Hello there,

Good afternoon followers & Guests reading this blog post, and my sincere apologies for he lack of posts recently.

Mainly because i have been enjoying Rilworks, (never had as much fun in RailSimulator), anyway, just a bit of a grumble to get of my chest.

Okay so as you know i am not the most respected or followed person in the Rail Simulation community (no big deal) but what i do ask for is RESPECT, you know it wouldn't go a miss...

Now a certain website that will remain nameless, has decided the best option is to ban me because i told them straight what i think about their constant bashing towards RailWorks and the guys at RSC (Railsimulator.com).

Twice i posted and both times my posts where removed by site owner, so i sent him a nice pm telling him straight what i think about the continued abuse they are giving RailWorks and to stop comparing it against RailSimulator. but he choose not to take my advice and for the pleasure Kicked me off the site. (dose not bother me, one less site to read and release future content to.)

Now I am going to say this: those of you who are still on the "RailWorks is a con Bandwagon" get off your hind horse and pipe down and continue with MSTS or Trainz or whatever you are "Committed too". But let me ask you this: how can you judge railworks if A: you don't have a copy (and some of you are swearing blind you'll never purchase a copy).

And some of you have a valid reason. However, those who seem to judge it because of its striking similarity to RailSimulator... HELLO!!!! is anyone home? RailWorks IS RailSimulator Mark2, but with a whole lot more potential than RS could have ever offered be it for design or programming reasons...

Which the Guys at RSC thought is not fair on current and future customers / players. So they didn't sit on their arse and say sorry we can't do that, NO they did something to benefit every one present and future.

Railworks has already had several updates and have very kindly released the foliage pack free of charge into the sim for those who can't afford to purchase it and to save the hassle of individual users porting over the legacy installer. this now enables a whole new set of assets that where never available before to many users, and also enabled users who avoided downloading a route because the foliage pack was required can happily download these routes now, so for a route builder its now opened up the route to a whole new audience.

The improvements to the sim are not that striking at first but route builders have certainly noticed a heck of an improvement to the built in tools.

In short Don't keep on knocking Railworks, if you don't like it, Fine go back to whatever you prefer but I'm convinced (once all the small glitches have been ironed out) once you go RailWorks you'll never go back.

Sorry rant over, I'll Be back later with some updates form the world of RWTS (Rs-trainsim) - all will be explained later.

Regards,
Dave.