It does not have to be the joystick. They can make it a treasure map. That sells that someone goes somewhere. Or a walking robot. Or something. But no darn ugly eightleg bullshit.

Actually scratch that, I made a big brain fart and built something both way overcomplicated and useless for your requirements, that still results in needing to make (at least) 1 train per 30 item input, plus adjusting their shedule, and a station name. And I messed up the train station names and the ...

I got 2 big problems with those icons:
1) Spider. Absolutely no spider. Spider GOT to go.
2) Blueprint should be next to all the other blueprinty- things, not way of on its own.
Aside from that I think it's ok. the new wires don't make me happy, but the current ones are also ugly and also ...

Heres your multi-item train station:
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I think you would need the trains to go to the stop first and then pick up which item they are supposed to bring via circuit signal to set the stop from which to fetch it.

That also needs a translation to a help signal and a delay to keep synchronous., bringing it up to 5 combinators.

This setup does it with 4
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You can set the maximum per constant combinator feeding a virtual signal in, making setting it up and using it multiple times easier, but then you ...

This one Edit: The little helpful arrows help a lot.

That does osund generally good, but I got 2 issues:
1) 250x250 and one tile more makes it instantly zero sounds extremely binary and artifical. I would suggest making it a scaling throughput reduction to all fluid operations on that pipe instead.
2) This is just for clarification. Does that 6k/tick ...

That trains go to "no path" and dispatch a warning when their next destination is disabled is I think to much.
If the stop doesn't exist, fine, makes sense. But if it is disabled it has been done so via circuit network for a reason.
For example I have made a setup where a supply train ...

That did help clear up things quite a bit.

Questions:
Is there a case where you call a train to a station you are not currently at?
Is this supposed to be multiplayer compatible with multiple trains running simultaneously to different targets?
Will you use this exclusively for personal transport or ...

I admittedly do not understand your requirements or your current solution.
What is the white dot signal? How many trains are there in the network for this? Are all train stations connected with logic wires or only locally?
Could you walk me step-by-step through one usage of this?

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I don't think this works. The problem i encountered is that the constant combinators are too rigid (which is normal, it's in the name). I would love to be able to power up/down combinators with switches which would add some modularity but it seems impossible.
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The constant combinators ...

You can have a train do a "Waiting station" -> "Pickup station" schedule. Then have "Pickup stations" that are all disabled by default. And then you do some combinator magic to have a constant combinator that activates the adjacent "Pickup station" when it's activation state is activated/deactivated ...

Because if your railnetwork is so clogged up that every single waiting area is full you have a whole other problem way earlier anyways. it can happen, but at that point I'd actually call it a useful reminder to upgrade you rails because they are stifeling the factory.

No, that is fine. There is no deadlock potential there unless the entire track over it#s entire length is filled up.

I started Factorio playing multiplayer with some friends. They knew a bit about the game already and halfway through vanilla got to uncomplex for us so we look at mods and I never looked back. In all these years, I have never launched a rocket.

starlinvf wrote: Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:31 pm [..] For an intermediate setup, you can get a simple circuit network of SR Latches to monitor the levels for you. [..]

Way excessive already. Just do a pump with a wire to a tank that activates when the tank is almost full.

Module power. Increase effect of modules by 1%
Fuel refining. Increase acceleration and max. speed bonus of all fuels by 5%.

The bandaid solution would be to add another 2 dummy stations to the lower track. If the penealty is everywhere it is nowhere.

Yes, I agree. Chain signals are overused. I do that myself and I know it. However an aspect this didn't consider is that they are mentally easy. Do I need a chain signal here? Maybe not, but it won't hurt, plop it down and be done with it. Sometimes figuring out precise signalling is what I am in ...