Allow train signals to provide access to changing train content
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Allow train signals to provide access to changing train content
My native language is russian. Sorry if my messages are difficult to read.
Re: Allow train signals to provide access to changing train content
You can also have "A" and "B" station names and alternate the entries.
Re: Allow train signals to provide access to changing train content
That part of your suggestion has already been suggested by me two years ago. In the folllowing thread, I suggested that track signals should be able to read the train ID and also all train contents:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47541 track signals should send Train-ID to circuit network
In my first post of that thread, I suggested that signals should be able to read the Train ID of a train. In my second post of that thread, I suggested that it should also be able to read train contents.
Therefore, my suggestion is identical to your suggestion, except that you are additionally proposing that there should be an option to allow inserters to interact with the train. This would make stations and signals very similar, if not identical (which may be a good thing).
Re: Allow train signals to provide access to changing train content
Certainly not identical, but this would improve the usefulness of train signals by a good bit and open up new options. Ultimately, this boils down (in my mind) to a question of how much work would this be and I got no clue. It's useful, but not certain it's good with 1.0 looking to be soon.
Re: Allow train signals to provide access to changing train content
By using the word "identical", I meant that stations would be just a special type of track signal, i.e. a signal with the additional property that they have a name and can be used as a destination in train orders.
This would also allow signals to be used as waypoints (places that trains pass through without stopping). That way, waypoints would also be a special type of track signal, similar to stations.
Waypoints has already been discussed in the following threads:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21831 Train waypoints
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37562 Train waypoint/(no)stop feature request
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=59541 Train navigation checkpoint