[2.0.15] Manually connecting rolling stock clears train schedule/group

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[2.0.15] Manually connecting rolling stock clears train schedule/group

Post by Vulcan »

Manually connecting rolling stock in a locomotive resets the locomotive's group and removes some or all stops from the schedule.

Steps to reproduce:
- place some cargo wagons
- place a locomotive unconnected to the wagons and give it some stops
- get in the train and connect the wagons by pressing 'J'
- the schedule is missing one or all stops from the schedule
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Re: [2.0.15] Manually connecting rolling stock clears train schedule/group

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Thanks for the report. When merging trains one of the two sides has to be picked as what the merged train will have schedule wise. The most-recently-modified train wins.
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Re: [2.0.15] Manually connecting rolling stock clears train schedule/group

Post by Vulcan »

Thanks Rseding, that makes sense but I still feel like this is very unintuitive behaviour when one of the merged 'trains' is just a cargo wagon.
In my mind, the locomotive is the thing with a schedule and the wagons are just boxes on wheels, so placing down a box on wheels and it then overwriting the schedule of the locomotive I'm driving feels very weird.
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Re: [2.0.15] Manually connecting rolling stock clears train schedule/group

Post by IsaacOscar »

Rseding91 wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2024 2:46 pm Thanks for the report. When merging trains one of the two sides has to be picked as what the merged train will have schedule wise. The most-recently-modified train wins.
Wouldn't it make more sense to choose the train that you are driving?
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