bigkid7834

I also agree with alot of what tigerlilly said. I didn't really want to make another post as I don't want to fill this up with only my ideas but I got one for how the top could work to help benefit new mods as well. Why not keep the rating system exactly how it is but only count its last 20 ratings or whatever. That way a mod still needs an "average" of judging but can still compete with top mods on the site. -SP

Heres my whole take on this deal. I understand where this is comming from though. I get how you would get more ratings and such if you ask for it. Considering I ask for ratings myself and will be taking that line out of all my posts after this. A couple things that I have definantly noticed as being a mod holder on this site. If you ask for ratings / comments / fotm / w.e you are more likely to get it. Plain enough. Plain and simply put if you don't really hear anything back about it you sort-of think you failed or didn't do a good job. Even if all the comments say your bugged as hell it still means people are taking enough interest in it to give you feedback. Also before I started posting that line saying "Please rate and comment." I was lucky to get a new rating or comment in 1 or 2 weeks. After that I added that line in I got one every couple days or so. Another thing I noticed is that when onij said "The most downloaded file on this entire site is FOOK. It has over 185,000 downloads but only 500 votes. So For every 350 people who download the file, only 1 votes!" To put a little insight on this as I put up a mod on here I always do it right off the bat in the morning so it gets the most "show time" on the updated today list. Well whenever you first post a mod you will get anywhere between 5-15 comments right off the bat. After that, the occurance of a comment compared to the number of views goes down. This is just because (whether true or not) back in there head when they see 500 comments on a mod some people may think "What more is there to say?" or feel that another comment is just kind of useless. Well even in reverse, If you see 0 comments you think, "Sweet! I can put my mark on here. 1st comment ftw!" or even "Hey he will be able to help me more considering I'm the only comment he will see." It's just all perspective really. My personal thoughts about the rating system is simple. Let it be. Don't change a thing. Rating is all opinion either way and you can't say ones opinion is wrong and another is right. 1-10 is simple. It's already being moderated if somebody gives you a 1 and just trashes you calling you a nub either way. Let the system stay how it is. -SP

Ah good point... Was just a little confused when I read it I guess. I don't really see how that could fit in correctly as well lol. Game play changes are just more my style. Not so much with the content things. Oh well.

Well what about if we have an already existing mod? Would that be cool to do as well? I mean what if some of us have a mod that we previously submitted up here but we think it should have a shot at winning this. Also what about game play changing mods? What I got from the post was that it needed to be a sort of content addition mod. Like a new area or a new weapon of some sort.