Why don't I see 'exclusive points'

Can someone clarify this for me. I am relatively new to Makerworld in general, and exclusive model programme in particular. But, If I have models that are on the Exclusive Programme (icon shows on them) and they are being downlaoded and printed (general pionts going up), shouldn’t I see some ‘exclusive’ points?

You will if they earn points, they have to reach the milestones required to earn points like any other models

There’s a milestone? So they’re not new models. I enrolled them (or whatever it’s called) in te programme once I’d hit the 100 prints threshold. So they’ve earned, and continue to earn, points. Just not exclusive ones. Where do I find information on this milestone that’s required?

You can’t anymore, but basically a milestone is when it individually hits a certain number of downloads, previously the milestones were things like hitting 10 downloads, 20, 30, 50, 100 then it would award points for every 100 downloads after that point for that specific model, prints awarded extra points towards that milestone, it also doesn’t go back and award additional points for milestones you have already passed and will only count for new milestones

So there’s a threshold before you earn points for a model, but they don’t’ tell you what it is? :joy: That’s hilarious. Thanks though, it explains it.

They used to tell you, but now that information isn’t as public because the formula is more complicated now, you can view the rules

https://makerworld.com/en/points

Then click the little i in a circle next to model reward and click detailed rules

They made the points system less transparent after people used bots to game the system and / or spam with low quality models.

The new system allows MakerWorld to decide what models actually get points rather than automatically paying out to all models that hit fixed total downloads/prints milestones.

If you’ve genuinely got a decent amount of downloads/prints but no exclusive points then maybe the powers that be have deemed your model not worthy for whatever reason.

Post the model, or at least the stats, and maybe others can shed some light on what might be the issue

That’s cool. Not had that many downloads. I just didn’t realise there were restrictions. Thanks.