It's tough, it's a niche. DTG know that too. Many of their 3rd parties have other jobs or products to sell, or are second party contractors too for DTG. Have you talked to Bahnjan if the work he's doing pays off, or if it's more a passion thing and he's financially well off anyway...?
You are German yourself... you know Germans really don´t like to talk about things like this. If we could get anyone who has built a German payware route to tell us, how many people bought it, we could move forward (or not). Doing TSC as full time job is nonesense at this point. Everyone knows that. But we are trying to find out if it pays off as a part time job. I have calcuted that you would need about 2000 buyers, to make the thing worth the hassle after tax.
Fair enough I'd have no problem with that though. But I'm not creative enough for making routes. I'd lose myself in detail like GeoCord (Sadly his swiss route will never see the light of day. Old Steve Jobs was right in saying "Better done than perfect."). I'm more interested in optimizing and troubleshooting
I actually think the error is the following: I presume that signal scripts are not coded from scratch for each route, but are a template that is simply applied to each route. So i actually think that it’s just a corrupted code, or some code of the code simply didn’t get copied over. Because why else would earlier routes work? I think it would take very few man hours to fix. It is like from the time of the Köln s bahn, signals grafually stopped working on German DTG routes. And it wasn’t untill i couldn’t stand it no more, and made a fuzz about it, that a fix was done to Koblenz Frankfurt (which had many signals with all lamps on, yet a sign of script corruption). And then DTG shifted to Schuster signals. But as i said, i think Köln sbahn and Lübeck Kiel can be fixed easily. And ought to be since how much worth does a route with broken signals really have for the user.
I mean please don't assume that I don't care here - I mean i'd love to see both Koln S13 and the Kiel route fixed (the latter more so, i mean if i could fix the signals myself (via scripting more than replacing ) i would but sadly any fixes to older routes as far as i know is unlikely (and out of my hands).
toms87 I think what needs to be considered is that you are not free to deliver any assets with a route (freeware or not) without a license. So building a payware route that has dependencies from other payware routes is a new thing, except for the occasional extension to a route. This means that you can take money for your work, but not through steam, as it has always been DTG policy that a route should be selfcontained. Probably stating what you already knew ofcourse.
yes sir... you can pay other people to use their assets in a payware route. This would be things like signals and track etc. there is just no need to build all that stuff new with every route. specific buildings and stations for the route have to be built though. The second way is to make other payware routes a requirement for your own payware route... ATS do this and Alterr has done this in the past. Railtraction has also done it. But it´s not a good way and not very popular with the customer. Licensing stuff beforehand involvs upfronting a lot of money. So it would be good to know, what kind of sales can be expected.
I would actually be ok with it. I’d rather have more routes, pay for the work being done, but without the hassle of freeware hunting.
did look at the link left me confused ,,several different ways to fix ,,being very novice i need someone to give me simple least complex way and steps needed to fix the crashing,,my guess it mentions doing a clean offline install advice on how todo that would be greatly appreciated ,,remember im novice please keep it as simple steps as possible
