I have the same problem and even when I type in very specific search results can't find my creations.

To get views you have to build something interesting looking, then take a really good, well lit snapshot of it for the upload. Think: magazine cover shot. And if it's a plane, have it flying, etc (hard to get well framed). Give it a descriptive name, that will make sense to others. Then get the ball rolling by rating, favouriting and subscribing to the item yourself!

Good luck.

The search feature is dumb - you have to use the exact spelling of (part of) the name, essentially. You can't seem to search for players names.

Originally posted by ZeroGravitas:

To get views you have to build something interesting looking, then take a really good, well lit snapshot of it for the upload. Think: magazine cover shot. And if it's a plane, have it flying, etc (hard to get well framed). Give it a descriptive name, that will make sense to others. Then get the ball rolling by rating, favouriting and subscribing to the item yourself!

Good luck.

The search feature is dumb - you have to use the exact spelling of (part of) the name, essentially. You can't seem to search for players names.

issue with all of the above is the snapshot feature is legitimate garbage.

i want to edit the snapshot to replace it with a decent screenshot with banners n stuff but nah and unlike other games i cant even find the folder to replace files.

Originally posted by ZeroGravitas:

To get views you have to build something interesting looking, then take a really good, well lit snapshot of it for the upload. Think: magazine cover shot. And if it's a plane, have it flying, etc (hard to get well framed). Give it a descriptive name, that will make sense to others. Then get the ball rolling by rating, favouriting and subscribing to the item yourself!

Good luck.

The search feature is dumb - you have to use the exact spelling of (part of) the name, essentially. You can't seem to search for players names.

Oh its not a problem of finding them but to have several things uploaded for over a month and still set at 0 views even is odd... you would think over that span of time someone would have at least looked at them. apparently not.

The older they are the less likely they are to be seen, given that items get buried pretty quickly under all the content and spam. I don't think anyone actually bothers to dig 50 pages back through the feed (and click onto stuff there). You have to have made it pretty big, already, to remain visible at all.

second and ultimetly the reason this workshop has no potential isnt a developer issue, but a user issue, the ratio of subs:ratings is far too low to support a high quality community, as there is no ingame rating prompt.

if some effort were made to encourage people to rate items, then maybe you would start to see better items at the top rather than some trashy pixel art thing that dosent even move, and stop the high quality items from getting lost.

Hopefully though, the snapshot issue is being fixed by valve ;)
(they are supposed to be fixing the bug that stops you replacing the intial screenshot)

Originally posted by SandTag:

Hopefully though, the snapshot issue is being fixed by valve ;)
(they are supposed to be fixing the bug that stops you replacing the intial screenshot)

Oh, is that a universal issue with the Workshop on all games? I assumed it would be TerraTech related, being the tech snapshot, after all.

I don't know that being able to change the thumbnail image would be a good thing; it would lead to dominance of click bait (like YouTube).

Originally posted by ZeroGravitas:

Originally posted by SandTag:

Hopefully though, the snapshot issue is being fixed by valve ;)
(they are supposed to be fixing the bug that stops you replacing the intial screenshot)

Oh, is that a universal issue with the Workshop on all games? I assumed it would be TerraTech related, being the tech snapshot, after all.

I don't know that being able to change the thumbnail image would be a good thing; it would lead to dominance of click bait (like YouTube).

its a common to and from argument, but ultimetley its a necissary feature which was intended to have been implimented (though steam changed their mind from what im aware).

there are several games out there with this issue of poor quality screenshots, some bypass the system allready with great success (see besiege), its not exactly like there isnt enough out there to show that people want the thumbnail update to be fixed.

if they dont bother to fix it, then option 2 is that given how bad it and other "meant to be improved" features this game has, i think it would be time to start worrying about removal tbh.

Well some late reply... I am still experiencing the issue that may not exist. Nonetheless it is still extremely unusual to not gain hardly a single view or unique user view over the time of many months even on creations that blew up on the past such as my Scout Drone V2 with about 3k subs on the workshop and hasn't changed by hardly any at all.

hey i'm new to i found it helps if you give it a good name. i poste a joke with a funny name and it alredy has 2 subscribers in 1 week,by the way the name of the tech is LITTLE BOI

or go on to on randome muti-player gmes and tell pepole about you'er tech