MPS can and should have an awesome new user experience

jimbursch

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This would be an awesome new user experience:

Load MPS route,
switch to driver,
look around and see a train on the move that has a human driver!!!!
open a chat and say hello,
easily find a train,
drive train around,
encounter others

Here are the barriers to that new user experience:

1. There are very few MPS users
2. The few MPS users are dispersed across many routes
3. The few MPS users are dispersed across many time zones

Not much we can do about #1 until we can solve #2 and #3.

Suggestion:

Make a specific MPS Kickstarter County 2 route, and direct all new users to try that route first. Make sure there are plenty of trains readily available to jump on and drive around. Create events at specific times to attract people at the same time. One event might be a crash derby. Offer a prize to the community for something like x hours of continuous operation.

These are ideas that I'll probably try to implement with TransportSims MPS routes
 
That's what this forum is about - post some times, routes, and arrange a time to meet, just like at the local model railroad club.

There are a few active groups from the beta that meet regularly and use Discord to chat.

Good luck.
 
It should includes visible and obvious things on the interface: Visual Aesthetics: text to speech visuals set the tone and the user's first impression, and must be appealing, modern, and trendy. Animation, Transitions and Interactions: these elements make the user experience more immersive and playful.
 
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