Scratch pad

I've just counted 42 sticky notes on my current Kings Cross sim. I don't think that I would have got as far as I have (07:22 1955 Steam scenario) without getting into a real pickle. Just love them.

I use sticky notes all over my sims. I find them useful particularly at stations so that I do not set paths that cause delays to trains leaving. I do not know who decided to include them in sims but they have been a tremendous help to me in recent years.

So scratchpads aren't needed any more and I don't expect them to be in sims (yes, I put one in Royston, but there were special reasons).

clive in post 97712 said:

So scratchpads aren't needed any more and I don't expect them to be in sims (yes, I put one in Royston, but there were special reasons).

Sticky notes are not reliable enough in multiplay, as if you lose the connection (which happens more than occasionally) you lose the lot.

{As an aside, IRL if a sticky note was put on a panel then all signallers would see the note; maybe clients' notes should be on the server and thus visible to all the clients?)

.....someone mentioned Post-It notes on the panel and Geoff eventually figured out how to implement them in SimSig.

clive in post 97712 said:

.....someone mentioned Post-It notes on the panel and Geoff eventually figured out how to implement them in SimSig.

Working full time as I do with WestCad, I wish we had sticky notes that could be added to screens electronically, instead we have sticky notes stuck around the screens, with bits of paper spread around the desks.

Bet that's a nightmare when it comes to cleaning them up, and/or finding relevant notes!

Whilst yes it may not be true to life

I'd like to add my support for a small scratch pad area near the DCS. Whilst yes it may not be true to life, the same could be said for any SimSig simulation which perhaps features ARS or other such features which aren't true to life.

The issue with having to rely on sticky notes is that, unless things have changed very recently with V5, too many sticky notes or too much content in sticky notes across the panel can cause a brief lag/pause when you edit just one sticky note even if that one sticky note you edit contains a single character.

As a paid for product, and in line with common standards in customer service, if there is enough of a request for something then I would hope it would be added...

I tend to use sticky notes on the screen, which like a scratch pad allows clickable train descriptions

UKTrainMan in post 129399 said:

Whilst yes it may not be true to life

I suspect most if not all boxes have a pen and paper and/or magnetic dry wipe stickers to hand

UKTrainMan in post 129399 said:

The issue with having to rely on sticky notes is that, unless things have changed very recently with V5, too many sticky notes or too much content in sticky notes across the panel can cause a brief lag/pause when you edit just one sticky note even if that one sticky note you edit contains a single character.

This is already on the wish list.

Stephen Fulcher in post 97695 said:

I tend to use sticky notes on the screen, which like a scratch pad allows clickable train descriptions

Me too.