Christopher824
CDETrainz.com
Regarding "Tell Us What You Really Think"...
I used to use TS12 almost every day. It was my favorite waste of time. I liked being able to build big routes, and then drive them with my grandson, sometimes just having fun crashing the trains into each other. The AI seemed to work real well and the editor was easy to use and it worked well. So when this new TANE version became available, I jumped on the chance to get it back when it was first released. Since then I have used it for maybe 1 hour, once a month. I am truly disappointed. It does not seam any better, I have lost all my old routes, there is less content, and I read how you can sorta move them over but will loose the built in content or some content will not work in the new TANE. So that's not a real big deal, I like building routes, so I will start building new routes from scratch...
Wrong... The editor looks the same, but it just does not work correctly. I select 6 units on the heights tool, then click on the land and it uses the last height I used, not what is displayed in the tool. I have to click on a different tool then click back to the height tool, then reselect the 6 units then click the land, and if I'm lucky it will use what is selected on the tool display. That's just one of the messed up things the editor does. If you save your route, the spiny thing won't go away until you click on several things on the editor. It's almost like the editor was changed from rock solid C+ to very sloppy Java (you click and hope it runs all the way through). It just makes editing frustrating and I loose interest almost immediately.
And did I mention that it looks pretty much the same, I see no eye popping new graphics, looks the same, like a game. Also the content manager is a joke, the old one had some bugs, but was visually appealing and it did do a good job downloading new content. The new one looks like a notepad with an internet connection... amateurish.
I feel like the developers totally misunderstood what it meant to create an updated product, instead they tried to recreate the wheel, and made an inferior product, what a shame.
So if you want me to become a big fan of this game again, pleased address the basics, like making the editor work correctly, when you click something it should do as you expect it to do, not hope it will do it. Create a real content manager, and make a function that imports a users old content. And if you fix it so the editor works smoothly, maybe I'll buy some content, cant buy content if the editor and content manager is a joke now can I.
I'm sure I'll get bashed 10 ways to Sunday for these comments, but you did ask the question... "Tell Us What You Really Think"
Update 1/14/2016 ... SP1 has fixed a lot of the usage problems I was having and it is now fun to build routes again. It's getting better, just a few more things, maybe a SP2 ???
I used to use TS12 almost every day. It was my favorite waste of time. I liked being able to build big routes, and then drive them with my grandson, sometimes just having fun crashing the trains into each other. The AI seemed to work real well and the editor was easy to use and it worked well. So when this new TANE version became available, I jumped on the chance to get it back when it was first released. Since then I have used it for maybe 1 hour, once a month. I am truly disappointed. It does not seam any better, I have lost all my old routes, there is less content, and I read how you can sorta move them over but will loose the built in content or some content will not work in the new TANE. So that's not a real big deal, I like building routes, so I will start building new routes from scratch...
Wrong... The editor looks the same, but it just does not work correctly. I select 6 units on the heights tool, then click on the land and it uses the last height I used, not what is displayed in the tool. I have to click on a different tool then click back to the height tool, then reselect the 6 units then click the land, and if I'm lucky it will use what is selected on the tool display. That's just one of the messed up things the editor does. If you save your route, the spiny thing won't go away until you click on several things on the editor. It's almost like the editor was changed from rock solid C+ to very sloppy Java (you click and hope it runs all the way through). It just makes editing frustrating and I loose interest almost immediately.
And did I mention that it looks pretty much the same, I see no eye popping new graphics, looks the same, like a game. Also the content manager is a joke, the old one had some bugs, but was visually appealing and it did do a good job downloading new content. The new one looks like a notepad with an internet connection... amateurish.
I feel like the developers totally misunderstood what it meant to create an updated product, instead they tried to recreate the wheel, and made an inferior product, what a shame.
So if you want me to become a big fan of this game again, pleased address the basics, like making the editor work correctly, when you click something it should do as you expect it to do, not hope it will do it. Create a real content manager, and make a function that imports a users old content. And if you fix it so the editor works smoothly, maybe I'll buy some content, cant buy content if the editor and content manager is a joke now can I.
I'm sure I'll get bashed 10 ways to Sunday for these comments, but you did ask the question... "Tell Us What You Really Think"
Update 1/14/2016 ... SP1 has fixed a lot of the usage problems I was having and it is now fun to build routes again. It's getting better, just a few more things, maybe a SP2 ???
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