Hosting Racing Events in Digital vs Analog

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I have a situation I'd like to get some input on, I started out racing digital SSD about 3 years ago, and have all the bells and whistles including RMS software.  About a year later I got into analog racing in the HO scale.

The situation:



Upon hosting a race event on my SSD system, the RMS software had some glitches on race night.  The night prior, I had no problems; everything was set for the next night.  This posed some big problems come race night, as I had my race-friends over ready to go, but the system was down.  It took some doing, but eventually got up and going.  There were also minor glitches throughout the night, but were able to correct them.  However, this put a damper on the evening.  I was a bit frustrated, and embarrassed with the situation.

I now have my HO system up with a few needed components to have it to where I'd like it, but it is up and going.  I noticed, there's not a lot of chance for errors with analog racing, and things seem to go much smoother on race nights - no problems at all.  Analog racing is also quite a bit of fun, and in my opinion just as fun as digital. In digital you only have two lanes which is okay, and in analog 4 lanes in my case.  With round-robin and rotating heats this makes analog pretty challenging and exciting.

So, I love the digital racing as it is a different animal than HO, but I think they are equally challenging and fun too.

Just a thought? With all that technology has done over the past 10 or even 5 years, you'd think that digital racing would be perfected to the "T".  In all actuality all digital racing adds is lane changing, and racing up to 6 cars on a two lane track. I must be missing something here, it seems like a very simple task.

I'm still racing digital though but would like to see technology catch up.

Any Thoughts? Please post.