Official Tier Level Thread

Ao · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 4550 Location: United Kingdom

Those numbers are for sales not credits earned cesar
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Vuse · Joined: 09 Jun 2010 Posts: 929 Location: USA - FL

Ao · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 4550 Location: United Kingdom

Well you need to focus on the 4 main ones and then 3 of the others. Remember that the used and unused depends on which three are the best and can change which ones are used every month.
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WickedAngelNB · Joined: 31 May 2009 Posts: 6972 Location: Australia

Because many people get a little confused over what is included in their tier score and what isn't, I took a screen shot of my Tier area and highlighted different areas and will explain what is what. I know a lot of people already know but there is often confusion especially when it comes to spare metrics.

The two pink circled areas are the time frame of this tier period (at the top) and me tier at the bottom.

The area with the red bracket is your Core metrics. These are the same for everyone and are the most important ones in the end to go up in the tier levels. There are four of them and two are about the type of sales you get and the other two are the types of credits that made the purchases. Direct sales are sales that are made by users of YOUR products directly. Derived sales are sales that are sales of items that have been DERIVED off of your mesh/item. This includes all sales off items that you have derived off of another person and have left derivable so that someone else can/has derived off of your version.
In the income area there are two different types. There are REAL credits which you will receive after the 14 day Pend period has past and then there are Promo Credit sales (or predits as most creators call them). In the case of a Predit sale, you the creator will receive a Dev Token in place of the predits that were used to purchase the item. IMVU does keep track of these predit sales and the predits are counted and put in the Value area of the Income promo credit area. Any points in these four areas are included in your tier score.

Next is the green bracketed area. These five metrics are the Unique metric though two of them will always appear in the blue circled area. These five metrics can change around at any time, depending on which of your five metrics in this area have the most points. So in my case, I have the Products Recently Submitted and Peer Review in my Spare metrics area because they have the least amount of points this tier update. This could change at any time if I happened to do more in those areas than in any one of the three that are in the Unique Metric area.

Lastly the Yellow bracketed area is the metrics that are included to come to the total of your tier points that will determine your tier level for this month. These include the four CORE metrics and the three UNIQUE metrics but NOT the two Spare metrics.

The metric Products in Catalogue does update as the month goes on but the rest of the metrics usually only update at the start of the month once IMVU staff have run the script that does all the comparison work of all creators.

Sometimes there are glitches in tier scores and so forth and if your tiers haven't updated by about the 7th of the month (excluding months where the month start on a weekend of there is a major public holiday in the area where IMVU is situated), then you need to file a help ticket to get them updated.

Hope this is making how tiers are done. But if you need some more clarification on anything just ask as there are many great creators who can help you.
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CesarMasen · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 160 Location: Canada

Ao · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 4550 Location: United Kingdom

I don't really mesh myself, I've made a few furniture items in Sketchup but that's it.

There's 3 programs you can use, Max, Blender, and Sketchup.

Max - Can make everything
Blender - Accessories, rooms and some people have had some luck with hair and clothes
Sketchup - Furniture and rooms

Max - $3500ish
Blender - free
Sketchup - free

It's not easy though. I've never used Max, but I have used Sketchup and I looked at Blender and was lost.
Sketchup is difficult at times and that's the easiest.
Go to google images and google 3ds max and blender and have a look at the interface to get an idea of what the programs are like before you think about downloading them.

There's a lot of tutorials for Blender and Max but I found with them all you really need to be experienced in the program before you can even follow the first few steps of the tutorial. Sketchup has a lot of better tutorials that you don't need to be that experienced for but you need patience.

You don't need to mesh to be Pro. Tiers 5-7 are Pro, and you can get to Tier 6 without having a single derivable. You just need good sales and good income.
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LordRiccardo · Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 13711 Location: United Kingdom

BADUIZM · Joined: 12 Jul 2010 Posts: 37 Location: USA - NY

IM MARIA IM A DEVELOPER ON IMVU AND I AMD ON TIER LEVEL THREE TRYING TO GET TO TIER LEVEL 5 LOL SO IF ANY ONE WOULD MIND FEEL FREE TO NOTIFY ME ON WHAT EXTRA THINGS I CAN DO TO GET ON MY PRO DEVELOPING STATUS THANKS
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VioletDeMilano · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Ty for all the helps
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WickedAngelNB · Joined: 31 May 2009 Posts: 6972 Location: Australia

VioletDeMilano · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Thank you guys for all the information
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TragedyMoon · Joined: 22 Mar 2010 Posts: 19 Location: USA - WA

I just realized my core metrics are always on zero... maybe thats why Im getting nowere .. help!!!

DARKL3GI0N_disabled_85478 · Joined: 13 Oct 2011 Posts: 228 Location: Isle of Man

How many products needed in catalog for Tier 1 , 2 , 3 ??