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Unread postby Bananarama » Fri Oct 17, 2014 4:01 pm

Any info on when DTG will release the recently pulled update?
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby ozinoz » Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:28 am

Interesting that you should ask. I have just started RW, and like it does on the odd occasion, it wont start in off-line; you need to go online and then select play offline and restart and all is normally good. Today I have done it and before I could go back off line, it has started downloading a rather large update - up to about 120 meg and Steam is indicating over 950 meg!! No idea what it is, and ticked because I wasn't expecting it and haven't backed anything up. You will hear me curse from there if this buggers it up! There is nothing I can see on the Farcebook page or anywhere else mentioning an update.

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ps: after all that, downloaded 958 meg which will cost me about $25 because of the minimal net connection I have at home , and I am on Version 48a, which I think is the current version. !*hp*!

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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby ozinoz » Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:34 pm

Has nobody else had to update in the past couple of days?

I hate the silence !*don-know!*

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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby buzz456 » Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:17 pm

Negative here.
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby conrail1 » Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:06 pm

buzz456 wrote:Negative here.

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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby ozinoz » Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:16 pm

Cheers guys - as I suspected. Another RW farce. Wonder if DTG are going to recompense the $45 I was charged to effectively download nothing! It costs me $180 for 4G of data, thanks to a crappy telco and the local infrastructure being at capacity and not being able to get a hardwired net connection.

Really gets up my nose. Then there will be another fistfull of $$ when the much vaunted "patch" is re-released and we have to revisit the exercise all over.

Just ruddy annoyed!!

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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby OldProf » Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:28 am

ozinoz wrote:Cheers guys - as I suspected. Another RW farce. Wonder if DTG are going to recompense the $45 I was charged to effectively download nothing! It costs me $180 for 4G of data, thanks to a crappy telco and the local infrastructure being at capacity and not being able to get a hardwired net connection.

Really gets up my nose. Then there will be another fistfull of $$ when the much vaunted "patch" is re-released and we have to revisit the exercise all over.

Just ruddy annoyed!!

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Excuse me, but in what sense is this RSC's fault? You bought the simulator and (at least tacitly) agreed to accept updates via Steam; you chose an internet provider; you didn't choose local infrastructure, but that's not RSC's fault, either. I can understand your annoyance (I have to put up with ATT as a provider!), but not your trying to take it out on RSC. !*don-know!*
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby buzz456 » Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:33 am

And on top of that it's probably a Steam fiasco not even whatever their name is this year.
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby ozinoz » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:26 pm

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Excuse me, but in what sense is this RSC's fault? You bought the simulator and (at least tacitly) agreed to accept updates via Steam; you chose an internet provider; you didn't choose local infrastructure, but that's not RSC's fault, either. I can understand your annoyance (I have to put up with ATT as a provider!), but not your trying to take it out on RSC. !*don-know!*[/quote]

RSC / DTG etc own the software, Steam are just their distribution method - they dont get to determine what is released and when, it is up to the provider. The fact that there was no update to speak of, just 950+ meg of data download cost leaving me in the same position as before I started. Why all of a sudden do it now?
Imagine this - DTG are still using the old hard media distribution, delivered via post. You get a notification to go to the Post Office to collect a parcel from them but it is marked receiver to pay post so you have to pay the postage when you pick it up. Fine, no problems - you go to the post office, pay the hypothetical $25 air freight from the UK, get it home, open it up and the box is empty. The box belongs to DTG, they sent it to you; you cant blame the post system, because if DTG hadn't given them the box there would have been no cost.

I appreciate my internet connection etc is my issue and with that I am judicial about what I download. There was no notification of an update and no chance to decide whether to accept it at the time, or defer to later / back up my install etc. The only way there was anything to download is because DTG had it there, remembering Steam dont generate it, create it or own it; just send it.
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby Bananarama » Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:31 pm

ozinoz wrote:There was no notification of an update and no chance to decide whether to accept it at the time, or defer to later / back up my install etc.

I don't recall a single time where RSC/DTG didn't give a heads up on a major update, and I believe this one was almost a week prior to release.

FWIW.
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby alanch » Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:28 am

Recently posted on the RSC Facebook page in answer to a question about when the patch will be re-issued.

'RailSimulator.com Based upon the current development cycle we expect to release it as a public beta within a few weeks. Provided the beta all goes well it will roll out to everyone a few weeks after that. We will have more information closer to the time.'

So it looks like it will be out in a few weeks plus a few weeks.
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby Bananarama » Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:35 pm

alanch wrote:So it looks like it will be out in a few weeks plus a few weeks.

And it only took a few weeks to come up with that. *!lol!*
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby buzz456 » Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:50 pm

So it'll be a few weeks after the few weeks to take a few more weeks for whatever. Maybe they could do the simple stuff in just a couple of weeks now that they have taken a few weeks and save the hard stuff for more than a few weeks. !*roll-laugh*! !*roll-laugh*!
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Re: Railworks Update

Unread postby Ericmopar » Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:05 pm

Good lord...
I'm glad our internet in the States is a lot more reasonable.
I'm getting a 50MB connection plus phone and T.V. for $70 U.S. That's a flat rate too.
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