Train Messages

[ClintClassic]

Sometimes you just want to sit back in your ol' engine cab, and highball down those ribbons of steel -all the while watching the scenery go by; without distractions such as "Train Messages" appearing (in the upper left corner of the display)! Sure they are important overall, but I was wondering if anyone knows -if it is at all possible- to toggle them on/off somehow; or making for a smaller Font? This is especially awful if you're using "Camera Type": "Free - Any Angle", and you have a horde of trains running on a map with long route discriptions

I know if I press: "SHIFT + M" this deletes all currently displayed messages; but when new trains arrive, there they are again!
-If no, is there some quick fix within the "Code" that is [forgive me...] "so easy, a layman can do it"

[Wolverine@MSU]

I don't think there's a way in the "Settings" menu to disable messages. I don't know enough about the game code to know whether there's a way do do it in the program.

[ClintClassic]

OH NO!!! What am I gonna' do Wolverine This is terrible!

Darn Train Messages! They're like swarms of insects -at random- gone splat all over my engine cab windows -LOL!

Halp! Halp... is there someone out there that can help me

[OilCan]

I'm afraid Wolverine is right. There is no easy way to turn off the train arrival messages. I spent some time double checking this and found nothing to help turn them off.

I watch the arrival messages early in a game to see which trains have large profits and which don't (I usually play with the sound off). As a game progresses, I'll glance at the messages every now and then to see what the profit range is. I make a mental note of arrivals with no profit and if it seems to reoccur I'll check why. So, I use the messages somewhat, but mostly they are invisible to me.

[Hawk]

For the most part I tend to just ignore them, although I have seen a couple of maps that use those messages for stuff related to the scenario, which is unfortunate because they're being missed by me.

[ClintClassic]

This is not good. Oilcan, you've practically wrote the book on this stuff... oh, that's right -you did! For you to say this; well... I'm afaid this Casey is gonna' end up in a big wreak....

I watch the arrival messages early in a game to see which trains have large profits and which don't

As was stated in my enormous first Post & Tread: "RT4 will be in our Mod’s of RT3", I mention how "I happen to prefer" Sandbox Mode "even over the game itself now...". I then go to say how we've all (by now), fashioned our "own 'unique' formula of just how to beat game, every single time" ... "years ago".

I now see RT3 as a program to create "Cyber Model RR's" with. And so, "Train Messages" don't serve any real purpose for me; unless (of coarse), I were playing the gaming aspect.

Well... all save one. If I had just disembarked a train in -say- Chicago, and I'm wondering just how long it's gonna' take for the "California Zephyr" to arrive; "Train Messages" can uh... be seen as my best friend This especially holds true, if I’ve been craving Krispy Kreme donuts w/ milk in the refrigerator -all the long while; and this train hadn’t even arrived in Denver yet