People aren't going to praise you and give you laurels. You shouldn't be doing things for that reason.
You should do things because you want to do them, and if others like it then great. That's have a true passion for a project, rather than just a passion for recognition.
Guess what it's not even my top video it's behind a video of me dicking around and joking
That's how it goes. Want to know what my most watched video is? Is it the only single stage to orbit aircraft carrier in SFS? Nope. Is it my completely re-useable drop pod and rover missions? Nope. Could it be the well edited trailer for the komodo launch vehicle? Not even close. It's a panning shot in the SPH around the Cheyenne dropship i made in KSP. Don't know why, it's just the way it is.
But then I don't build things for my channel. I'm not Anton or SFS Gamer where it's all about the 'like, share and subscribe, even though I'm actually not that good at the game and I've "borrowed" this blueprint/edited out the oarts where I'mnusing sandbox to complete it'.
I make stuff, and it goes on my channel. I make the things cos I'm passionate about that project, not because it'll get me likes and views. I've created things that'd obliterate anything they've even copied and claimed as their own, and get only a thousandth of the exposure they do.
I own the single largest launch system of any rocket game, anywhere.
I spent 2 years gaining the knowledge, and the best part of a fortnight designing, assembling and flying the rocket, recording the video, editing through several hours of half frame per second footage to get that thing together.
It's got about 20 views on youtube.
I could alter the title and thumbnail so it's got that twat font and CAPS LOCK that SFS Youtubers use, display it on discord and reddit and reel in a thousand views just like people do for their soulless Starship clones.
But I won't. I've not even advertised the 3rd video in the series, even though it's been online for about a month now.
Cos I made that for
me. Almost every single view it has is me, i made it for my enjoyment, because I was passionate about re-creating the largest payload carrying rocket in Kerbal Space Program.
I got no accolades or standing parades for
The Basics. The second thing I ever posted on this forum was one of the first and is still one of the most comprehensive rocket design and orbital mechanics spreadsheets available anywhere. About 5 people used it.
The basics thread is buried under about 7 pages of Falcon 9 clones, when update requests and 'what should I make next' requests. As for the spreadsheet? Only reason I can find it is because I can search for my own threads. But I don't care. People look at them and use them if they want to, or they don't. I made both because I wanted to create a one stop shop for people (and myself) to help them progress beyond the performance plateau that we all hit until we get deep into the game physics. The spreadsheet especially. I created that first and foremost for me to use.
Conversely, it's why I've sorta stopped updating the USFS. 1.4.06 is obsolete. But I don't use 1.5 and I'm not passionate about it enough to sink the roughly 100 hours or so I'd need to re-write what I've done previously and finish off the series. I haven't stopped cos everyone else stopped. I stopped because the update happened and I don't care enough about it, even though it's easily the most outwardly popular thing I've ever written.
I'm doing the badge challenges for several reasons. Partially because without them, it severely hinders the amount of waffle I can do. Mostly though, it's because I have some really cool ideas on how to complete the tasks and they're an opportunity for us (meaning those of us that have been here for ages, talk a big game about how expert we are) to show that we aren't just big talkers. There are
other reasons why I'm doing them, but that's not important.
It's an opportunity to show that we can actually walk the walk as well and thus
should doing it in such a way that justifies when we say 'we are the experts, you should do things properly so you can be like us', the newer members look at our entries and go 'yeah, you are a respected voice here for a reason'.
Hence why my moon mission was waay over top and much more complex that it needed to be. Same with the Mars mission I've completed but not finished recording. And the plans for
launching 4 space stations the 4 launch space station. And the Jove mission I did last night.
I think you should do the badge challenges. Do them your way. Get Merlin out and do each and every single mission using the same rocket, no re-spawns, completely re-useable. And not cos it'll get you likes and comments, but because you fucking can and you can make it look cool doing so.
And if you haven't got time for that, how will you have time for RP?