As a long time (2000 hrs +) player of NMS I have been impressed by the creativeness of this community. As an avid base builder myself, I thought it might be fun to have a base building contest.

Of course this is purely voluntary so trolls don't need to participate, suggestions are welcome, outright nasty behavior isn't.

PLEASE VOTE by giving a Thumbs Up on the Contestants Screenshot Entry
You can vote for all your favorites, you can vote more than once.

First the rules:
It must be a new built base on the tournament planet.
Portal Address in Numbers: 3, 2, 2, 15, 8, 15, 8, 16, 9, 16, 5, 15

I have gotten suggestions that perhaps we should have a theme or design guidelines.
I don't think design guidelines would be a manageable thing, too complicated and work heavy for the judge (me).

A theme could work, so suggestions are being accepted as the rules will be in flux for the beginning of the tournament.

Our Theme is going to be to create a Resort Planet. New Raisia (sp) sort of. We need all sorts of locations, We have started with the BBQ by Prescient Stones and we need some more participants. So build your Hotels, Sports Centers, Race Tracks, etc. Multiple copies of everything would be good so there can be some variety. I know there are Base Builders playing this game who need to show off their skills, here is your chance.

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3344870267

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3344870772

As you can see this is a great planet with beautiful weather and no hostile creatures or sentinels.

When your ready to be judged by me, post a your most attractive screenshot on this post to start the evaluation. Final evaluation will be in the last week of Nov. So you will have time to improve your base. Popularity of the Screenshot by votes will be 50% of the Judging criteria.

The final 50% will the average of ? scores that are subjective.
From 0 - 100 points will be awarded for:

Originality of Design: Are the colors and patterns of building blocks used attractively and with intent and purpose. Has the builder come up with a design feature that is not commonly used. (I have visited hundreds of base during my play, and the number of box structures just plopped into place are frequent.) As an example the way I support the corners of my Launch pads with crossing triangles and stone support walls crossing (I call it the Tilly Cross Corner after my dog.) is something I have never seen in other bases. (I'm sure someone will chime in and say they see it all the time LOL)

Use of Location of Base: How does your base fit into the surrounding terrain. We all know that excessive terrain modifications do not last long in bases. So how do you use the terrain in your design. Have you built a cool cave base, or an underwater megalopolis!

Overall Attractiveness: Does your base possess the Wow Factor? When I fly to your base, is the approach view make me and others say Wow this is a nice base. Is it fun to walk around in your base or is it just a confusing mess Overcrowded with useless decorations. Are there trees and other vegetation used thoughtfully. The base size is not the point but a larger base is more fun to explore. I like to hide freebies are my bases for the explorers to find, something many base builders do and when I explore someones else's base and I find these it makes me want to look around more even though I probably have hundreds of them already in my inventory.

So three Subjective criteria 0-100 and averaged added to screenshot votes makes the Overall and Finalist winner.

The tournament will run until Nov 30, 2024 at which point I will hand out from my personal account Steam Awards for:

Best Base Award: Take my Points 4,800
Finalist Base Award: Golden Unicorn 2,400
Honorable Mention (up to 5 bases)
Most Creative Feature
Most Comfortable
How did you do that award

The criteria for judging is in development (meaning I'm still mulling them over and will be posting updates as I come up with them but they will be finalized before the start of Nov. any suggestions are welcome) I will personally visit every base for Judging in the last week of November, but I will also visit your work in progress bases as I see them pop up.

Some things I'm thinking about is a points system that starts with a base 100 points.
Points are added for meeting criteria and subtracted for missing them or doing them poorly. As the Judge my personal views will come into play (I don't like unsupported structures) I will post the scores of the winners and the next 10. (I hope)

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3344871322

I have built a Tournament Central Station (named Tilly's Central Station after my Dog)
it is not complete yet but it has lots of building supplies like frost wort for glass. Refiners and cooking stations, storage containers which you can retrieve supplies with out going back to your base. (but only containers 1, 2 and 5 I didn't want to build a big warehouse)

I will be building a meeting hall with hopes of having a Dec. 1st Awards ceremony that all participants can attend. And will be improving it also during the tournament.

I hope this will be a nice way to show off your building skills for all to see in one place and Planet. I also want this to be a very friendly competition so hand out complements freely to the hard working base builders.