... the way through. The other is the sign that tells trains longer than the limit to never enter. This could be used to force long trains to use safe routes and stops.

... move point types (Logically, Anchors could also just be single-point routes which would reduce move point types to two): Moves (think single click ... could that be a thing?)) Move/Interrupt conditions: Just as for trains, spidertrons include two conditions: Move condition: This condition ...

The game Sweet Transit (made by a former Factorio dev!) has this feature.
It lets you put requirements on signals according to various attributes - train length, train speed, certain routes, and more.

Illiander42 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:55 am

Given that we now have this for both combinators and logistic requests, can we get it for trains too?

i bet it is already in 2.0.
We will get a FFF about train controls as far as i remember.

Given that we now have this for both combinators and logistic requests, can we get it for trains too?

TL;DR A revamp of the train scheduling system to be that players create "routes" and then assign trains to that route. Then if a route needs to be changed, it will affect all ...

TL;DR Train acceleration, speed, and top speed are not functions of properties, but more just set ... could be calculated when the train leaves a station, therefore only updating once per route. I've detailed below some of the required calculations. Calculations Acceleration: ...

... that vis a vis the DLC and not wanting to go down the Space Exploration route of requiring the use of signals to steer your spaceships). Plus this ... off would be the Iron Plate loading one. In this situation you need 2 trains to service the 3 stops exactly. And then if you would turn the Iron ...

... while also being able to provide it back if needed (can be used on train unloading stations) Logistics supply area (construction materials and ... requests) to reduce the Construciton robots' flight distance Materials route buffer (intermediates buffer for malls and ammo buffer for the turrets) ...

... over long distances at first, but: The bigger the base, the more trains you need You need to program each train schedule and rename each train ... trains don't choose the loading station automatically. You have a set route for each train. Makes huge bases really messy and unbalanced. I know ...

Editing lots of trains that use the same route can be a slow undertaking right now, especially if it would take too long to wait for all of them to run ...

... for me to read through right now, but can you boil down for me on how a train skipping a station where all conditions are met will solve the below ... approach is to rename the higher priority station to something else and route the trains first through that, which accomplishes the priority, but ...

... no sense. Any station is already a waypoint, without being part of one train's schedule... 😳 I don't understand what you are trying to say. Stations ... In general use, waypoint only means "a particular place along a route", which applies to the stations of all schedule entries, so you ...

... no sense. Any station is already a waypoint, without being part of one train's schedule... 😳 I don't understand this comment. If a station is not ... train's schedule, then if possible, it will actively seek an alternate route that does not go through that station as stations add pathing penalties.

... when you click a specific station. What ? When I need to bulk edit trains or stations, I open the Trains interface, click a station/route, then click one of the Trains/Station. When I'm done editing, it would be really useful ...

Ref https://forums.factorio.com/90474 What about this? Add train station group. Just like the conditions inside the station. Within a group, ... it a mod. But I have no idea how to draw my own graphics for the train route in schedule. This sounds a lot like the thread that was linked to in a ...

Ref https://forums.factorio.com/90474 What about this? Add train station group. Just like the conditions inside the station. Within a group, ... it a mod. But I have no idea how to draw my own graphics for the train route in schedule.

... will emerge. It's not a goal of the proposal and you should not "route" bots around a convex shape. That simply doesn't work well, old ... seems to me in the game. On the other hand if you have something like a train station with bots where you place 10 roboports in a cluster then they ...

There's already drag-and-drop reordering with stations in a train route. Could that be adapted to the logistics requests? "What if somebody needs to insert ...