... If you did this, then in the endgame, a player wouldnt bother with trains, he'd just make rocket ports next to each base once fuel concerns ... gonna have a vehicle that takes off and lands, some sort of quad-rotor electric helicopter chest makes more sense. I know you can land rockets in ...

@BurnHard: I see the trains in the end-game as a connection between your factories, like in OTTD between the cities/production-sites. @Neotix: And I also thought some times about "electric carts" like they are already used in some real factories... ... Do you know ...

Adding electric transpot carts would be great. It would be something between belts and trains but with trans mechanics. Belts are good to organize factory sections like furnaces, boilers, storages etc. ...

... Produced Energy: 250W (or 2500 J) Batteries can used with the new electric lokomotive, the locomotive consumes 1 battery every 5 seconds (500 ... 1000 Watt, 1 battery every 2.5 seconds. they are stackable by 64 and trains have 2 slots, one for filled and one for empty batteries. A train ...

Hello everyone, since generators and electricity are available so early in the game (you can build you first steam engines ... energy this would also kind of prevent exessive use of belts instead of long train rails. The second thing is, that at the moment the logistic robots seem to need ...

Yes, simply because it has to maintain a connection with the other end. Therefor it uses 1 kw when inactive.

It is just an idea.

I also suggest if they implement it, that the teleporter should be the lowest in the electric network, therefore, if not enough electricty, the teleporter shuts off

... That way biters will be drawn to machine. I knwo the effects of having more than 1000 pollution per second. Had a playthrough where i had 30 electric furnaces with all 2 speed modules mk 3 and about 200 mines(result was 2000-4000 iron plates PER minute). The result: very fun, but they broke ...

I believe that the idea's come up before, and a dev was favorable for the idea.
Hope to see it sooner than later.
Perhaps they could be modded in?

How about trains that run by electricity?
They could use their own advanced tracks, which could also function as power lines,
so you don't have to build electric poles next to them to power your machines at the train stations.

... be of different types (think along the lines of the existing burner/electric structures) and offer different ranges (so you could have a burner ... to a handful of motors instead of tile by tile in your belt system. Trains become slightly more attractive for efficient long distance cargo ...

Accumulator Trains are in fact fairly common. They are generally used as maintenance vehicles for subways ... that used a diesel engine most of the time, but could turn on an accumulator driven electrical engine to get up some steep hills, or to accelerate. Like Hybrid cars today. ...

Here is the solution: Create an electronic locomotive ... not with electric rails... more like the accumulators :) The locomotive can charge on the stations. Full charged the locomotive should drive ~ 1-2 min :D That's interesting idea. It does not exist ...

Here is the solution: Create an electronic locomotive ... not with electric rails... more like the accumulators :) The locomotive can charge on the stations. Full charged the locomotive should drive ~ 1-2 min :D That's interesting idea. It does not exist ...

Here is the solution: Create an electronic locomotive ... not with electric rails... more like the accumulators :) The locomotive can charge on the stations. Full charged the locomotive should drive ~ 1-2 min :D I really thing this is a great ider which dosn't ...

I don't like to use rails as energy distribution system. Electric trains are ok. But energy transported by electric rails should be used only by trains. That idea make big electric poles less useful.

Tracks acting like powerlines just for electric locomotives would be great!

Edit: Upgraded tracks. Default tracks act like now, electrified tracks act like powerlines for electric locomotives only

... oil or coal liquefaction plants. Considering our early means of generating power, I would have guessed that our first locomotive should be a steam-electric motive (i.e. a self powered electric locomotive that generates power via a steam engine) followed by electrified railtracks with pure electric ...

... oil or coal liquefaction plants. Considering our early means of generating power, I would have guessed that our first locomotive should be a steam-electric motive (i.e. a self powered electric locomotive that generates power via a steam engine) followed by electrified railtracks with pure electric ...

I don't think that my trains have enough surface to house enough turrets to kill all the creepers.

Electrified rails and electric locomotives would be neat.

... of the scenario pack - There will be three scenarios to start with The trains - Originally a stretch goal however we got a lot of requests for this ... want to finish it Electricity improvements - Accumulator entity - Large electric pole (Maybe) Speed improvements - Thread separation of render ...