Trainz IS a great program. Made even better by the dedicated creators who keep making all this great stuff for all to enjoy.
I fully understand dropping SUPPORT for older versions, I dislike the drop of ACCESS. Still plenty of content being made for all versions, and, useable up to 2010. Applying the same error checking, which should have been done all along, to new content regardless of build number would ensure a steady flow of error free content to the DLS. None of which beloved Auran has to do.
A creator, unless he buys a newer version, is forced to share his work on a third party site. This makes Content Manager useless and no guarantee of error free content. None of which applies to Auran since the error fixing will be done on the creators part once rejected for upload because of errors. All that is in play is the build number of the program it is uploaded from. We will still be subjected to the not on the DLS howls from here.
I understand also that access to the DLS from within Content Manager can be compromised due to programing. I can appreciate that all day long, why bend over to allow an older program like 06 and all the loopholes to maintain that access. Please tell me though how access through the FTP pages matter. The computer I use to access that part of the DLS is a MAC without the Trainz program installed. Yet, I can access it all day long since I have a user name, password and registered copy of Trainz to be there in the first place. The only way to deny that access is for someone to check my account and deny it based on my latest registered copy. In other words, someone has to turn me off and the only way to do that is to check registration to user name and password.
If you are mad, look at the publisher of the game. They allowed "faulty" content all along. They raised those fault checks on content built years ago, way before 2010 was even considered. Now, even if creators built content to the new standards, they are denying access to the DLS for UPLOAD based on which version of Trainz you use to try and upload it from.
At some time you have to realize that the publisher deserves some blame after selling the same content over and over again for years without a finger lift to repair what is on their own disc they mailed you. They raise the bar year after year and release after release. Please tell me they didn't know a lot of that content on the DLS, which they advertise as a huge selling point, wouldn't work. It took a third party individual to find a way to make it work for us. Auran didn't, they just threw it out there for us to try and figure for ourselves.
Shame so many holler and scream about faulty content, yet, it was the publisher who released the program knowing full well the problems, with no help for anyone, creator or user. The same creators most knock are still expected to fix it all for them and you. All without guidance and help from the same company you paid for the game.
In a few months we will get TS2011. Everyone will be expected to upgrade, more errors will still need to be fixed and we will all run along like little rats to make it happen for them. All the I love 2010 crowd will tell you you need to upgrade, even though 2010 is the "Best simulator yet". The 2011 buyer with his first copy of Trainz will post about how everything is wrong. In the meantime, all will abandon 2010 and it's problems calling those users hold outs and worse.
A big bunch of crap and of course, it is the user and creator's fault.
Dave.....
(This should bring the fan boys out in force if the Mods don't delete it first)
