Heavens above! For goodness sake it is hardly costing the Bank of england or Fort Knox for Trainz! It is although most of us are hooked, as game. What does one expect for the modest sum? I'm Scotsa and meant to be cautious about my money (!) but here we think Aberdeen people are tight! Most problems get aired on the Forum and there is always someone to help. i found that trying to adapt to TRS06 after the simplicity of TRS04. The CMP still challenges me but i don't throw in the towel. I'm doing something I really enjoy building my city of Glasgow's former complete tramway system. Gives me great pleasure, relaxation and keeps the gery cells ticking over. I don't expect an Einstein box for my money. It's a good entertainment for the little cost and i can building a living history that will in turn bring pleasure to others whio like trams/trollies.
What a negative reaction. I could see the point if it was expensive. The sun is bursting out all over Glasgow here and Trainz brings a bit of sunshine into the lives of most of us here so why want it to rain?......
Fair enough. You all have a very good point and point well taken. But my concern is if it is worth the money spent, but the attitude the developers have these days and their feelings and actions that result in an unfinished, untested product that is sold on the market for a finished product.
I purchased TRS2006 with the intent on using all my old content and routes I created 4 years ago, but unfortunately I cannot download a single thing from the DLS so I cannot update the dependencies. I don't have the time to muck around with Trainz like I did before. I only have the time to enjoy it, I don't have the time to fix something that has been advertised as a selling point to work.
I own my own business, and my success is based on the foundation of servicing my client so they get what they pay for and recieve WHAT I HAD OFFERED IN THE ORIGINAL BID, if they don't, then I must make due.
My problem here, is the fact that since the comunity in trainz is soo strong, that it holds Auran from falling and Auran has been using that as a crutch for a long time. Perfect example is the CMP problems. Someone figured out that if you mess with the login procedures you can get it to work. Well Auran looks at that and takes a less agressive aproach at fixing the problem since the paying customers have figured a workaround.
Well I still haven't figured a way to get CMP to work. I have tried the forum fixes, but only for 5 minutes. When it became rediculous, I realized it's time Auran step up to the plate and fix it.
The biggest problem I see is the fact that the Auran Asset server and possibly the entire net connection is way oversubscribed. I always experience high latency and slow speeds from the Auran server. If they have enough people trying to download that it overloads the servers, then do good and upscale the system. Thats what my clients would expect, why don't you?
I know how some of you enjoy Trainz. I know that it is very important to you, but don't let it blind you from what you as a customer deserve.
Disregard this thread. As most of you said you feel it is wrong. And the last thing I wanna do is rock the boat.
I have sent a mail into the help desk with two requests.
1. Reset my FCT, since it is unusable since I activated it.
2. If I can't use the CMP to download content by friday, I want my money back and I will happily ship them back the disks and package.
All this because I want people to do the right thing.