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Sounds like something "Multiplayer Surveyor" would be come in handy forteamwork
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Sounds like something "Multiplayer Surveyor" would be come in handy forteamwork
We try our very best to keep backwards compatibility between all builds so use whatever version you want to build your routes, sessions, locos, rolling stock ...etc. We currently package up DLC using the latest Trainz code (this means Trainz NEXT) but as a general rule if your content works in the current live version (TANE SP2) then you should be fine to send it our way.The other big unknown here and Mr. Olsen (is it Paul?) didn't really elaborate on what tools we will be working from to achieve the new content. Previous new releases of Trainz have always suffered to some extent that the content has been made in the previous or even earlier version. So are we building routes in the final or latest version of TANE or will we get (under NDA if necessary) advance working copy of the enhanced route building which may be in TRS2018. Lots of questions which need to be clarified.
A game like Trainz needs to just build one version of Trainz, and it should be free to play. Find another way to make money with it. For example make it a trading game and sell currency to play the game. Currency could be converted to buy content, N3V could rent portals that would connect players together. You could tax industries that use a new production track or some other way to sink the currency out. Resources could be traded with another player to make product to be traded to make cargo to be shipped to N3V as containers for a return of currency. But over all for a full time player an infusion of cash of $10 to $20 a month to run a railroad. (cost of one Starbucks cappuccino)
I'm sure other players could think of other ways to make it work and additional income stream for N3V like selling skins, or there own content for playing online.
I find that comment highly offensive, bordering on a CoC violation for disparaging another user's relevant opinion.
If having a conversation involving facts of the matter, is considered "being salty"... Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but you have no right to belittle others because you disagree.
N3V have potential British content to the TANE standard that they have been sitting on for months. If N3V are unable to process the Potteries Loop Line within a reasonable time frame, why are they appealing for more content?
[Find another way to make money with it. For example make it a trading game and sell currency to play the game.
No offence intended and, having seen the subsequent response from Mr Olsen that this is more an exercise to "bank" future content for payware use rather than get the community involved in putting together a really good route pack in NEXT, I have some sympathy with your views. Contributing a route which will just sit on the shelf if/until needed was not how I read the OP, though not entirely ruling it out. ...
Pay to play or subscription... Re-arrange the following word - never. If N3V ever went down that business model that would end my involvement with the franchise, period.
The copyright situation is also still something of a muddle. What are they saying, if something has made it on the DLS regardless of whether it is plastered in UP logos or textured with artwork from a "no commercial use" site, fine for a route builder to include in a project that may eventually be sold for profit? Who cops the lawsuit if UP or Mayang (if they still exist) turn round and issue a cease or desist or actually sue - N3V, the route builder or the original asset maker?
So I am out.We are especially interested in more British and Euro content creators.
I think I can make some content for Indian Railways, but since the OP says -
So I am out.
I think I can make some content for Indian Railways, but since the OP says -
So I am out.
Europe (inc UK while it is still part of Europe)
N3V have suddenly remembered they need to encourage content creators? Must be a new version of Trainz on the way.
Definitely not. Like I said above... if you're selling your content, great. If you're making it for the DLS, also great.No offence intended and, having seen the subsequent response from Mr Olsen that this is more an exercise to "bank" future content for payware use rather than get the community involved in putting together a really good route pack in NEXT
N3V have potential British content to the TANE standard that they have been sitting on for months. If N3V are unable to process the Potteries Loop Line within a reasonable time frame, why are they appealing for more content?
I think I can make some content for Indian Railways, but since the OP says -
So I am out.