perhaps the makers of world traffic can do that

The gap between posting and release notes has been because (1) I’ve been behind on release notes and (2) Jennifer was on vacation last week and (3) since the betas have had fixes to DRM for product keys, it’s been of the highest urgency to get the beta out ASAP (to fix user who can’t run -at all-), even before the release notes are cleaned up.

We can run a beta batch from our servers internally before it’s live; we do that before release to make sure the beta is not dead. When a beta does turn out to be dead-on-arrival it’s almost always because either:
1. The failure is hardware specific and doesn’t happen on our computers. (We had a crash-on-start-up specific to AMD CPUs – turns out everyone in the company has Intel Inside.) or
2. The failure requires a very popular third party add-on. (E.g. the FMC borkage we had.)

It’s not a top priority – perhaps this should be done by a third party add-on.

just out of curiosity, when betas are released, is there a short time to make sure it works before posting notes, or is it just hectic to post notes and an update on the dev blog at the same time a beta goes live? just so we know whats changed and whats not before downloading, sometimes its days before the notes appear.

Ben , I have a question , a few days ago I had a beta 8 has been updated to beta 9 is really a bug or update beta 9 came as no where nebylo mentioned the release of beta 9.

No, we are not adding scripted world traffic to 10.40.

We’re really not adding any more FEATURES to 1040 – we’re going to fix the bugs and ship it.

It’s no problem now, but when you multiply it by the number of potential custom scenery installations, and consider the number of pages one would have to wade through the plugin Enable/Disable feature to get through to something in the end, or just the lines of messages in log.txt, that seems rather untidy.

Oh. If you own both you can have two installs on one computer.