[0.17.21] Copy and Paste does not seem to work logically
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:28 pm
I have just discovered that copy and pasting trains orders works in map view (yay!), so I have been using it a lot.
I have also found what I consider to either be a bug or a design flaw in the copy and paste process.
If I have 2 trains: A and B, which have different orders, and I shift right click A, then I would expect the game to inspect the orders it has and take a copy of them. Then when I shift left click B, I would expect it to paste those same orders.
What actually happens is completely counter intuitive: I shift right click A, the game makes a note of which train I have clicked on. I then shift left click B and it then looks at train A, notes it's orders, and copies them onto train B.
This also happens with logistics chests.
The important difference between these 2 outcomes is what happens in between clicking on the 2 trains/chests:
If I am setting up a new mining outpost that requires 10 trains, then I will create the first train, copy it's orders, and send it on it's merry way. I then create trains 2-10 in turn, pasting their new orders onto them in turn.
However, when train 1 reaches the outpost, fills it's cars and leaves again, then next train I paste the orders onto will not go to the outpost first, it will go to the drop off point, whichever order is second in the list, or whichever order train 1 is currently heading towards. This also happens if I (or presumably someone else in multiplayer) manually changes those orders, either intentionally or accidentally.
Every other program I have ever come across does this in a completely different way - using a clipboard.
When I type a document, if I copy a paragraph, then change that paragraph, and paste it again somewhere else, I do not get the changed paragraph, I get the text that I actually copied onto the clipboard.
Hope this all makes sense and I'm not duplicating a previous thread - couldn't find this reported anywhere.
Thanks.
I have also found what I consider to either be a bug or a design flaw in the copy and paste process.
If I have 2 trains: A and B, which have different orders, and I shift right click A, then I would expect the game to inspect the orders it has and take a copy of them. Then when I shift left click B, I would expect it to paste those same orders.
What actually happens is completely counter intuitive: I shift right click A, the game makes a note of which train I have clicked on. I then shift left click B and it then looks at train A, notes it's orders, and copies them onto train B.
This also happens with logistics chests.
The important difference between these 2 outcomes is what happens in between clicking on the 2 trains/chests:
If I am setting up a new mining outpost that requires 10 trains, then I will create the first train, copy it's orders, and send it on it's merry way. I then create trains 2-10 in turn, pasting their new orders onto them in turn.
However, when train 1 reaches the outpost, fills it's cars and leaves again, then next train I paste the orders onto will not go to the outpost first, it will go to the drop off point, whichever order is second in the list, or whichever order train 1 is currently heading towards. This also happens if I (or presumably someone else in multiplayer) manually changes those orders, either intentionally or accidentally.
Every other program I have ever come across does this in a completely different way - using a clipboard.
When I type a document, if I copy a paragraph, then change that paragraph, and paste it again somewhere else, I do not get the changed paragraph, I get the text that I actually copied onto the clipboard.
Hope this all makes sense and I'm not duplicating a previous thread - couldn't find this reported anywhere.
Thanks.