Alot of people deserve a big 'Thankyou' from us all.

Jonnie1972 · Post by **Jonnie1972** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 8:33 pm

Alot of people deserve a big 'Thankyou' from us all, dont you all think so?

For all the route makers, train makers, re-skinners, activity creators, you name it and of course this site. Because if it wasnt for these people, MSTS might have died of death.

It would have for me anyways.
Just a big thankyou to you all, who just keep doing what you do, to keep people like me happy with good old everything.

Jonnie

Post by **martinhodgson** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 9:52 pm

HEAR HEAR!!!!

exshunter · Post by **exshunter** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 11:39 pm

i agree whole heartedly,thankyou guys if it wasnt for all you talented people out there msts would not be on my hard drive now.
thankyou everybody

isambardkingdombrunel · Sat Sep 14, 2002 6:33 pm

Muchos appreciatos compadres.

IKB.

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 8:18 pm

Thank you Mr. Neutronic and co. for making this possible.

Three cheers

Hip hip - hooray
Hip hip - hooray
Hip hip - hooray

Keep it going guys

dilflat · Post by **dilflat** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 9:30 pm

That such a huge amount of MSTSadd ons would be available for download would have seemed unbelievable a year ago.
The standards are being pushed forward all the time and those of you that have given your time and energy to achieving this have my appreciation

Regards,
Dave

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 9:42 pm

Being a bit controversial .... Microsoft and Kuju provided the basis for the enthusiasm

To be honest I was very sceptical that a train-sim would work.

OK the default isn't much but that went for flightsim for years.

It was made to be improved upon and it certainly has been

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 9:52 pm

johndibben wrote:Being a bit controversial .... Microsoft and Kuju provided the basis for the enthusiasm

You actually have a point there, if it wasn't for them there would be none of this (I often wonder what this site would be like if Kuju had done a good job on their stuff).

I think everyone who builds stuff deserves some thanks, even if there models are still poor (such as Kim's 1st models the 31 and 20) they still played a part in the development of MSTS. Well done all builders (I suppose I could be included in this

).

peterdore · Post by **peterdore** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 10:19 pm

Yes lets all pat ourselves on the back...we have all contributed something to Mts...and Matt and co have made all this possible with there website thanks matt

(pssst Matt dont forget me free tshirt)

pete

Kevo00 · Post by **Kevo00** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 11:22 pm

Well I would like to thank a lot of people that have produced freeware addons that for me at least (and probably a lot of others) have genuinely made MSTS "as real as it gets". Particular thanks in this regard to Rob for his fantastic GNER route, Pat Dalton for his S&C 1930, Steve Pontin for his Tallyllyn route (also Kevin Martin for the locos!) and Gordon MacKenzie for his particularly impressive Ruabon - Llangollen - Bala route which dropped on my doormat this morning! Oh and all the people that have built a shedload of locos.

To be honest I'm amazed theres been such a big freeware effort - and hardly any commercial effort for UK stock at all. Competition must be too good for 'em!

tandy · Post by **tandy** » Sun Sep 15, 2002 7:02 pm

Too all Model, Route and Activity providers,

It is true, we the community cannot thank you enough for the fine models and the many hours spent producing your incredible work, for rest of us to download.

Also thank you for the helpful tips & responses, to keep us clueless nubies on track. I am not one to join in the forums much (a little shy really), but having written to some of the model creators via personal e-mail when having problems and have always received a speedy and helpful reponse.

I cannot thank you all enough. Tandy

yourdomingo · Post by **yourdomingo** » Sun Sep 15, 2002 11:37 pm

this is true. i think it's kept me sane, throughout the trauma of being completely unable to find a job (not even asda are recruiting). gives me something to do when i'm not writing app forms.

anyway, a big "cheersh" to all those who made it possible to waste so long pretending to be a train driver! yes, even kuju. doesn't this show how much can be done with slightly sub standard tools, so let's see if they can make good tools next time round!

mikesimpson · Post by **mikesimpson** » Sun Sep 15, 2002 11:48 pm

Kevo00 wrote:
To be honest I'm amazed theres been such a big freeware effort - and hardly any commercial effort for UK stock at all. Competition must be too good for 'em!

I think it would not be commercially viable to make MSTS add-ons. I was in touch with 'Fozzy Bear' re his K36 American locomotives and he estimates about 1000 hours went into building them.

In my own case, writing Route-Riter has involved several hundred hours work. For this I have had about 3000 downloads. From past experience, maybe 5 percent, say 150 would have registered the program if I was lucky. The rest would 'get a copy from a friend', and within a few weeks it would appear on some site somewhere as a 'free download'.

On the whole it is easier just to give the stuff away.

37714 · Post by **37714** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 12:58 pm

I agree for the most part. It would be nice to make a little money off the downloads this site produces, but i'm not all that sure i'd really want to charge people that i know almost personally.

Hymek · Post by **Hymek** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 9:13 pm

Id just like to say thank you to everyone no matter how big or small their contribution. Especially the UKtrainsim crew and Atomic systems for all of this.

argghhh to much MSTS playing at unearthly ours of night, *eyes explode*

Atomic Systems

Alot of people deserve a big 'Thankyou' from us all.

Alot of people deserve a big 'Thankyou' from us all.

[u]You can't do good modellers for enough![/u]