Sul sul Simmers!The time is here - our first The Sims Spark'd Challenges are waiting for you to jump in the game and get creative!Each Spark'd Challenge introduces a unique theme, with three ways to participate. Share your Creations with the community, and if you are chosen as a Top Spark'd Creator, you may be featured on this site—or even get a chance to be considered for future seasons of The Sims™ Spark’d competition show!Showcase your unique style and creativity. Choose how you want to play (click on each challenge to find out more): Stylist Challenges Builder Challenges Storyteller ChallengesCheck out ea.com for more info!

It's not possible to see the upload with most hearts. The filtering for the most popular upload lists them by the number of downloads, not hearts. We vote with hearts, I think we should be able to see the most hearted uploads.

First of all, this is a great idea for the community, however, I kinda disagree with the judging selection. As we all can see now, for example, the most downloaded/favourites are buildings that are not within the themes or perhaps those with thousands of followers. We missed a lot of interesting creations out there.How will EA going to go about on this issue, if this is an ongoing challenge? I think this is something that EA needs to look into more carefully before a lot more issues arise. I sincerely hope that with this project, we can actually help the unknown talented simmers/content creators & perhaps, let this be, their stepping stones. Let's just say, I want to see new faces.

Looks like people are already taking advantage of the hashtag and derailing it. The top downloads on the challenge section are pretty much entirely completely unrelated to the challenge. Tons of generic looking houses and generic attractive sims. People are just jumping on the hashtag as they do with every hashtag to get attention. There needs to be some sort of regulations/criteria to make it work properly so people can't just put anything under the tag.Also worried about the judging, it seems like every day players wont stand a chance and it'll just be the same group of super talented builders with thousands of followers winning every time. I like the idea of challenges but I feel like it needs more work for it to actually work well.

I was just looking through the submissions and yeah, I was disappointed that in the top 50, more than half (I counted) in the build section, are nothing to do with weddings in the slightest. :( It sounds harsh, but I think there should be a ban from using that hash tag for the current contest duration if you are found abusing it. Also makes me not want to vote with my likes if I'm filtering through all the rest of this nonsense. It also seems that if people had this creation already in their gallery the votes and downloads transferred over? So someone might have 60 votes from the past year and now they're winning at the "judging" section? I mean maybe they got that many votes on their non-wedding mansion in the past 2 hours, but I'm thinking no? They need someone policing this I think. I think using an old gallery creation is fine, but it should be cleared of likes and downloads once submitted. Also I think anything that has an "original by" should also be flagged and not allowed for submission. I saw a couple of actual wedding entries that were stolen and when I checked the original, little to nothing was changed. It's a bit disappointing that I'm just some random simmer and found out all of this within a half hour. If Maxis/EA wanted to, they could have this working better and cleaned up by now. :/

"Camkat;c-17578783" wrote:I was just looking through the submissions and yeah, I was disappointed that in the top 50, more than half (I counted) in the build section, are nothing to do with weddings in the slightest. :( It sounds harsh, but I think there should be a ban from using that hash tag for the current contest duration if you are found abusing it. Also makes me not want to vote with my likes if I'm filtering through all the rest of this nonsense. It also seems that if people had this creation already in their gallery the votes and downloads transferred over? So someone might have 60 votes from the past year and now they're winning at the "judging" section? I mean maybe they got that many votes on their non-wedding mansion in the past 2 hours, but I'm thinking no? They need someone policing this I think. I think using an old gallery creation is fine, but it should be cleared of likes and downloads once submitted. Also I think anything that has an "original by" should also be flagged and not allowed for submission. I saw a couple of actual wedding entries that were stolen and when I checked the original, little to nothing was changed. It's a bit disappointing that I'm just some random simmer and found out all of this within a half hour. If Maxis/EA wanted to, they could have this working better and cleaned up by now. :/ I don't think that there's any interest in having a random simmer participate in reality tv unfortunatelly.

The Sims Spark'd - Challenges July 17

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LiELF
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
So regarding the videos/storytelling... Do they have to be live videos, or can they be like, screenshot slide shows? I've got a couple of cool stories in screenshot version that I've been wanting to do something with.
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
It's not possible to see the upload with most hearts. The filtering for the most popular upload lists them by the number of downloads, not hearts. We vote with hearts, I think we should be able to see the most hearted uploads.
PalmArrow
Seasoned Hotshot
5 years ago
"LiELF;c-17578015" wrote:
So regarding the videos/storytelling... Do they have to be live videos, or can they be like, screenshot slide shows? I've got a couple of cool stories in screenshot version that I've been wanting to do something with.

Seconding this question! I was wondering about this too.
x4m1r4
5 years ago
First of all, this is a great idea for the community, however, I kinda disagree with the judging selection. As we all can see now, for example, the most downloaded/favourites are buildings that are not within the themes or perhaps those with thousands of followers. We missed a lot of interesting creations out there.

How will EA going to go about on this issue, if this is an ongoing challenge? I think this is something that EA needs to look into more carefully before a lot more issues arise. I sincerely hope that with this project, we can actually help the unknown talented simmers/content creators & perhaps, let this be, their stepping stones. Let's just say, I want to see new faces.
Onverser
5 years ago
Looks like people are already taking advantage of the hashtag and derailing it. The top downloads on the challenge section are pretty much entirely completely unrelated to the challenge. Tons of generic looking houses and generic attractive sims. People are just jumping on the hashtag as they do with every hashtag to get attention. There needs to be some sort of regulations/criteria to make it work properly so people can't just put anything under the tag.

Also worried about the judging, it seems like every day players wont stand a chance and it'll just be the same group of super talented builders with thousands of followers winning every time. I like the idea of challenges but I feel like it needs more work for it to actually work well.
Peapod79
New Spectator
5 years ago
I was just looking through the submissions and yeah, I was disappointed that in the top 50, more than half (I counted) in the build section, are nothing to do with weddings in the slightest. :( It sounds harsh, but I think there should be a ban from using that hash tag for the current contest duration if you are found abusing it.

Also makes me not want to vote with my likes if I'm filtering through all the rest of this nonsense.

It also seems that if people had this creation already in their gallery the votes and downloads transferred over? So someone might have 60 votes from the past year and now they're winning at the "judging" section? I mean maybe they got that many votes on their non-wedding mansion in the past 2 hours, but I'm thinking no?

They need someone policing this I think. I think using an old gallery creation is fine, but it should be cleared of likes and downloads once submitted. Also I think anything that has an "original by" should also be flagged and not allowed for submission. I saw a couple of actual wedding entries that were stolen and when I checked the original, little to nothing was changed.

It's a bit disappointing that I'm just some random simmer and found out all of this within a half hour. If Maxis/EA wanted to, they could have this working better and cleaned up by now. :/
texxx78
5 years ago
"Camkat;c-17578783" wrote:
I was just looking through the submissions and yeah, I was disappointed that in the top 50, more than half (I counted) in the build section, are nothing to do with weddings in the slightest. :( It sounds harsh, but I think there should be a ban from using that hash tag for the current contest duration if you are found abusing it.

Also makes me not want to vote with my likes if I'm filtering through all the rest of this nonsense.

It also seems that if people had this creation already in their gallery the votes and downloads transferred over? So someone might have 60 votes from the past year and now they're winning at the "judging" section? I mean maybe they got that many votes on their non-wedding mansion in the past 2 hours, but I'm thinking no?

They need someone policing this I think. I think using an old gallery creation is fine, but it should be cleared of likes and downloads once submitted. Also I think anything that has an "original by" should also be flagged and not allowed for submission. I saw a couple of actual wedding entries that were stolen and when I checked the original, little to nothing was changed.

It's a bit disappointing that I'm just some random simmer and found out all of this within a half hour. If Maxis/EA wanted to, they could have this working better and cleaned up by now. :/

I don't think that there's any interest in having a random simmer participate in reality tv unfortunatelly.
simgirl1010
Hero
5 years ago
https://twitter.com/GeminiGingerYT/status/1284268594432552967?s=19

https://twitter.com/HolliebbTV/status/1284269643956273153?s=19
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"simgirl1010;c-17578806" wrote:
https://twitter.com/GeminiGingerYT/status/1284268594432552967?s=19

https://twitter.com/HolliebbTV/status/1284269643956273153?s=19

After this issue takes care of itself, they will still need to sort out the underage players that can't officially take part in the challenges.
Netzspannung
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
I was never interested in the show, but I thought the challenges could be fun and that I might submit something if I found the theme inspiring. Now I am not so sure. I started making a couple for the current theme but when I looked at the Spark'd tab I was really taken aback. I mean, I have no interest to appear on TV playing the Sims (not that I had a chance of winning anyway), but I was hoping to have fun with this part of Spark'd. But like others already mentioned, there are so many unrelated and generic submissions it kind of spoiled for me.