See the submissions forum if your house is done and its ready for the admins to judge it.
What this is
If you're a CMC, or a freebuilder who has made a practice submission house, that wants feedback from a green name (Builder), and there's not enough builders in game willing to give feedback, you can make a new post in this forum asking for feedback.
Rules for people asking for criticism of their house:
- Make a new post.
- Make sure to include the plot number! If this was built in the derp world, make a warp to your practice house (/warp create <name>)
- Screenshots are optional, but really whoever is giving feedback needs to look at it in-game.
- You MUST have a good attitude about this. If you are just expecting everyone to love your build, then you are in the wrong place. The idea here is that you are asking for what you can improve.
- If you don't get any feedback, don't be rude and whine about it by replying to yourself, we'll just lock the topic and reject you because you have a bad attitude. Most people that would bump their own post probably don't read rules anyway, so I apologize that those of you that are reading rules have to waste time by reading this.

- Show us you care! Don't just post "Help me, I'm a bad builder" or other things that just make you don't care. It is kind of rude to ask us to do a lot of work of writing up lots of feedback if you didn't try hard. So it helps to motivate others to do that work if you just put some kind of statement that you tried hard.
- This is just a way for other people in the community to help out, there is nothing official about this. People here might say your house is great, but it is still up to the admins on if your house will pass or not. You should probably take note of the rank of whoever gives feedback, if they're not even a builder, then they haven't passed the test themselves. We don't screen the reviewers in this Critiques forum, so just take it as random feedback and nothing more.
- The critiques are merely feedback, and you do not have to make the changes people suggest, just read the suggestions and decide for yourself.
- Be respectful.
- Be specific. Telling someone their house is "bad" does not help anyone. Give them information they can use to improve.
- If they post screenshots, make sure to actually look at it in game.
(originally posted in the builders forum, only builder rank can read it, so I'll paste it here)
Example 1:
"This will not pass. Frankly it's terrible. You have to completely restart. The admins will reject this."
This is negative and quite insulting. You put the player on the defensive if you begin a review like this. It's really hard to recover from that to the point they want to listen to anything else you want to say.
Example 2:
"This house doesn't look much like the type of house I'd expect to see in Ponyville, your house is a simple cube with a flat roof and Ponyville houses tend to be more interesting shapes with gabled grooves. Houses that look like they could be in the show have a much higher chance of passing. Take a look at the shapes of the houses in /warp ponyville if you haven't seen them already for some ideas. Inside you've used mostly just the furniture available in survival (chests, bookcases, furnaces etc.) but normally it's nice to try and make more interesting furniture from multiple blocks. The table and chairs you made were a good start, but there's a lot more you can do like that. Have you seen the examples at /warp ikea?"
This is constructive and neutral. You're discussing specific issues and suggesting ways they could be fixed. You raise a number of points that the other player can take forward for further discussion if they want to learn more.
p.s. This was all Philly's idea.
Edited by Ratty, 21 February 2013 - 10:03 PM.



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