Rail car/locomotive scanners

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Sneaker2
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Rail car/locomotive scanners

Post by Sneaker2 »

TL;DR


This is like a belt scanner; connect a wire to a rail segment and it becomes a scanner which can read the contens of the vehicle above it, be it rail car or locomotive.

What ?

The creation should be as easy as with the belts. Connect a wire to a segment of rail and the segment gets a scan-option + a visual change to it. The reverse should be the same as with the belts. Now cars or locomotives can be scanned as long as they are on that segment.
Why ?
Its already pretty good that stations can be connected to a circuit network and trains can be serviced with such systems. Yet the read-out only allows to see the contens of the entire train and not single freight cars, which I want to change. The reason is that systems can have more complexity if needed. trains can have different lenghts, number of locos and cars, direction of engine, which could all be seen individually through a scanner under each loco or car (if the player placed them with the right distance inbetween). freight cars can have the same item-contens but the indiviual loading-status can be seen. circuit connections can be made individually for more specialised tasks which arent possible right now or still the same with some simple wire connections. The current station itself could become less complex with options, since those move to the scanners.



If someone has this as a mod I would glady try it out or I would propose this as a mod for testing.
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Re: Rail car/locomotive scanners

Post by Tekky »

This has already been discussed a bit in the following threads:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=49170 [Twinsen] [0.15.18] - Disabled/Unpowered Inserter Inserts Hand Content
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47541 Signals should send Train-ID to circuit network

The original post of the threads mentioned above do not mention your suggestion, but it is discussed later in the threads.

EDIT: Even though this suggestion has previously been discussed in different threads, it is meaningful for this suggestion to have its own thread.
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Re: Rail car/locomotive scanners

Post by Tekky »

This suggestion could also be very useful for determining whether a train is low on fuel, by reading the locomotive, and, if it is low on fuel, then the train could be sent to a refuelling station. However, this would also require that the suggestion of conditional train orders to be implemented, which has been suggested in the following threads:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49214 Train Entry-Condition
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25944 Train station skipping conditions
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=53792 train-stop id and train targets a train-stop by id
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