It does sound much better to have the trains iterate through a list of acceptable stations or target the least visited ones. Having a global network to request trains also sounds super awesome! :)

I think thought to add a very high path cost to an occupied station would be much simpler and still ...

The pathfinder doesn't work like this. https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Railway/Train_path_finding

What problem will you try to solve?



That does shed a little more light on it, thank you.

I guess the best way to put it is that I would like a flag with Station Occupied that ...

Given my current understanding trains going for multiple stains that have one name will only check two blocks ahead to see if their route is blocked.

I would like to propose that a train going to station A would check all station A's and go to the nearest unoccupied one.

If they are waiting at a ...

So I tried to read up a bunch on the topic and didn't find anything past last Dec/Jan time frame. Mostly ssilk and kovarex posting on the algorithm. It seems I'm not sure exactly how it works.

I thought if a train was going to a station name and there were, for example, three stations with that ...

Oxyd wrote:
Or just upgrade to .19 which has just been released.

Hooray!

Oxyd wrote: Also, subscribed.

Thanks!

Oxyd wrote:Well, fixed in 0.12.19. Sorry about that.

Nice! Thank you

So, ummm.. when does 12.19 come out?

Oxyd wrote:Yeah, sure, feel free to PM me a link.

PM sent

Argh I cannot pm. I am using it for a yt play through and didn't want to post it. Maybe that is ridiculous? Idk, if I can pm you a link to the file that would be great but if not I will post it here

Hello

I just downloaded 12.18 today and was playing through for about an hour. At some point I crashed and each time I load the autosave or a different save I made right after I will crash in about 20 seconds.

Here is the log file.
factorio-current.log

System:
Win7 x64, 16 RAM, 32 Virtual, 25 ...