Accessibility of the servers

[1959nikos]

One time again, last night, I spent 3 hours to get inside our 1979 championship server.
For countless times I got the dreary "Package not available" message.

I knew I had the track installed, as we had raced there countless times before but when I tried to find it in the 'Packages" inside game, all I could find was "sm_Silverstone_Legends_v1.4" . I subscribed and I unsubscribed many times with no result and then I looked inside single player mode and discovered that I had the right track so that part was ok.

Then I started checking about .rfmod, I knew I had it when I entered server 2 months ago at Kyalami, so it should be ok.
To check everything was right, I downloaded the .rfmod from France announcement, I placed it into my Packages folder at my game installation, I got the "do you want to replace this file whith this file blah blah" message, and as the files had the same name and same size, I didnt see any point in replacing the file.
After many tries I couldnt find my way in, I did the replacement.
To cut the story short, the .rfmod was not the same, it was v1.2 but I had no way to know that, as file title was the same.

Yes, I was away for some time, but still I had the knowledge to go around our site, which is not easy for the first time as is for all sites (maybe admins could do some tidying up there), go to Steam and find rFactor 2 Library (which for me is a monument of making simple things NASA stuff) and try to figure things out .

Imagine now somebody who wants a quick race with us, sees our server with cool stuff (1979 F1 cars, Silverstone 1975 GP) and no way to get in.
I bet that the guy will just pass, he is not going to spend his time configuring our site or Steam's nightmare, he will simply look for a place where everything will be downloaded automatically for him from the server.
Even if he has entered our server before sometime ago, like me, he is not going to spend 3 hours like me to figure out whats wrong.

Even if downloading stuff from the server takes a long time, I am absolutely sure that this is the way to go if we want to have a populated everyday server with new people, as it was at the first days of rFactor 2 ( I bet a lot of us remember how it was).
Even if the ability level of the people who entered was sometimes low, from these everyday races we met friends who stayed with us till now.

I will understand if what Im asking is not possible but I would like to know if there are valid reasons for it, or if our new admins are willing to do something about it.
Also I wish our community would participate in this discussion.