ferogain Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 between "Unique" and "Total" in the download numbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunaisafish Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 IP Address. If a mod has 10,000 downloads, but only 7,000 are unique, it means the uploader downloaded it 3,000 times from the same IP address to make it seem more popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferogain Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Hmmmmm. Cuz right now I am at 222 Unique, and 297 Total. But I have not DL'd my mod once. I'm confused. (but thats nothing new hee hee hee) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jet4571 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 uploader? lol not quite right there. is what you have is 222 people downloaded it and some of them downloaded it multiple times to get the total downloads to 297 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferogain Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Ohhhhh. Ok. Not sure why you would DL it more than once, but ok. So "Unique" DL's is the accurate "how many people got it" number then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jet4571 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 yes thats correct. As for why would you download more than once? some people forget where they downloaded and do it again. sometimes the download will not complete and they need to start over. corrupted files. hundreds of reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunaisafish Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Alright I was just kidding with the uploader part, but you can't put too much into those figures.People probably won't d/l the same file more than once on purpose. I've done it a few times when I've forgotten that I had it already, but that is probably a closer indicator of how many people have downloaded it.The unique dl's being based on IP address is not much of an indicator. With the majority of people now on dynamic IP's then several people will only count as 1 unique, or the same person count as 2 unique if they downloaded the file on different IP's. Also, if you look at the front page numbers alone, then 2 mods with 50,000 total downloads each might seem as popular as eachother. But then peek at the files. A mod that has gone through many updates will have been downloaded several times by some.Take A World Of Pain for FNV. (If you have FNV then do lol, it's an awesome mod)79,827 UNIQUE D/LS / 224,624 TOTAL D/LSIf you look at the individual files then you can see that those numbers are spread over different revisions. The think the unique dl's was an attempt to guestimate how different people had installed the mod, no matter what version they had installed. Being as we actually have to log in to download now, then the unique figure could be far more accurate now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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