The current TC competition wouldn't be the first one that's been started by auran and then never been properly ended.
I attended in the "build a 4 baseboard map, we start it you finish it" contest in the good old UTC (i think it was) times, if anybody remembers it.
It's just been cancelled after we sent all our maps in and waited for the winners to be announced.
What a great way to satisfy customers, but we somehow got over it.
So, they don't even bother anymore to announce a content to be cancelled but just let the community die dumb and silent, so be it, that's also a way to run a business.
I will for sure be laughing a whole lot if that Fury "price pool" would have a catch to it, like turning out that the 25000 $ is "Fury Gold" (which would be 2000 real $) or that the prize is being split up across the top-most ladder or such, therefore enraging the Fury community too. :hehe: (or if that contest will even die silent too ...)
If you want to take a read through a funny Fury review, go ahead :
Fury Review
You know, the sad part is that it's shockingly true, even after all these patches this game still sucks big time and yet they pump all the money they receive into it.
So, the 2,5 Gb download of the client software is still not worth it.
I would recommend getting a hold of "Guild Wars" and it's addons instead, it's completely free to play online forever and a 101% more fun.
In the fury forums they even have a thread started by some developers with some sort of changelog and what's currently being worked on and picked up community suggestions and such.
How about someone takes the time and takes some suggestions out of the suggestions boxcar forum and creates a thread of what's being worked on and what not and then actually release some of these community requests in either the next patch or TC version ?
Yes, there has anger and most of all, frustration been building up over the past few years and I'm just letting a very bit of it out.
Just don't take us for fools, if you are not listening to us anyways, just delete the suggestions boxcar forum and don't keep it any longer as a placebo if it's a black hole anywaysm as it gives the impression that we are being listened to (which obviously is not the case).
If nobody is answering helpdesk tickets, just close that service too, if nobody is responding within a business day it really doesn't deserve to be called helpdesk. (again, makes a good impression until you actually need it and don't get an answer for months)
Just tell me that auran has forgotten about Trainz so I can move on and stop checking back to hope to see that something has changed for the better of this (Trainz) franchise.
As far as I see it, Trainz has become a cash-cow, because these mini improvements which are sold as completely new product are considered patches by other companies (and once were for auran too, back in the good old days).
But run your business any way you like, if you think it's Fury that's making you money ... so be it.
Maybe let Fury be your cash-cow for a while and concentrate on catching up on the problems, suggestions, open requests by the trainz community ?
It's good that I have multiple hobbies, so I'm not dependant on Trainz alone, I'd just hate to see auran disappear because I supported them since the very beginning of Trainz (all editions until including TRS2006) and I also have my original copy of "Dark Reign" lying around somewhere, but as soon as the driving forces were fired, Trainz has more and more become "mainstream" and is continuously more and more grinding to a total halt.
So the upcoming versions are more and more disinteresting.
Tata
Mr.Jingles
), but I can't help feeling this thread if yet another re-run of previous 'Quo Vadis Auran' threads. 
