I did post over there folks but I suspect that the post will be deleted by the powers that be. Here was my reply. Wonder what will be there tomorrow?
shousa,
your concern about the RWY12 being a FS2004 file, as is the EZ_1 as well, need not be of concern. IF you bothered to read the instructions it would tell you that although the libraries were originally for FS2004 like any other library of .bgl/.bmp files they work fine with FSX. The only caveat included in the instructions were that you have to direct the .exe installer to a temporary directory and move the scenery and texture files manually as the installers are made by the original authors to install into FS2004 and as they were not developed by the team then we could not in good faith change their work.
The reason the different Ice Stations are not clumped into one folder for CIRP is primarily so that if you happen to get a bad download or install something incorrectly, trouble shooting will be simplified using this method. Once you have installed the files if everything is running error free then it would make sense if you want a single entry to combine all the various files in the scenery sub-folders into a master CIRP entry. By mass installing so many files together given the possibility of a corrupt download etc. your trouble shooting task is magnified greatly.
The most tedious part of installation is of course the scenery object libraries so that all the various objects will be in the scenery. That will take the most time. The Ice Stations themselves have many supplemental files, ie: jpg, PDF, flight plans etc. that mostly embellish what each download contains and are not part of the installation itself. If you already have a flight plan saved from an earlier Ice Station download you will be notified that file xx already exists if you try to save the same flight plan a second time, do you want to replace it? That prevents more than one instance of the plan. In most cases the scenery will consist of a scenery sub-folder with a few files in it. the Main folder with the scenery sub-folder is placed in the FSX\Addon Scenery folder and added to the scenery library. A process that including unzipping should be able to be done in less than 5 min. each. Not including the inordinate long start up time of FSX itself but that you have to take up with Microsoft. As you point out there are embedded .zip files in some downloads (a total of 3 files with embedded .zip files).
All in all if you are too impatient to install CIRP one station at a time and check everything for proper operation then perhaps it would be more appropriate to spend your money for the simplicity of payware software with installers. The idea behind RTMM and CIRP has always been the adventure of getting from 'here to there'. The group took the path they did to let the experience happen in a straight forward serial direction from one station to the next. I realize the price you pay is to exercise just a modicum of effort and time spent enjoying the experience but those who need to have it all 'right now' will unfortunately perhaps disagree with this philosophy.
View Postshousa, on 31 October 2011 - 10:07 PM, said:
My view - if I had not done it all at once it would have taken double or triple the time.
Exactly the point of the whole thing, you let it grow and enjoy the experience.
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