Mod of the Year Voting starts!

[Alex Hugon]

Where to Vote: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=motycontest_nwn22007.submit

Up-to-date Results: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=motycontest_nwn22007.list

[Qkrch]

I saw some Hugon doing a lot of propaganda about Moonshadows...

Good luck mate, you have a lot of chances

[BenWH]

I must admit to being somewhat astounded at how many votes Tales of the Sundering has picked up in the NWN1 competition. None of us are active in NWN any more (Marc and I have left building for the franchise, and Kevin is over at Ossian), so we don't have any guilds, cliques, fanbois or even ongoing publicity. I admit to being quite chuffed about that, even though it looks like the series will fall short of getting one of the awards.

Looks like Tony's mod is doing well too. Congratulations on that.

NWN2 competition looks like it's playing out reasonably - in my humble opinion I still see some evidence of grouped voting, but at least this year Maximus instigated the earlier cut-off date, and that seems to have put paid to most of the ghost account nonsence that went on last year, allowing some good mods a crack at an award. FUnnily enough, fewer mods in the competition also seems to have led to a better competition.

[Starlight]

I must admit to being somewhat astounded at how many votes Tales of the Sundering has picked up in the NWN1 competition. None of us are active in NWN any more (Marc and I have left building for the franchise, and Kevin is over at Ossian), so we don't have any guilds, cliques, fanbois or even ongoing publicity. I admit to being quite chuffed about that, even though it looks like the series will fall short of getting one of the awards.

Ben. Sorry to ask something out of topics. Does it mean there will have no more chapter for ToS? The story will have no ending?

[BenWH]

I don't know for sure, but it is unlikely unless Kevin has done some work on it. Tales of the Sundering was another project that got somehwat derailed by the Premium Module programme, and by the time that had been dealt with, the group had moved on to other projects, so it really depends what was already built as to whether it will be finished. The fact that it has turned out to be so well received might be an extra incentive.

[kookoo]

I have two votes for Resurrection Gone Wrong in NWN 1.  I think that I can come from behind and .  .  .     Oh well.  I'm in excellent company.   

[BenWH]

Good luck! I see thet nereng's mod is also making a comback...

[kookoo]

Good luck! I see thet nereng's mod is also making a comback...

nereng's in the middle of the pack with 6 or 7 votes, very respectable.  The ironic thing is that I really hope he does well because a large part of the advice I got on scripting and the toolset while making my module was from him.  nereng rocks!

[QSW]

I'm actually really surprised at how few votes  NWN1 & NWN2 have received thus far:

NWN1 = 174 valid votes (at time of posting this)

NWN2 = 126 valid votes.

That is a grand total of 300 votes, I'm not sure how those figures compare to last years (in NWN1 at least since this is the first MoTY for NWN2) but it feels a little light. Look at the Poll on the Vault front page (to the right) with 1459 votes, and its only been up, what a week?

I'm wondering if the fact that the MoTY is not on the front page as a Poll is the reason, less viability (or if you like, less people willing to click a link to another page to vote) is the reason for such a low show of votes?

Not that there is anything the Vault could have done about this, since there simply is not the room on the front page for two (NWN1 & NWN2) Polls. I sure hope folks start voting a bit more, the authors certainly deserve it!

[Wyrin]

yeah I've been thinking it's sad how few have voted - but even mods in NWN2 like Tragedy in Tragidor, out for over a year, has 386 votes from 32k downloads. pretty sad rate of response anyway 

[QSW]

yeah I've been thinking it's sad how few have voted - but even mods in NWN2 like Tragedy in Tragidor, out for over a year, has 386 votes from 32k downloads. pretty sad rate of response anyway 

Actually although i see where you are coming from with those figures, they are not as bad as they seem. I *think* the average vote for modules is one vote per hundred downloads, so this module is doing a little better than the 1% voting average statistically. Course, I always thought that 1 vote in every hundred downloads was pretty darn small anyway  

[BenWH]

Maybe Maximus should replace that front page poll with a dummy MotY poll that gets folks through to the actual voting page. Something like:

Would you vote on a MotY competition?
    Yes (takes you to the page to vote)
    No

[kookoo]

yeah I've been thinking it's sad how few have voted - but even mods in NWN2 like Tragedy in Tragidor, out for over a year, has 386 votes from 32k downloads. pretty sad rate of response anyway 

Actually although i see where you are coming from with those figures, they are not as bad as they seem. I *think* the average vote for modules is one vote per hundred downloads, so this module is doing a little better than the 1% voting average statistically. Course, I always thought that 1 vote in every hundred downloads was pretty darn small anyway  

Another thing to consider is how often updates are done.  People re-download modules after updates so that they can try the newest version.  I know I usually get a jump in downloads whenever I update.  I'm going to have to do another one soon to fix a couple of errors that QSW pointed out to me.  I have to un-download 1.69 beta first.  I think.  .  .  sorry, rambling.   

[kookoo]

The race is actually fairly exciting.  The top two modules each have 37 votes.  Everytime one gets a vote, the other gets a vote.  It will be curious to see who wins.

[kookoo]

There are now 200 votes.  .  .  of which I have 2.  1%.  Yay me!