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?SACK IT TO ME??Weekly Answers to the LBP Community?s Questions

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So for our first installment of ?SACK IT TO ME? - we?ve decided to summarize some of the major topics the community wants answered?

Moderation
The level moderation process is something we?re continually improving. The small percentage of levels moderated have been done so after the community has reported them using the Good Grief tool. We never moderate levels that have not been reported in this way. The vast majority of moderated levels were due to offensive material, however we are evolving the way moderation happens to ensure that creators are made aware of why their level was blocked. More to come shortly.

Servers
We hope you?ve noticed that over the past few weeks, we?ve been working away and our servers are now much improved - from the updated scoreboards to the connection speeds. Just know we?re constantly looking to improve the experience and your feedback has been very helpful. Additionally, below are a few online stats for your viewing pleasure:


# of user generated (UG) levels = 177,657
# of comments = 1,093,491
# of times Story levels have been played online = 36,661,881
# of times UG levels have been played online = 22,463,892
# of levels played online = 59,125,403


Play Create Share stats & Search Functionality
Now that the servers are stable, we?ll continue to improve the ?Share? experience. We?ve heard your requests to get better search functionality to find levels and getting the PLAY, CREATE, SHARE stats up and running on the Info Moon and have put this on the top of our list. So stay tuned for a few announcements

In the meantime, there are a few ?other? ways to find some cool levels:


LBP Review League (http://forums.littlebigworkshop.com/lbp/board/message?board.id=promozone&thread.id=936) (US Forums)
LittleBigPlanet Stages (http://apps.facebook.com/lbpstages/) (an un-official list on Facebook)
?10 LBP levels you have to play? (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/10-littlebigplanet-levels-you-have-to-play/a-20081104165827244072) (GamesRadar.com)
?Top 50 User-Created LBP levels? (http://www.ugo.com/games/littlebigplanet-levels-top-50/) (UGO.com)
Search for LBC1 levels and help judge the first LittleBigChallenge: PS3 Second Anniversary (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/11/18/littlebigchallenge-celebrating-ps3s-2nd-anniversary/)


LittleBigChallenge: PS3 Second Anniversary Updates
We?ve been excited to see all the posted ?LBC1″ level submissions for our first in-game LittleBigChallenge (http://news.littlebigworkshop.com/en-us/category/LittleBigChallenge.aspx), so much that we wanted to share a few of the ones that caught our eye. After reading the forums, looks like we struck a nerve with a few of you thinking these updates are unfair publicity to the selected. Wanted to re-assure you that our intention to highlight a few of these levels, is to celebrate the creation of a variety of levels from a variety of creators - NOT to indicate any frontrunners or winners. Judging is completely separate from these updates and the evaluation of these levels will take into consideration a creators creativity, game design, innovation, use of tools, etc - NOT just ?hearts? and ?plays?.

As an insight to the evaluation process, we plan to first collect the formal e-mail submissions, list out the levels w/ various stats (on the server side), then have our judges spend a few days to play thru and judge levels and award the top 5 creators for this challenge.

Also, check back on Friday where we?ll list out the submissions-to-date, so you can spend the weekend playing the Challenge levels.

Day 1 T-shirt
Finally, some of you are wondering what happened to the Day 1 T-Shirt mentioned in the past. This was available in other countries for (equivalent of) $4.99, but we decided to hold back its availability in North America as we evaluate if such a unique item (RARE + $4.99 + time-based) is appropriate for our PS Store (http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/playstation-store-playstation-network/). There may be other RARE items like this in the future, so check back on future DLC announcements.

? We hope this answers your current batch of questions. Comment away below and let us know what else questions you want answered for next weeks batch?

Didn't see this anywhere so I thought it might be of interest for some.
If this has already been posted some where let me know.

Source: PlayStation.Blog (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/12/02/sack-it-to-meweekly-answers-to-the-lbp-communitys-questions/)
2008-12-03 01:41:00

Author:
BurlapSackBoy
Posts: 310


I haven't seen it so, thanks for the new info.2008-12-03 01:44:00

Author:
Whalio Cappuccino
Posts: 5250


Yes, some answers :hero:

Thanks for bringing us this info, I sure haven't seen it before.
2008-12-03 01:47:00

Author:
Gilgamesh
Posts: 2536


Is that photo in full 1080 HD?2008-12-03 01:48:00

Author:
Thee-Flash
Posts: 3154


Is that photo in full 1080 HD?

I'm pretty sure it's not an in game screen shot.
2008-12-03 02:54:00

Author:
ryryryan
Posts: 3767


Yea, I just saw this two seconds ago. I'm so glad that they are working hard and making sure that the online community is content with their experience.2008-12-03 03:30:00

Author:
sjbluedog24
Posts: 80


Finally some response. Some interesting points were made along with some great info.

# of user generated (UG) levels = 177,657

I actually thought that number would be higher for some reason. Still, that's pretty amazing. Even if only 10 percent of those are outstanding, that's a lot of fun and time put into this game.

"As an insight to the evaluation process, we plan to first collect the formal e-mail submissions, list out the levels w/ various stats (on the server side), then have our judges spend a few days to play thru and judge levels and award the top 5 creators for this challenge."

That's news to me. The original posting seemed to suggest hearts were the way to win. Maybe they came to their senses. Either way. I hope we can all count on each other and boost our levels.
2008-12-03 05:00:00

Author:
docpac
Posts: 601


Finally some response. Some interesting points were made along with some great info.

# of user generated (UG) levels = 177,657

I actually thought that number would be higher for some reason. Still, that's pretty amazing. Even if only 10 percent of those are outstanding, that's a lot of fun and time put into this game.


I actually suspect in my experience so far that the percentage that is outstanding is lower the 10% at the moment, hopefully this will correct itself in due course. If the search function gets overhauled, the better creators will stick at it, and eventually the crappy creators will hopefully loose interest and stop spamming crappy levels.
2008-12-03 05:44:00

Author:
ALpha_7
Posts: 20


I'm pretty sure it's not an in game screen shot.

Thank god OTHERWISE that would = TO EPIC!
2008-12-03 07:08:00

Author:
Thee-Flash
Posts: 3154


BurlapSackBoy, mind if I edit your original post slightly for better presentation on the Front Page News?2008-12-03 12:37:00

Author:
aer0blue
Posts: 1603


Whoah. Some nice new info. So I assume this is going on the front page?

2008-12-03 12:52:00

Author:
GuyWithNoEyes
Posts: 1100


BurlapSackBoy, mind if I edit your original post slightly for better presentation on the Front Page News?

No I don't mind at all.
2008-12-03 14:54:00

Author:
BurlapSackBoy
Posts: 310


Thank you, Burlap.2008-12-03 15:35:00

Author:
aer0blue
Posts: 1603


This is some good info. Thanks a lot 2008-12-05 22:36:00

Author:
Night Angel
Posts: 1214


I love nice useless stats so i can boggle people at dinner parties =P
Way better than "Hi im on the s*x offenders register",
That said the silences are about the same length =P
Heehee >.<

Woop 50th post too
lmao
2008-12-06 14:41:00

Author:
Mutant_Tractor
Posts: 116


Does the whole "week/day 1" shirt thing just seem MASSIVELY suspect to anyone else?? There's no information there, why only withold it in the US? And, why charge for something you said for MONTHS was going to be free?

Oh, and where is the Heighast costume? Despite the fact it was in a ton of the trailers we've seen more from other games! Are we going to be paying for that one too??
2008-12-07 09:29:00

Author:
flakmagnet
Posts: 1084


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