madcow12 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 LIke is the criteria a combination of endorsements,downloads, and views, or just downloads, or just endorsements and downloads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 If I understand correctly, entering the hot files is based on the # of endorsements within the first seven days of the mods life. Once a mod gets into the hot files it is there for seven days. 1000 downloads with 50 endorsements has just as much chance (as far as I know) to make the hot files as a mod with 100 downloads and 50 endorsements. However, given human nature the more people you can attract to download the mod, the more likely you'll have people returning to endorse. While a mod with smaller download numbers can in theory hit the hot files with enough endorsements, it is harder for them because of the smaller pool of people being dependent upon for those endorsements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow12 Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 Is there any chance of a file becoming a hot file after the seven days? From what i read of your post this is a no, but some of the files i saw made it to the hot files in two+ weeks since their first upload Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 That shouldn't be possible unless they changed how things work. I haven't ever seen a hot file that did not make it within its first seven days. Then again, I don't look at that many hot files (most aren't that "hot" to me, but I'm a minority when it comes to tastes :P ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow12 Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 i see. thanks for your answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 7 days for Skyrim, 14 days for Oblivion and Fallout 3/New Vegas, 28 days for everything else. I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avastgard Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 What is the minimum amount of endorsements required? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdcooley Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 There isn't a minimum number of endorsements, you just have to be higher than anyone else within the time period. And the timer starts the moment you publish your mod. My only mod to make the HotFiles (for Skyrim) was there for one day. It didn't get enough endorsements during the first six days but had just enough to make it into the list when another mod reached its time limit. Then one day later my mod was too old and some other mod took the slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avastgard Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 (edited) So we can say the rule is: "Hotfiles are the 6 files with the highest number of endorsements during their first 7 days of publication"? Edited July 28, 2015 by Avastgard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdcooley Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 No, file of the month is something else entirely. Those are based on the VOTE button on each mod page. File of the month doesn't have any time restrictions. Alternate Start and FNIS were both released back in early 2012 and just made file of the month in March and May 2015. The only restriction is that a mod can't win that status twice (the VOTE button is removed for any mod that's already won). And HotFiles are the most endorsed (at any particular moment) of the recently added files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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