Regarding MODDB Mod of the Year 2009

Voted for the major FL mods as they have the best chance to reach the top100 and sent out 8000 mails asking old players to vote for FLmods.
Another 6000 mails will follow today.

The responses so far are quiet positive with many votes returned, but from experience I would say that it takes at least a weak before all mails are being read.

However - Merry X-mas and good luck

Battlefield 2 is catching up, fellas. Need to keep up the votes!

BF2? lol, We target is TOP 1, not top 2

then we only need 5 times more votes

Freelancer was in second yesterday, will have to look again.

I voted for several mods myself.

I’m back to the real world, i voted for few more mods, but now looks humm… dangerous/hardly to keep top 2… we need more people vote for us

awesome, rank2 but BF2 is comming close, but i think the third place looks secure for now

Being on that front page is already enough IMO. Doesnt really matter which place, it surely is a little publicity.

I agree - I am sure that the frontpage games get bonus votes by the community.
But…where do you get such information (“BF 2 is coming close…” etc pp) - I mean, where do I get it? >_> ^

Bas, the scoreboard is here:
http://www.moddb.com/events/2009-mod-of-the-year-awards/scoreboard

I will also encourage people to vote for multiple mods at once. What concerns me is that - not sure, but it seems so - Top-100 is not simply based on user votes, but is also altered by ModDB admins to have mods for more games present. For example, if the #1 mod for some game receives less votes than #8 mod for Freelancer, it’s as well possible that they choose top 3 or 4 Freelancer mods and remove the rest FL mods so that more games could get in.

Can be mistaken about this policy, but results for previous years (not just for Freelancer) showed that it’s very likely: you see how many votes Half-Life 2 gets, but you won’t have 50% of the list contain HL2 mods.

Exactly, I think they edit the results. But its good that they do, otherwise there might be only mods for a few games in the top 100.

Dammit, BF2 has overtaken FL by 18 votes… We need more votes!

they dont edit the results
i know that for sure as im in good contact with one of their admins

it would not even be neccessary to edit anything because the current results a very illusionary

1700 votes for FL
maybe the best FL mods have 200-300 votes

that is not much
eg. a game that is ranked on position 12 and has only 700 votes in total but but has a mod with 400 votes would be still far higher ranked in the top 100

even if FL is on position 2 it might happen that no FL mod reach the top 100 because there are not enough votes for that mod.
To give votes to small FL mods is nothing wrong if we want to push the game, but we should make sure that the big mods which are able to reach the top 100 get every possible support.
Only that will bring FL mods into the top100 ranks.

And when the 2nd phase of the voting has started then we have to make sure that the top100 mods (FL) receive a maximum of support aswell.

@OP: Hence why, if you vote for all mods, you’re certain to both promote the game and help the biggest mods reaching the Top 100.

yes - but the results show that not all ppl vote for all mod which is just natural
but we should make sure that the members of our communities at least vote for the biggest and most active mods because these are the ones which have the best chance to reach the top100

if ppl vote for these mods good, if ppl vote for all mod even better but the “good” should be the minimum we should aim for.

Of course. I don’t think many people actually do vote for the smaller mods without voting for the big ones though; the reverse is far likelier.

But which ones are the biggest and most active?

Discovery and Hamburg City, AFAIK.

No offense to any mod talked about here, but player numbers doesn’t automatically mean they are the best mods. The communities they have built up are just as important and help to shape a mod.

As an example i’m not an RP kinda guy which is why some of the mods including Discovery are wasted on me as i don’t enjoy that style of play. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad mod and please bear in mind this is only an example ,before someone jumps down my throat.

All the mods need the support of everyone and that’s the most important thing, which is why i voted for all of them. In the next round i shall do exactly the same unless its one vote only but i can’t remember if that’s the case or not.

the numbers of players on a server has not neccessarily something to do with the quality or the size of the community behind it.

My server does not have the numbers of players like the top servers eventhough it remained in to top 10 of the servers for almost 5 years. Still, behind it stands one of the largest FL communities, which very often is based on strong singleplayer aspects. There are also other very strong communities around mods which dont reach the number of online players that discovery or hhc have.

If you dont know who belongs to the most active or best mods then vote for all, like it was suggested. That way you for sure dont do something wrong. ^^

Surely any vote at the moment is good as it keeps FL in top 6, and therefore visible. I’m not sure I agree with the strategy, but I understand the rationale

When it comes to the top 100, people should vote for what they think is the best, and certainly only for mods they’ve played.

Otherwise the top100 is meaningless as it will not reflect the pleasure derived by people from playing the actual mods. So the biggest FL mods should be represented the best, and therefore get the most votes, if people adopt this strategy.

My view is that the mods in the top100 will arguably be the “ambassador” mods. By that, I mean people playing these mods may enjoy them enough to play others, or perhaps be tempted to look at buying the game. For this to have meaning in my view means only vote for those you truly believe to be great. Yes, the biggest will fair best in this instance. No, I don’t believe you should vote for all of them - just the ones you’ve played and think are the best.