Too many Automation mods

I don't mean to be rude, but I think there are just way too many Automation vehicles clogging up the mods page. As I write this post, there are 4,808 Automation vehicles, which is 1,883 more than every other type of mod combined.

It's easy to understand why, of course. They're way easier to make than any actual mod, so of course more people would be making them. What infuriates me is when I'm looking for specific mods on the forums, the results are filled with Automation vehicles. For example, if I search "Ford" on the forums, 90% of the results are Automation vehicles, mostly of dubious quality.

This makes actual vehicle mods (and granted, there are like 2 that exist in this example) very hard to find.

In the mod manager, this problem is solved: Automation vehicles are given their own tab, and even better, there is the option to filter out specific mod types without being limited to one type. I just wish these two solutions would be implemented on the forums as well.

Any rebuttals to or opinions on this argument are welcome.

 

theres got to be at least 50 accounts with over 30 mods posted and the don't even have a single message

automation=cancer

 

I would also like to point out that ever since the Automation update, the New Resources sidebar/column is virtually useless. Case in point:

 

Also the threads is starting to have Automation Packs postings...

 

because of the nature of automation, there will be shiity cars.
we cant avoid it. I do think we can do something about it.
Automation cars posted to the repo will have a shelf-life, unless they surpass 2K downloads. (30 days?)
This insures good ones will be left up, and will re-instate actual interest in the automation category of the repo, then good cars have a higher chance of being recognized for what they are.
Also people who dont want their cars possibly discarded after the shelf life is reached and they dont have 2K downloads, they can post them on the forums.
'but what if they just re-upload it after 30 days has been reached?' Well, little Timmy, humans dont work like that. I highly even doubt the creator will even notice for a long time, and if/when he does, he will think 'oh, this got like 50 downloads, maybe i should make it better OR not upload it again.'
Or he will just upload it again either way, but this system should seriously discourage that behavior

and yeah that needs to be dealt with pronto

 

Just look the other way.

 

new ressources section is full of automation shit, it's boring...

 

Speaking of milking the everloving crap out of things, there's people that are an active community member that went from 2 mods to 116

 

Wait, what? the new resources section was removed?
The thing is, we want to ignore mods we don't want to use. The forum's structure makes that difficult.

 

Well at least this issue has been resolved I think for now and also has the new release tab been removed for some reason?

@Nadeox1 How will you keep an eye on the new mod updates if you dont have that new release tab there, I am just asking

 

Automation cars need some level of moderation. 90% of the cars there are low effort things put together in a few minutes. Its concerning how Automation mods with less than 100 downloads make up more than 60% of the repo.

 

I agree with you on this, I mean I have 7 mods up myself and they are of reasonable effort but yeah, 90% are total crap and people out there are spamming them up to get them up, I feel if that happens you need to be limited in the amount of uploads you can do

 

Ok, see this confuses me... when I click on the mod page.... I am not shown a single automation mod until I physically go and select automation mods. That is the only way I can get them to show up in any shape or form. Is this not the same for everyone else?

 

I suspect that page is for actual mods that do create good work rather than the Automation tab which requires a full on bunny suit and a gas mask to venture into once you click it

 

Yeah figures and thanks for getting back so quickly

 

I don't see the issue. Yeah some of those Automation cars are pretty bad but it's not a problem, it's not like they're stopping hand-made mods from existing. Also, I don't know about you guys but my "Mods" tab doesn't show a single Automation mod by default.

Like Nadeox said, this is really a non-problem...

 

There straight up shouldn't be a repo for Automation.
I can't imagine it's good for the forum's performance and you can literally just send the .zip over PM or other sites.