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roy7 wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:08 pm Someone on Reddit suggested a condition that would test against remaining fuel Mj. This way you don't need to test for low specific fuel type(s). If fuel Mj is low, go refuel. If you change fuel type in the refueling station later on, the train doesn't even need to know.

Kallinger wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:15 pm IMO this makes LTN and Cybersyn almost irrelevant. Would only like to change priorities of stations, maybe there is a way to do this as well i just have not realized yet.

mmmPI wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:41 pm Curious to see what would be on that other planet that can impact even trains, meteorites ? Alien invasion hijacking trains ?

nullvoid wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:50 pm Greenspunth's 10th Rule

Terrahertz wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:36 pm Don't limit your thinking to the outside of the train
Maybe your cargo is changing temperature, there should be an ice world after all.
It could also decay or transform.

After seeing some of the additions to the game, I also would not put it past the devs to introduce a new locomotive type that needs some special attention or a wagon that produces things while moving.

So we made it that interrupts are shared globally (identified by their name), and when you edit an interrupt it changes for all the trains with that interrupt. This made it much more convenient and less error prone.

Justderpingalong wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:40 pm Oh my god... this one actually had me in tears for a bit. It's so beautiful. You've taken LTN and integrated it better than I could've ever imagined it. The channels are groups, the interrupts are requests/provides... I'm having an INCREDIBLY hard time trying to imagine what more you're going to add to make trains even better. Apart from being able to somehow automatically add trains to the network... I just can't see it.

I do want to like, propose a scenario however and all I request is a simple 'yes' or 'no' in terms of how feasable it is.

Right now, LTN will create a request for a train when a requester station's demand is big enough to warrant a train (basically, the amount is below the 'threshhold'. This can be simulated in factorio via simply setting the station limit or even enabling/disabling stations based on demand. Equally, provider stations only turn on if they have enough cargo to load a train provided u set a threshhold.

In an ideal world, I'd like a train with only a depot stop. This train will leave the depot if a request station and a provide station of matching types are active. What I DON'T want to happen is that a train will go to a provide station, load up with cargo, only to realize that it cannot drop off it's cargo anywhere. This could cause a deadlock in the sense that all of my trains end up filling themselves with cargo they cannot drop off, sitting idle in my depot whilst my factory dies.

So I guess my question boils down to: Can I somehow make sure that when a train goes to pick up an item, it will be able to drop this item off somewhere?

Dial-up wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:30 pm

So we made it that interrupts are shared globally (identified by their name), and when you edit an interrupt it changes for all the trains with that interrupt. This made it much more convenient and less error prone.

I didn’t understand a little, if I add an interruption, then it is automatically applied to all trains or I can add it to one train, and then how, for example, with an existing station, select from the list?
although it seems to me that it’s the latter, otherwise it would be strange.

Also, I would like the ability to copy stations in lists, now when I rarely set up trains but need to copy a station either to the same train (but with a different station under the same conditions) or to another train but with a different schedule, I wonder if it is possible how to do this?