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William Brillinger:

--- Quote ---I'm a little disappointed in the community response to my invitation for a Sept meet. I've had 3 responses so far and was hoping for more takers as I would like to meet the RP user community hopefully we'll see a few more in the next month or so.
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I'd really like to come, and I'm working on making that happen, but it's hard to get people to commit to a long trip like that. It's quite costly and I'm sure many people can't afford it.  The key will be to find more users closer to your location.

Perhaps you can get Tim Ring to promote the event too? You've had lots of contact with Tim. You might get him to do it!

G8B4Life:

--- Quote from: Antoine L. on June 22, 2017, 08:25:24 AM ---It runs my trains the way I want and I am happy.
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As the one who started this thread in a head cold induced daze I have to emphasise I am in no way dissatisfied with what I own and what I bought into but I'm still a little on the disappointed side so I'll try and explain where I'm coming from.

When I bought into RailPro I had no idea on how slow things would move. I have to disagree with Antoine here, there really isn't a way one could have realistically known how slow RP development would be until it was experienced. I am ok with that though as long as things do actually happen but it seems at times that it isn't as there is little or no engagement from RE to the user base and when something does finally happen I'm sometimes just left shaking my head. For instance the list of bugs (not features we want) goes back years but we all needed a set of barking dogs a couple of months ago. Seriously?

I was perhaps also venting as I also feel a bit alone on the engagement side. I love RailPro and want to help it along (I can see myself as that boot kicking the turtle) but I'm limited in what I can do, sometimes feel as what I have to say is not important when I get short generic answers and most importantly feel like I'm pushing my luck every time I email RE; if TR ever figures out where I am I'm probably screwed. I'm not sure how easy it would be for most here to understand how good it is for you to be able to pick up the phone and have a conversation with TR without fearing being told "you shouldn't be using my product so your on your own". Would that happen? I don't know. Is it a risk I'm willing to take? No.


--- Quote from: Lee Nicholas on June 22, 2017, 10:19:37 AM ---I'm a little disappointed in the community response to my invitation for a Sept meet. I've had 3 responses so far and was hoping for more takers as I would like to meet the RP user community hopefully we'll see a few more in the next month or so.

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Lee,

I wish I could come, I think seeing RP in action in such a large multi user environment would be very interesting but the 17,000 mile round trip is just not going to happen.

- Tim

William Brillinger:
"but we all needed a set of barking dogs a couple of months ago. Seriously?"

In fairness, it's likely that these sounds were user submitted, and took little or none of Tim Rings time to release.

Homeless by Choice:
Great insight and very helpful discussion.

LeRoy

garyiii:
As a newbie I stumbled across Railpro while researching Blue Rail.  Blue Rail just didn't offer any reasonable sound even though Blue tooth can now handle jillions of concurrent feeds.

Watching videos and checking prices on the internet led me to Bill Brillinger and his operation.  Rail Pro Inc.seems more like a hobby than a real company.  Maybe us on the users group could play some part of the Marketing support.  If it's truly a one man (or close to it ) operation, the cash resources are obviously somewhat limited, so volunteer help on our part (with RailPro approval) might be beneficial.

Train shows are expensive to display at, but they are always looking for good speakers.

A nice presentation  on merits of DCC - DC- Blue Rail and Rail Pro under the blanket of "The State of Model Train Control" or something might be the answer.

Companies need money to survive, and they need customers to get money.  I don't want to see this go away.

GaryIII

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