News just in from RSC, another famous American route in creation.

[1225fan5358]

I can't believe they're gonne make us pay them for repaints. And notice how every time a new route comes out, it has cruddy crossings and signal bridges ( ssm digital Beats them by a landslide) If they partnered up with freeware and payware providers, they'd have a much better quality buisness.

[BNSF650]

Yea but I think rsc is just out for them selfs

[buzz456]

Yea but I think rsc is just out for them selfs

Should they be out for someone else? They are after all a commercial enterprise.

[donjgatlin]

Some of you seem to forget how much it costs to do the research and to build all of these DLC. Are the workers just supposed to go out and work on these products for no pay, or what? Not to mention, they must rack-up some costs on travel to get to the real-world thing. They're a company, they have to pay the staff, cover operating expenses, and expect to make some sort of profit.

[artimrj]

I can't believe they're gonne make us pay them for repaints. And notice how every time a new route comes out, it has cruddy crossings and signal bridges ( ssm digital Beats them by a landslide) If they partnered up with freeware and payware providers, they'd have a much better quality buisness.

Just wondering if you have any idea how long it takes to do a repaint? I have a lot of freeware repaints in the library. Just painting some of the engines, like the CSX SD40s I did and the NS ES44s, took me several weeks to do. Probably 20 hours on each engine. You paint a section, then have to load the sim to see if you matched up lines and things with all the parts, like from the body to the cab. Then discover the cab is in a different scale and all the lines are off by a few pixels, then you re-adjust and hope you did it, if not do it again and again. Then there is all the editting of the BIN files. Several hours there for each engine. Then you do the documentation so people who do not have a clue can install them. A lot of time goes into a freeware repaint. I do it for fun, not money, but if I did charge, I would be asking $20 for a repaint of a protoype livery no problem. As once I start selling them I would need a license for the railroad in question and the other red tape to deal with.

What freeware developer would want to team up with them and then they sell his work? You would be working for someone else for free???

[buzz456]

Well put Bob.

[BNSFdude]

Believe me, the invitation is there. But they simply don't have the time (or money AFAIK) to come states side and do some research trips. I have availability to get access for operations, and other things for them. Although my Apartment may not be suitable for that many more people.