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Elspeth

Fri May 04 2007, 04:30AM

Guild: no guild

[ Agyllian ]
Posts: 50309

Location: Obernewtyn

Here is a list of ways to get points for your guild in any of the Obernewtyn.net website areas or recurring competitions.
There are lots more ways to earn points for your guild each month; keep your eye on the front page of the site, and the Members Message Board, for new competitions.
If you would like more information about guilds, please read About Guilds.
There's also a page with current Pointage, if you want to see where your guild's placed so far.

For those of you wondering, the Moonfair occurs around September every year (Moonfair is undoubtedly a fantastic way to score points for your guild).

For any errors, omissions or general questions regarding this list, please post here. This list is in no way complete, so if you feel you should get points for anything else, please also post here about it.
To request points for anything specific, PM the Contact looking after that competition.

Task	Points	Conditions
Fanfiction	20	Fanfiction max of 100 points per guild competition (eg, 2 fanfics = 40 points, 5 = 100 points, 10 = still 100 points)
Writing Competitions	1st: 40 2nd: 30 3rd: 20 entry: 5	Current Writing Competitions Writing Competition Rules
The Bookshelf		The Bookshelf awarding of points subject to review by the moderators
Submit an article (be it book, tv show, movie, game, artist or recipe)	5	maximum of 5 submissions per category That is to say, you can submit as many as you like, but you will only receive points for the first 5 books you submit and the first 5 tv shows you submit and the first 5 movies you submit...etc. Minimum 200 words, with a suggested maximum of 500 - thats 200 words of quality and not rubbish - to the discretion of the Bookshelf Moderators.
Multimedia		The Gallery We reserve the right to not accept entries if we think someone's just submitting nonsense to get points. Points will be awarded for a maximum of 5 submissions per multimedia catagory per guild comp
Submit Fanart	20
Submit a Desktop Background	20
Submit a Signature	15
Submit an Avatar	10
Submit an Animated GIF	10
Submit a Screensaver	35
Submit a Skin	25
Submit a Desktop Theme	subject to content
Art Competitions	Usually 1st: 50 2nd: 40 3rd: 30 entry: 10 but check each comp!	Current Art Competitions
Display our banner on your site	10	Display the Obernewtyn.net banner on your website/livejournal/myspace, etc Needs to be displayed for a month or so, you can't just display it, tell us, then remove it.
Submit to the Theories Archives	10	Details Maximum of 50 points per guild comp.
Submit to the Encyclopedia	10	Details (Characters) Details (Chapter Summaries) Maximum of 50 points per guild comp for each - see the above threads for more specific details.
Theories Challenges	max 5 per round	Details 2 points for submitting decent response 2 points for winning a round 1 point for submitting next challenge (winner).
Obernet Book Club	28 points per guild year	Details participate in the current month's OBC thread - 2 points participate in a previous month's OBC thread - 1 point participate in ALL OBC threads for a guild year (regardless of time) (running 1 July to 31 June each year) - 4 bonus points

Adding Quizzes, Dreamtrails, Character pages, etc, will be added to this list as those sections are reopened on the site.

Once this list is finalised, it'll be moved to its own page (rather than staying as a forum post).

For information about Events + Competitions (non-permanent ones), see the Entertainment page.

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deb

Fri May 04 2007, 09:16PM

Mystic Ward

Guild: Mystics

[ Twentyfamilies Gypsy ]
Posts: 7905

Location: Around

A question...do we have to apply for points or are they automatically added to our guild total?

Ness

Sun May 06 2007, 08:28AM

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Dreamscape Artist ]
Posts: 2771

Location: my swivel chair...

i have a question too. I'd like to know what's meant by submitting a skin for the multimedia section...

Min

Tue May 08 2007, 03:29AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Agyllian ]
Posts: 15407

Location: Brisvegas

deb: Nope, pointage for the standing comps listed above will be recorded by the contact in charge for them.

Ness: a skin is an image that wraps over an application, such as the Backgrounds you can set in Windows Live Messenger (MSN). It takes away the 'boring' grey windows background and puts in an image of your choice.
Actually - better idea - Wikipedia's definition

Rogue

Mon Jun 18 2007, 03:03AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Gypsy ]
Posts: 21

Location: Melbourne, Australia

I have a little question.. The numbers under where it says what Guild you're in.. How do you earn them? Like e.g For mystics it has the little crystals and numbers underneath

Has that got anything to do with this? Or, is that a moderator thing?

Min

Mon Jun 18 2007, 03:43AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Agyllian ]
Posts: 15407

Location: Brisvegas

Not quite, but it's a good enough place to answer it (since it might have been confusing people).

The cheesecake/eggs/crystals are a guild thing - check the various guild pages for details:
Ashlings
Dreamies
Mystics
Wandies

Firefall

Mon Jun 18 2007, 03:49AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Dreamscape Artist ]
Posts: 3175

Location: Sipping tea in the realms of speculation

Also, I don't know about the other guilds, but in the Mystics' private board there's a sticky thread on all the different ways you can earn crystals. The webpage (it's linked to on the info pages Min showed ^ ) also mentions some ways.

Tanya

Mon Jun 18 2007, 04:12AM

Dreamweaver Guilden

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Dreamscape Artist ]
Posts: 2903

Location: Blue Mountains, NSW

*pops head in* I'll just point out that this is the same in the Dreamweaver Tower forum, as well as having all that on our website.

Rogue

Tue Jun 19 2007, 02:40AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Gypsy ]
Posts: 21

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Ah.. Something else, I submitted an avatar and I guess it's accepted because its in the gallery

So that was something that got points contributed? 10? As it says above?

Min

Tue Jun 19 2007, 05:10AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Agyllian ]
Posts: 15407

Location: Brisvegas

It will be.
Points for multimedia, fanfiction, library, etc, are contributed manually by the contact of the section.
So, if you submitted to the Multimedia gallery, Avvy will keep a record of it.

Rogue

Wed Jun 20 2007, 02:14AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Gypsy ]
Posts: 21

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Oh awesome.

Thanks!

Gypsy

Wed Sep 26 2007, 08:35PM

Guild: Wanderers

[ Gypsy ]
Posts: 7

What are the debates? How do you join them? And how can I get an avatar from an outside source to work? ???

If someone could help me out with this T'd really appreciate it!

<3 Gyp

Min

Thu Sep 27 2007, 05:42PM

Guild: Mystics

[ Agyllian ]
Posts: 15407

Location: Brisvegas

Hi Gypsy,

The debates aren't up yet (since we switched internet hosts) but when they're back, we'll advertise them.

For any help with your avatar / images, check out the Image Help thread

Elixa

Sat Sep 29 2007, 08:20PM

Guild: Mystics

[ Mage ]
Posts: 4839

Location: Sydney Australia

Min do we still have the on going guild tallys somewhere? am i going blind?

Min

Sun Sep 30 2007, 05:45PM

Guild: Mystics

[ Agyllian ]
Posts: 15407

Location: Brisvegas

Yeap, it's there - click the Pointage link on the left menu

Elixa

Mon Oct 01 2007, 12:14AM

Guild: Mystics

[ Mage ]
Posts: 4839

Location: Sydney Australia

Just testing you... you passed

Eilidh

Wed Mar 12 2008, 05:39AM

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Mage ]
Posts: 5147

Location: home sweet home

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it is somewhat relevant...
can you display banners on facebook? if so, how? ???

Alysss In Wonderland

Thu Jun 05 2008, 02:45AM

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Gypsy ]
Posts: 14

Location: A chair... Presumably...

how do u find out that u got points/cheesecake/eggs/crystals? :-? :-? :-????????????

Cat-Eyes

Thu Jun 05 2008, 04:01AM

cateyes

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Earthtemple Guardian ]
Posts: 9367

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Hi again songlover

The cheesecakes, eggs, crystals and elephants are awarded by each guild to its own guildmembers. There's a thread in our Dreamweaver board that you can ask for the tally for eggs and acorns (that's our reward system, the others are for the different guilds) to be put in your profile under your name (like mine). You can then read all about how to earn them here and start working towards getting some!

When you earn points they will go into our guild tally that you can see here under Pointage in the toolbar on the left. When you enter a competition they will tell you how many points you are earning for entering and later on they will post the winners and that will say who got how many points. (And once you know this, you can go apply for the egg for getting points!)

The only difference is at moonfair (a big event full of competitions and games we run in Sepember and October) the pointage all ends up in one HUGE long announcement once all the judges are finished judging.

Hope that helps. If you have any more questions about the Dreamweaver eggs feel free to ask about them on the Dreamweaver board

Cat

Blyss

Tue Jul 07 2009, 08:25AM

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Gypsy ]
Posts: 41

Location: Australia

How about the stars above the avatars how do you get more?

Lioness

Tue Jul 07 2009, 08:30AM

Guild: Wanderers

[ Agyllian ]
Posts: 24966

Location: The Bookshelf

Blyss, those stars are just a reflection of your rank (yours being currently Gypsy)

Those ranks don't mean much either, just reflecting the number of posts you have - see this thread for more information.

Blyss

Tue Jul 07 2009, 08:39AM

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Gypsy ]
Posts: 41

Location: Australia

Thanks

Btaylahf

Sat Aug 22 2009, 04:49AM

Guild: Ashlings

[ Guildmember ]
Posts: 936

Location: Back on Obernet

what does it mean by submit a signature? where do you submit one? and does it have to be a certain type, by that i mean, does it have to involve obernewtyn? or can you put up your BOTY sigs?? or swine flu sigs?

Zier

Thu Aug 27 2009, 04:26AM

Dreamweaver Ward

Guild: Dreamweavers

[ Dreamscape Artist ]
Posts: 2697

Location: Australia

The signatures are in the Gallery, in the Personalise section.

The Personalise section is intended to share signatures, wallpapers, and avatars that you've made that you'd be happy to let other members use, so it's best if they're something that remains relevant. As new members join, they won't know what the swine flu sigs are about. And given that BOTY only runs for such a short period each year, I imagine it would make more sense if those sigs are not submitted to the Gallery. It's probably easiest to keep copies in your Photobucket, so you can bring them out again next year.

To submit signatures to the Gallery, it's best to do it from the page itself, in this case the Signature subsection of Personalise. Then you just go down to the bottom and click on the Submit Media link, and it will take you to the screen where you choose your images and give them titles (and descriptions if you wish to do so). Hope that clears up your confusion!

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Btaylahf

Thu Aug 27 2009, 04:43AM

Guild: Ashlings

[ Guildmember ]
Posts: 936

Location: Back on Obernet

ohkk

and do you get points for submitting them??

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