Dear Chevyrider:
I’ve finally come around to trying out your instructions of early last month, and some of the auxiliary programs for Locomotion. First I installed KeinErsetzen, but have not been able yet to see if it works or not. I have meanwhile been downloading a lot of ObjData (engines and cars) for a project I have in mind, (a network covering all Europe, if I can find a decent, realistic landscape that covers all of it, is not all rocks and steep mountainsides, allows for water between Denmark and Sweden, England and France/Belgium, Greece and Turkey and a larger Baltic and Black Sea etc., instead of necessitating the expenditure of billions to straighten out the landscape first), and the LocoBrowser Hilfe promised that under Detailansicht I would get to see the graphic image of each object, which is exactly what I want, as the numbers and letters mean nothing to me, and I can’t tell from them what I’m dealing with (details of the type of locomotive, color, nationality, price (?)). I followed the instructions for Loco Browser by downloading the ObjData to it, and they all showed up neatly listed under their categories, but to my disappointment I never got the Detailansicht, and don’t know how to get it, either. I see no buttons for it.
Next, I decided to try LocoTool and I followed your instructions exactly. I started with the first train in ObjData (at least I think 2EPB is a train) and after some puzzling as to how to go about doing what you meant, I managed to get the XML.file, which I opened with Notepad. So far, so good. But now I don’t know what all the computer jargon means, what I should change, and how. What I wish to change is only the obsolescence (in case KeinErsetzen hasn’t accomplished that already, and the purchase/maintenance cost, preventing those to skyrocket insanely. I do not expect to change anything else; (I would like to change the starting capital, but that is a scenario matter, and can possibly only be done with a trainer, which is not to be found anywhere for my American version of the game; Pizza Trainer does not work).
I am appending the Notepad of this xml.file and hope you can tell me how to read it (If, that is, the attachment is transmitted successfully and published with my posting, since I do not have your e-mail address). Is there any litterature for laymen on that? Once I can read these Notepad-xml’s, I’ll be able to follow your other instructions and make changes.
I have not dared to do anything with Locomod or Frontend yet. First I want to get LocoBrowser and if possible LocoTool to function. By the way, you say one can alter almost anything with these programs. Does that include cost and age too? Cordially, Jack V.
