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Copy-paste from other thread:
Car skin bugs: those who have national car selected are displaying random national car to others, and it changes after a map change.

So weird it's actually funny...
one player asked if it could be as an option for the player

But seriously, how can this be possible?

No-one else seeing this on other servers?
Happening all the time on the server Poets of the Sky in Finland (login: poets)
All players see this. National cars change every map...

I'll try to clean all caches tomorrow (server and client) and see if it helps.

obviously there are still many issues with the skins. I also have seen some missing or wrong skins, but I did not pay too much attention to the skins in general.

first question is: do all players have updated to the latest version of maniaplanet?
then, did they allow skin exchange or did they forget to open their firewalls for P2P?
There are many combinations of skin usage and skin visibility.

• no skin
• nation specific skin
• own custom skin
• own custom skin in the cloud, with locator
• foreign custom skin, with locator

in case the skin information can't be retrieved - despite the nationality is known to the server controller,
the local engine doesn't know it actually, and selects a random skin or uses gray default skin.

what is a real bug now, Nadeo has to find out

TMarc wrote:first question is: do all players have updated to the latest version of maniaplanet?

Yes, and this started happening after the update.

TMarc wrote:then, did they allow skin exchange or did they forget to open their firewalls for P2P?
There are many combinations of skin usage and skin visibility.

• no skin
• nation specific skin
• own custom skin
• own custom skin in the cloud, with locator
• foreign custom skin, with locator

The issue is with the national car skins in TM2 Stadium. Custom skins are working fine.

samp wrote:No-one else seeing this on other servers?
Happening all the time on the server Poets of the Sky in Finland (login: poets)
All players see this. National cars change every map...

I'll try to clean all caches tomorrow (server and client) and see if it helps.

I noticed this tonight while playing with one of my buddies from South Africa. His car was seemingly randomly changing country every map. On one map he was showing up with the RUS skin, the next he was using the CRO skin. Needless to say he wasn't changing it ingame and it should've been showing as RSA skin.

I haven't checked other players skin changes, but for my canyon car I see the same problem. Every new canyon map my own skin changes randomly.

was having this problem since some months but it has gone worse. before mp3 i got each 1-2 weeks a new car skin from the game, before that it gave me sometimes the silver skin. have seen this for other players too, before mp3 we got the same skins, now its various national cars changing on each map.

my system:

steam
intel i7-2600k
windows 7 64-bit
16gb ram
geforce 580 gtx

edit: i reinstalled the game, was still there but now with the silver skin (that was the first problem even before the various skins came in 1-2 months ago). after cache-clearing, someone suggested that to me, it is gone now. i dont know for how long.

Update:
Cleared cache, both server and client, no change.

Player who has the random skin change went to change to another national skin, no change.

Before the player could choose national skin and it showed correctly to other players.

There should be no P2P, or other locator related issues when you choose national car skin that is already included in the game. Clearly, something changed with the update (fixed something and broke something with the included skins).


Edit. Now the car shows correctly for the player. Maybe she had to change national car and then after others connected again to the game -> it was correct.

cars still switching for me, sometimes at each mapchange. but only national cars before mp3 it was some custom cars (but still f1 design)

ar the skins official? or is perhaps a locator used and the location has changing skins (silly idea but perhaps someone did it).