100 GC Essay Contest (Little Upsilon)

Hello, I am sponsoring an essay contest on Simcountry. The purpose of this essay contest is to expand the open knowledge base of the Simcountry community in general and apply a degree of academic integrity to discussions regarding the game. If I receive more than 5 submissions, 100 GC will be awarded to the best essay. If I receive less than 5 submissions, 50 GC will be awarded to the best essay.

If you would like to earn some gold coins and show off your knowledge of the game, please don't be afraid to submit an essay.

Essays must be written with proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and all submissions must include an introduction (with a thesis statement), three or more body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

The topic of your essay will be simply "How to Profit in Simcountry." Throughout your essay, you will be expected to include an overview of how the following categories of sub-topics influence overall p

Submit to your email? So much for:

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Not so open if you're cherry picking what the community views. Why aren't you having them posted here on the forum? Even if the essay sucks there might be new information to the reader. That would also allow the community to vote for the essay they think should win.

I gotta laugh... It's like this: Everyone send me details of what you know on the economy of the game then I'll choose one of you to pay 100 gc and I'll share the information from the guy that I paid with everyone. (Oh, and if I don't get enough information I'm only paying 50gc)

LOL

umm... NO

It looks like Scarlet requires players to summit him college essays styles. I don't think I could do it because my elementary teacher died when I was in second grade. How about elementary school essay, Scarlet? JK Scarlet. No one will sit down to write essays to get 50 or 100 GCs of SC. If you can bring 1000GCs of SC to Walmart to exchange for some candies, GM will reward you $1000.00 per month

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If you knew what I know, you would find that idea amusing. Maybe somebody might surprise me, but I find the odds of that are very small.

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It would give an unfair advantage to somebody writing after an essay has already been submitted. I will be posting all the essays on the Simcountry Wikia at the close of the contest and link to there from the forums.

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Is the community contributing to the prize? No. I can't afford much more than 100 GC. If there's somebody else that wants judge and wil

A word of advice to anyone entering: The emphasis is on the "why" rather than the "what". I'm not checking the conclusions, but rather, the information and reasoning to arrive at the conclusion. Good information and reasoning will inevitably lead to a good conclusion.

In case my language was unclear in the initial post (I reread it and it seems like it might be misleading), you only need to cover either category 1 or category 2, not both.

I imagined no one entering. I was right. The email submission is a way for Scarlet to pretend anyone entered similar to his above post starting, "A word of advice to anyone entering: ... "

I think if Cao Yi's suggestion was taken, maybe he could gain some participants. 100 coins is crap. try 1000.

GAH

I'm feeling the love.
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Make it 500gc Ill send you every doc I have on my hard drive. over 41 pages of tips/tricks/etc..in all 12 point font..

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