Using Trainz 2010EE. Launched game this blizzard morning (here in Boston) eager to play this route that featured a similarly bleak, bitter cold landscape (I like doing this real-weather-sympathetic scenario playing for more realism: I wonder if I'm alone in this proclivity) that was in my routes list and i had been saving up for just such a day to drive, and found it gone!
. I am presuming this proves that Trainz [and seemingly most (all?) contemporary dlc content games] is perpetually connected (and dependent on the whims of) the N3V server. I also have the mobile Trainz Sim version on my touchpad which I play but the contents are entirely different and seemingly unrelated between my PC and touchpad. I have not deleted any routes on either one, and I only deliberately went 'online' in my PC game last night to download some surveyor buildings etc. (which I'm just learning how to use) No deleting done there either. I had assumed the routes that my downloaded, paid for PC Trainz came with were mine permanently, and were company created (the yellow planet icon). So I have no idea where it went. Also, a bunch of new routes popped in there that I did not download. they seem fun and all, but I obviously don't want my existing content to randomly disappear.
Does anyone have any information on this phenomenon? Are users just subject to the whims of the N3V server which can just add or delete content at random?
Is there any way to stop this? I went down the list route by route reading descriptions and did not find it. It's bad enough the single route is missing, but the implication that this can randomly happen anytime is worse. Do I have to click the 'Favorites' star next to a route I wish to permanently keep to prevent the Server from taking it out of my content? How do I stop this, and where can I find that route again, or future routes that might disappear? By the way, the route description began with (paraphrased) "get your gloves and jacket for this wintry, bitter cold drive in Northern_(some place in the upper midwest); does anyone know the official name of this route, I'd like to at least be able to maybe find and download it again if the loss is just an unfortunate reality of this game. I appreciate any help given.
. I am presuming this proves that Trainz [and seemingly most (all?) contemporary dlc content games] is perpetually connected (and dependent on the whims of) the N3V server. I also have the mobile Trainz Sim version on my touchpad which I play but the contents are entirely different and seemingly unrelated between my PC and touchpad. I have not deleted any routes on either one, and I only deliberately went 'online' in my PC game last night to download some surveyor buildings etc. (which I'm just learning how to use) No deleting done there either. I had assumed the routes that my downloaded, paid for PC Trainz came with were mine permanently, and were company created (the yellow planet icon). So I have no idea where it went. Also, a bunch of new routes popped in there that I did not download. they seem fun and all, but I obviously don't want my existing content to randomly disappear. Does anyone have any information on this phenomenon? Are users just subject to the whims of the N3V server which can just add or delete content at random?
Is there any way to stop this? I went down the list route by route reading descriptions and did not find it. It's bad enough the single route is missing, but the implication that this can randomly happen anytime is worse. Do I have to click the 'Favorites' star next to a route I wish to permanently keep to prevent the Server from taking it out of my content? How do I stop this, and where can I find that route again, or future routes that might disappear? By the way, the route description began with (paraphrased) "get your gloves and jacket for this wintry, bitter cold drive in Northern_(some place in the upper midwest); does anyone know the official name of this route, I'd like to at least be able to maybe find and download it again if the loss is just an unfortunate reality of this game. I appreciate any help given.