Cope with that loss, Buddy✌🏿

@that1devil try posting it unlisted first then checking it to see if its the actual thumbnail. you can make it public after you check and write the description

How do i ensure that a picture ive uploaded is the actual thumbnail?

@PPLLAANNEE im on android and its not really too doable there, otherwise my thumbnails would be pretty good cuz i have some experience in terms of Image editing

@atgxtg, refer to this tutorial here.

@PPLLAANNEE I wish someone would do a tutorial on just how to embed the custom images into SP. I've tired a few different ways and nothing seems to work, and I'm stuck with the three standard screenshots.

@that1devil
Do what you like. If you don't like designing and building stuff (and there are times where I hate doing it-"Why's it banking to the left?!!") then don't do it as much and play more. You bought the game to have fun, so do whatever you enjoy.
Whatever you do, don't play the game just for rating points or you'll always be dependent on other players for your enjoyment of the game.

the best way to get attention is with custom thumbnails. try taking a screenshot of the plane in the game that shows it off well and using that. the picture should be during something dynamic like shooting a missile or flying in a canyon. the instant i started using custom thumbnails my builds got so much more attention.

@that1devil well if its fun for you than go for it! its a video game afterall right? you play it to have fun and mess around ;)

what @atgxtg said is correct, as a new player your build quality is definitely not very good, compared with the hundreds even thousand part builds, as a new player you gotta require some luck to catch the algorithm and you will gain the momentum from there.

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if you actually scroll all the way back to my first builds, the quality are not the best, theyre pretty bad. But its called improvement, my builds now are already improving very much and it will improve more and more in the future, its called progress and it takes time

@atgxtg ya Ig but now instead of trying to make quality builds, ill just make more simple builds because i dont like spenden hours on optimizing a plane but instead i like to make a plane in like 10-20 minutes and well, then i make the next one. Playing like that is just more fun

It's not that you are doing anything wrong per say, it's more a case of where you sit on the learning curve vs. what people are looking for.

When most people start off in Simpleplanes they build fairy basic, simple aircraft, as they should. But these basic designs usually do not have much that would interest more experienced builders. So new players don't get much traffic or feedback. Also keep in mind that all new designs sort of compete with each other for attention and advanced designs will coll features tend to attract more attention, downloads and feedback.

Just keep plugging away and as you make more designs and as your designs get progressively better, you should eventually make something that interests people and gets more feedback. It just takes time. I've been playing SP for 5 years and I only have about 1400 more points that you do. Most of those came from things that I didn't expect earn points, while most of the stuff I though would get points didn't.