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I don't see any kind of news letting us know what the new theme is? The Happy New Year show is over, and that's the last Loft news I see on the Show forum.
From what I can see on the registration page, the theme is called "Last Mark-Down!" but I haven't a blessed clue what that means. When I look it up on the French site, the News post says something about making it look like the interior of a shop - either just before opening or after closing - so no people involved.
I looked too (without knowing French) and the babel French translater was something about the inside of a store - but waiting for details and theme do's and don'ts.
Here's what I get from translation: For this theme simply represent inside a store you want (deco fashion accessories ....) before opening, or just after closing (and therefore without characters.)
Your view will necessarily be inside and arrangements must be realistic!
To subscribe to this OhMyLoft contest, you must imperatively have these prerequisites objects:
- Use the MINIMUM 1 store item Basics
The atmosphere for this theme prerequisites are:
- Presence of a discount price
- Minimum 5 key elements of your shop (5 clothing if fashion boutique, 5 furniture shop if planning etc etc ...)
Prohibited:
- Gifts to s offer with friends?
- Characters
- Animals
-end-
I think it can be any kind of store that would have a sale going on.
Last edited by lady0filia (2014-01-22 18:47:14)
That's what I was getting from the French News post after slowly parsing through it with a translator. It's so hard doing the Loft, don't you find? Such a small space to convey the theme! Having fun with it, though!
...I actually love the theme! If what we understood is correct of course!
Agreed snortmort, I always work on a scene and then realize that only a portion would be visible.
I'm just having a difficult time fitting everything that needs to be in there into the small screen space! It's going to be one crowded store!
If they want a store, you need shoppers! What do they mean by NO Characters?
lady0filia wrote:
... before opening, or just after closing (and therefore without characters.).
As the store is meant to be shown as "not open" for the day yet or "closed" after the sale is done, there would be no customers in the store at that time.
Oh thanks! I completely missed that!! I guess not any workers there either.
I'd say to be safe, don't put any characters of any kind in, avivah, unless maybe it's an obvious mannequin for modeling clothing or something?
Lady0filia has done a good job with the translation.
The theme should actually be 'Final Sales' or something like that. And yes Snortmort is right, no people allowed so no shoppers or shop assistants!
The OhMyLoft news got somehow lost, really sorry about that.
It should not happen again in the future.
Ah well, we seem to be muddling through on our own, but thank-you for addressing it!
*bashes head repeatedly against a brick wall*
I checked out this week's Loft show this morning. I clicked through for about 10 minutes, and I think I've seen all the entries up for voting this week. There are around 8 entries. Out of those, at least 2 have nothing to do with the theme (one is an empty loft with the free clothing items you receive when you sign up and a few gifts/items from the recent quest) and there are maybe 5 lofts that are clearly stores, but nowhere do they display any kind of "presence of a discount price" like in the guidelines.
Maybe there are more entries out there that just haven't shown up yet, but so far, the only one I see with any kind of 'sale' sign or 'discount price' shown is my own entry. I'm so disappointed - I was really excited to see what people would put in the show this week.
I really really like a couple of the store entries (particularly the car show room - how creative!), but it's too bad there are no sale signs in any of them, since our theme is "Final Mark-down".
lady0filia wrote:
Here's what I get from translation: For this theme simply represent inside a store you want (deco fashion accessories ....) before opening, or just after closing (and therefore without characters.)
Your view will necessarily be inside and arrangements must be realistic!
To subscribe to this OhMyLoft contest, you must imperatively have these prerequisites objects:
- Use the MINIMUM 1 store item Basics
The atmosphere for this theme prerequisites are:
- Presence of a discount price
- Minimum 5 key elements of your shop (5 clothing if fashion boutique, 5 furniture shop if planning etc etc ...)
Prohibited:
- Gifts to s offer with friends?
- Characters
- Animals
-end-
I think it can be any kind of store that would have a sale going on.
Actually I ended up having to attempt to write down 10% using pearls on the chalkboard. That was a bit costly.
I entered the show using my alt princessnamine btw. Her loft is still set up if you wanna see.
Ha - I see it now. I'll be giving it more votes next time it comes around :)
How in the world are we supposed to know there is supposed to be an actual sign?
First a glitch and no rules posted in the usual way.
Second the French translation that ladyofilia gave (thank you to her) also said nothing about a "prensence of discount price" actually need to be a sign.
Third, I did think sign or symbals and looked under EVERY store that is currently showing to find a sign and couldn't. Where are they? Really since the administrator even said the announcement was overlooked it, I think it should be forgiven and get votes.
So...There are now only 6 lofts left. Two of them probs got disqualified cuz I've only been getting 6 different lofts ^^
Yeah, I noticed that a bunch of them were gone. It's nice to see the mods removing the lofts that aren't even a store at all - it's always frustrating to see a loft that doesn't have much of anything in it, and you hit the "refresh" button and the exact same thing pops up again and you can't do anything about it besides wait 2 minutes or give it 1 star. Thank-you, silent mods!