Give 1 point for each download

A very good idea, but I think that in some cases it can be brazenly exploited by luring it with a beautiful description and images, but craft's performance can be fully verified only by downloading the craft;
Anyway, points are not the most important thing, sometimes just one exact comment can replace ten points, there is no need to chase points so furiously:}

I like the idea but it should give a different reward like +rep

@bartekkru100 But also low downloads, and with the system I'm proposing if you don't get to a number of likes you don't get the points

@pedro16797
I feel like worse crafts will tend to have lower like to dowload ratios.

@bartekkru100 but you have many high quality crafts with very little upvotes and tones of downloads, because there're lots of people that don't take part in community activity. I would love to see any example of 5 min rocket with lots of downloads. I can give you some of really good crafts with a weird download/upvote ratio.

@pedro16797
My point is that download count doesn't reflect the quality of a craft that much. You can have a really crappy rocket put together in 5 minutes that has the same amount points as the most realistic shuttle replica, simply because it was downloaded the same amount of times, while with the current system awful spacecraft will ALMOST NEVER get to the top, because even if someone downloads it. And of course you could make a point that those bad creations will be dowloaded less, but the thing is that people tend to download things with higher ratings more often.

@bartekkru100 not really, it's favored by the upvote system. Let's say someone makes 5 crafts with 3 upvotes but with 5 downloads.
They don't get to the download threshold so no points for downloads but 5315=225 points for the upvotes

The problem is that people that make a lot of low effort/low quality crafts will be favored by this system.

@pedro16797 I don't think that players should be entitled to points like that just because they bring more people into the game. If the people like the build, they'll upvote it. We don't need in implement points into every aspect of the website. I'm pretty sure there was even a recommendation for points every time you upload an original craft. Things like this just seem unnecessary and extra.

@Mostly the unbalance that I see is that there are crafts with 200 downloads (my roadster for example) that have almost the same amount of upvotes than the Falcon Heavy replica (1500+ downloads)

I think those crafts are what bring people into the game and what casual users play with and get inspired with, and there are a lot of users that download crafts but don't interact with the community directly by giving upvotes or comenting. I think that's the real unbalance, having someone that has made a craft with 1600 downloads that has less than 600 points in the web

@pedro16797 Just sounds unnecessary, another way to milk points. Posts already get heaps of upvotes and point w/o this feature. Even now people would probably do anything for points. Just seems like another problem for the mods to deal with and another feature that will be completely unbalanced for the majority of players.

@Mostly it's as easy to exploid as creating multiple accounds, or having upvote for upvote. It would be suspicious to see a bad craft with weird download numbers and devs could check if the points are deserved

NOpe NONO
Good idea with good intentions but...
This is easily exploitable, would not add.