Try using the "Create Route" on the "Select Route" page that way you will get exactly what you are looking for.
Mr. Bomberswarm2,
I can see that you are new here. Are you saying that even with the thousands of routes on the DLS, which are uploaded for free by the community, you can't find anything that suits your taste? As has been suggested by Mr. Evans here, I too suggest making a route yourself. The process is very rewarding and very much a whole different aspect of this hobby than just driving around on an already created route. This is akin to buying the bits and pieces and building kits and laying track on a model railroad rather than buying on of those premade model layouts from Bachmann or Atlas that already has the track, trees, and other bits in place.
Route building is very time consuming and the process can take months, or even years to complete a route, but like any model railroad or other work of art, the route is never truly complete. There are always things that can be changed, added, or removed, which brings up another point. You can always edit downloaded routes to give you what you want. This works for all routes on the DLS, however, it is not applicable to the DLC purchased from N3V.
Regarding the missing dependencies. This happens, and sadly it is due to how the software works. The assets are all listed in Surveyor without any indication whether they are from an external source, built-in, or from the DLS. Yes, we can show KUIDs, which are colored depending upon whether they are installed, your own, or built-in, however, there is still no discernable difference between installed and external, DRM or built-in. Having said this, a route builder may have installed the Skipton to Carlisle route then made use of the stations from it. If the user had set the option to display KUIDS, he would see yellow numbers for built-in assets. The problem is the yellow color also applies to DLC from N3V which makes uploading these components (assets) impossible. The same with external content, or that obtained from a third-party off the DLS website. The user will see red numbers and know the stuff came from a third-party site or was modified, but there is no way of knowing where it came from unless he has the memory found in a Cray computer. With hundreds of thousands of assets, it is impossible for one to remember where something comes from, so hence the user will have placed an asset obtained from some long forgotten website, and sadly the source its self is no longer available. To compound matters, even if the parts were available, they need to be searched for and installed manually. At the present time, Content Manager does not search external sites for assets, so if anything is not uploaded to the DLS in the first place, it will not be found by Content Manager.
So before you become too harsh on the community, I hope this clarifies the issue.
John
