My struggle with building train signals
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:44 am
Hey,
There are a lot of threads about the "correct" way of placing signals at junctions and stations. In my case it was always quite simple. Maybe my 1000+ hours of openTTD helped a tiny bit. Anyway, my method of laying track is using the ghost planner. I plan double railtrack and will build it with my robonetwork while I drive the locomotive over the freshly laid track. While i'm pressing double-u to move forward, I will also drop some bigpoles. The only thing that is not automatically spaced are the signals.
From my openTTD background I really like the feature that a section of track could be automatically signaled. This means that every x-tiles a signal would be build. The workaround in this case is to make a blueprint that include the signals as well. But blueprints have a fixed length and then I have to do the last 15 tiles by hand, which is do-able. However, I love optimizing. Therefore, sometimes I would like to move all the signals by 2 tiles. Just because it will increase the train troughput.
I have searched for mods which can do this. But I was not able to find one. So would it be possible to build signals like electric poles or undergrounds? With a setting for the distance between signals.
Is it even possible to mod this feature? Or should it be added by the devs?
TL:DR
Is it possible to place/plan train signals with a fixed spacing along rail sections?
If yes - Is there a mod already?
If no - Is possible to mod?
If no - Should devs add this feature?
https://wiki.openttd.org/Building_signa ... of_signals
I'm currious about what your ideas are.
PS: I'm a really good (quantity) talker, so the information density could be better.
There are a lot of threads about the "correct" way of placing signals at junctions and stations. In my case it was always quite simple. Maybe my 1000+ hours of openTTD helped a tiny bit. Anyway, my method of laying track is using the ghost planner. I plan double railtrack and will build it with my robonetwork while I drive the locomotive over the freshly laid track. While i'm pressing double-u to move forward, I will also drop some bigpoles. The only thing that is not automatically spaced are the signals.
From my openTTD background I really like the feature that a section of track could be automatically signaled. This means that every x-tiles a signal would be build. The workaround in this case is to make a blueprint that include the signals as well. But blueprints have a fixed length and then I have to do the last 15 tiles by hand, which is do-able. However, I love optimizing. Therefore, sometimes I would like to move all the signals by 2 tiles. Just because it will increase the train troughput.
I have searched for mods which can do this. But I was not able to find one. So would it be possible to build signals like electric poles or undergrounds? With a setting for the distance between signals.
Is it even possible to mod this feature? Or should it be added by the devs?
TL:DR
Is it possible to place/plan train signals with a fixed spacing along rail sections?
If yes - Is there a mod already?
If no - Is possible to mod?
If no - Should devs add this feature?
https://wiki.openttd.org/Building_signa ... of_signals
I'm currious about what your ideas are.
PS: I'm a really good (quantity) talker, so the information density could be better.