Pacific Surfliner from Facing Point media UK release, when?

rtracey · Post by **rtracey** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:31 pm

Does anyone know when the Pacific Surfliner route will be available in the UK as a commercial product? I have looked at this route many times on the Facing Point website and I like the quality of the route and rolling stock, but at the moment its only available to download from their site but the only payment methods they accept is Mastercard or Visa and I don`t have either of those cards. Anyhow if it ever hits the UK i`ll be the first to buy it!

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:09 pm

Yes but you wont be the first in the uk to own it, Facing points has a very good security structure around the credit card saftey so pay and download or pay and wait for the CD shops these days arent selling MSTS stuff its all by order only.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:46 am

Facing Point don't have any plans I know of to market this route by any other method. You could drop Marc Nelson at 3DTrains an email and ask if he could arrange to let you buy it by other means, or he may drop by this thread and give you a reply here as he frequents the UKTS forums regularly.

kevarc · Post by **kevarc** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:36 pm

Martin, he would need to go to the Facing point website and email Andrew, Marc has nothing to do with this anymore.

Post by **NeutronIC** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:18 pm

Given up waiting for my CD of this

Matt.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:05 pm

Thanks for the heads up Kev, I was thinking of dropping Marc a note about this but will go and rattle Andrew's cage now

chrisiveson · Post by **chrisiveson** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:08 pm

Matt,
Did you download the route? or anyone else, because there's nothing on the CD that's not on the download. I know from the forums there, that consideration would be given to persons without broadband. An e-mail to Jarrett would possibly help now that the UK is starting to receive CDs.
I've posted on the PS forum that I'm in no rush now for the CD having backed up the route onto CD-R.
I know it's not the way to run a business and a lot of folks will probably think
"Once bitten, Twice shy". Maybe PS should take a good long look at how UKTS performs!
On the plus side, I did have trouble initially downloading,, but an e-mail to Jarrett was promptly replied along with an apology and a bypass of the download manager. Got it at the third attempt.

Chris

Post by **NeutronIC** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:15 pm

I've got it downloaded, so there's no real urgency to it, but it's just I can't really understand why the CD still has yet to turn up.

As I say, not really bothered, it would be nice but I have the download version so it's not that desperate.

Matt.

bigvern · Post by **bigvern** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:49 pm

salopiangrowler wrote:shops these days arent selling MSTS stuff its all by order only.

Well it's erratic. Game in Bridgend is still stocking Nene Valley Railway while Game in Cardiff today had neither MSTS parent programmes nor any add ons (did pick up a copy of GTA3 for Â£9.99 though, to fulfil the needs of my dark side

). I've been told the BA Southern Pack to which I have contributed the route should be getting a shop release though.

chrisiveson · Post by **chrisiveson** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:14 pm

Was in the new Game at Freeport, Glasshoughton, Casleford, W Yorks yesterday. All I could find was: Fire and Wires, Brighton - Portsmouth and MSTS (second edition) It's only a small shop and had to lay on the floor to examine everything on the bottom shelf!

Chris

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:15 pm

Well i been round most stores and especially birmingham where you'd expect something msts related and nothing i can fine add on wise yes v1.2 of msts is still very much on the shelves at 25% of shops. How many people are prepared to travel over 25 miles for a game when it can be ordered from the warmth of a home.

Alot of shops arent stocking MSTS anymore for the excuse of game in shrewsbury: "why stock it when you can by it online, we make more money that way"

rtracey · Post by **rtracey** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:34 pm

Just to update y`all I contacted someone at Facing Point Media and they told me to send them a payment via paypal and this afternoon I received the email with the download link and i`m just about to download it. Yippee!
Can`t wait for ECML and VCTRL.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:21 am

My payment email of several months ago gives a download link but it's broken. Chaser email to Andrew has gone unanswered.

rtracey · Post by **rtracey** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:36 pm

Well I downloaded the route without any problems and 545mb took 1h18 at a speed of 115kbps, the route installed fine but i`ve encountered a lot of missing shape files!