I am very new to this game, so be patient with me.
I have a West Oil stop where I want the train to fill up on oil. I also have an East Oil stop, where I want the train to unload. These stops are connected by a simple figure eight track with no signals, and I can manually drive it between both stops without issue. For some reason my wait conditions work when I don't want them to, and don't when I do.
I want the train to stop at the West stop when it is empty, and stop at the East stop when it is full.
Instead, when the train is full (25k capacity), it will stop at the West oil, but not stop at East.
What am I doing wrong here? Am I completely misunderstanding the logic used?
Railway Wait Conditions Not Working
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Re: Railway Wait Conditions Not Working
You can not tell a train when to stop at a station, you tell it when to depart from it. The conditions you set for a specific station dictate when the train will leave it, upon it will always go to the next station in the list.
You set the train to leave West Oil once the oil in its cargo is below 25k which makes no sense what so ever.
You set the train to leave East Oil once Oil is above 0.
See here: https://wiki.factorio.com/Railway#Automated_transport
You set the train to leave West Oil once the oil in its cargo is below 25k which makes no sense what so ever.
You set the train to leave East Oil once Oil is above 0.
See here: https://wiki.factorio.com/Railway#Automated_transport
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I KNEW I was doing something dumb.
I assume that trains automatically stop at stations along their schedule then?
Thank you so much, I was banging my head against the table trying everything.
I assume that trains automatically stop at stations along their schedule then?
Thank you so much, I was banging my head against the table trying everything.
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Re: Railway Wait Conditions Not Working
Think of the conditions as "go there ... UNTIL ... condition"
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I'd rather describe it as "Go there [], depart when [], go there [], depart when [], etc etc". But I guess that's semantics.