I like to think there's a board up in Factorio inc offices where there's nothing but a tally, every time they see a prediction of when the next thing will come out or a demand for it to be the next thing they release add one mark to the tally and every day or every task they complete they remove a ...

Changing the railroad grid from 2x2 to 1x1 while keeping the width of the railway at 2 and adding more curve radiuses now seems like it would be doable without complicating the gui since curved rail items have been abstracted away and rail is layed by drag'n'confirm. Looks like the next logical deve...

Don't know, if the stations have to be RORO for some reason (throughput, aesthetics,...). But if not: When i ran into similar problems with trains taking less optimal paths i switched to double-headed trains and terminus stations. Never had any train visiting a station it did not had any business at...