The world needs to know! Construction bots are real, its coming!

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I might not be entirely sane since I have been fiddling with combinator control of trains for years, but this is really driving me crazy. I have used mods to make this happen before, as well as other peoples train control systems that required mods. I dont mind mods. But I want the things I build t...

they plan to implement temporary stations so you can hijack any train and press on map to have the train drive you there. It's not really planning any more, as it's in the experimental 0.17 since its release in ... February ? Ok, I missed that. Makes even less sense. In my mind it should be easier ...

The more people that support it the higher the chance that they might listen: Oh, you sweet, sweet optimist. Makes no sense though, I mean. Everything can be automated except trains that are stuck in a horribly half automated state. Especially after reading through that they plan to implement tempo...

It would be nice if instead of roundtrip mode (visiting all stations in a fixed order) there was a way to set priority on a train station through the circuit network, allowing you to broadcast to trains with this station as a stop to prefer it over stops with a lower priority, or to skip certain st...

I might not be entirely sane since I have been fiddling with combinator control of trains for years, but this is really driving me crazy. I have used mods to make this happen before, as well as other peoples train control systems that required mods. I dont mind mods. But I want the things I build to...

While all this is cool, when are you going to give me the ability to send a train directly to a station ID?
Currently trains have unique IDs, giving it to stations and allowing trains to be sent to station ID regardless of schedule using combinators would open up a world of possibilities

Bots vs belts?! What about trains vs everything?
We need a way to send a train to a station directly via the circuit network (unique station ID) without using mods and adding it to a schedule :p

Hey, nice to hear form u, welcome back to your desert planet xD well biters welcome you for sure. I can imagine you get trouble with collisions, since the beginning was the part that made me feel more unsure that it could work. Now I'm programming some simulator for factorio circuits, It is taking ...

Sorry for the late response, I have been away on vacation in the sun a bit. I have also run into issues with my communications protocol that might force me to make major changes unless I can work it out. The whole point of the system here is for it to be modular and expandable. This is to ensure its...

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This is as much to tell you what Im building as it is to get some help since I am far from an expert on this. I have used Siggboys system quite extensively and after messing around with it I now want to build my own system with slightly different design criteria. Goals The main goal is for this syst...

In a project you have requirements, in your case is smart system and high throughput. In factorio regarding programming anything is possible but usually you'll have to get to a compromise where the system complexity is reasonable for the purpose. I think the main problem of the distributed system i...

This would greatly enhance the game for us that like to automate things! Unique station IDs given to all stations when placed Ability to read station ID from station using combinator Ability to send train to station ID using combinator connected to station (without the need for a trainschedule etc.)...

Building a normal non smart train network is no fun, so no, I wont do that. Also once fleshed out this is way more time efficient. Even with the old Siggboy setup I could plop down a mining setup or a new requester station very fast. This is needed when you grow big to ensure you dont spend 100% of ...

Dont forget to pester the devs about the ability to send trains using combinators! :p
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Hi again, what I meant in the Smart trains thread is that any system that loops through a station list etc. will have a very limited maximum throughput since you can only loop through so many stations per second. A very large system where you have hundres of stations might have to match and dispatch...

Updated to SmartTrains 2.0.2 fixed Autorefuel constantly adding and removing the refuel station if all locomotives didn't have any fuel That was an interesting one, SmartTrains considered a train that didn't have any fuel item left as being full with fuel :D Yes Choumiko, I want to be able to order...

I dont know if this has been mentioned yet, but Factorio is really missing one important feature! The ability to automate trains! Unique station IDs given to all stations when placed Ability to read station ID from station using combinator Ability to send train to station ID using combinator connect...

Is it possitble to remove the train routes completely and just send the train to a station number? As in a train only has one station in the schedule (the depot) and gets sent to whatever station number is sent over the circuit network? The train would add the station to the schedule go there and w...