Re: 11 Reasons why Spore Fame is NOT all that great

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:26 am

Gen wrote:Lots of truth in this thread... it burns you out that's for sure.

Oh i must say I concur
Welcome, heard some great things about you Gen...

by **Andeavor** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:31 am

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:34 am

I was agreeing with Gen's statement on spore fame Andy Wink

I have found that the more subs i get the harder it becomes to get anything in the MPN, anyone else found this?

by **Vektrix** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:36 am

bmpalmann wrote:I was agreeing with Gen's statement on spore fame Andy
I have found that the more subs i get the harder it becomes to get anything in the MPN, anyone else found this?

Agreed.

Though I always had trouble with the MPN. Despite reaching #1 11 times and achieving #1 and #2 simultaneously once.

by **SuperLoki** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:36 am

I found it harder to reach the MPN ever since copied-adventures and Dargons became The Next Big Thing.

I even made a test a few times. Make a creation I spent time and effort on, and make a Dragon. The Dragon got the most attention, every time.

by **Andeavor** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:36 am

I think it depends on your activity. Unless I crank out more than 4 or 5 creations I quickly get one or two of them on the MPN, but there have been the one or other exception.

You also have to be really good at what you do.

by **Arkanay** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:45 am

SuperLoki wrote:The Dragon got the most attention, every time.

I'm not surprised.

Just create what you feel like and have a good time with it Smile

by **SuperLoki** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:45 am

Agreed. Hence why I don't bother now Laughing

by **world_piece** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:58 am

I remember back in the day when I'd spend hours returning comments. That's how I got my sub count higher. It also helped when I was highly active during the old days. I would imagine it being much tougher now unless you just comment and comment away.

MPN is easy to ignore. Stop going to quality spore, stop going to the MPN on the sporepedia and stop checking for rates.

And really the best way to gain popularity is to make an anti-downrate creation. That formula works every time.

I remember the anti-dragon creation I made. Many lulz were had but I found a TON of people who shared by opinion.

And hi G3, no long time no see brotha.

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:59 am

Vektrix wrote:
bmpalmann wrote:I was agreeing with Gen's statement on spore fame Andy
I have found that the more subs i get the harder it becomes to get anything in the MPN, anyone else found this?

Agreed.

Though I always had trouble with the MPN. Despite reaching #1 11 times and achieving #1 and #2 simultaneously once.

Yeah, i've hit the number 1 spot 15 times and got the 1 and 2 simultaneously. But actually getting responses to comments can be really challenging. I actually try and spend time giving good feedback but to no avail.

The worst case for me was when i made an adventure recently. It's still on 11 plays after 2 months or so. My previous adventures have got 70 - 100 and those were a while ago.

by **Arkanay** Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:10 am

You're not alone there, Ben. My adventures barely get any plays too.

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:28 am

Yeah Ark, it's the sheer irony of the figures; at the time of releasing that adventure i had 750 subs and i got 11 plays for it.

by **Sakiara** Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:59 am

Idk, honestly I haven't really had trouble getting on the MPN Embarassed

I have a group of friends and active subscribers that get my creations up there. Don't care about the rates though, I like to read the comments. Adventures are a different story, they are usually ignored.

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:02 am

I'm still of the opinion that vehicle/ spaceship editors are the hardest to become popular.
And like you Saki i prefer the comments, although they can sometimes be hard to get as well. Saying that i've got 180 comments i haven't approved Razz

by **Arkanay** Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:06 am

bmpalmann wrote:I'm still of the opinion that vehicle/ spaceship editors are the hardest to become popular.

If you mean popular by quality, then I have to say that I believe the adventure editor is the hardest to get popular at.

Because you can easily become popular through stupid methods, like making anti-downrating creations. That, imo, doesn't count.

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:09 am

Yeah you might be right on adventure editor (although i was more referring to core spore editors)
And yes popular by quality.

by **Sakiara** Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:21 am

Sorry Ben, I don't agree with you. In my opinion, there are a ton more creators that make spaceships then buildings. Out of the building creators, there are only a small handful that are actually popular, and make quality ones at that.

Agree on the adventure part though. Popularity nowadays is just making dragons, pop culture stuff, and whiney crap.

I used to comment back on every comment I received. I'm extremely behind and probably won't start that up again. I feel bad about it Sad

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:31 am

You're right about there being more creators who make ships than buildings.
But the issue is popularity, only fairly recently have more spaceship creators started to come through, yet the top 10 MPN still has more buildings and creatures than vehicles.
The sort of people who tend to sub to vehicle and spaceship creators are rarely active, i've only ever received comments from about 10/800 at any one time, whilst a lot of other vehicle/ship creators hardly get any comments at all (keeping in mind that these are very good creators who put the time in to comment on the work of others). Whilst from what i can tell building editor subs tend to be much more active and creature editor kinda speaks for itself at this point.

NOTE: As a group of people i tend to get most of my comments from the UBD creators

by **Sakiara** Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:33 am

lol, I don't agree with anything you said. More ships and creatures on the MPN. But this is offtopic!! Mad

by **bmpalmann** Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:40 am

More ships on MPN doesn't equal more fame...

But yeah spore fame sucks Razz

by Descardion Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:55 pm

I am very familiar with this topic. Blargh.

OH GUYS BY THE WAY I'M CREATING AGAIN SEE IF YOU CAN HUNT DOWN MY NEW ACCOUNT! For those of you who know the secret, don't spoil it. :B

by **Illusionary** Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:56 pm

Descardion wrote:For those of you who know the secret, don't spoil it. :B

by **jellyman12** Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:58 pm

I never had spore fame, so I don't really relate to the OP much

by Descardion Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:59 pm

Superhint: I got two creatons on the front page MP, and I only have 7 so far. Wink

by **LordRemington** Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:30 pm

Descardion wrote:Superhint: I got two creatons on the front page MP, and I only have 7 so far.

Considering its not letting me go onto spore.com, I couldn't guess.

Meh, i probably said it earlier, but i'll say it again. The irony is once I started getting noticed, I stopped caring.

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