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Jumpgate Is An Overhaul of the Roll20 VTT
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9210841" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>It's amazing just how hard to use the available VTT's are.</p><p></p><p>I'm reminded of the time I spent as a young man selling automated irrigation systems. We were supposed to be a distributer for this CAD software package meant for the landscaping industry, and I had become reasonably proficient in it and I was talking to the salesperson about it. And I told him about using it to design a golf course, and how it would be wonderful if it just automatically did the nodal and/or loop analysis for you so that you could verify your pipe sizing and several other features that I thought would be easy to automate that would save a ton of complex hand calculations. </p><p></p><p>And he told me that when initially released the software actually had many of those features but that their primary customers - landscape architects - had demanded that the automation be removed from the software because "if the software could do all the hard stuff for you know one would need a landscape architect". </p><p></p><p>And I can't help but feel as a I try to get into VTT's that the same thing is going on. The real money in a VTT isn't the VTT, but in the modules and content packages that they sell to use on the VTT. And if the VTT was actually easy to use, then they'd sell less prepackaged content so why would the make a VTT that was easy to use?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9210841, member: 4937"] It's amazing just how hard to use the available VTT's are. I'm reminded of the time I spent as a young man selling automated irrigation systems. We were supposed to be a distributer for this CAD software package meant for the landscaping industry, and I had become reasonably proficient in it and I was talking to the salesperson about it. And I told him about using it to design a golf course, and how it would be wonderful if it just automatically did the nodal and/or loop analysis for you so that you could verify your pipe sizing and several other features that I thought would be easy to automate that would save a ton of complex hand calculations. And he told me that when initially released the software actually had many of those features but that their primary customers - landscape architects - had demanded that the automation be removed from the software because "if the software could do all the hard stuff for you know one would need a landscape architect". And I can't help but feel as a I try to get into VTT's that the same thing is going on. The real money in a VTT isn't the VTT, but in the modules and content packages that they sell to use on the VTT. And if the VTT was actually easy to use, then they'd sell less prepackaged content so why would the make a VTT that was easy to use? [/QUOTE]
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