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Some of you will have noticed today that you got fewer vote points than you were expecting. .
The reason you got fewer points than you were expecting is because we got less votes than we were expecting. I'll give you some numbers in a minute, but the bottom line is that being so low on XtremeTop100 is not acceptable, and as a result no points were awarded for XtremeTop100 this week. If you guys pick up the voting and get us ranked higher on Xtreme then you will get many more points next week.
Lets get down to the numbers. From the time the vote sites reset at the beginning of the month until today it's been 7 days. With the 12 hour cooldown on XtremeTop100 that's a maximum of 14 possible votes per unique IP Address.
18,300 people filled out the captcha here on our Website to go to XtremeTop100.
In those 18,300 votes there were 6,000 Unique IP Addresses, not unreasonable since we not only allow you to vote on multiple accounts from the same IP Address (a 'bonus' which we're seeing less and less reason to allow you to have - we don't get anything from you voting a second time on the same site from the same IP within one cooldown period, but we let you do this anyway because we're nice) and also because within the week each IP can vote up to 14 times.
Heres where the figures get ugly - 6,000 Unique IP Addresses should mean at least 6,000 votes at the absolute minimum.
This week on Xtreme we got 2,200.
We credit 18,300 votes to your accounts here on Neverendless, and you give us 2,200 votes in return. Even assuming that each Unique IP Address only votes once (which we can see happens 3 times on average) then Xtreme should be counting 6,000 Votes.
Similar stats play out for the other two vote sites, although at least there we're only 4th/5th this week instead of 2nd/3rd where we were a few weeks ago.
Pick up your game please ladies and gentlemen. If we rank highly on these vote sites, then you get points, the higher we rank, the more points you get. 5 Minutes of your time, even just once a day or a few times a week, and we'll be in the top 10 where we should be.
There's a guide on how to vote properly here: https://www.neverendless-wow.com/support/kb/article/56-how-to-vote-correctly. Please make sure you read it, and that you understand how to ensure your vote gets counted. Talk to your friends and guild mates, make sure they know, and understand how and why they should vote properly. Don't just say "well why should I bother to vote properly or encourage other people" - it is in your interests as players to make sure that Neverendless gets as many votes as possible on the sites so that you will get as many vote points as possible.
We're hoping later today to bring some changes in to how the Voting system works, but the bottom line is going to stay the same:
Help Neverendless get as many votes as possible, and you will be helping yourself get as many vote points as possible.