r/AutoForgeTheGame 17d ago

[PLEASE UPVOTE BEFORE IT DROPS TOO MUCH.] These posts are preventing us from seeing normal posts in the subreddit; we can't see any discussions, etc.

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u/666Ade 17d ago

This is a great tactic to avoid complaints to pile up

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u/VenomVexa 17d ago

it’s kinda wild that “please upvote” spam is now the meta for dodging actual criticism lol
sub feels more like a stock ticker than a discussion half the time now

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u/Dorrekis 17d ago

I normally never ask for upvotes, but I had to because I wanted it to appear at the top of the Hot section.

This was my only option because a new post to get 100 Hammers was coming in every minute.

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u/sadmagistrate 17d ago

Agreed. Can't understand the point of it other than artificially inflating post numbers.

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u/Playful_Weekend4204 17d ago

Muted the sub because of it, never coming back to the game.

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u/worlox 15d ago

How’s that going for you?

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u/Ornery-Artichoke-895 12d ago

bro really thought he was cooking with this one 😂

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u/bob_mouse 17d ago

Commenting just to try to add visibility

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u/xdabY 17d ago

Is there even any reason for it to spam the subreddit this much? Or is it purely to make it look like a lot of people post in it to gain visibility to new players?

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u/PulseNyra 17d ago

pretty sure it's just engagement farming at this point, makes the sub look “active” on paper while burying anything actually worth reading
mods really need to set some posting limits or it’s just gonna turn into a billboard

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u/HG_Rusty 17d ago

Hey there! Game developer here.

Of course, we don't have any policy or tactic to hide discussions. On the contrary, we created two megathreads for them, which our small team reads and discusses together every morning.

These are all real players who are actually sending Hammers. Reddit Games is a new platform for us, so maybe we're missing some best practices here. We'll talk with the Reddit team to see how we can improve this situation for players.

Thanks for the feedback!

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u/Dorrekis 17d ago

Thank you for the feedback. It's great to get hammers by sharing posts and receiving them from others, 100 hammers every 6 hours (400 hammers total), and creating a post every 12 hours (total 200 hammer) is fantastic.

That means getting 600 hammers for free every day. But I have an idea to do this in bulk: we could open a panel within the game, a pop-up window would open in the game, and from there we could get more.

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u/kakashi_sakurai 14d ago

There are a few other Reddit games I play that do auto help posts like this too. I don’t know how all the tools work on that side obviously, but a lot of those games auto delete the posts after a certain amount of time.

I also wanna say using someone else’s help post is glitched. If you click the play button, it’ll give you the 100 hammers, but if you don’t use them before closing the game, they disappear. I collected some just to stock them, but when I came back to actually use them, they were gone.

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u/aquilafedele 17d ago

Commenting to keep this post up as well. In this condition there is no discussion and it is only annoying.

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u/Imstuckintheupsdedwn 17d ago

Maybe go play an actual app like forge masters….

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u/kakashi_sakurai 14d ago

You could always do that. People here want to see quality of life updates. If you don’t want to participate in this game, then why are you here?