I’m a pretty active makerworld user, a very small designer but I upload maybe 5 designs a week. I interact, download, print, review, all the things, yet I haven’t earned any boosts other than the original 2 for each printer I have.
Is there a reason for this? The points system change is a hot topic (I saw a drop in points also) but if I’m not earning boosts to hand out as an active user, how is anyone else?
Welcome to the forum.
I’ll point you to this recent post from the Official Makerworld account. It’s buried in a long thread.
Thanks.
My issue will be the prints I’m doing. In the last week I’ve printed 5 models, only one with a print time over an hour. I think I upload far more than I print 
Try printing models according to their guidelines, i printed two large models yesterday and got my token right away
So I don’t understand this. Why would it make sense to spend more than an hour printing with the Bambulab printer to get a Boost token? It’s not good for the environment and therefore not good for the global climate. It’s not good for your wallet because the hardware wears out and you have to buy filament for printing. It’s not good for my time, because every child knows that time is precious. It’s not good if I want to print my own things or need to print for business because it ties up the printer. Why would you do this for a boost token?
I’m not sure if they mean directly using makerworld to print for an hour. I could be wrong though but so far I’ve gained 2 boosts a week but I have printed 2 things off MW but not their profiles.
Id much rather be compensated a boost for simply using their printer…I mean technically were all paying for that boost the moment the printers are powered on…
If you use MW to open a model in BS, tweak the profile, and then print it, you are still asked to rate the model profile layer even though you changed their choices to yours.
Assuming you do a variation of the above (ignoring the unrelated rate part part) then that should count towards the print time.
The question here would be, if you print a 32 minute plate, but, printing two things at the same time takes it to 1 hour and 4 minutes - would this count to MW as 32 minutes or 1 hour 4 minutes?
I don’t like this approach. Most people should have a Bambulab printer to receives Boost tokens. And those who have a printer also print with it. Then let them use the printing times of the printers. The operating hours are saved, aren’t they? They can do that with every printer. Then it doesn’t matter what we print with it, because we are printing or not? If I have hardware developments, I print for a very long time or a lot. Isn’t that enough? But just to get a controversial boost token, I don’t let myself be held liable by having to print models from Makerworld because otherwise I won’t get any tokens. It’s getting worse instead of better.
Best regards!
Just turn down your print speed until whatever you’re printing takes over an hour. As long as they use silly criteria, they will get silly results
I think you do understand it.
Every recent action and rule change has one aim: to make Bambu Lab more money.
So printing more often plus longer prints, leads to, as you said, worn out hardware and needing more filament which leads to… see point above.
The audacity of Bambu Labs, I mean seriously. They sell a printer knowing full well we’ll have to purchase filament. They sell us this printer knowing full well that there will be wear and tear, so they’ll have to provide parts to keep things maintained. I mean, their greed is out of control. I can not think of any other 3d printing company that has taken such offensive actions against the community as to release a printer that requires filament and maintenance.
oh, don’t worry I know how a business works.
I’m just surprised that some people (like the commenter I replied to, and the countless threads of people complaining how the new points system doesn’t work well), don’t seem to understand Bambu Labs is a business trying to make money and all the changes are working exactly how they are intended.
I mean, MakerWorld’s entire purpose is to drive sales of printers and filament, so why are people surprised they are now making users jump through even more hoops that lead to more sales.
I received a boost today. Weirdly, I did NOT receive the two boosts rather than one.
Did I misunderstand this?
I read it as…
“If you qualify for a weekly boost, for a limited time, we will give you two instead.”
It could mean…
“You have two chances to obtain a boost, for a total of two in any one week.”
Who knows, @MakerWorld always fails to provide key information we can work with.
@nadnerb33 I didn’t think that simply “earning money” was behind the hurdle of printing. I could imagine something else, something more profound, but I have no idea what that would be.
I don’t think it’s worth thinking about anymore. Just let them get on with it. Put time into their own projects and set up their own reward system for your projects at different ways. See what other websites offer.
Best regards!
The boost system is a joke. It doesn’t help new makers at all. Really a disappointment. Even the boat’s Benchy has hundreds of boosts! It makes no sense and very few boosts are given to users to give away
you should go to thingiverse or printables then, where you get absolutely nothing in return(prusa filament spools arent free btw, when you pay shipping it cost more than a roll of filament)
jesus so much whining and entitlement here… stop trying to make a career out of it just print and have fun and reap the free rewards if you deserve them
If you guys think your designs are amazing join some contests where you can win hudreds in prizes
they continuously state its a work in progress and they are open to suggestions you cant fix it all overnight because there is so much to overlook.
if you are butthurt about it currently, you can thank all the bots and scammers for ruining a good thing.
printables then, where you get absolutely nothing in return(prusa filament spools arent free btw, when you pay shipping it cost more than a roll of filament)
Speak for yourself, shipping in Europe is $4 for 3 rolls of filament. Secondly, the quality of the filament from Prusa beats that from BL and finally, all filaments are almost always available, in case of BL it is quite the opposite, there is very rarely anything in stock.
I have exactly the same projects on printables as here. There, on average, I have 3 spools of filament (1050 prusaments) every two weeks or 100$ voucher for 1000 prusaments, here in the last two weeks I “earned” 155 points (11$)… boost included.
You must live really close to the Prusa warehouse.
Because I’m paying 12.50€ at minimum for the delivery for 3 spools to Belgium (1000km away)
But for people outside the EU it’s even worse and they also need to pay import taxes on top of it. So yeah if you live in north America it costs you almost 30$ to get 3 “free” spools.
I agree the prusament is a bit superior to bbl filaments especially the winding.
But 1050 prusameters = 3 spools PLA/PETG/ASA = 90€
And ASA is out of stock since month now. And you can only have “basic” filaments with those vouchers.
On the other hand with 1048 points on MW you get 80€ gift card. You can almost have 4 “basic” filament spools. I’m more than happy to pay 6 to 8€ to get them since shipping is free over a 50€ order.
Without mentioning you can buy anything you want on the store with those gift cards.
And for me it’s the contrary I earn points faster on MW than on Printables. But to be faire I didn’t uploaded anything on printables since I’m on MakerWorld (3 month give or take).
So for me at least, I prefer the reward system on Makerworld.
Thats why I said “Speak for yourself” although when I changed the currency from my own to Euro, it was 5.15E (Warsaw, Poland)
I will write again, on Printables I earn an average of 1,000 points every two weeks, which is enough for a $100 voucher or 3 spools of filament.
To get 1048 points on MW and get 80€, after the changes introduced, including boosts, I have to wait 14 weeks!!! Where do you see the advantage of MW?!?! Exactly the same designs here and there
Let’s compare apples to apples, if you don’t have exactly the same on Printables and MW, how can you compare them at all? And of course, the points scored two and three months ago and the points scored currently are heaven and earth.
