Users who are creating successor should get permission by the creator. The creator will have access to 2 buttons the first one says to allow it, and then the second one should imply if it can get upvotes. If this is the creator the A.I. will check both accounts if they are the same.
Upvote it please to persuade the devs , to make this happen. And please feel free to add new ideas to it, and tell friendly constructive criticism.
Edit: There is no upvotes button, but the automod is now in control by checking if the user that is using the creation is copier by looking for planes that the copier has already copied. The bad is that some users that have already created planes, but have turned to copying and are going to do their first copy will be accepted. Also the automod should look for certain changes on one of the users plane to check if they are legal successors.
To remind everyone, here are the current rules:
Tweaking airplanes is okay
• It is okay to download someone else's airplane, make some tweaks, and re-upload a new variation.
• In fact, the original designer may even receive bonus points.
• However, if your variation does not offer any improvements over the existing airplane, then it may be removed.
• If you are circumventing the predecessor/successor system, then you will be banned. Never upload a successor as an original design; give credit to the designer of its predecessor.
So...even though I don't do it and it bugs me when I see an obvious copy (everything is the same, except they change the color or upload a ton of missiles, etc.), when I've brought up crap copies to their creators, more often than not, their creators say "that's ok". I have the feeling there are two camps here, those who don't mind being copied and those who do. The site is set up to note which creations are successors, and to award points to predecessors, so is it really a problem? In my mind, yes, it is, but usually in the cases where only superficial changes have been made. Do we need to re-address the rules and this issue in SP?
@nukacolaquantum I was just trying to use upvotes as a way to persuade the devs that they should use this idea.
Maybe the automod can be the final judge for the decision by investigating if the user that is using the plane from the creator, has copied other planes. And creator will only get 2-3 requests a day, but the problem is that good users will be unable to do they're project on the vehicle.
And maybe the automod could just be in charger of accepting successors, but this would not include the upvote part.
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