I posted a similar type of message to the Auran helpdesk, but I am afraid it might not be read by helpdesk dicky Alan Yeomans or any of the other morons that mishandle problems.
After being temporarily banned a few times from the Auran forum, permanently banned from both Trainzdev site and the IRC chat, Auran found it appropriate to also remove/hide my freeware content from the DLS.
The final straw happened a week ago and my IP was "blocked" from the Auran forum. I am not sure if "they" really think it will stop anybody from coming back but of course they should know you can't.
After my initial account named Serkanner was banned in 2007 and now Zwabberaar in 2008 I have slowly build a new identity to enjoy the wonders and misfortunes of the international Trainz community which is just as rotten as almost any other on-line community I have encountered the last few years.
The internet seems to be a magnet for the criminally insane, myself not excluded, and having a few hours to kill every day I thoroughly enjoy being as obnoxious as I can. The doctors tried to treat me for it, but they have given up hope.
Now I have to say my adieu as Zwabberaar but also want to give a few hints how to reach me. First of all I do have my own little forum ( http://z9.invisionfree.com/Boemeltje/index.php? ) where this account will continue.
In the international community I ask you to pay attention whenever a name of the Auran people is wrongly spelled ... the poster just might be me ... I crave the attention as you all know.
See you
Saturday, 1 November 2008
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Auran's top Five of: "How to alienate my customers"
It has been a while since my last addition. With the worldwide economic recession crashing down on us and being in-between jobs myself I have other things to worry about that Tony Hilliam and his cronies.
Today however I noticed another one of those decisions that makes you scream out loud: "WHY!"
It is because of this announcement by Spiffy, the auranite who was one of Tony's accomplishes when he managed to destroy Fury and a decent amount of Dollars ... millions!
The announcement:
"Auran IRC server shutting down
Due to recent changes in our network infrastructure and with the upcoming release of TS2009 with in built chat, the decision has been made to shut down the existing IRC server. This server has not officially been supported by us for several months now, and it has been decided to place our efforts and resources to improve the upcoming title and website community features.
I realize that there will be strong feelings over this decision but there will be new community features added to the Auran & Trainz Websites over the coming months as well as the release of TS2009 which contains an in game chat system where you can talk to all the other players in real-time.
The server will officially be taken offline at 9am EST(Australian Time) on the 17th October.
We would like to thank those that have supported the Trainz IRC and we look forward to chatting with you in-game in Trainz 2009."
The above message has a distinct Fury feel doesn't it. Als the Fury servers were shut-down within 48 hours after Tony pulled the plug. Bye-bye Fury community, bye-bye game. ( Two days ago I was at my local Mediamarkt and to my utter surprise I found they still have a copy of Fury for sale ... )
This message and the disappointment for the numerous chatters within the community made me realize that the last few years Auran has been very thorough in alienating a large number of customers ... and they continue to do so.
Let's have a look at some recent customer unfriendly decisions by Auran:
* shutting down IRC chat servers
* No SP1 support for foreign language versions of TRS2006
* Abandoning TC route building competition
* Abandoning support gmax content creation
* Rushing out version after version after version of badly developed, badly tested badly supported of the Trainz franchise ( TRS2006, TC1+2, TC3 )
These were just five things I can name from the top of my mind. I have no doubt others can come up with plenty more and when TS2009 is released it will be no problem to add that version to the list of rushed products.
Today however I noticed another one of those decisions that makes you scream out loud: "WHY!"
It is because of this announcement by Spiffy, the auranite who was one of Tony's accomplishes when he managed to destroy Fury and a decent amount of Dollars ... millions!
The announcement:
"Auran IRC server shutting down
Due to recent changes in our network infrastructure and with the upcoming release of TS2009 with in built chat, the decision has been made to shut down the existing IRC server. This server has not officially been supported by us for several months now, and it has been decided to place our efforts and resources to improve the upcoming title and website community features.
I realize that there will be strong feelings over this decision but there will be new community features added to the Auran & Trainz Websites over the coming months as well as the release of TS2009 which contains an in game chat system where you can talk to all the other players in real-time.
The server will officially be taken offline at 9am EST(Australian Time) on the 17th October.
We would like to thank those that have supported the Trainz IRC and we look forward to chatting with you in-game in Trainz 2009."
The above message has a distinct Fury feel doesn't it. Als the Fury servers were shut-down within 48 hours after Tony pulled the plug. Bye-bye Fury community, bye-bye game. ( Two days ago I was at my local Mediamarkt and to my utter surprise I found they still have a copy of Fury for sale ... )
This message and the disappointment for the numerous chatters within the community made me realize that the last few years Auran has been very thorough in alienating a large number of customers ... and they continue to do so.
Let's have a look at some recent customer unfriendly decisions by Auran:
* shutting down IRC chat servers
* No SP1 support for foreign language versions of TRS2006
* Abandoning TC route building competition
* Abandoning support gmax content creation
* Rushing out version after version after version of badly developed, badly tested badly supported of the Trainz franchise ( TRS2006, TC1+2, TC3 )
These were just five things I can name from the top of my mind. I have no doubt others can come up with plenty more and when TS2009 is released it will be no problem to add that version to the list of rushed products.
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Alan Yeomans ... your local Auran helpdesk dicky
Dear Alan,
It appears that I have managed to piss you off so badly that you have lost any and all professional dignity you had left.
I am aware that it must have been very confronting to be pointed out that you are a continuous failure at the lousy job as a helpdesk dicky. It must be tough being amongst the artists and programmers at the office, while you yourself are only trusted to misguide people who contact the helpdesk and work at weekends uploading content to the downloadstation.
After my banishment from the forums I thought it a good idea to help you out a bit and started pointing out some of the problems with the software. I was of the opinion that Auran is a company that values its clientèle and its opinions. My opinions are free and I am always very willing to share them ... especially when I feel a bit robbed ... yes ... robbed, that is actually the correct word for the manner in which you Alan and the company you work for ( or volunteer, I am still waiting for an answer to that question ) treat your customers.
The last five years Auran deliberately and purposely robbed its customers from their money with sets of half-finisheds products and empty promises; even blatant lies are part of the deal. Complaints are simply ignored.
In the middle of this we find Alan Yeomans ... let me introduce you to the wonderful world of the Auran helpdesk:
17th Aug 2008, 10:20pm by Zwabberaar:
Session info lost in TC3
After loading a saved session in TC3 the session "info" button is not available anymore and the session is basicly lost unless you memorized the "goals" of the session.
When will this be fixed?
26th Aug 2008, 06:38am by Alan Yeomans
Hi,
This is functioning as intended.
Regards,
26th Aug 2008, 09:23pm by Zwaberaar
Screw Loose?
The person who designed that should be locked up. Finally the "save" bug was fixed and now you have made it useless because the necessary info is not saved, or can not be loaded anymore.
I can understand a "bug" but actually designing it like this is truly beyond me. What is the use of the save function when you drive a two hour Plus session and you can not load the session's goals anymore?
With me ALL tc3 users would appreciate it if this is changed.
30th Aug 2008, 06:10am by Alan Yeomans
Hi,
I thought it has always been like this. When was it ever fixed?
Regards,
1st Sep 2008, 04:27pm by Zwabberaar
Now that was evasive
Does your statement mean that whenever something has not functioned before that it is acceptable?
It should be possible to save a session and have the connected "info" saved as well. I use the word "fix" because in my opinion the product you sell is broken when such a function is not included in the product.
But let me re-phrase my question: When will TC3 save the session info that is included with the session?
3rd Sep 2008, 08:13am by Alan Yeomans
Hi,
I'll pass your report on to the programmers.
Regards,
The above is just one of quite a number of "conversations I have had with Helpdesk Dicky Yeomans. After first having encountered the stupidity of both Tony Hilliam and Chris Bergman I have now met the third idiot working for Auran. I no longer wonder why the products of Auran fail time-and-again. How could they not when the likes of Tony, Chriss and Alan.
Come back soon when I have more examples of my encounters with Alan and his ultimate "revenge!"
It appears that I have managed to piss you off so badly that you have lost any and all professional dignity you had left.
I am aware that it must have been very confronting to be pointed out that you are a continuous failure at the lousy job as a helpdesk dicky. It must be tough being amongst the artists and programmers at the office, while you yourself are only trusted to misguide people who contact the helpdesk and work at weekends uploading content to the downloadstation.
After my banishment from the forums I thought it a good idea to help you out a bit and started pointing out some of the problems with the software. I was of the opinion that Auran is a company that values its clientèle and its opinions. My opinions are free and I am always very willing to share them ... especially when I feel a bit robbed ... yes ... robbed, that is actually the correct word for the manner in which you Alan and the company you work for ( or volunteer, I am still waiting for an answer to that question ) treat your customers.
The last five years Auran deliberately and purposely robbed its customers from their money with sets of half-finisheds products and empty promises; even blatant lies are part of the deal. Complaints are simply ignored.
In the middle of this we find Alan Yeomans ... let me introduce you to the wonderful world of the Auran helpdesk:
17th Aug 2008, 10:20pm by Zwabberaar:
Session info lost in TC3
After loading a saved session in TC3 the session "info" button is not available anymore and the session is basicly lost unless you memorized the "goals" of the session.
When will this be fixed?
26th Aug 2008, 06:38am by Alan Yeomans
Hi,
This is functioning as intended.
Regards,
26th Aug 2008, 09:23pm by Zwaberaar
Screw Loose?
The person who designed that should be locked up. Finally the "save" bug was fixed and now you have made it useless because the necessary info is not saved, or can not be loaded anymore.
I can understand a "bug" but actually designing it like this is truly beyond me. What is the use of the save function when you drive a two hour Plus session and you can not load the session's goals anymore?
With me ALL tc3 users would appreciate it if this is changed.
30th Aug 2008, 06:10am by Alan Yeomans
Hi,
I thought it has always been like this. When was it ever fixed?
Regards,
1st Sep 2008, 04:27pm by Zwabberaar
Now that was evasive
Does your statement mean that whenever something has not functioned before that it is acceptable?
It should be possible to save a session and have the connected "info" saved as well. I use the word "fix" because in my opinion the product you sell is broken when such a function is not included in the product.
But let me re-phrase my question: When will TC3 save the session info that is included with the session?
3rd Sep 2008, 08:13am by Alan Yeomans
Hi,
I'll pass your report on to the programmers.
Regards,
The above is just one of quite a number of "conversations I have had with Helpdesk Dicky Yeomans. After first having encountered the stupidity of both Tony Hilliam and Chris Bergman I have now met the third idiot working for Auran. I no longer wonder why the products of Auran fail time-and-again. How could they not when the likes of Tony, Chriss and Alan.
Come back soon when I have more examples of my encounters with Alan and his ultimate "revenge!"
Friday, 5 September 2008
Suitable content - Auran style
When you have a look on the Auran DLS you will notice that I am starting to build quite a selection of extreme high quality content.
It is my goal to keep flooding the download station with all kinds of goodies. My latest piece of art was a fantastic re-skin of a billboard. Shall we look at it one more time?
Brilliant! if I may say so myself. Of course then it was time to come up with some true art and I found a great painting with an even better looking canvas. This one:
When I had everything ordered in the config and all the necessary pictures added and eventually all was saved into a CDP file, it was time to upload it to the DLS. As we all know the people at Auran are art lovers. Just look at the wonderful lay-out of their sites for instance. Just amazing quality!
It is for that reason I was utterly devastated when I received this e-mail notification this morning:
"Hi Zwabberaar,
Thanks for the contribution to Download Station. Unfortunately, your content 'Zwabberaar_Billboard_02_Cubs' cannot be uploaded due to the following reasons:
unsuitable for our target audience.
Please do not hesitate to let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Cheers,
Auran"
Read that again: unsuitable for our target audience
What on Earth is unsuitable about a pretty woman used as a canvas for a work of art? Is a painting by Rubens or Brueghel unsuitable as well?
Of course I have send a message to the helpdesk asking for an explanation. Because it usually takes a couple of days before they wake up there I have made a new billboard which I think has to be suitable for the TARGET audience. Lets face it ... guns and weaponry are suitable for young customers ... art isn't. Just type in "Panther" on the DLS and you will be presented with 16 different version of this awesome killing machine. THAT is suitable content and therefore I made this billboard especially for the target audience of Auran:
Without a doubt: To be continued.
It is my goal to keep flooding the download station with all kinds of goodies. My latest piece of art was a fantastic re-skin of a billboard. Shall we look at it one more time?
Brilliant! if I may say so myself. Of course then it was time to come up with some true art and I found a great painting with an even better looking canvas. This one:
When I had everything ordered in the config and all the necessary pictures added and eventually all was saved into a CDP file, it was time to upload it to the DLS. As we all know the people at Auran are art lovers. Just look at the wonderful lay-out of their sites for instance. Just amazing quality!
It is for that reason I was utterly devastated when I received this e-mail notification this morning:
"Hi Zwabberaar,
Thanks for the contribution to Download Station. Unfortunately, your content 'Zwabberaar_Billboard_02_Cubs' cannot be uploaded due to the following reasons:
unsuitable for our target audience.
Please do not hesitate to let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Cheers,
Auran"
Read that again: unsuitable for our target audience
What on Earth is unsuitable about a pretty woman used as a canvas for a work of art? Is a painting by Rubens or Brueghel unsuitable as well?
Of course I have send a message to the helpdesk asking for an explanation. Because it usually takes a couple of days before they wake up there I have made a new billboard which I think has to be suitable for the TARGET audience. Lets face it ... guns and weaponry are suitable for young customers ... art isn't. Just type in "Panther" on the DLS and you will be presented with 16 different version of this awesome killing machine. THAT is suitable content and therefore I made this billboard especially for the target audience of Auran:
Without a doubt: To be continued.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Instant Karma Police - revisited
A few weeks ago, when I was still involved in my attempts to educate parts of the Trainz community, I wrote a blog entry on the trainzdev site about karma.
The staff of the developement site in question: www.trainzdev.com didn't find it very interesting apparently because none of the usual spokesmen spoke. The Karma system was also not changed and my numbers kept dropping ... I don't know how far actually. The last time I noticed it the score was something like -69. Two days ago something peculiar happened. A young kid, Tyler Bishop, started complaining on the forum of tranzdev that his karma was negatively influenced by other members. Not me of course as I was already banned for some time and I would lower this kid's karma anyway because he is apparently the only other person on the entire suck-up board that dares to speak up a bit about the ridiculous "look how popular I am within the community vote".
Anyway ... Chris "I am always right and you are not" Bergmann must have thought he had another Zwab on his hands an warned Tyler in an interesting way:
"Just a quick word of warning. We won't tolerate repeated troll/spam posts on these forums. Everyone here is welcome to their own opinions, and are welcome to express them, but repeated posts which are off topic and inflammatory will result in a ban. I've only had to do that once so far, and it's not something I particularly like to do because it removes someone who may otherwise be quite a nice or helpful person from the community information source which is trainzdev.com, which hurts everyone.
Please have a think about this before you start down the same road. It's also worth thinking about why your karma is low. Several people have obviously disagreed with your previous comments or tone enough to mark you down. Like I said, you're welcome to have whatever opinion you want and to express disagreement with other peoples opinions. Just stay away from the ad hominum attacks, especially something like this where you don't even have a point to make."
In a later instance I might invest some more time in analysing this piece of wonderful prose by dear old Chris. For now I just advice him to stick to code writing because any other writing from his hand is ... hmmm ... shitty?
Very well. This wasn't the full end though because a day later Tyler actually requested the disabling of the karma system and to my utter suprise Chris "ad hominum" Bergmann replied:
"Done. I'd like to keep a karma system because they can be useful, but I agree that the fireboard one is pretty pointless. Will reenable it if/when the web guys have a chance to clean it up.
I've also toggled a few other options while I was at it.
chris"
HE ACTUALLY DISABLED IT! ... but also: "... they can be useful," WHAT? For what is this kiddies popularity vote useful? Can somebody answer that for me please, because I don't have a fucking clue.
I did find a picture of Chris Almighty however:
What my thoughts were, and still are, on the subject can be read here:
Instant Karma Police
The powers that are have humoured us with a whole new popularity voting system here on Trainzdev.com: Karma! It is not easy to explain the concept of Karma and without an explanation from the site owner it is quite possible that lots of people here mis-understand it and start treating Karma like, what I like to call, Chimp food.
Chimp food is the reward you get when you do exactly that what is expected from you, and what is withheld when you don't.
Example?
The moment the CEO posts a poll on the Auran forum all the chimps flock to the topic and start 'voting', again and again and again. They keep pushing that button until their faces turn green. People push that button because they [i]hope and or expect[/i] their reward will be part of the new product.
They however forget that the info they give is used by the CEO to figure out what part of the product he needs to emphasize to the public in order to make the most money out of it ... not because he likes the people on the forum's opinion that much. The result is that many people will be disappointed because they assumed they increased their Karma by pushing the button but instead didn't receive their Chimp food when the new product is finally released.
Complex indeed.
Whole libraries are filled with books about Karma and its meaning. I don't expect anybody to read all of that ( I also don't expect this from myself ) but I feel that the following definition from "Thesaurus" covers the basics of Karma pretty good:
karma - (Hinduism and Buddhism)
the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
Hinduism:
a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils.
Buddhism:
the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth.
I am afraid that when the "karma" system here on this forum was installed with the software it didn't come to mind of the owner that Karma is this difficult a concept. I am afraid that the Karma points sytem, as it has been implemented here, is just a "fun" way to see who is popular among the masses and who is not. The powers that are have apparently overseen how blatantly insulting this is for people of the Hinduism religion and or Buddhist teachings.
I wonder what would happen if the popularity of members were to be determined by, lets say, an in- or decreasing number of Hail Mary's or at which level of Hell your posts will get you. So far it seems there aren't even enough levels of Hell to put me in because of my minus twelve karma points, although I do not know how many karma's points you need for one of the seven heavens of levels of hell. Perhaps the CEO can explain the exchange rate between levels of Hell and Karma points?
It becomes even more difficult because there are actually two popularity system installed here on this site. One is the karma system and a second Chimp food system is used for these blogs ... you can press a "favourite" button. Again it is not explained how many favourite are needed for one Karma point. I would like to trade my four favourites from my "Tony Hilliam, I want my money back"-entry for some minus karma points i collected in the forum.
Another thing that alludes me is the reason why this sytem hasn't been implemented on the, far larger, Auran Trainz forum. It could spark a true Karma Fest and the karma economy will blossom into full bloom and everybody will gather around the camp fire and sing Kumbaya ... and TRS2009 will be ALL we ever wanted from a train simulator [i]because[/i] we have given karma to the right people many times already. Haven't we?
Many of us have given Instant Karma when TRS2004 was released and again when TRS2006 hit the shelves. Then quite a few people gave even more Karma to add SP1 to their TRS2006 Karma. Yet again we gave Karma with TC1+2 and very recently TC3 ... but it is not enough.
We all keep hitting the Karma button that is Auran's bank-account ( me included ) with the expectation that our hard-earned Karma points have been worth investing and that the order of the Universe is balancing out, but it isn't. We chimps are fooled ... fooled into believeing we live in a righteous world where a business CEO spreads the gospel of Instant Karma for all of us, when in reality he only spreads the gospel of greed.
I think that all buyers of the before mentioned Trainz versions should have a free ride into the next incarnation ... because THAT is what Karma is about and people have paid enough Karma already. Karma is about the balance of choices and behaviour. We do have an influence on the Karma of Auran but have not left the trees yet for the promises that the plains offer.
Let us ALL climb down the trees and conquer the plains and be again like those first apes that took that road. We, as customers, can decide how much Karma Auran deserves. Spend it well.
Instant Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, hes like a detuned radio
Instant Karma police, arrest this girl, her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us
Instant Karma Police's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together, pretty soon youre gonna be dead
Instant karma Police's gonna get you, gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin, join the human race
How in the world you gonna see, laughin at fools like me
Who in the hell dyou think you are
A super star
Well, right you are
Zwab
The staff of the developement site in question: www.trainzdev.com didn't find it very interesting apparently because none of the usual spokesmen spoke. The Karma system was also not changed and my numbers kept dropping ... I don't know how far actually. The last time I noticed it the score was something like -69. Two days ago something peculiar happened. A young kid, Tyler Bishop, started complaining on the forum of tranzdev that his karma was negatively influenced by other members. Not me of course as I was already banned for some time and I would lower this kid's karma anyway because he is apparently the only other person on the entire suck-up board that dares to speak up a bit about the ridiculous "look how popular I am within the community vote".
Anyway ... Chris "I am always right and you are not" Bergmann must have thought he had another Zwab on his hands an warned Tyler in an interesting way:
"Just a quick word of warning. We won't tolerate repeated troll/spam posts on these forums. Everyone here is welcome to their own opinions, and are welcome to express them, but repeated posts which are off topic and inflammatory will result in a ban. I've only had to do that once so far, and it's not something I particularly like to do because it removes someone who may otherwise be quite a nice or helpful person from the community information source which is trainzdev.com, which hurts everyone.
Please have a think about this before you start down the same road. It's also worth thinking about why your karma is low. Several people have obviously disagreed with your previous comments or tone enough to mark you down. Like I said, you're welcome to have whatever opinion you want and to express disagreement with other peoples opinions. Just stay away from the ad hominum attacks, especially something like this where you don't even have a point to make."
In a later instance I might invest some more time in analysing this piece of wonderful prose by dear old Chris. For now I just advice him to stick to code writing because any other writing from his hand is ... hmmm ... shitty?
Very well. This wasn't the full end though because a day later Tyler actually requested the disabling of the karma system and to my utter suprise Chris "ad hominum" Bergmann replied:
"Done. I'd like to keep a karma system because they can be useful, but I agree that the fireboard one is pretty pointless. Will reenable it if/when the web guys have a chance to clean it up.
I've also toggled a few other options while I was at it.
chris"
HE ACTUALLY DISABLED IT! ... but also: "... they can be useful," WHAT? For what is this kiddies popularity vote useful? Can somebody answer that for me please, because I don't have a fucking clue.
I did find a picture of Chris Almighty however:
What my thoughts were, and still are, on the subject can be read here:
Instant Karma Police
The powers that are have humoured us with a whole new popularity voting system here on Trainzdev.com: Karma! It is not easy to explain the concept of Karma and without an explanation from the site owner it is quite possible that lots of people here mis-understand it and start treating Karma like, what I like to call, Chimp food.
Chimp food is the reward you get when you do exactly that what is expected from you, and what is withheld when you don't.
Example?
The moment the CEO posts a poll on the Auran forum all the chimps flock to the topic and start 'voting', again and again and again. They keep pushing that button until their faces turn green. People push that button because they [i]hope and or expect[/i] their reward will be part of the new product.
They however forget that the info they give is used by the CEO to figure out what part of the product he needs to emphasize to the public in order to make the most money out of it ... not because he likes the people on the forum's opinion that much. The result is that many people will be disappointed because they assumed they increased their Karma by pushing the button but instead didn't receive their Chimp food when the new product is finally released.
Complex indeed.
Whole libraries are filled with books about Karma and its meaning. I don't expect anybody to read all of that ( I also don't expect this from myself ) but I feel that the following definition from "Thesaurus" covers the basics of Karma pretty good:
karma - (Hinduism and Buddhism)
the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
Hinduism:
a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils.
Buddhism:
the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth.
I am afraid that when the "karma" system here on this forum was installed with the software it didn't come to mind of the owner that Karma is this difficult a concept. I am afraid that the Karma points sytem, as it has been implemented here, is just a "fun" way to see who is popular among the masses and who is not. The powers that are have apparently overseen how blatantly insulting this is for people of the Hinduism religion and or Buddhist teachings.
I wonder what would happen if the popularity of members were to be determined by, lets say, an in- or decreasing number of Hail Mary's or at which level of Hell your posts will get you. So far it seems there aren't even enough levels of Hell to put me in because of my minus twelve karma points, although I do not know how many karma's points you need for one of the seven heavens of levels of hell. Perhaps the CEO can explain the exchange rate between levels of Hell and Karma points?
It becomes even more difficult because there are actually two popularity system installed here on this site. One is the karma system and a second Chimp food system is used for these blogs ... you can press a "favourite" button. Again it is not explained how many favourite are needed for one Karma point. I would like to trade my four favourites from my "Tony Hilliam, I want my money back"-entry for some minus karma points i collected in the forum.
Another thing that alludes me is the reason why this sytem hasn't been implemented on the, far larger, Auran Trainz forum. It could spark a true Karma Fest and the karma economy will blossom into full bloom and everybody will gather around the camp fire and sing Kumbaya ... and TRS2009 will be ALL we ever wanted from a train simulator [i]because[/i] we have given karma to the right people many times already. Haven't we?
Many of us have given Instant Karma when TRS2004 was released and again when TRS2006 hit the shelves. Then quite a few people gave even more Karma to add SP1 to their TRS2006 Karma. Yet again we gave Karma with TC1+2 and very recently TC3 ... but it is not enough.
We all keep hitting the Karma button that is Auran's bank-account ( me included ) with the expectation that our hard-earned Karma points have been worth investing and that the order of the Universe is balancing out, but it isn't. We chimps are fooled ... fooled into believeing we live in a righteous world where a business CEO spreads the gospel of Instant Karma for all of us, when in reality he only spreads the gospel of greed.
I think that all buyers of the before mentioned Trainz versions should have a free ride into the next incarnation ... because THAT is what Karma is about and people have paid enough Karma already. Karma is about the balance of choices and behaviour. We do have an influence on the Karma of Auran but have not left the trees yet for the promises that the plains offer.
Let us ALL climb down the trees and conquer the plains and be again like those first apes that took that road. We, as customers, can decide how much Karma Auran deserves. Spend it well.
Instant Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, hes like a detuned radio
Instant Karma police, arrest this girl, her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us
Instant Karma Police's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together, pretty soon youre gonna be dead
Instant karma Police's gonna get you, gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin, join the human race
How in the world you gonna see, laughin at fools like me
Who in the hell dyou think you are
A super star
Well, right you are
Zwab
Friday, 29 August 2008
Australia has the longest days on Earth!
From day one of since the release of the Trainz Classics 3 version of our favourite simulator it was obvious that the product wasn't even close to being finished. Thanks to the British content creators quite a number of initial errors in the content were corrected very fast and made available to the public.
Unfortunately also quite a few "bugs" or other types of errors wriggled their way into the simulator. Rumours about an upcoming patch were quickly to be found on the diverse forums. Of course this was nowhere to be confirmed by anybody from Auran and most importantly nobody mentioned when it would be made available ... until.
On the 15th of August I send a request to the Auran helpdesk:
"broken sessions
Five out of the eight automated sessions in TC3 are broken. One way or the other the simulator either gets confused, gets stuck or de-rails. When will the TC3 AI be fixed to acceptable standards?
Z."
On the 26th I finally received an answer:
"Hi,
Today. New electronic download and patch are being released today.
Regards,
Auran HelpDesk
www.auran.com/helpdesk"
Have a look at today's date ... check again ... yep ... it is August 29th in Central Europe. In Australia the 26th lasts already three days! No wonder Australia is considered a backwater area on Earth. Days take at last three times linger then anywhere else. For all we know they still think it is the 18th century instead of the 21th.
Of coruse I couldn't resist sending a reply to the helpdesk after the 26th ended for most Earthlings:
"Longer days in Oz?
Hmm,
Although happy to hear a patch is made I am however not very surprised to find out that "today" means something else at Auran's then it does here.
Perhaps you know now when and where to obtain the patch?
Z."
To my utter surprise even this message was answered. The answer though leaves a lot to be desired though:
"Hi,
We'll put a post on the forums once its available.
Regards,
Auran HelpDesk
www.auran.com/helpdesk"
Now ... I could write pages full of complaints about how one part of the Auran company doesn't know what the other part is doing. But I will not do that. I hold just one person responsible for thius Fuck-up: Tony Hilliam ... the man in charge. The man that makes sure your company will lose millions of Dollars. The man that is writing the final chapters of Trainz.
Unfortunately also quite a few "bugs" or other types of errors wriggled their way into the simulator. Rumours about an upcoming patch were quickly to be found on the diverse forums. Of course this was nowhere to be confirmed by anybody from Auran and most importantly nobody mentioned when it would be made available ... until.
On the 15th of August I send a request to the Auran helpdesk:
"broken sessions
Five out of the eight automated sessions in TC3 are broken. One way or the other the simulator either gets confused, gets stuck or de-rails. When will the TC3 AI be fixed to acceptable standards?
Z."
On the 26th I finally received an answer:
"Hi,
Today. New electronic download and patch are being released today.
Regards,
Auran HelpDesk
www.auran.com/helpdesk"
Have a look at today's date ... check again ... yep ... it is August 29th in Central Europe. In Australia the 26th lasts already three days! No wonder Australia is considered a backwater area on Earth. Days take at last three times linger then anywhere else. For all we know they still think it is the 18th century instead of the 21th.
Of coruse I couldn't resist sending a reply to the helpdesk after the 26th ended for most Earthlings:
"Longer days in Oz?
Hmm,
Although happy to hear a patch is made I am however not very surprised to find out that "today" means something else at Auran's then it does here.
Perhaps you know now when and where to obtain the patch?
Z."
To my utter surprise even this message was answered. The answer though leaves a lot to be desired though:
"Hi,
We'll put a post on the forums once its available.
Regards,
Auran HelpDesk
www.auran.com/helpdesk"
Now ... I could write pages full of complaints about how one part of the Auran company doesn't know what the other part is doing. But I will not do that. I hold just one person responsible for thius Fuck-up: Tony Hilliam ... the man in charge. The man that makes sure your company will lose millions of Dollars. The man that is writing the final chapters of Trainz.
Monday, 25 August 2008
What did you expect?
To read more of my rantings?
I am sorry to disappoint you but I will not be part of a "community" where it is considered okay to insult people with a mental illness indiscriminately, and moderators fail to see it as an insult to approximately 25% of its members.
Euphod ( Ed ). You have proven with your insults that your mind-set belongs to a person without any empathy or the tiniest bits of understanding what you say. I despise you for that and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Not only do you find it necessary to insult every person with any type of mental ilness you are also just a fucking hypocrite. Or are you running for moderator yourself? Is that the real reason for your behaviour on this 25th of August on the Auran Trainz forum? Because when I read this message I really couldn't stop laughing.
I'll thank you to keep your Anti American comments to yourself from now on, the very next time I see this continue I will report you for violating the COC. I have suffered your devisive comments enough, I suggest you end it here.
Aren't you the biggest joke on the forums Ed. Mean big Ed from the U.S of A comes in and threatens young Adam to report the kid with an honoust opinion to the Gestapo just because he tells you what thinks the U.S of fucking A indeed is.
Good for you Ed! People will be really proud of you. Fancy another few straw man arguments Ed? Of course you don't ... you yourself ARE already a straw man. Loser.
__________________
Erik
I am sorry to disappoint you but I will not be part of a "community" where it is considered okay to insult people with a mental illness indiscriminately, and moderators fail to see it as an insult to approximately 25% of its members.
Euphod ( Ed ). You have proven with your insults that your mind-set belongs to a person without any empathy or the tiniest bits of understanding what you say. I despise you for that and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Not only do you find it necessary to insult every person with any type of mental ilness you are also just a fucking hypocrite. Or are you running for moderator yourself? Is that the real reason for your behaviour on this 25th of August on the Auran Trainz forum? Because when I read this message I really couldn't stop laughing.
Bothering You Since 2001!
Quote:
| Originally Posted by Isaacg  I wish it was.... hehe.... this country wouldn't be where it is today, IMVHO(In my VERY HONEST opinion) Its corrupt, and now its collapsing. Back to the shots. You've all done very well! (everyone in the background says: Thank you Mr. Grace!) Isaac |
I'll thank you to keep your Anti American comments to yourself from now on, the very next time I see this continue I will report you for violating the COC. I have suffered your devisive comments enough, I suggest you end it here.
Aren't you the biggest joke on the forums Ed. Mean big Ed from the U.S of A comes in and threatens young Adam to report the kid with an honoust opinion to the Gestapo just because he tells you what thinks the U.S of fucking A indeed is.
Good for you Ed! People will be really proud of you. Fancy another few straw man arguments Ed? Of course you don't ... you yourself ARE already a straw man. Loser.
Erik
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