Recently, I have noticed that various users have been posting "Challenges". I was reading in the rules, that one can create a plane, vehicle, etc. and someone else can edit it, while the original user may receive bonus points from the upvotes the edit receives. I was wondering if posting these 'Challenges' could be abusing that system, e.g. "To enter this challenge, you must make a plane, based off of this one." Someone does that, So someone else says "oh this is cool, let me upvote it." So the Challenge Creator receives points. Another thing I noticed, challenge descriptions may also include "if you come in first, you will receive [random number] upvotes." I was also wondering if this was agents the rules, because the rules clearly state, no making multiple accounts to upvote your own. This may apply to these challenges because the user could make the challenge, make another account, enter the challenge, and upvote themselves. If this is true, I, personally am guilty of creating challenges. But, I (and most users) don't know if this is agents the rules or not. Thanks!
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I admire him also. I have been a fan of his planes Sience I joined on my first account one year ago, and I never knew he worked on IOS. @EternalDarkness
@LotusEngineering his popularity comes from his quality. He is one of the only few users I admire.
Wow. I guess an IOS user can become popular.@EternalDarkness
@LotusEngineering yes. Check his builds if you don't trust me. It says "built on IOS" in properties
Cedy117 works on IOS? @EternalDarkness
Challenges aren't against the rules. There's also a good reason for asking challenge entries to be made as successors - it's a lot easier to just look at the successor page and see all the entries than to go hunting through the comments thread for links.
I like the challenges, I like the ideas they give me for builds, and I like the challenge of building to the challenge specification. I enter quite a lot of them, but I've only hosted one challenge myself. Maybe it's time for me to do another one.
@EternalDarkness OMG! I like a lot of his builds, I never knew he used iOS though. I could really use some help with interiors. I have a method for fine placement of parts, but it would probably take a good 6 hours of strait building to get something half decent done. Thanks for the recommendation
@Shmexysmpilot can I recommend Cedy117 to be your teacher? He is the best IOS builder, in my opinion. Gauges he uses are made by me. You have my permission to put them on your builds if you decide to make something with interior/open cockpit.
@EternalDarkness thank you :) there are going to be limits to what I can do being on iOS, but I've got enough time and modded parts to do most things once I figure out how
@Shmexysmpilot agreed. You have a good quality, and a potential to gain more of it as you gain more experience.
@EternalDarkness a lot of points come from challenges, but also the sheer quantity of planes. 3 upvotes each on 3 planes a day is 135 points each day. And with low quality builds, churning out that many planes is fairly easy
@Tully2001 oh. No names, please. I was already warned by a dev about that today.
How do you think we have low quality gold and platinum users? Most of their points come from hosting challenges. (I agree with you)
Amazingly sad. @WahrscheinlichIch
I would upvote this but I keep getting a website error
I have wondered about this for a while... It happens a lot.
Would be pretty sad, if someone was so desperate for points, that they take part in their own challenges.
I dont think the challenges are against the rules. None that I know of have been removed. Also, the tournaments that the devs set up give points as a reward. As for the challenge creator getting points, they did inspire the other designs. A challenge that has other people edit the designs is harmless. I have asked people to use my cannons that I make, and it is out of pure enjoyment of seeing what they come up with.