Question For Eoleson ...

[zzmikezz]

In a closed thread in this forum you gave the following numbers ...

"Face it -- this is a limited marketplace. There are around 2000 people who've posted here in the last year across all forums. 900 had 25 posts or more. 18 of those 900 were new accounts. "

What was the source of this information?

[mdeming]

What does this have to do with Open Rails? Why not ask in a private message?

[zzmikezz]

What does this have to do with Open Rails? Why not ask in a private message?

Open Rails depends on MSTS. Why not let marketing information be discussed in public so that potential developers can understand the size of their potential market?

[eric]

Open Rails depends on MSTS. Why not let marketing information be discussed in public so that potential developers can understand the size of their potential market?

First of all, OpenRails doesn't have to depend on MSTS... It reuses the registry keys, file structures and formats, but that's to provide backward compatibility. Some route builders, myself included, are building routes free of the Kuju tracks and content, and there are scripts which can create the registry keys and file structures without a MSTS installation present. Perhaps the installer will eventually do that as well.

The stats came from the advanced member search capabilities on the forum.

https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/memberlist.php?do=search

[zzmikezz]

The stats came from the advanced member search capabilities on the forum.

My compliments to the market research chef. Nicely done, and it has caused me to modify my MSTS Boot Camp forum plan. It will now be MSTS Freight Operations Boot Camp.

I'd love to extend the boot camp into the OR realm since, based on what you wrote above, it should be the case that AG4 and Route Riter will continue to do the right thing, yes? At least in the short/medium term?

[westerngy]

This belongs in the General Forum.