Lewisner: Maybe you first need to answer this question. "What has caused me to loose interest in Trainz?" Looks like you have been around since the beginning of Trainz, which according to all our profiles, was 9 Nov 2006. Just kidding! I know I joined sometime in the last half of 2004 and many have been around a lot longer than that. And many of have come and gone since the original Trainz releases for a number of reasons. I have also been struggling with a loss of interest in Trainz since the post-2006 era. I love trains and once thought I'd build a 20x20 ft HO scale railroad. I drew the plan for it in 1980 and the room for it in 1998. I have acquired sever hundred items of rolling stock and HO scale vehicles, etc., since the 1970's. But, the cost and time of building such a large layout finally sunk in so my greatest accomplishment so far has been a 4x8 ft test layout. And, my wife took over my 20x20 ft room. So, I was really excited when I discovered TRS-2004 and could build a layout of any size I chose with little concern for cost. Then, along came the new and improved TRS-2006 that was advertised as the savior of the world but never lived up to the hype. Auran became N3V, 2006 was scrapped, and along came the new saviors of the world in the 2009-12 series. Every new release has had numerous problems and the "great creator's" solution is always to abandon the old versions and release another new version with more problems. That for me has been why my interest in Trainz is waning. Problems don't get fixed they just get abandoned and replaced with new problems. Most of my content and routes are in TRS-2006. 2006 works well for me even with its defects. A year ago I bought TS-2010. Three or four months ago I actually installed it. So far I've not gotten it to work well. I've installed it and the patches twice, run many EDR's, have had a ticket into N3V for a while now with no response, and am debating whether to simply back it up to a backup device and delete it. I'm not going to detail my 2010 problems here because there is a post on the TS-2010 section of the Forums detailing those. Right now I'm using TS-2010 to test new content for errors. If I like it I then backdate it to 2006 and install it in 2006. Now with TS-2012 and the new indexed meshes that cannot be backdated to 2006 it looks like the end of backdating is near. So, for me anyhow, my loss of interest can be attributed to increasing frustration. We spend so much time dealing with technical problems in Trainz that we fail to/cannot enjoy the product. And, there is more to life than Trainz (and technology, smart phones, etc.).
Well, got to go now. My wife is bugging to get the car loaded so we can go to my grandsons soccer games. Now, that too is more important than Trainz.
Well, got to go now. My wife is bugging to get the car loaded so we can go to my grandsons soccer games. Now, that too is more important than Trainz.
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