Summer 2021 Edit Draft has ended.

Color me intrigued…

I'd be down for this.

Really glad to see the enthusiasm for this!! 😄

I'll give it another week or so to see who is interested and then we can get started.

Meanwhile, I'm assuming that everyone who responded wants to be part of this in some way.

Dakota - that would be awesome if you can make some appearances for this! There's certainly no pressure to sign up to draft if you don't want to. But you are more than welcome to.




I'll also note another aspect of the draft. Once you select an edit from the draft and download it, you are totally free to tweak the appearance. It becomes your edit. Of course, it will be up to you to create the moves, logic, etc. Those will not be done by the original creator. This is just an appearance-only draft.






That is an excellent question that I totally forgot to address in my original post.

We have two variables here:

1) People who downloaded Move Craft.

My overall plan is to keep the first draft as accessible as possible. I know a lot of people, including myself, either don't have Parts Craft yet or really know how to use it. So my inclination is to say let's not involve Parts Craft for this first draft. I want to make this first draft appeal to as many people as possible and go smoothly to get some momentum running for these for the future.

(If this first draft is successful, I think it would be a good idea to have another draft that involves Parts Craft. I also would like to build to a Draft that has full edits (moves and logic) which could be really awesome.)


2) People who downloaded DLC with specific appearance edit parts. (Like New Japan or Stardom)

This is a trickier question. Parts Craft is just one DLC and doesn't contain any specific parts. However, we have had 3 years now of multiple DLC that have appearance parts. It's still possible that everyone involved in the draft just happens to have the same DLC. I think that's unlikely though.

People are so used to using the DLC parts now to create appearances that I feel strange limiting them to not using them. So I think people's input on this would be helpful. I want this to be fun for people to actually create the appearances but I also want it to be accessible to everyone.

A few solutions:

a) Creators can make changes to the edit after the draft to accommodate those who selected their edits but who don't have all the DLC parts used on the edit. That is kind of a pain in the ass though. But maybe it is the best solution if the creators don't actually mind it. They would have the complete ability to quickly and easily choose a replacement from the default list. And when the selector downloads the edit, they are free to re-substitute another part they prefer. As I said above, once the selector gets the edit, they are free to modify the appearance in any way. So it shouldn't be an issue.

b) We limit this draft to just the default parts or the parts from the free DLC.

I don't love this option because a) it may be boring for the creators to limit themselves to this if they usually have free rein of all the moves and b) it's time consuming and complicated for the creators since it means everyone having to pour over the lists to see what they can use and what they can't use. Spike didn't give us the ability to sort the parts in edit mode to see where they came from.

c) Everyone's input on other ideas would be helpful.



I do still want to have both Steam and PSN participation though. As long as the edits are clearly marked as Steam or PSN, there's no reason that we can't have the "cross-platform" playability for this draft that we never got in the games themselves!! And heck, if someone on Steam REALLY likes an appearance of a PS4 edit, we can make that work out too as long as the PS4 user doesn't mind posting a template/formula. But that won't be a requirement for anyone. If you are on Steam/PSN and don't have the time to post any template/formulas for a PSN/Steam user, you can just say that before the draft. That way people know your edit is just meant for the same platform and people of a different platform won't select it.



So I think we should keep the rules for submitting edits:

1) Appearances only - you can fill up 1-4 slots. It's totally up to you. Everyone will have a set amount of time to create edits and if people want to use that to focus on just 1, all 4, or anything in between that's fine. It can be fun to create alternate color outfits, after all.

2) Steam & PSN participation.

3) No Parts Craft.

4) All DLC can be used - rule still being figured out.



Once the draft is over, there are two ways that people can receive the edits they selected:

1) The easiest way would probably be to have the original creator give "contributor status" to the person who makes that draft selection. For that, I believe the creator and the selector would have to be Steam friends.

2) The creator could just post it publicly if the drafter doesn't mind.

I'll leave that up to the edit creator and the person who drafts that edit.


(With FPW it's definitely a simpler process than the old FPR way of compiling one edit pack with all edits and then having the edit pack compiler send out individual edit packs to each person who drafted.)


I don't really know how the PSN workshop is so someone who uses that will have to explain how to do that.

Being a bit of a "newbie" of sorts to this here community, I feel like participating here as it sounds pretty interesting and it might give me a chance to for me to interact more with you guys.

I'm tentatively placing the start date of the draft phase for July 5th.

That gives everyone a month to make their appearances and for us to finalize the rules.

I think that just about everyone who posted in this thread wants to be involved but I want to give us more time to sort out the remaining questions and also have more participation by those who haven't seen the thread yet. For those who already knows they want to do this, you can start making an appearance.

I can move the draft sooner or later if it would help people. This isn't meant to be a stressful project!

Anyone have ideas about how to handle the "DLC" question that was raised in the posts above?




You have a very good memory.  That was indeed the last draft that we ran.

Ceese really loved the drafts and we loved all of his creations. He always raised the bar with attires on FPR 😎

And he loved community projects so much




Exactly. That's why I really want to run this. It's a great way to create some more shared experiences with people on the board and have us work together in this way. I'm glad that you will participate! 👏




I figure we won't start for another two weeks, at least. So hopefully you'll have a chance to get involved. You would only need to make 1 appearance anyway since there's no requirement to do all 4.

Someone told me you guys were having a edit draft, and while I don't think I'll have the time to be around for it....it does come at a weird time.

Long story short there is currently a steam bug that is keeping many of us from seeing workshop items not set to public. I like many keep efed and original edits sat to "friends only" but sharing this way has become impossible for me, Bombay, kidcage and a few others.

So I have resorted to setting all my efed items to public.....five at a time so my lame wifi doesn't bug out....for over 500 edits and counting. Some of the older ones will be mixed in with real world stuff but theres little I can do for that ( God I miss save packs)

So if any of my efed edits catch your fancy feel free to use them, draft them, do as you wish. My efed ways are limited to a notebook and some low key edit sharing so you will not run into any hassle for using any of these.

Feel free to alter them as you wish, change names, moves, appearances....whatever you wish.


steamcommunity.com/id/Desertpunk23fpr/myworkshopfiles


Screen shot of some recent postings.

Correct. The number referenced to the slot that the edit was in on the save file.