Friday Facts #134 - Signal placement indicator

[vortex1967]

Hello Mishka and welcome.

Going by the images for the signal placement indicator the indicator is allowing placement of signals very close to the junction of where the curved rail intersects with the
straight rail. This position has problems with chain signals correctly displaying the state of the following signal.

[Loewchen]

This position has problems with chain signals correctly displaying the state of the following signal.

Could you upload the save? Thx!

[KatherineOfSky]

I really like the new signal placement helper. (And I had no idea that signals in the midst of out-curves break blocks! No wonder I was getting those flashing lights.)

Really looking forward to this in-game. Woot!

[vortex1967]

There has been a discussion about this issue under a topic of "Why are these signals green" started by JasonC a few days ago under Game Play Help.
It appears to be a graphical issue with chain signals.
The reason I posted an image here was Signal placement indicator allows placement of signals in a position that manifests the graphical issue.

[mrtux]

I really like the signal placement aid.

Hopyfully disallowing "wrong" signals does not hinder the gameplay – might be necessary to use when a crossing is changed. Still: How could we ever play without?

[vortex1967]

I found out today. Known bug and fixed for 0.13 release.

[buc01]

Ah man, all these updates look amazing, i'm really impatient haha, i haven't done a play through of the game for a while and i'm desperately trying to hold off starting a new play through till 13 hits ha ha its getting harder to do so!

Everything looks amazing, personally i like the idea of the "loader" but i can of course understand and see the reasoning behind not wanting to implement such a thing. While it was quite a long time ago now, the last time i did my play through i think i skipped over trains entirely and went straight to robots. after seeing all the awesome things you can do with trains though i really want to use them on my next run through.

[Tepalus]

Every friday the same. Waiting for the new FFF. I am insane.

[transportman]

The indication of possible (and sensible) spots for the signals is great though I'd still appreciate being able to build them even on the 'illegal' spots. I use this to make branches of my train network only I can access in manual mode therefore I can be sure there's never going to be a train in there to crash into me or whatever.
On the other hand I understand that it might be confusing for some people and I believe that the Devs (yeah, capital D ) can find a solution that suits everyone's needs and desires.

I agree, it should still be possible to place signals at "illegal" spots, because it might be that during construction or changes of direction a (temporary) illegal situation needs to exist.