My dowload count and followers also decreased.
Community Manager@EA_Cade Thanks for the reply on this. I completely understand the desire to prevent bad actors from inflating their download numbers. I still think this might warrant further investigation because there should be a way to determine if a user is downloading their own creations vs. other users downloading those creations multiple times.
Let's say I download User X's lot but delete it at some point. If I DL that lot again at any point, then User X's total DL number should still increase.
I've previously DLed a number of my own builds because they lost their "shared" status in my Library. (Currently none of my creations have the shared status cloud icon which I think is different bug? EIDIT: I created a separate bug report for this.) Hopefully that doesn't make me a bad actor. I wasn't trying to inflate my numbers. I just wanted to see which creations in my Library had already been shared and the only way to do that was to DL those creations that had lost their link (EDIT: this no longer seems to be a valid workaround). I was actually kind of annoyed that DLing my own creations counted toward the total.
My main point is that if other users are downloading creations more than once, I think that should still count toward the total DL number.
Well, I understand the much less traffic, after all, they have completely nuked the search engine.
I have empty apartments I can no longer furnish anymore. try searching for 1020 Alto Apartments, or 19CulpepperHouse, or any apartments, no results, even I simple word like Apartment brings you nothing but residental lots, so if you got empty bulldozed apartments you are now on your own to furnish them yourself.
One good thing about the lack of interest of the gallery, gallery performance is a lot faster, with less time-outs, etc.
I wonder what they deciding on screwing up next.
I understand your trying to fix everything just now. I too have this loss of downloads problem. But what's making a lots of simmers angry is the fact that the download cheaters creations are stuck at the top of the gallery filter option for Popular Now and #basegame. Because the search options are also broken. So because the cheaters creations were at the top when the maintenance started they are now being rewarded for it. Are the cheaters download number going to be halfed also ?? Also a lot of creations at the top of the gallery search are from 2-3 years ago or more.
