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HI I HAVE A PROBLEM! MY ID ON TRACKMANIA2 CANYON IS tzunami3442
i bought the game on steam.. but other people on line told me that they see me as a free car (SILVER) but my car i actually a TOYOTA CELICA (IMPORT TUNER GRAPHICS)
WHY???????????????
THANKS FOR THE ANSWERS

hello
1. please do not write everything in capitals (this is not nice)
2. please give more detail in the topic title
3. there are known issues regarding the skins:
- first of all it is not really important for the gameplay, which car you have, as the game determines the car physics, not the model - the car always behaves the same, regardless of the model
As long as you can see youe selected, its already good enough, don't you think?
- then, it depends a lot on network and P2P settings of the game, if others want to see your skins, or if they do not want, or if their (or your!) firewalls are blocking the P2P transfer which is necessary for the skin exchange.
- finally we have to see the final release of Stadium and the possibilities and restrictions of the full vs. the possibly available F2P version.

yes but i bought the game.. if i want to make seen my car silver i dont purchase the game.. i remain in free version.. i put the convalid code in the (enter a key) button but it told me that is incorrect.. how i can fix this problem? i know that doesn't count for the gameplay but i want to make seen my car! (sorry for my bad english)

As I said, the problem why the skin is silver for some is not very easy to solve.
Some skins are visible, mostly custom skins, others are not.
There are many points to consider, before it is working:
- You have to open the P2P port in your firewall.
- You have to allow your skin to be displayed for others (did you say yes when the game asked you about it?)!
- Other players must allow their firewalls for P2P data.
- And other players also must allow to see skins from others.
- If you hve the skin and model only on your PC, then the download from your machine to all the other players will take long, especially if you have DSL or a weaker connection to the internet.
A possible solution to this is to upload the skin once to a cloud storage, and use so called locator files to link the cloud storage. Then the other players PCs would download your skin from the cloud storage and then they would see the skins much earlier.

Last thing, we all have to wait for the release version to see if everything is working fine then.
That the skins are not always shown properly is a known issue.
But at the moment we do not have a clear information in this forum when it will be fixed.

And please do not connect to servers only to ask the others if they can see your skin or not.