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Hein,
Just trying to say HELLO !!
It's been awhile and I wasn't sure if you were still affiliated with Oovee or not.
I wanted to make sure you received my thanks for all the help on here. I don't know what I would have done many times if it wasn't for your suggestions.
Ken Holby (holbs)
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Hey Holbs,
I was never affiliated with Oovee at all. Just a consumer doing his part to answer questions on this forum and run my own mods websites.
Well i used to do that but sold spintires.nl three years ago ;). It was consuming way too much time for the revenue it brought me.
I'm tempted to start playing spintires again but have zero time for that right now plus i lack the proper laptop to deal with the graphics. And besides that i did get a front row seat behind the scenes of the whole Oovee fallout with Pavel and Sabre.. lets just say it wasnt pretty. Left a bitter taste.
But never say never i might just return one day on this forum as a active user again :)
See you around
Hein
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Hein,
It's good to hear you're still around. Being "Across the pond" always makes a bit of a difference with retaining instant contact with others.
I still play and do maps for the 03.03.16 version. Instead of jumping in the horde of "updates", I sat back and waited. I saw a lot of disappointed players after Oovee just decided to just make players install of the semi-weekly updates off of Steam. I couldn't stop the game's updates, but because when I started to do mapping, I set the Editor up on my "Z" drive. I can't remember why, but I'm glad I did. The new textures the updates included in the forced update really got me hot. Here I was creating 5 maps in 4 months and they all looked terrible when I played them. I even chatted with Reese a few time and basically asked if they could just put the new textures as new "Overlays" instead of replacing the original ones. Maybe he listened or maybe he didn't. I even asked if there could be a way most of the updates be placed in some sort of Option screen for us to choose before the game starts.
I don't know. All I know is that one of the best sims I ever "got into" as much as I have was almost ruined. I'm turning 74 next Wed. and am set in my ways. I don't like changes to something I didn't have a choice on. Now, when anyone logs into Steam, updates are D/Led without even letting me know, so I have to be careful.
As I said before, I still create maps with the old Editor on my Z drive. This way none of the updates affects my choices of terrain, overlays and etc.
You said you might want to give ST another try...may I suggest my latest map "A_PAIN_IN_THE_grASS". It's tough, but enjoyable. I play it often just to see if I can still drive on it - LOL.
Okay, I'm done rambling for now. Good to hear from you again!
Ken Holby
(holbs)
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