How to disable TRS22 Patches permanently ?

[PC_Ace]

Nope - N3V will remove the DRM if things get that terminal - they have clearly stated this in the past.
I'm confident that Trainz is here to stay for quite some time to come and have thoroughly enjoyed 'our hobby' for 20-odd years.

 

[Paulsw2]

Nope - N3V will remove the DRM if things get that terminal - they have clearly stated this in the past.
I'm confident that Trainz is here to stay for quite some time to come and have thoroughly enjoyed 'our hobby' for 20-odd years.

Of course this is the stated position and I'm sure is what N3V staff intend in good faith. However, in the real world when companies enter administration, the first the staff usually know about it is when they're locked out of the building and out of the computer systems. The Administrators' duty is to secure all of the company's assets for potential resale, including the IT systems, and I assume that DRM will count as an 'asset' to be secured (ie. the intellectual property that can be sold on to a buyer).

So I think we'd better all hope that N3V continue for many years as a going concern!

 

[JCitron]

Of course this is the stated position and I'm sure is what N3V staff intend in good faith. However, in the real world when companies enter administration, the first the staff usually know about it is when they're locked out of the building and out of the computer systems. The Administrators' duty is to secure all of the company's assets for potential resale, including the IT systems, and I assume that DRM will count as an 'asset' to be secured (ie. the intellectual property that can be sold on to a buyer).

So I think we'd better all hope that N3V continue for many years as a going concern!

You are spot on about being the last to find out the details of a company shutdown. We came into work one day and we all ended up having some tea and biscuits with the general manager. We were then led individually down the hall to HR to pick up our termination papers and off we went after being escorted by security back to the office to clean out our desks of any personal items.

It's not that we didn't have any knowledge that this was going to happen, we didn't expect it to happen so soon and we were told that management would let us know when that day came. It was inevitable that this was going to happen, after a continuous string of bad quarters and a merger that didn't happen.

In the end, no one told us until we had that meeting. We got no severance pay even though some of us were there over a dozen years. The big wigs, however, got nice big golden parachutes, which really got us upset. When we confronted one of the managers, he had a typical lame excuse, how it was in their contracts, etc. and had to be paid. Being blunt, my answer was yeah after they messed up everything and sucked the company dry.