@PRRick posted:Do people like this stuff? The announcements and particularly the tower communication always sounds terribly cheesy to me. How many times do I need to hear the same thing?
"All clear on track 1, moving out" lol
I understand nobody is forcing me to use them, but I'm genuinely curious if most people like and use them.
Rick,
I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to post this. It means that you're not narrow-mindedly dismissing them, unlike so many people.
When most threads that touch on this topic get posted there's usually a rather vivid dichotomy in the comments -- they're either loved or hated.
No one has to turn on either CrewTalk or TowerCom. These features could stay quiet for for the life of the product if you don't like them. The power is in your hands.
However some people detest them so strongly that they wouldn't buy a product that has them. Even worse, and this happens perhaps too often, some of those people appear to question the sanity of someone who finds them appealing.
We need to remember that our beloved OGR forum is not only about those who've moved on from toy trains to those that are more realistic -- that it's also about those who love the toy trains from which they evolved.
Are CrewTalk and TowerCom toy features? Definitely. So are smoke, and whistle, and lobster claws, and many others.
Are people who like them crazy? Definitely not.
Social media, in all it's forms, and including this forum at times, is increasingly being used to divide people.
Thanks for being open-minded, and taking the time to try to understand, and not divide.
Mike
