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I am always surprised to see this. Our little forum is pretty slow, as sometimes a topic stays for weeks on page 1,2, or 3 after it has been responded too. And yet is is the #2 busiest forum, second only to MSTS. That means more than General! How? Is it slow but study wins the race? Or was it a lot busier in the early days of MSTS when RE was mostly un-conquered?Thanks!
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because the route design forum was the only forum spared from the forum software upgrade, thus the archive is completely intact
Shawn Kenselaar, shawnssk@yahoo.com
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LAST EDITED ON Jun-22-03 AT 00:54 AM (EDT)
>because the route design forum was the only forum spared
>from the forum software upgrade, thus the archive is
>completely intact I don't think it was the only one. I think the Engine and Livering and Loco design was as well.
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Where has my favourite LUL train gone? Maybe it was sent for bolt checking again...
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In terms of the raw numbers, Shawn's right - there were a lot of topics that got hit "during the crash of ought-three" (or was it 02? - 'twas many a post ago). Anyway, I agree with you, David. There are a lot of posts on this forum, and I think that's because of a number of reasons. First, there are a LOT of problems that people have to work out to build a route, so there's lots of posts asking "how-to" questions. Second, it's a lot harder to substitute something else for a route you want to run on. I can use, and have used, a lot of different locos, freight cars, or passenger cars on my route and overlook the fact that they're not prototypical D&RGW narrow gauge. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to make the graphics really fuzzy and pretend that Marias Pass is really Cumbres Pass. If someone really wants to see that steamer or intermodal running through their favorite scene, they usually have to build it themselves.Finally, it's mostly just 'cause us folks here in the Route Design Forum are a lot smarter and more personable than in any of the other forums, and we like to hear what the gang is up to. Andy
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And Thirdly, the Editor is so unstable that everyone keeps asking questions about it.
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Eh, where did my signature go?
Where has my favourite LUL train gone? Maybe it was sent for bolt checking again...
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In the early days of all the forums, you might find it interesting to know that the route design forum was thee forum. In the early days there wasn't TSM, 3d Canvas for MSTS or Gmax so the only thing to do then other than running trains was to build a route. For a good long time the other forums suffered because nobody wanted to pay out $3000 (I remember hearing people saying) for 3d Design Studio. Eventually the 3d rendering packages and Trainz came out and started turning things around. Ironically, the route design forum has always suffered from one chronic ailment, the route editor. It's all the uploads, workarounds, tutorials, insightful posts that alleviated the shortcomings of the editor. But even with those, they are barely offset by the attrition rate which was pretty high. About November of 2001, Mike Vone's tutorial/book came out and the same old questions that came up just about every other day (aka I just created my first route and all I see is white..., how do I get water... etc.) began to disappear. Folks are able to get much more through route building now before they have less of a need to post. It's a good thing of course, but it's one of the reasons I believe the design forum has slowed down.Rich Garber
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