KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
So after a response from Tony to my concerns with TS2019 I forced open my wallet (creaking rusty hinge sound) and paid for a Plus sub. The exchange rate between the US dollar and the NZ dollar is pretty dire, but I should be able to budget for it Ok.
After having my Classic Tinware version of TS2019 in extreme lockdown against being updated for some time I made the decision to permit updates only to the DLC that I actually want and to continue to exclude the rest. To my surprise that went Ok and after doing an EDBR nothing was broken, nothing was inexplicably made faulty, I didn't suddenly have hundreds of missing dependencies, my computer didn't burst into flames, or the world suddenly come to an end (or at least not any faster than it's doing at present).
That darn black menu box was a confounded nuisance though. I would be doing something with selecting downloads and TS2019 would playfully slap another one over the top of the one I was using. This must've happened a dozen times and it was very annoying. Surely there must be a way to turn it off or or is it going to hang around like a curse forever.
I did notice though that my TS2019 splash screen does not as yet have a 'Plus' icon. So for the present time I am nonplussed, - in a manner of speaking. I would guess that this would be set to rights after Easter when the N3V team are officially on deck again.
So after having working solely in TS2012 for months to do route building I decided to have a go at seriously using the surveyor tools in TS2019 SP1 to do some route building. Waaaay back when TS2019 was first released I started on converting one of angelah's old TS2004 routes, - her Summer K&ESR route, - to TS2019. I had got as far as doing most of the large bits that needed sorting, but then SP1 and all of its beta tryouts happened and suddenly the forum was full of tales of woe. In response I locked down my copy of TS2019 and went back to TS2012.
Now it was time to return to TS2019 ('Cover me chaps I'm going in'.). And it was all a bit of an anticlimax really, - surveyor was much the same as it's always been apart from the trendy designer black menus with their confusing 'hunt the tool you want' roulette option instead of having them conveniently on the menu bar. But I managed to cope with that and didn't think too many dark thoughts about things that worked well being changed. I don't get on very well with change and I don't much like 'new' either, but I imagine I'll get used to it.
After having my Classic Tinware version of TS2019 in extreme lockdown against being updated for some time I made the decision to permit updates only to the DLC that I actually want and to continue to exclude the rest. To my surprise that went Ok and after doing an EDBR nothing was broken, nothing was inexplicably made faulty, I didn't suddenly have hundreds of missing dependencies, my computer didn't burst into flames, or the world suddenly come to an end (or at least not any faster than it's doing at present).
That darn black menu box was a confounded nuisance though. I would be doing something with selecting downloads and TS2019 would playfully slap another one over the top of the one I was using. This must've happened a dozen times and it was very annoying. Surely there must be a way to turn it off or or is it going to hang around like a curse forever.
I did notice though that my TS2019 splash screen does not as yet have a 'Plus' icon. So for the present time I am nonplussed, - in a manner of speaking. I would guess that this would be set to rights after Easter when the N3V team are officially on deck again.
So after having working solely in TS2012 for months to do route building I decided to have a go at seriously using the surveyor tools in TS2019 SP1 to do some route building. Waaaay back when TS2019 was first released I started on converting one of angelah's old TS2004 routes, - her Summer K&ESR route, - to TS2019. I had got as far as doing most of the large bits that needed sorting, but then SP1 and all of its beta tryouts happened and suddenly the forum was full of tales of woe. In response I locked down my copy of TS2019 and went back to TS2012.
Now it was time to return to TS2019 ('Cover me chaps I'm going in'.). And it was all a bit of an anticlimax really, - surveyor was much the same as it's always been apart from the trendy designer black menus with their confusing 'hunt the tool you want' roulette option instead of having them conveniently on the menu bar. But I managed to cope with that and didn't think too many dark thoughts about things that worked well being changed. I don't get on very well with change and I don't much like 'new' either, but I imagine I'll get used to it.
![2DDvzgB.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2DDvzgB.jpg)