September 2023 Newsletter
Well hello again everyone. A new month is upon us so a new newsletter is due.
Things are finally settling down again in my life so I'll finally be able to get back into the swing of things again. I've got a couple videos planned which you should see shortly and I'm hoping to do at least one public live stream in September. At this point I don't really have any more excuses if I don't XD.
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News:
Willy's has had the P&B for the month of August while I finished up my second job at summer camp, and from the screenshots he's shared it's looking pretty sweet. He's really been instrumental when it comes to helping me fill in a lot of the in-between area's on the route. The plan for me is a full blitz to the end of the year to get the thing into a Beta at the very least. Still a lot of work to be done aside from scenery though. Signals, speed limits, track conditions, configuring industries, etc., it's going to be a lot. (Multiplayer would be a huge help...)
In other news, I've begun work on updating the DBEV to the modern era. I haven't spoken about it too much outside of my Patreon hangouts but I'm going to save most of the details on that project for my next live stream. I think the bulk of the work on the project will be done during live streams rather than another video series just to keep things simple for me. But we'll see where that ultimately goes.
I've got one other little one-off project that's been in the works since spring, that I'm hoping to get out soon as well. I just have a massive backlog of work to catch up on at this point 😭
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Patreon Benefits:
Executive: Executive Patreons will get access to the latest P&B by Saturday the 9th. Again, Willy's has been hard at work and I'm not entirely sure everything he's been working on. As far as I've seen in the screenies, he's been filling in the mainline around Pleasantville Junction with great success. It'll be a surprise for all of us! 😁
Dispatcher: Next week has a holiday on Monday and I know a lot of people are just starting school, so we'll do the monthly Patreon live stream the following Wednesday the 13th at 7 PM.
Project Manager: I've been scouring Turbosquid and CGTrader for weeks looking for just the right assets and I think I found them. A collection of 3 modern-ish skyscrapers. I think we could really use some better looking background high rises for our cities to replace some of the more dated (and "payware") ones that are currently in the game. Personally, I plan to add these to Allegheny on the P&B to replace some of the TUME ones that are there now. The great thing about these models is that they're only 550 Tris right out of the box. So they won't put a huge strain on your game.
Station Agent: I'm happy to say that our Weekly Wednesday Hangouts will be back to Wednesday's weekly 😜. As mentioned, my schedule has cleared for the rest of the year for the most part, so we'll be back on schedule once again. Looking forward to it 😄
Model Railroader: I should have a new blog post again this month finally. I've been doing a lot of work on the layout so I've got no shortage of things I can cover. I also have a bunch of video I've been recording since around February that I'd like to turn into two or three "shorts," but right now that's low priority and I'll get to them once I get these other videos out first.
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And, that's pretty much it for now! I'm happy I made it through quite possibly the busiest summers of my life in one piece and I'd like to thank you guys again for your patience. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming starting this month! Keep an eye out for a livestream announcement in the very near future!