OK I a supposed to give some answers now. So I will try to give.
First Act
A few years ago I must create a company in Thailand, where I live, to be able to receive money via Paypal. After a few quiet years, the bureaucrats wake up suddenly, see the money coming from oversea, and begin to ask for their share of the cake. In fact they take more than 50% of the cake. The raison they gave : TKI is a casino online !!?? I don't know if it was humor or not, but I do know that with these people you can't talk, you have to hand over the wad of bills. That is why I MUST close the business NOW if I don't want that they take more and more every year.
Second Act
Any alternative ? I don't know yet.
But in the end the main question is not about an alternative. The main question is : is it worth it ?
The number of subscriptions has fallen slowly but steadily over the past 2 years. 450 subscriptors today. I don't know how much people use Trainz, or how much pay for the download station. But I suppose that 450 is very very few. People don't like to pay for Internet sites. I understand that of course. I don't like too !
But the work of updating data for TKI is a formidable task.
I am very grateful to the subscribers who subscribe since years and help me to keep the site alive. But running TKI for so few people doesn't seem very reasonable.
In my dream, TKI should be free for everybody (meaning thousands of users) and supported by some sponsor(s) (like most of the free stuffs on Internet). But that is only a dream of course...
Pierre