avoid rails merging together on some key spots. You need to define this better. Is a 4-way intersection acceptable? How about a 3-way intersection? The highest throughput intersections use only side merges and lane swaps, and it indeed results in a ridiculously enormous intersection. What I meant b...

Okay so, as the title suggests, I came across an academic question which annoys me a bit :) Basically, I wanted to implement an 8 way intersection, where you would have (rotational) symmetry AND no roundabout to avoid throughput problems. After thinking about it a little bit, I think this intersecti...

Hey that could be a very good feature! We could have a very precise idea of what's going on in detail without doing the maths every time.

Well sorry, I thought I had done my research. Consider deleting my thread if you want!

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A conditional skip isn't very complex, even if you haven't played OpenTTD. Consider this very simple example (which doubles as use case), where I've omitted the wait conditions for brevity: 1. Goto "Ore Pickup 1" 2. If Ore >= 2000 jump to 6 3. Goto "Ore Pickup 2" 4. If Ore >= 20...

Oh wow, thanks for the quick answers! However, OpenTTD style conditional jump orders may be better, since they allow you to jump to any order in the train's schedule, thereby allowing you to skip several orders at once, instead of only one order per entry/skip condition. If I understand things corre...

TL;DR 'Tis yet another topic mentioning the lack of dynamics in the trains' schedule. I believe a pretty clean and concise solution has been brought in several topics listed below (entry/skipping conditions), and I would quite like to have a recent devs' perspective on this. What ? The suggestion i...