What I want to know is - when are you folks going to get rid of this useless and error-causing method of verifying the purchase of software. This one tool causes more errors than any other software problem associated with FSX.
First, you are confusing two different problems. After reading his 2nd post, it seems the other user doesn't have the notorious "Trusting" error, meaning that a known FSX bug that a newly trusted module, sometimes just crash the first time it gets launched.
This is probably the error you are getting instead, because you say it only happens with new releases of the software, and that's is NOT caused by the software, but by the trusting mechanism of FSX.
I get this error sometimes, randomly, from every other 3rd party module, like LVLD.DLL, PMDGOptions.dll, Wilco, etc...an it ALWAYS goes away after either a 2nd launch or a reboot. Our module is not any different, it's just that we updated it more often, that's why you get the wrong impression that it happens more with our module, because the trigger is the *trusting* mechanism, and this get in the way each time the file is updated so, if a developer updates a module less often, you might just forget the problem happened with that module as well but, as I've said, I get it from every other module out there, usually when there's a new version that has just been released.
The above user doesn't seem to have THIS problem, but it just crashes, according to his description so, we'll find what it is, and it's 100% sure it's a conflict with something else, most likely antivirus and, guess what, Flight1 has *exactly* the same issues with antivirus, which is a known issue as well...and of course, it's the antivirus's fault.
You guys make wonderful software. You use a piece of crap (IMHO) to ensure your software is not stolen. Come on guys. Think of us poor users for a change. Get rid of this method and go to using keys or something - everyone else uses these. Please, please.
Sorry, but this is just out of the question. We can change everything in our software, except this. The software works, and when it doesn't we DO provide support for it. End of the discussion.
And, your suggestion would not make any sense because the Addon Manager, as explained COUNTLESS of times (it's even on the FAQ page), doesn't do JUST activation. EVEN if we DID change the sales system, using a different sales system and a different activation system (which we are not going to do in any case), the Addon Manager will STILL be needed and will still there, because we can't simply do anything in FSX without it, because it handles almost everything we do with the scenery.
If you follow this thread here:
http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=1653.0You would see why the Addon Manager does far more than "just" activation because, with a simple update of it, made after the user suggestion, we were able to add an optimization feature that automatically improved ALL the released sceneries, without even patching the sceneries! It wouldn't have been possible to do something like that, if we were using just .BGL, this is the final proof how important the Addon Manager is, and how it's one of the reason why our FSX sceneries performs better than anything else (many thought something like JFK in FSX was not possible...) And this, of course, doesn't have anything to do with the activation.
