Other assets being deleted while redownloading (reverting) assets to run a multiplayer session

[PhilChorusch01]

Can N3V Games please stop forcing users to redownload assets when it comes to "reverting assets" for Multiplayer sessions to run please! When loading a multiplayer session, users are forced to redownload assets just to play the multiplayer session and it's really frustrating and when I find out that not ONLY I have to redownload assets that belongs to the multiplayer session, I am also having other assets being deleted that doesn't belong to the multiplayer session, now I have to redownload those assets that got deleted.. Please FIX this problem

 

[pware]

Have you submitted a bug report with specific assets as examples?

 

[PhilChorusch01]

Have you submitted a bug report with specific assets as examples?

This asset keeps being deleted <kuid2:146087:27104:127> ciuffi verdi because it's apparently part of the Bairnsdale to Orbost route "but appears as no missing assets", the only version of this asset on the DLS is <KUID2:146087:27104:1> and Trainz refuses to download it, the same asset isn't just for the Bairnsdale to Orbost route but it's also for the ECML routes which baffles me why the author hasn't uploaded it to the DLS

No, I haven't yet submitted a ticket

 

[PhilChorusch01]

Just sent the author a message, hopefully he could upload it to the DLS!

 

[grazlash]

Just sent the author a message, hopefully he could upload it to the DLS!

You might have better luck talking to the TrainzItalia mob about that

 

[pware]

baffles me why the author hasn't uploaded it to the DLS

Unfortunately a fairly common problem and not always the fault of the original author - although there have been cases where the creator has updated (up-versioned) a DLS asset to be included in a DLC package and has forgotten to update the same asset on the DLS.

But I would still recommend putting in a bug report particularly about the need to re-download assets and their deletion if they are already on the DLS. I can understand this if the assets are DLC only (no DLS version) and you do not already have that DLC package.

 

[grazlash]

the only version of this asset on the DLS is <KUID2:146087:27104:1> and Trainz refuses to download it,

<kuid:146087:27104> ciuffi verdi is available on the dls - just use view asset versions and "download this version" to get it. Strangely I have <KUID2:146087:27104:127> on my system which shows as modified, but I have no idea where I got it.

 

[wreeder]

This asset keeps being deleted <kuid2:146087:27104:127> ciuffi verdi

This is not an legitimate asset in the first place, any asset with a .127 version was created by a bug in CM and or the DLS a long time ago when if a user tried to upload an asset using the Kuid2 format without a version number (kuid2:146087:27104) then either CM or the DLS would append the version number .127 to it. There were thousands of these items on the DLS and they created a huge problem since the DLS would automatically download them to users trying to download a lower version of the asset for a route. N3V deleted them all from the DLS and users should do the same in their local database. Since <kuid2:146087:27104:127> ciuffi verdi is not on the DLS it can't be used in a multiplayer session. It seems to me that the multiplayer system is doing what it is supposed to do, reverting a version of an asset not on the DLS to a version that is on the DLS.

 

[grazlash]

This is not an legitimate asset in the first place, any asset with a .127 version was created by a bug in CM and or the DLS a long time ago when if a user tried to upload an asset using the Kuid2 format without a version number (kuid2:146087:27104) then either CM or the DLS would append the version number .127 to it. There were thousands of these items on the DLS and they created a huge problem since the DLS would automatically download them to users trying to download a lower version of the asset for a route. N3V deleted them all from the DLS and users should do the same in their local database. Since <kuid2:146087:27104:127> ciuffi verdi is not on the DLS it can't be used in a multiplayer session. It seems to me that the multiplayer system is doing what it is supposed to do, reverting a version of an asset not on the DLS to a version that is on the DLS.

The :127 version is used in Bairnsdale to Orbost, ECML Edinburgh - Dundee, ECML Kings Cross to Edinburgh, Fall Harvest Nebraska and Midwestern Branch on my system

 

[PhilChorusch01]

The :127 version is used in Bairnsdale to Orbost, ECML Edinburgh - Dundee, ECML Kings Cross to Edinburgh, Fall Harvest Nebraska and Midwestern Branch on my system

You beat me to it! Thanks mate

 

[PhilChorusch01]

All I can hope for that the author could kindly in his own time upload the 127 version, it's frustrating when it gets automatically deleted because it's required by so many other routes I have installed packaged/payware and freeware

 

[pware]

I have the Bairnsdale to Orbost, ECML EDINBURGH - DUNDEE and ECML Kings Cross - Edinburgh lines but have <kuid2:146087:27104:1> ciuffi verdi, "Packaged", as my latest version with no new versions available. The earlier <kuid:146087:27104> ciuffi verdi is "Available for download, Obsolete".

 

[stagecoach]

Open any route or sessions config and find the locations of the asset.kuid. Delete the 27 and save, it will now look for the lowest version available. If you have used the download this version, then you must delete the 127 version asset. Most 127 assets have been removed from the DLS, but it is possible that a lot of builders are unaware and still have it in their data.

 

[wreeder]

The :127 version is used in Bairnsdale to Orbost, ECML Edinburgh - Dundee, ECML Kings Cross to Edinburgh, Fall Harvest Nebraska and Midwestern Branch on my system

All that means is the builder of those DLC packages used it by mistake and N3V didn't replace it before the DLC was released.