Well the rules were changed after the start of the monthly contest. The "No REX" clause was added after a few people complained about the Payware skies, which is fine. I think that those who used payware weather have every right to be in the running. From here on out we cant use them and now everyone knows. I am glad i made it into the top ten and wish much luck to all other contestants.

FIREMAN79 wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2012 at 11:13pm:


You being a newbie, you don't know.  REX has

ALWAYS

been banned, and not because of yourself. there are so many other people who want to be in here, who played BY THE RULES.  Even know you admitted to it, and think the rules were changed because of you... Your wrong.

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Holy crapomatic Dave!  Thanx for the compliment!

I always knew truly smart, insightful, probably handsome and awesomely cool guys are named Dave!!!   (Give ya a guess as to what my name is?)

Aside from all that frivolity........

I consider it a win, at least for me,  just to make into the final regardless of who's shot had what or what was done to it.  Or who the winner ends up being.

At the end of the day though, it does boil down to adherence to the set of rules that was put forth at the beginning.  Rules that have remained the same since I joined this site just over three years ago.  Sooooooooo, shots that are non-coformists to the rules should not have been entered to begin with, but they were and now it is what it is. 

Equally so is that if those who are pro-disqualify should simply not vote for those shots that they feel should not be in the final.  Simplification at it's very simplest!

But by the same token, I feel that posting gripe after moan after gripe after moan is probably more than a little disheartening to the Mods that take time out to put this together for us every month, let alone solicit a prize for the winner.

I am sure it takes more than a bit of time and effort to do all of this.....all voluntary and unpaid. 

I, for one, am truly grateful for all the efforts that go into maintaining the whole of Simviation.  It is really a nice place to share common interests with a lot of talented and intelligent individuals all over the World!

Since having the privilege of joining and participating on this site, flightsim has taken on a life of its own for me.  A casual dalliance has become a part-time obsession.

Just ask my wife!

I will now step down and dismantle my pedestal.

Good luck to all entrants!

In that case, I am now pulling my submission into this contest for violating the rules. Didn't know REX wasn't allowed when I submitted, but that is not a discussion matter now. It's not fair for those who did follow the rules and had their shot fully composed of freeware. You can't see the sky in my shot, but the water is composed of REX's Sparkling wave animation. Let's make this competition a fair game, and give those who followed the rules a fair chance.

Officially pulling my submission out of this contest.

Sorry for not doing it earlier. Thankyou, and good luck to all finalists.

Regards,
Clem

Clem Wu wrote on Mar 4^th, 2012 at 5:57am:


Thanks for the honesty

Hey it's ok. You never had it written in the rules before. I get it. You noticed that a large number of people had aftermarket weather. It is not a big deal. I can adhere to the rules. I ,like many, read the rules to say no planes and no ground effects. And that's how it was worded. a lot of hollering from people about all this REX stuff. Need to calm down and remember that the issue was resolved. I think everyone FULLY understands the rules now and will adhere to them in the future. If you have a issue with someones submission then don't vote for it. There are many great submissions and I am sure some of you may have forgot, but this is all for fun.

I really don't care if some people didn't know about the rule.

You still should be disqualified in my opinion.

BTW I don't care what you say in the "Firehouse" it doesn't make it any different you still are in the wrong.