N3V Reaction To NO Internet
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Since N3V (and many other organisations) relies heavily or entirely on the Internet for sales (and revenue) then NO internet would mean the end of business.
The internet was designed to be failure tolerant so if a part of it was disabled then there are alternative paths that can be used - although this capability has been somewhat degraded in recent times. A few years ago a simple error by a technician in a US network hub blacked out the internet for a large portion of the US and other places.
As martinvk has posted above - we might have bigger issues than simply not being able to enjoy our favourite pastime.
The internet was designed to be failure tolerant so if a part of it was disabled then there are alternative paths that can be used - although this capability has been somewhat degraded in recent times. A few years ago a simple error by a technician in a US network hub blacked out the internet for a large portion of the US and other places.
As martinvk has posted above - we might have bigger issues than simply not being able to enjoy our favourite pastime.
Yep, nothing like a typo in a BGP announcement to ruin your day as a engineer. We used to do those changes in the early hours of the morning in case we had to dash over to the datacenter to fix a mistake. For some reason that particular multi-national mega-corporation technician did it in the middle of the business day in the US. What made it even worse was the access control system of their datacenter was broken by the typo. They had to get someone with an acetylene torch to cut the hinges off the door to get into the datacenter.
I had not heard of that debacle.
N3V and the Net: Yes N3v may shutter its doors should the Net fail. With no net you cannot even open the N3V software on your PC. However, it is likely events will overshadow any thought of Trainz. Relaying messages by drums and smoke seems likely. Time to revisit the photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
N3V and the Net: Yes N3v may shutter its doors should the Net fail. With no net you cannot even open the N3V software on your PC. However, it is likely events will overshadow any thought of Trainz. Relaying messages by drums and smoke seems likely. Time to revisit the photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Back in my wayward youth more than 30 years ago, phone home schemes didn't present a big problem. But a lot has changed since then in the programming world. A few years ago a program I used a lot decided to call it quits. They released one final version without the remote authorization feature as a parting gift to their users.
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Charlese83
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I recently had to quit my internet connection for a year. I have 2 computers and 2 copies of Trainz A New Era on these computers. I got lucky in that I had played one version recently enough so that it had done the internet handshake with N3V and I was able to play passed my internet cutoff date, app 6 weeks. By convincing my computer that it was in a time warp by changing my time and date, I was at least able play that one version, only on the computer it was loaded on. When I preordered my version I did not know what DMAC free meant so to save some money I went with the cheaper version. I now kick myself in the butt for being so cheap. This is also why I am not interested in any future products that will be digital only. I am old enough to have experienced that the future you think you will live in is not the one you actually end up living in.
Cue 2001: A Space Odyssey music.
and then Elvis walks on stage and goes right into CC Ryder.
What was the last version of Trainz that didn't require the internet to use it ?
hiawathamr
DLC developer for Trainz
Box copies of TANE where the last versions of Trainz that didn't require internet to use. Only exceptions where the DLCs and the online features such as DLS and the iTrainz things. Other than those optional features it ran completely offline via a serial number 
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N3V have stated, in a previous post on this topic (but it is far too early in the morning for me to attempt a forum search for it - I haven't even had my first cup of tea yet!), that if the demise of the company was certain then they would take steps to disable the need to contact the authorisation servers thus freeing all copies of Trainz from that requirement.