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GKane
10-02-2009, 08:09 AM
Greetings Silent Hunters!

Together with the announcement of Silent Hunter 5, we are organizing a special contest in which anybody is welcome to participate. You have the chance to help us create conning tower emblems that will be featured in the final game. Here are the contest steps:

1.Create a submarine conning tower emblem respecting the following:
- The emblem must identify itself in the World War 2 era
- No offensive or unconstitutional symbols allowed (Example: Swastikas)
- The image must be without any background(so it can be applied to the submarine)

2.Save the image to a PNG file, with the resolution 128x128 pixels, 32 bit

3.Send the file to gkane@ubisoft.com, with the subject "Conning tower emblem contest - Name", where "Name" is your Ubisoft account name

4.The devteam will review each image and make a first selection

5.With the selected images, a poll will be created at a later date and you guys will be able to vote for your favorite one

6.The top 10 voted conning tower emblems will be incorporated into the final game, for everybody to see and use.

You have one month to send in your images (steps 1-3) starting today, October 2nd, up to the 1st of November.

<span class="ev_code_YELLOW">UPDATE: Congratulations to all that have registered in our contest so far. Over 50 emblems have already been submitted. In order to give everybody a chance to create their own emblem, we are giving you guys one extra month for submitting entries, up to December 1st .</span>

<span class="ev_code_YELLOW">FINAL UPDATE: The submission time is over. Over 150 emblems have been submitted! Good Job! Now it's the dev's turn to make the first selection, and you will be able to start voting for your favorite one starting on the 14th of December!</span>


GK

walkirie
10-03-2009, 01:37 AM
http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif Thank you GKane http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

tuddley3
10-15-2009, 01:15 PM
Pretty cool idea, thanks GKane http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/11.gif

kptl.thomsen
10-16-2009, 04:02 PM
just wandering gkane. will the traditional emblems still be available? i.e. laughing sawfish,snorting bull, snowman, the red devils.
though i think the contest idea is excellent.
thanks and thank you for sh5.

HauptSturmer
10-25-2009, 07:02 AM
No swastikas? not saying that nazis were good but it was a part of their flag so if Ubisoft will not put swastikas in the game lacks a little realism,,, just my 2 cents

kmdru720
10-30-2009, 05:29 PM
It's a pity that people can be so afraid of a symbol. I suppose a characature of winston churchill wouldn't be offensive at all.

AleksandarVasic
11-08-2009, 09:20 AM
It's a good idea for this contest. Also I agree that using swastika is not offensive. I mean, they use it in the movies right? It's a video game, not nazi propaganda.

socko2009
11-13-2009, 12:40 PM
http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/sockmeister/SockodiscussesEmblems.jpg


http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/sockmeister/RDCONNINGTOWER1.jpg

walkirie
11-21-2009, 03:05 AM
Originally posted by HauptSturmer:
No swastikas? not saying that nazis were good but it was a part of their flag so if Ubisoft will not put swastikas in the game lacks a little realism,,, just my 2 cents

I agree , what is the problem with the swastikas ?


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z58/tonschk/fop.jpg



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LizJen
11-21-2009, 04:20 AM
Originally posted by walkirie:
I agree , what is the problem with the swastikas ?

The problem is, the Allied Control Council prohibited on Oct. 10. 1945, the swastika in Germany and Austria.
Both countries, along with some others in Europe, took over this law in their constitution.

In Germany and Austria, this law was a bit modified in the past. Swastikas are allowed to show for historical education in documentation or books and allowed to shown as well as in artistic works such as pictures, movies. Computer games in those countries are not considered by law as artistic works and that's why swastikas are banned in computer games in these countries. Ubisoft can not sell in these countries a game with swastikas.

AleksandarVasic
11-27-2009, 06:17 AM
Yet again, there is swastika all around the place when you get to kill Germans, and no swastika anywhere when you play as Germans. Hypocrites...

socko2009
11-27-2009, 10:04 AM
Please don’t expect Logic or well conceived arguments from the “Politically Correct” crowd!!! …..They live in the ephemeral, Lotus-eating “present moment”; ….and have no “Historical Perspective”!


S.

rex.kramer
11-30-2009, 09:57 AM
Originally posted by socko2009:
Please don’t expect Logic
This is the same logic with nudity in games.
In the U.S. it is forbidden to show naked game characters, in Europe it is allowed.
In the U.S. versions of "The Sims 3" a game character can not be identified under a shower, in the European versions one can see them. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

AleksandarVasic
12-01-2009, 06:55 PM
When is the contest starting? I posted two suggestions and I am getting nervous. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/compsmash.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

tambor198
12-02-2009, 01:04 PM
FINAL UPDATE: The submission time is over. Over 150 emblems have been submitted! Good Job! Now it's the dev's turn to make the first selection, and you will be able to start voting for your favorite one starting on the 14th of December!




When is the contest starting? I posted two suggestions and I am getting nervous.



Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, Aleksander.

AleksandarVasic
12-04-2009, 06:39 AM
Why bad? It finally started. Don't tell me that you already discarded my emblems... http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

njarmy26
12-04-2009, 06:49 PM
http://www.spanishrefugees-basquechildren.org/B2-Eagle_and_swatika_emblem.jpg http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/austria/673/fallschirmjager/eagles/wehr_eagle.jpg

If its a German UBoat... Give it an emblem from the Days for WW2

FS_Antonio
12-05-2009, 01:25 AM
i want send a embled, can i? Sorry but i Think that last day was 14 december. Please answed me. And thanks all.

FS_Pedro
12-08-2009, 07:45 AM
We look forward to leaving dates of votes of the emblems, they know when they start and regulations? http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif