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Hi Pete Thank you for your reply. Sounds like you were very active in your working life! I'm so glad you filled the void (many don't and pay the price). Now we wait to see what "magic" is coming in V9! Kind regards Ern

Hi Neo! You are now whetting my appetite and I see you are not giving anything away! Okay, I will not pester you about what and when

Hello Atrus! Thank you for your kind wishes and the same to you in beautiful Austria!

Hallo everyone! In South Africa the 1st of September is spring day and yes, I know in the northern hemisphere you are now going into winter. But that is life. I remember the other day someone said you actually must not count you age in years - but rather the number of times you have gone around the sun full circle ...and I am on my 67th lap! I was thinking on this beautiful Sunday morning at 05h00 am when I got up as to the impact MBS has made on my life since 16 June 2021 when I bought V6! V7 was purchased on 7 August 2022 and just the other day, 26 July 2024, I purchased V8.5. When I bought V6 it motivated me to upgrade my computer (10-year-old standalone running on Windows 7), so I bought a secondhand laptop (about 2 years old and running on Windows 10). This was the first impact! In South Africa we went into Corona Virus lockdown in March of 2020. Fortunately, I had just started renting the ground floor of a beautiful house on the river in Kleinemonde whilst my good lady friend was living in the top part of the house (her father's house and she is only on lap 51 around the sun now - so no, just friends). In any event the lockdown rules were very strict in the first 6 months - to the effect you were not even allowed to go paddling or boating on the river! Fortunately, we had strong Wi-Fi, and we spent a lot of time on our laptops playing games or watching TV. You can only play some games only a few times then it becomes quite monotonous! As a model railroader from a very young age (my mother bought us our first electric trainset - Marklin entry set, in 1969) but when I moved to the coast in 2010, I gave all my N-scale stuff to my brother living in Pretoria (coastal air is not good for N-scale even though all my track and points were Peco and 90% of my rolling stock was Riverossi). On my old PC I was able to play Railroad Tycoon but when I upgraded to the laptop with Windows 10 that was it. I started searching for a model railway game online that I could play (this was in March 2021) and found MBS! Since then, it was all MBS and just MBS! My lady friend said in the first +- 3 months I was like in another zone - building until 2/3 in the mornings! But the impact of MBS was not just to kill time, but it also had and still have the following impact: - * Stimulates the brain and especially in the beginning learning how to build and manage each layout, especially when I started learning to use EV! * Stimulates your creative mind in designing new track plans, concepts, scenery etc. * Stimulates your sense of achievement when you are busy or have completed a beautiful layout! (as long as it is beautiful to you it does not have to be beautiful to other people!) * Stimulates you to come up with new concepts and challenges i.e. if you only had a 1,2 x 2-meter board or what era are you going to model, selection of rolling stock, buildings etc. Now to some people the above might be hogwash but when you get to 60+ and retirement, you need to keep your brain active and not become a couch potato watching TV all the time because if you do, chances are good within 6 months there will be a funeral! (I knew quite a few people that went this way). To Stefan Werner and his team, I wish to extend my sincere gratitude and thanks for this wonderful program! In a sense it has kept me alive, well and positively! Regards from South Africa! Ern45

Thank you Easy - did what you advised, and it works!!!

Thank you everyone for the advice & guidance! And now Neo goes and tickle my interest - V9?? When will we see more about this and anticipated release date? Regards to all! Ern

I would like to set my daytime for 10:00 AM and my nighttime for 18:00 PM. Yet every time I click on the icon it had changed back to the set setting. Any advice?

Since V8.5 came out I was hesitant to try it. Mainly due to a few negative comments I had read in the Forum a while ago and, having had a look at the improvements one can get with the update (now I realize I did not fully grasp what these improvements meant!). However, a few days ago (with the help and advice of Goetz) I "risked" downloading the free trial of V8.5 - after Goetz assured me my V7 version will not be overridden. I really enjoyed my V7 MBS and did not want to lose it - as I can remember joining MBS at level V6 and once I installed V7 it automatically had overwritten my V6 program. I was blown away by the V8.5 trial version! The result? After only 24 hours I got the professional version and since then it has been a one-way building frenzy! Since my database (once again with the help of Goetz!) was transferred and I had access to all my layouts (and 3D models) in V8.5! Yes, the menu setup etc. has changed a bit (one of the complaints I read when V8 came out) but if you are an experienced user of MBS and had made the effort to learn and discover new functions (even in V7), then V8.5. is even better. In conclusion? Last night I realized that my V7 version is just taking up space on my computer and deleted it. I am now on a new journey of discovering what V8.5. has for me - and man...what a journey so far! Thank you once again to Goetz and all the other people who make MBS such an enjoyable experience! Kind regards from South Africa! Ern45

Thank you so much! It is all there!

No it didn't.... must I re-install?

Good morning Goetz, Me again! I have now purchased the V8.5 professional version Question: How do I get access to my V7 "My 3D models"? Kind regards Ern45

Well, I have spent a few hours today looking at Version 8.5 (free trial version) and I must say I am highly impressed! Wow!! The visuals and details just come out at you! Now to find the money

Good morning Goetz, Thank you very much for the information. Much appreciated. Kind regards Ern45

Good day all! I purchased V6 in June 2020 and subsequently upgraded to V7 when it came out. However, since the upgrade to V8 - then V8.5 I analyzed and evaluated it and could not justify it on my pensioner budget (I live in South Africa and our currency is very weak against First World countries). I am however very interested in exploring V8.5 but am worried that if I download it - even just the initial free version - I will lose my V7 version! So, I have a few questions and would appreciate some advice please: - 1. If I only download the free version of V8.5, Will I lose the V7 version on my computer - or will it no longer be operational? 2. If I save my V7 version onto a memory stick, download the trial version of V8.5 on my computer and, if I find that I want to stick to V7, can I delete V8.5 and copy my V7 version from the memory stick back to my computer - will it (V7 version) be operational again? From my observations I still see that there are people having problems with V8.5 BUT I also noticed on my level (V7) there are fewer and fewer publications of layouts that I can view. My logic tells me that it is because I won't be able to view V8.5 publications. Regards from South Africa Ern45