! Thank you! They look like they would be in a high budget animated film together.

Fun idea for a jam! People are free to redesign Angie. I'll knock out a redesign or two of people's characters once I get through these commissions.

Yeah, you could always set up things with your friends to make your intros one kind of connected event! There are tons of ways you guys can make intros fun for yourself and we should find a way to encourage that.

And the thing about whether or not characters without intros is more successful...If I recall correctly, the very first invitational I think only 3-5 people stuck around vs the tons of entrants we had? I believe the second one had more success due to mods following up with people that time. People are more likely to stick around when they had to actually invest in getting their character in. That's not to say we haven't had those people that get in and never do anything, but that's a bit more rare vs. people that get in with no intros sticking around.

While it's true that allowing people in without intros causes a short burst of activity, it's not something that is sustainable for long. After people do that first battle, the majority tend to move on. Part of the problem is when we've done things without intros in the past that weren't SDT related, people just saw us as another OCT site similar to the OCTs on DA. Most people seem to view OCTs as something you do once and then move on. Which isn't something we want to encourage. We want our members to stick around and keep participating!

Nothing stopping people from making their own small death tournaments/events! It just won't be under the SDT banner.

There are an awful lot of people who apparently didn't read the rules OR anything Nina's been saying!

Sorry I had no computer for a week and have been working non stop so I was just going from what I saw people doing in the chat haha

There's nothing stopping you from redesigning the character! However, if it's going to be essentially a brand new character you may as well just submit a new one. That way we can see how your comic game has improved since your old submission!

This topic has been moved to Art Jams.

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I had to remove the pages because we can't depict underage individuals in explicit sex scenes on the website. I know anime is really big on having underage looking characters and having them sexualized, but it's important to remember your audience. Explicit sex scenes are fine, just please keep it to characters where there is no doubt over their age.

Yeah, MangaStudio worked for me right away. If you haven't tried it already, it may be helpful to restart your computer and update your tablet drivers. I think really the only instance MS lines won't look good is if you're drawing at a very small resolution.