Man, the algorithms are weird...
I've been going through my old liveries, seeing which ones have less than 3 downloads (most have 0) or serious problems, updating the ones that are half decent (more accurate decals, balancing decorative elements, fixing the transitions between front/side/top of car, fixing centering of decals where necessary, fixing colors, fixing accuracy in liveries based on real cars, etc) and resharing the old liveries, usually a few a day until something 'hits'. Most of the time, none of them get any attention at all. Once in a while, one will rack up 20 or 30 downloads and a couple likes. Well, a street racing Integra I reshared the other day hit for something like 240 downloads and dozens of uses in about 8 hours (massive for me when my biggest doesn't even have 400 downloads). Here's the thing: it's not even a very good livery. It's just one of those "modified stripe on the top with a dynamic shape on the side, along with a handful of logos". I just painted the hood carbon fiber, fixed a few transitions for the designs, and slapped on a handful of logos I made. I'm not happy with the livery, I'm not happy with the logo placement and color, and I'm baffled at the sudden interest. Oh well, I guess I'll take it regardless. I just wish I knew why my super-accurate recreations and my better designed original liveries get no reaction whatsoever when the low effort Integra blew up.
I mean, do you know how much effort I put into not only perfecting those logos for my JGTC cars, but FINDING THE CORRECT LOGO FROM A SHORT LIVED BUSINESS, IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE, THAT SHUT DOWN TWENTY YEARS AGO?!?! APPRECIATE MY EFFORTS!!
