Screenshot of the month poll (May 2007)

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View Poll Results: Vote for the screenshot of the month

1. Into The Gap 8 9.20%

2. Dire Straits 35 40.23%

3. As always, the Basileos' troops prevail over criminal elements 4 4.60%

4. (no name submitted) 2 2.30%

5. "Numidian Vista" 14 16.09%

6. Mommy! Someone stole my sword! 2 2.30%

7. Vader enters the Rebel Blockade Breaker 10 11.49%

8. The Moment of Impact: Hold the Line! 12 13.79%

Voters: 87. This poll is closed

Thread: Screenshot of the month poll (May 2007)

Teleklos Archelaou 16:18 05-28-2007

We had less than 10 entries, so we will present all of them here now for the vote. It's your turn now to vote and choose a winner. We will keep the poll open for a few days, maybe four or five should be enough, then we will announce the winner.

As mentioned last month, here are some tips to improving them for next time. These aren't rules, by any means, but they will most likely help the composition of your submission:
-Try to make sure there are no tooltip boxes visible.
-Try to clip off the GUI on the bottom of the screen also.
-Green arrows beneath the units don't look very good.
-Faction banners aren't so bad sometimes, but the winners and top choices seem to be the ones without them, so keep that in mind.

So here are your choices:

1. Into The Gap

2. Dire Straits

3. As always, the Basileos' troops prevail over criminal elements

4. (no name submitted)

5. "Numidian Vista"

6. Mommy! Someone stole my sword!

7. Vader enters the Rebel Blockade Breaker

8. The Moment of Impact: Hold the Line!

(For reference, last month's poll and winners' announcement: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=84266)

The Celt 18:13 05-28-2007

2.Dire Straits. There's just so much going on in that picture it actually looks like a real battle. Plus Romani elites vs AS elites FTW!!!

Centurio Nixalsverdrus 18:18 05-28-2007

Originally Posted by The Celt:
2.Dire Straits. There's just so much going on in that picture it actually looks like a real battle. Plus Romani elites vs AS elites FTW!!!

Ahem, Mak elites.

Yes, the picture is really cool.

The Celt 18:43 05-28-2007

Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus:
Ahem, Mak elites. Yes, the picture is really cool.

Oh right, just noticed the Virgina Sun on their shields. Sorry its just I'm always playing as a western nation like Carthage or Arverni so their all Greeks to me!

Geoffrey S 20:50 05-28-2007

Tough choice; Dire Straits really captures the feel of battle, but some of the others have greater composition.

One other thing, wasn't the original goal of the contest to make screenshots fit for the main EB site? Shouldn't that mean post-processing such as in 1 and 4 shouldn't be allowed?

Teleklos Archelaou 21:05 05-28-2007

From the start of this contest we said that post-processing was going to be allowed.

Vred var VingTor 19:11 05-30-2007

It was a though choice, but I finally settled on number 8. The mood of the picture appeals to me. I can almost imagine myself being there.

The Celtic Viking 22:48 05-30-2007

The easiest choice so far in all SotM polls I've voted in. The only competition Dire Straits really has is the Numidian one, but IMO the latter loses out because of the visible UI. The unit cards I could live with, but the map... *shrug* Very nice otherwise.

Megas Pyrrhos 01:44 06-02-2007

Yay! the Poll is gonna close on the same day I graduate from High school!

hoom 07:15 06-03-2007

In defence of my shot having UI, my game is set up with the f5-f8 keys triggering pause, 1*, 2* & 3* speed instead of toggling the UI.
Also I hadn't expected to be taking that, just as I took in the view from their viewpoint, I noticed it was a really pretty setting & had to grab it.

Plus, I kinda like the way the UI brings me back to the fact I get to play this

MarcusAureliusAntoninus 07:52 06-03-2007

It looks like "Dire Straits":

has won.

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