Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 4180586" data-attributes="member: 6957">It occurred to me afterwards that playing with mapping programs is something that I do for fun - what you found frustrating may have been part of my enjoyment. And, as with so many things, if you enjoy doing something then you are more likely to like what you end up with. Frustration can beget frustration. While I do not make maps for publication I do make them to hang on my wall and look pretty. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />That I enjoy map programs does speak volumes about how user unfriendly CC2 was - even I did not enjoy playing with it. I did not do much more than take a peek at CC2 Pro - I gather that some of the problems I had with CC2 got addressed.Also, I was not going from AutoRealm to CC3 - I went from AutoRealm (and a host of others) to Fractal Mapper (6, 7, and even 8, even though I already had CC3... like I said, I enjoy mapping programs).Fractal Mapper might be a good compromise between our extremes - a decent program, with a good range of both features and graphic elements. TheFool1972 (Ancient Awakenings) on these forums made a nice set of tools for making towns in FM7 that more than doubled my use of the program.The Auld Grump</blockquote>