To: Siliconia. Topic: Bring it.

Dearest Siliconia,
It has come to my attention that you have a few braggers amongst your ranks who have yet to prove their mettle. They know who they are. I, epic_poke8, wager a duel of construction skill. You may chose one champion to fight for you, against me. Here is how it will work, we will each be given an equally sized box to build within, and a very large time limit. We are not to label who built what, and there will be screenshots taken for people on the forums to judge. Winner gets bragging rights without any say from the loser, and loser has to accept all build-related insults that come his or her way. If you accept, message below. We may discuss additional terms in-game. Good luck, you may need it.

This post reflects the view of one member of Stromenveich, and no others are involved.

 

you could just build on creative. plots n' such you know.

 

fak u poke im tired of ur shrinkydinks ill give u a guest because you can never settle this. it will just be a popularity contest the only way i might consider it is we upload it to pmc at the same time and update it at the same time each time we update

 

Indeed.

 

Hey buddy, take your rude pills this morning? I am challenging you to a friendly competition, calm down. I am more done with this crap than Tumblr. I will not be posting to PMC, I will be posting here. PMC annoys me to a greater extent than even that of your comment in this post.

 

Epic, nine times out of ten, it's been you picking fights with Siliconia, not the other way around. While Tech's response was slightly rude, it sounds more like he's tired of you constantly on his back about these things.

I would probably be a bit more lenient in this post if you had talked about other towns and such, but it's always about Tech and Siliconia, you always are out to be one up on him.

 

I want to end this. Now. This is why I made this post. If you had any idea of all the things Tech had said to me, you may see that this is justified. I will not stand for his attitude, bragging, or insults towards me. This is to be a friendly competition, and if he does not want to participate, fine by me. If he does, all he has to say is who will be competing.

 

You have repeatedly said that you've wanted to end this, and I thought you had.

This is you attempting to find a vent for your frustrations with Tech/his town. If you sincerely wanted this to end, then it would've with "Siliconia vs. Stromenveich: Epic's side". Need I remind you how it ended last time?

 

Stromenveich has nothing to do with this. I had tried to bury the hatchet, and in a conversation on survival at one point, Tech had insulted my building skills. I will have none of that. If Tech thinks he can do better, I want to see proof. If this is the wrong way to settle this, may you suggest another solution? Keep in mind, this is a gentleman's competition I am proposing. I will not be insulting Tech, I added the loser's punishment so he will be able to insult me all he likes.

 

Tech responded to you insulting someone else's building skills. If I recall correctly, it went along the lines of:

He did not start a fight with you. he defended someone else. My suggestion is to take a step back and to stop over reacting about everything.

 

This is not the conversation on survival, this is one on forums. I did wrong in that one, but not the one on survival.

 

Again I ask, do you have a better solution than a build competition?

 

how about just dropping it?

 

Well then I apologise for not seeing the conversation on the server.

To be perfectly honest, I personally would like to see the entire thing just dropped, lest it end like last time you two locked horns. It's rather apparent that you two aren't the best of friends, and I doubt that any sort of competition would lead to any closure.

What I'm trying to do here is end another large argument between you two before it begins again. Because all I see on the forums in the survival towns section recently is just you making threads to Tech regarding grievances between you two. It's always "I challenge you to a contest", then "Oh dear god, not this again".

Tech also made a fair point about PMC, because it would be with people with whom neither of you have had contact before. There are too many personal opinions here for a fair competition.

 

Eh, whatever. But if he starts something again... You may close the thread.

 

Thank you

EDIT: If something like this happens again; please take the time to screenshot the ENTIRE conversation. All I/we can see is the forum side of things.

 

what is with you I said "hullo" onthe server and u went crazy "u just pulled the last straw" -poke then i said "has poke lost his mind?" -tech but i do believe that i HELPED with your shop converting some of the walls to stone brick asking nothing in return
RIGHT NOW I am currently helping stinky with his castle project and I do not want to be bothered

 

Tech. Instead of merely saying these things (Because I can see that comment becoming an argument between you two); please please please take a screencap of the conversation next time and just post it here.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and hard evidence is generally an argument ender.

Addenum:
Most builders, like rl artists, will build up a portfolio of previous builds. This shows their previous builds to people and such. I myself use my DeviantArt page as one. Assembling one either there, on the forums, or PMC may be useful for this sort of debate in the future.

 

all the stone brick at /warp epicshop i placed

 

Final addition (Assuming no one else responds to my comments directly and/or inflates this debate even further):

When I look at debates on the forums, then I will use what I directly see on the forums. Heresay will not be accepted. If someone said something ingame, then I expect to see evidence to back up the claim, in the form of a screen capture, prism logs, or a video if you're feeling particularly adventurous.
If I do not see such evidence, then I will discount it as people getting emotional and/or leaving out details so that their argument is unfairly biased in their favour.