VISIT SERIES - COUNTRIES - COLLECTIONS - Release Cycle
Hi Folks
Dain -
Sorry to hear about your having lost your hard earned rewards.
Had a similar problem myself during beta.
Hence the
FS Insider - Support Alert
Haven't yet reacquired them all,
but it was much quicker second time around.
To prevent future occurrence
it's worth backing up your
GrantedRewards.BIN &
Logbook.BIN.
For file locations, please see -
FSDeveloper - Wiki - Pilot_Records
VISIT SERIES - COUNTRIES - COLLECTIONS - Release Cycle
The following is a generic response
to various questions posted either in this, or other forums,
or received by PM & email.
Due to download size practicalities
it's unlikely there'll be a single All_IN_ONE download package.
By extrapolation,
I expect the worldwide coverage collection of MASTER detailed rewards
to be approximately 100MB in size.
I'll probably eventually release them as 3 download packages.
N.B.
This is a long time off, (at earliest summer 2009).
I'd never intended to release the UPDATES packs
as frequently as I have done recently, (see below).
Just got carried away.
It's always been my intent to release
intermediate EVERYTHING_TO_DATE type collections.
The first of these will be released after UPDATES - PACK 10,
some time early next year.
The suggestion of once-a-month releases
containing EVERYTHING_TO_DATE would be impractical.
You'd be repeatedly making > 25MB,
and increasingly larger downloads,
for approximately 3MB of new/updated content.
Due to other FS & IRL commitments,
the next release, UPDATES - PACK 8,
will most likely be the last for the current year.
At that point
I'll release a global map image
indicating the then available BASIC & MASTER coverage extent.
You may also have noticed,
the recently released MASTER reward files
are not as detailed in categorisation scope,
as some of those released earlier in the VISIT SERIES.
i.e.
Recent files generally only include state/province/county type rewards.
Rather than the older reward sets
which include state/province/county,
plus rewards for -
- Capitals
- Military
- Cities
etc.
This is due to
the enormous amount of time it takes,
to accurately collate & check such data.
Smaller & less developed country's Wiki entries
are far less detailed,
and often missing much of the nescessary data.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Over time, & where possible,
such rewards will be updated to similar categorisation scope.
I had only intended releasing 1 UPDATES pack per month.
I've just been "clearing the decks" recently
by releasing compiled rewards based on previously collated datasets.
So bottom line -
For anyone who's interested,
recommend you download whatever's been released to date.
Each package download is less than 3MB,
so shouldn't be a major inconvenience.
Have fun.
HTH
ATB
Paul
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