Removing items from menus

[zhdason 2]

Recently I've started building a collection of varios bus/subway/... station lots.  I would like to use only one or two specific models per city, with each city having a different set of stations.  Of course, with many different lots, the menus become very long, and what I would like to do is only have the particular stations that I plan on working with at any time present in the menus. 

If I were to remove model files from the plugin folder, then brown boxes would appear for these items in the game.  So, if I wanted to only have the London Underground sub station appear in my menu, while still having any other existing sub stations appear in the game without brown boxes, could I just remove all of the .SC4Lot files from the plugins folder for all the stations I don't want to build?  Then, if I wanted to build a particular station again place its lot file back into the plugins folder?

[CaptCity 4,669]

Originally posted by: zhdason

...if I wanted to only have the London Underground sub station appear in my menu, while still having any other existing sub stations appear in the game without brown boxes, could I just remove all of the .SC4Lot files from the plugins folder for all the stations I don't want to build?  Then, if I wanted to build a particular station again place its lot file back into the plugins folder?quote>

If I'm understanding your question correctly, no, you don't want to take out the files if the lot is being used in the game. At a minimum, this will make the lot not appear. Worse case is the game may crash without the necessary files for lots existing in a city.

You might want to checkout Startup Manager. It allows you to set up profiles for what is used in selected cities. It may not do what you are wanting exactly, but it might help.