All downloads/uses/likes for my livery design have disappeared! Please help!

So I finished my first design on 10/01/2014. Its a Replica Livery of a legendary Subaru Impreza Rally Car driven for the Subaru World Rally Team. The livery is called Impreza Rally 42 and its for the 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX STi

I was quite proud of my work and thus I shared it with the community immediately. Over the next few days I kept checking the design share stats and excitedly saw the numbers continue to grow. Last night when I was checking I saw the downloads had reached 2996!


I was curious to see what stats are displayed to the community when they are searching for designs so I looked up my own gamertag in the design search. My Subaru Impreza immediately popped up and I pressed A hoping to see more information but instead the game immediately downloaded the design to “My Designs”. I didn’t want a duplicate entry in my designs so I deleted that blunder in short order. Afterward I checked the stats again to see that the downloads had reached 3001. I got back to my championship knowing my livery would continue to be appreciated by the community.

After a bit of racing I went back to the garage and checked my livery stats, I was devastated to find “# of Downloads”, “# of Uses”, and “# of Likes” all ZEROED OUT and O STARS in popularity. Is there anyone I can contact to try and rectify this? Is it possible that it is a UI error and the downloads are still being tracked but im just not seeing them?

Please help! Thank you for your time!
-MIND BULL3TS

I looked it up to see if anything showed for me, and I can’t seem to find the design at all. I suspect the problem is that you accidentally canceled the sharing when you where downloading/deleting things. I had a similar mistake happen in FM5.

Sorry to say, I suspect you can only put the file back up for sharing, and start over.

I feel like I was flagged by a stat padding prevention method. The system thought I was downloading my own design just to push up the numbers and then punished me by banning the design. Is there a chance that this could be rectified by a Turn10 support member?

Interestingly i have already seen the effect of the popularity of my livery, I found this shot today on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/forza/comments/2iaom4/hard_landing/

Someone driving my Livery evidently had a hard landing lol

Yeah, it definitely stinks, no matter what happened. I really have no idea one way or another if T10 can fix it, but I feel your pain.

NEW RULE! Don’t download your own designs!

:slight_smile:

Well I know it was right at 3001 before it was zeroed out, I have already seen a screenshot of my livery being used by a random member of the public on Reddit only 5 Days after the livery was released, and Im sure it will continue to be well received…

Interestingly i have been paid 100000 Cr (2x 50000Cr) for this design reaching “Elite Status” and one of these payments came through after this incident actually

So Im still holding out hope that my 3001 downloads can be reinstated some how, but i’ve re-shared the livery under the same name