I was looking at some of the routes on the DLS and started to download a few, based on the name and description.
Now I know that building a route is not an easy task, I've tried many times and they are all works in progress but there are a few things that really annoyed me after the recent downloads. I'm not talking about the missing unknown dependencies. It's easy to use something from a third party site and forget that others might not have it. Nor the compressed distances. It can be pretty boring to place and scenic kilometers of countryside.
No, it's when the title suggests a massive route from here to way over there when in reality there are only a few baseboards, a bit of track, some buildings and perhaps a couple of trees. What happened to truth in advertising? And when a title implies a prototypical route and the tracks are all parallel to the grids. Perhaps a few real world tracks are north-south or east-west but think the vast majority are at any angle not just 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees. And dead straight without any curves is a rare occurrence.
It may all be in the eye of the beholder, one person's master piece is another's "you're kidding" Let's not discourage creativity but how many autosave routes need to be uploaded?
Now I know that building a route is not an easy task, I've tried many times and they are all works in progress but there are a few things that really annoyed me after the recent downloads. I'm not talking about the missing unknown dependencies. It's easy to use something from a third party site and forget that others might not have it. Nor the compressed distances. It can be pretty boring to place and scenic kilometers of countryside.
No, it's when the title suggests a massive route from here to way over there when in reality there are only a few baseboards, a bit of track, some buildings and perhaps a couple of trees. What happened to truth in advertising? And when a title implies a prototypical route and the tracks are all parallel to the grids. Perhaps a few real world tracks are north-south or east-west but think the vast majority are at any angle not just 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees. And dead straight without any curves is a rare occurrence.
It may all be in the eye of the beholder, one person's master piece is another's "you're kidding" Let's not discourage creativity but how many autosave routes need to be uploaded?