Looking to upgrade, but...

[shaneturner12]

No worries (incidentally the changes regarding the payware side started in TS12 Service Pack 1 from memory although I would need to check whether editing of built-in routes is possible on that version).

Shane

 

[Griphos]

Not sure what you paid for the Platinum bundle. If it was only $40 bucks, IMHO you got a pretty good deal. A lot of us paid around $60 bucks for the original Tane when it was launched. If you got the bundle for $40 bucks, I'm not to sure where you come up with "spending the other $30 bucks" on JR's routes.

Buy that calculation, you would only be paying $10 bucks for Tane SP2 HF1. If you paid higher than $40 bucks for the bundle, that's where I can see where the extra $30 bucks might come into the equation. I'm not to sure when N3V started offering the discounted Platinum bundle.

Cheers, Mac...

I bought TANE on deep discount from STEAM (and STEAM, by the way, will outlast pretty much any other game platform, so I have no worries there, and it’s easy to back up STEAM games locally if you want), and then bought the Platinum pack for those who have TANE directly from N3V for $30. As I said, none of the routes of that pack impresses me much, and some are deeply disappointing, and I’d rather have spent that money on Coal Country or the Legacy of the BN (both of which were also just on deep sale on STEAM).

 

[clam1952]

Unfortunately, not even DVDs last forever! Often the ability to read the media dies before the media does. I did have a stack of software and data files stored on 3.5" floppies that I can no longer use because no computer comes with 3.5" FDDs. I am pretty sure that they were still perfectly readable when I had to throw them out after my sole portable 3.5" FDD suffered an unfavourable encounter with a concrete floor.

Likewise none of my laptops of varying vintages came with CD drives.

It is also becoming harder to purchase software on DVD. Most people are opting for (or being forced into using) digital downloads so the writing is on the wall for DVD drives. Any storage system based on mechanical technology, such as spinning discs, is probably destined for the scrap heap.

Kind of hard for the large percentage of the world still on Dial Up or low speed capped ADSL to scrap DVD's
Can still get DVD drives on many off the shelf PC's and Laptops, granted not as many and if mechanical Hard drives are on the way out how come they are making 4TB 6TB 8TB and higher disk drives. The price of SSDs of a reasonable size is cost prohibitive for many users. You could buy a PC for the cost of the larger SSD's ;o)

 

[JCitron]

No worries (incidentally the changes regarding the payware side started in TS12 Service Pack 1 from memory although I would need to check whether editing of built-in routes is possible on that version).

Shane

Payware content prior to SP1 is editable. It was around that time that N3V had issues with content theft by a certain group...

 

[shaneturner12]

Payware content prior to SP1 is editable. It was around that time that N3V had issues with content theft by a certain group...

Indeed - I remember that around the time TS12 SP1 became available.

Shane

 

[Xenithar]

Lots of replies! I think I'll purchase since I can then pay shipping only for the boxed version of the core game. Oh, and I do IT for a living. DVD and Blu-Ray internal drives are common OEM equipment. Tablets and 2-in-1's don't have them because they're going for battery life and lighter weights. Every desktop we build (we are an OEM) has either a DVD burner or Blu-Ray burner, SATA, in it. True laptops (Dell Latitude, for example) still have them. I don't want my crappy burned media, I want real media. I have a room with boxed stuff dating back years. I have my original copy of Doom in the box on four floppies. I have Ultimate Doom in the box, Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage, the list goes on and on. All mint condition. I want Trainz on that wall also.

Thanks for the help to everybody. I cannot WAIT to start this puppy up and play. Oh, and anybody with an IPX stack and DOS 6.22 wanna' play some Hexen later?

 

[cascaderailroad]

I think there are SP patch's to apply once you get the game, so it is not install, and just plug and play