The new planes section has been bombarded by planes that are ,to say the least, really bad! There is an imbalance in the amount of good planes to bad planes. This is probably because: most decent players are off on their magical holidays and all the new players from the YouTube free advertising have joins recently and are active on the website. So now there is still the same amount of planes being uploaded due to the surge of new players, even with others taking a break. There is an imbalance in SP nature and the world will fall apart! This post is not just a rant but a cry for all the new players to spend a larger amount of time on their planes, thank you for reading!
Ok thanks!@TheLatentImage
@BattleBulge I've been removing uploads of default aircraft. If you see something that is obviously copied off of something else with minimal effort put in, then please report it.
Maybe ask the man him self Andrew to not let people upload cots of the default aircraft or other people creation without adding anything or just a paint over it would really flatten out the fresh section@TheLatentImage
@Hazo patience is a virtue, and if good things come to those who wait, etc.
@Brields95 instead of reporting it i think you should do what i do, here is an example of what i think is appropriate.
@AgDynamics im with you!
@yeolde1rishman yes, I do notify them of their mistakes but I've gotten to the end of my patience.
@yeolde1rishman yes, I do notify them of their mistakes but I've gotten to the end of my patience.
Give those "Cadets" a chance, and give them pointers! Lots of people did for me and it really helped me a lot!
If you see something, say something.
@Brields95 yeah, I've been trying to avoid doing that but now that I know that it's not just me...... get ready new players! Mwuhhahahahahhahahahahahha!!
If it says Weazlezone in the name i just report it.
@spefyjerbf that's what I pray for!
I'm not on a holiday ;) I'm just being a busy bee and building a butt ton of bombers, I think most of the best mobile builders aren't here because of the update, including me, I'm preparing some planes for weaponising ;) stay tuned
@TheW4terDrop it happens to absolutely everyone. The most popular planes get upwards of a thousand downloads, and usually only thirty or so votes. I think some way of voting from within the game would alleviate the problem a little, but until then we'll all have to just try not to be part of the problem
Well, what about the problem of people that fly the aircraft, like it, but don't upvote it? This have been happening to some of my projects and it gets me a bit angry. @spefyjerbf @NewAir @Hazo @TheLatentImage @AgDynamics
This problem should only last a month. The newer players might quit, or they will simply get better at building with time.
@AgDynamics I don't comment on upvotes saying they're bad, I just leave them alone. I upvote things that look like time was spent to make a superior product, eve if it is not a plane.
@AgDynamics @TheLatentImage and most of all, have fun building them!
@AgDynamics ^^^ what he said.
Putting build quality restrictions on uploads would be a really bad idea. Even as a user who quite vocally advocates for higher quality builds, I think that telling anybody "your stuff isn't good enough to be on the site" is unacceptable and will turn a lot of people away from this community.
Quality is fairly subjective. Who would even decide what's good enough? How would it be determined? This is a sandbox game after all, the point is to have the freedom to build and share whatever you want. Just because a plane is ugly or doesn't fly well or isn't a plane at all doesn't mean that the creator shouldn't be free to post it on the site. Yes, the New page may be full of low-effort unflyable, unpainted, ugly made-for-a-youpotato garbage, but it shouldn't be removed or banned unless it breaks the rules.
The solution, just like it is on Reddit, is to encourage quality with your upvotes. Don't upvote things just because they come from a well-known builder, upvote things which are of high quality, detail, or performance. Just because somebody has upvoted a plane of yours does not obligate you to upvote their planes. Do not trade upvotes, do not reward people with upvotes, do not beg for upvotes. I strongly encourage all users to actually download and fly planes before you upvote them.
If we keep upvoting pointless, unflyable, non-vehicle garbage (flags, logos, flowers, art, characters, etc) to the top of the Hot page, that's what people are going to keep making.
@AeroEngineering @Hazo KILL THE TRAITOR
@AeroEngineering yes, there needs to be another way to enforce quality. But how?
We must solve this unbalce in the Force