I'd recommend moving away from the roundabouts as well, they're going to be a bottleneck almost no matter what you do. Take a look here for some alternatives, there are many that are better with regards to throughput and/or deadlocks (seeing the problems you're having in the other thread). Yes than...

I did some testing, leaving the game running and trying to judge the throughput. I split the exits in two, 8 stations going north and 7 stations going south. As I suspected this shifted the stress onto the two roundabouts north and south from the stations. This finally confirms my original thoughts ...

mrvn wrote:

One33Seven wrote:You need a way to turn the 270° turn into a direct 90° turn.

Sorry mate, was looking at the wrong topic. Have another topic running on a similar issue but it's about throughput.

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Sorry, have another topic running on a similar but very different issue and got confused, wrong topic...

So what I did first is split the north and south exits into two seperate tracks and put in regular signals instead of chained signals. Took me a while to figure out a working design but this is the end result. bottleneck1.png What happens now is that the trains going north and south are blocking eac...

Ah yes, I've thought about replacing the chain signals with regular signals but didn;t have an idea what the effect of this would be (fearing deadlocks). What you are saying is that it WON'T cause deadlocks? Also your merge only goes into 1 direction, my merge can go into 2 directions. I will exper...

Ah yes, I've thought about replacing the chain signals with regular signals but didn;t have an idea what the effect of this would be (fearing deadlocks). What you are saying is that it WON'T cause deadlocks? Also your merge only goes into 1 direction, my merge can go into 2 directions. I will experi...

So I've got myself rather efficient processing and transport systems. There is just one bottleneck in the whole system and that is the exit of my unload train station. bottleneck.png So trains will come in from the right, there's a huge buffer area in front of the station. The will go into the stati...

Every once in a while I will get a train which is deadlocked with itself on a roundabout. The train will try to make a 450 degree turn and thus run into it's own tail. I'm not entirely sure what is happening but this is my best guess. I have deciders which disables a station when there's a train at ...

Personally I'm leaning towards unwanted behavior, a use-case which hasn't been caught and handled. When rerouting the pathfinder should check whether the train is colliding with itself. I'm gonna file a bugeport, see what the devs have to say.

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