The first thing Auran must do to gain control of the DLS, is impose a daily download limit on all FCT holders to stop those hogs and give other FcT holders a fair and equal go.
Absolutely not. I pay for a FCT without limits - if you start limiting what paid customers can do, they will stop paying and Auran lose income.
I don't understand how paying for a FCT makes one a "hog" when in reality it means you are subsidising the non-payers. A more logical approach would be to make the DLS FCT-only.
I proposed a super simple and immediate solution to the problem you originaly discussing here for the umpteenth time.. That was to create a completely independent Asset Registry linked to each asset on the DLS.
Which creates a fragmented and confusing DLS, IMO. And such a site being run/owned by a single person brings it's own problems. What happens when you can't pay your hosting bill, or the host goes bust, or you get fed up and leave? All that work disappears overnight.
So why not invest all your ceasless energies and profound knowledge into getting them motivated istead of trying to come up with all these hairbrain schemes, which will all end up being totally ignored like the existing Independent Asset Register above.
Frankly it's the job of the asset creators to do that, not my job to chase them.
The TRD has taken the first steps to becoming a Community project. It's now run by four people instead of one. That's only the start, but the way you lot are going, it may well soon be the end. Over the past ten months I've tried to motivate you in every way I know how. Too many of you are couch potatoes, full of great ideas and solutions as long as suckers like me put them into action and cop the blame if we screw up.
That's enormously unfair, IMO. You weren't forced into creating your website, and the "couch potatoes" bit is just insulting. You imply that people dream up ideas and expect
you to implement them, which is patently not the case. If you want to run the site, fine, but don't criticise everyone else if it doesn't meet your expectations.
if it wasn't for the support of my three volunteers and some other important projects happening out there, I could easily pull the TRD from under your noses tomorrow and hardly anyone would even notice. It could be, and should be the largest and best Asset register and resource out there, but by leaving it up to you guys, it would struggle to survive, just like many other great Trainz projects you've turned your backs on. Wouldn't that be great! You could then start a thread entitled: "There, there, I told you so.", and fill the next ten pages with arguments over who predicted the TRD's demise first!
That's why the new team will be focusing on stuff that only involves positive and motivated people and not a mob of armchair gunnas. Many of the features of the TRD are about to be stripped and the almost totally failed Asset section you're waffling on about here as if it never existed, could be, and probably will be the first to go.
I've noticed that you often get angry and abusive when trying to "motivate" people to view and use your site, which puts me off. You've taken on the project yourself, and now you get angry because
we're not doing enough to support it.
I go there, and if I see something useful I download it, but.... "mob of armchair gunnas?" Thanks. I'll be sure to visit again soon.
