May 2024 Newsletter
Man that meme never gets old lmao.
Let's get straight to business with this post.
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What's new?
44Willy's has passed the P&B back to me for the last time, so all that remains is left on me to finish off. He graciously (and secretly) updated some of my work along the Phase I section without me being the wiser. Old Town and Vonny both got some asset upgrades that fit well enough into my own abilities I didn't even realize anything changed until he mentioned it lol. He also added track conditions, ambient sounds, triggers and several other (annoying) things to save me the trouble. That leaves me with the following before I'm comfortable calling the route ready for beta and release:
TRC configuration; ie, triggers, gates, bells, lights, traffic stoppers, etc.
Industry configuration
Final trackside details; ie, relay boxes, control points, etc.
Eliminating/replacing any remaining payware/problematic assets
And I think that's it! Chance's are I'll find more problems I'll need to clean up as I go but I'll address those as they come.
Once the route is ready for release, I'll put together a video of how and where to get the route, any known dependency issues (hoping to keep that to a minimum), and I'll go over plans for the future of the P&B because this routes NOT COMPLETE YET BABY! I've got a lot of plans for the future of the P&B and I can't wait to share them all with you.
While waiting for Willy's to shoot the P&B back to me, I finally got started on my New York Cross Harbor build (in Trainz) and am expecting to have the first video in that mini series ready to premiere in the next week or so.
ALSO
N Scale videos will be coming to the channel soon™️! I can't seem to stop over extending myself so this seems like it's going to be a great idea! 😂 Once I get closer to that I'll reopen the Model Railroad Patreon tier and discuss how that's going to work (Spoiler, I'm not sure yet myself 😆). I kinda want to get the P&B released before I dig too far into this one though so it'll probably be mid-summer before video content shows up.
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Patreon Benefits:
Executive: The P&B route download with Willys updates (and some of my own) will be available Friday the 3rd.
Dispatcher: This month's livestream will be Wednesday the 15th at 7pm EST. Again, this is to avoid doing back to back streams between my channel and N3V's. P&B or the NYCH will most likely be on the docket.
Project Manager: The remainder of my Classic Brownstone asset series will be available Friday the 3rd. These really are great assets to build with. You guys are going to love 'em all!
Station Agent: Weekly Wednesday hangouts (7PM EST) should continue as scheduled all month with the exception of the 22nd (it's my wife's birthday). I'll see how the week looks and move the hangout to a different day that week.
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That's about all I got for this month.
Thanks you guys for the all the support as always!
-AM