Voting

Why voting exists#

Server lists rank servers by votes. A vote costs you fifteen seconds and moves
the network up a list that new players actually read. In return you get
shards, which buy things without money.

You can vote without an account. It just will not count for you — the list
gets the vote, you get nothing. Sign in first.

The two steps#

On the vote page, each site has two actions and they are
deliberately separate:

1. Open the list. This opens the server list in a new tab. Nothing is

credited yet.

1. "I voted". This is what credits you.

The gap between them is the entire anti-abuse mechanism available without the
list calling us back. Without it, every accidental click on step one would pay
out. With it, you have to actually go and come back.

Some sites do call back. Where they do, the credit is confirmed by the list
itself rather than by your click.

The link in step one is a plain link in the page HTML — it works without
JavaScript and without an account. If it depended on the result of step one, it
would be opened by script and land in your popup blocker.

Cooldowns#

Each site has its own cooldown, set per site — commonly a day, but it is a
property of that list, not a global rule. The page shows when each one is ready
again.

Voting on a site inside its cooldown does not credit you a second time.

Streaks#

Vote on at least one day, come back the next day, and your streak grows.

On top of what the site itself gives you, a streak pays a bonus of
two shards per day of streak, capped at seven days. So a one-day streak
adds two, a
seven-day streak adds fourteen, and a thirty-day streak also adds fourteen —
the bonus stops growing, the streak keeps counting.

The streak keeps counting because milestones care about it.

Miss a day and the streak resets. Your total vote count does not — that only
ever goes up.

Milestones#

Two kinds, both visible on the vote page:

Total votes — at 25, 50, 100, 300, 750 and 1500 votes. The early ones give
crate keys and shards; the later ones give timed ranks and larger shard
amounts.

Streak — at 7 days and at 30 days.

Milestones are handed out once. Reaching 100 votes does not re-award the 25 and
50 milestones, and there is no way to lose one you have reached.

What each milestone actually gives is shown on the vote page. Ranks awarded
this way are timed — see Ranks for how timed ranks
stack.

Where the vote sites are#

The list on the vote page is the authority. A site only
becomes clickable once its address has been checked — an unverified entry is
shown without a link rather than sending you somewhere unverified.

If the list looks short, that is the honest state of it rather than a loading
failure.