Hey folks.
i am trying to figure out how that influence system for painters and designers works.
i found out you get 100 points for a shared design. also i found out i get 0 points for a download, like or use.
atm i am painter lvl 4, for lvl 5 i need 13.000 points, so do i have to upload 1300 designs??
i have 12.000 design-downloads atm and it seems nothing grows my influence.
what am i doing wrong?
thanks for your replies!
There has been no official explanation yet. Some of us are trying to get some explanations from the devs … so hopefully we’ll have something soon.
How’s that working out for you Wildcat - have you had any updates since you last asked for information?
They’ve been very busy (understandably so). Was told by one PG person that they’d try to get back with me sometime tomorrow. They had a meeting today at PG and were going to discuss this at that meeting.
Good to hear. Would be good to get some clarification on how everything works so that painters know the most effective ways to promote their content.
There’s more to it than simply sharing designs. Downloads, likes and uses have to be included somehow … they’ve been the cornerstone of the painter/tuner rating and rewards system for years.
Thats what i thought too Wildcat, so i tried it out and nothing changed. i shut down the game over night and got a message in the evening. It told me i had around 900 DL, 55 likes and 800 Uses or something like that. i looked into Horizon Life before i shutted down Forza and had to increase my influence by 13.240. But there is no change. At least i should see a difference, but the influence is still at this point. But i think it cant be that i have to upload around 1300 Designs, it sounds a bit unreal to me, not just because i saw some peaple with around 8000 DL (4000 less than I have) and they already reached level 5 or 6. the only difference is, they had around 150 designs online and i have just 55 or something like that. If it just has to do with uploads, i have to start sharing every crap design and I guess thats not what PG wanted to have.
Based on what I’ve seen, it isn’t based on number of shared designs either. I am 2 or 3 painter levels higher than some people who have 2 or 3 times more paints shared than I have. It’s frustrating to try and figure out because just when I try to think of something else that might fit, I see someone’s stats or levels that contradicts my theory.
Could Vinyl Groups be tied to this? I have noticed that both Vinyl Groups and designs contribute to painter Influence.
At the moment I have about 300 Vinyl Groups and 30 designs shared, and am Tier 5.
I believe that the level stat for shared vinyl groups is inherited from your shared design level. Reason I say this is that I have not shared a single vinyl group in H4 … but on my Creative Hub, I have a level 7 marker next to the Vinyls tab … same as my level 7 marker next to the Designs tab.
Hope to see this fixed soon, otherwise will just load every car in every colour as a design lol
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Im thinking its really only time spent in the livery editor…
Oh great! I’m doing all my painting In FM7 & just doing the layouts in Horizon 4 
For the record I’m almost a level 4 with 15 or so shared designs, no vinyl groups and about 600ish downloads…
Nah … there’s more to it than just spending time in the livery editor. Still waiting for someone official to hopefully explain how it all works.
Time spent is an idea, but at the beginning i got a boost to level 3 just by imorting old stuff from FH3…and since i am creating new stuff i stuck at lvl 4
I think there might be an issue with level 5. I noticed that I rocketed up to painter level five rather quickly but I’ve been at rank 500 and have advanced maybe like 200 points over the past couple of days. This is despite my follower-rate and downloads increasing at the same, if not higher rate.
I noticed that importing designs from FH3 did not increase my rank BUT applying them did. So I think actually having the designs on cars influences it also. Not sure tho but I’m stuck at level 3 with 200 vinyls and about 50 liveries applied and shared and I just want those Artist Canvas shoes. Remind of the state of my real Converse haha
I noticed that importing designs from FH3 did not increase my rank BUT applying them did. So I think actually having the designs on cars influences it also. Not sure tho but I’m stuck at level 3 with 200 vinyls and about 50 liveries applied and shared and I just want those Artist Canvas shoes. Remind of the state of my real Converse haha
A friend tried it out, he just uploaded over a hundred crap designs and is lvl 6 now. so it doesn’t matter how many downloads you have - for now. maybe it is going to be fixed in a while. I hope so because good designers usually dont have many designs, there counts quality over quantity. I like it to have maybe 60 good designs and many downloads and people that like my work instead of having hundreds of crappy designs in my creative hub…
Uploading designs may be part of how influence is earned … but there’s more to it than that. We just don’t yet have an explanation about how the whole system works. For one … if your friend has over a hundred designs shared and is only level 6 … then how would you explain that I am a higher level painter than that with only 34 shared downloads? And how does my influence increase on days when I have not shared any paints? There is definitely more to it than just sharing paints … hopefully we’ll get an explanation from the devs soon.