In the last week or two weeks I see that even good crafts from players get maximum 40 or 60 upvotes in 4 days, what could this be due to?
In the last week or two weeks I see that even good crafts from players get maximum 40 or 60 upvotes in 4 days, what could this be due to?
I only see three builds in this picture deserving more and all of them sadly have under 50 upvotes. My best guess is people leaving the game due to lack of updates from the devs and due to the fact that the game gets boring after, say, a huge project.
If I may take the example of myself, I started losing inspiration after making my Mirage F1, a 1500 part behemoth, because I expected myself to keep making builds better than that. Obviously I didn't, but my MiG-35 was semi-decent too with a very good reception. However, it didn't get the 115 upvotes my Mirage got and received just over 75. This bogged me down a bit and I decided to make random, easier projects.
Over time, academics, other videogames and just real life took over my passion for SimplePlanes and I open the app for maybe a couple hours every week to tinker around with a couple builds I'm making.
I also stopped visiting the site and upvoting builds- something I generally did regularly- because real life just took over my entire schedule.
My presumption is that the majority of the community shares the same problems and the game is slowly dying. It's a shame, really. I had a passion for aircraft before I was introduced to SimplePlanes, but this game really ignited that passion and took it to the next level.
The points system doesn't really help anyone on making better builds. Just forget about them and build for fun imho.
Its droped...or spreaded?
People hardly getting in due to anonymousity and not getting noticed, the game prolly dying, school, work, the like.
The game isn’t dying, why do people think this?
I think a combination of school preventing about 1/3 of the site to be on a lot, and a lot of people are also losing interest with no new updates in sight, (me slightly included), and some people maybe got used to really really good builds, and so to them these builds are not worth upvoting
Definitely going down, I've had loads of builds of late struggle to get 20 upvotes (thanks though to the people who did upvote)
Upvotes don't matter, it's the player experience that matters to me.
It's just the time of year, simple planes always has downtimes, and early in the year is one of them
Seeing how we are just getting of winter break, perhaps school has just prevented a lot of people from getting on the site.
But then again look at the highest-rated and every month there are at least a few 120-150 or even 200 upvotes on some crafts.
I think so. A lotta people are in school, as well as progressing dramas chase people off, resulting in less upvotes.
@tsampoy
Yes
school
No idea but I don't really care