Join discord servers and look at how other people are building things. And look at people with high points, they build things people like. Also try to go for the unknown, people like new things here. And try to make things that people can relate to, make it funny, or from a popular movie, or just really cool.
Lastly add detail to the build if it takes you less then a day to build, then it’s probably not good enough.
For the uploading part try to have a good description on the build. Like for example my dauntless had a good short description on its job in WW2 and famous things/ battles it’s been in. Or for my lawn mower 3000 I put little effort in but has close to 40 upvotes, it has a funny description and a good thumbnail.

For thumbnails use the blueprint thing and add a picture for you thumbnail then use that when taking a picture for your upload.

And very last make the name short, simple, and to the point. People don’t really even look at names like “super cool fats jet” or “this is my favorite plane the j-500” just try to give it a name like “FA-81” or “CB-4 mountain master”
Sorry if this makes little sense, I quickly wrote this up well getting real for the day.

@OkBuilder I think in 1.10 you can use the orthographic/blueprints feature to make thumbnails

@MinWiii well that sucks

If your on Android, then you can’t @OkBuilder

@MinWiii ive seen people get a thumbnail of it like on the runway or flying above the USS Beast, how do i do this, im on android if that changes anything

My plane with the most downloads is something called "just a coupple missiles" i made it as a meme and as it stands its my highest downloaded plane, is this because its just something dumb or did i just upload at a time with higher traffic on the website? I made a less laggy version at like, i think 1:00AM and last i checked it had 2 downloads.

yeah usually you just needs to patience and creativity

Get a good angle in the thumbnail, try new ideas instead of just plain jets. Ask better builders for tips and honestly it just takes time