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Train's CTRL-click Temporary Stop behavior [passed -> inactive]

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:38 pm
by Geigeabc
TL;DR
When CTRL-Clicking a train to a temporary station, the default setting is "5s passed" please change it to "5s of inactivity" (or even 10s)
What?
When you send a train to a position with CTRL-Click (creating a temporary train stop) the default waiting condition at that stop makes the train drive away after 5 seconds, even if there is activity (loading, unloading, shooting). If the train is doing an activity, it should wait there, till the activity is done. Having to change the condition every time you make a temporary train stop is annoying.

Current default condition of temporary train stops (created by CTRL-clicking on map, while train selected):
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What i think would be better:
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Why?
When i send my Artillery-Train around with temporary stations, i have to edit the waiting condition for every temporary stop, or it will shoot a single time and drive away again. As an avid destruction enjoyer, this sucks. I think many factorio players are destruction enjoyers, so it would improve factorio for all those people.
As far as i can see, there are no use cases, where i want my train to drive away, even if there is activity at my temporary stop, so i dont see any disatvantage of this change.

left over biters, cause my train drove away :-(
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Re: Train's CTRL-click Temporary Stop behavior [passed -> inactive]

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:41 am
by leoric
I second this!

Re: Train's CTRL-click Temporary Stop behavior [passed -> inactive]

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2024 9:28 am
by Koub
Closely related :
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=67778 (switch to manual mode when Ctrl-Clicking a temporary train stop)
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=80164 (more generic "give us the choice of what happens when Ctrl-Clicking a temporary train stop").

Re: Train's CTRL-click Temporary Stop behavior [passed -> inactive]

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 2:39 pm
by bombcar
This could be handled by interrupts.

Make it so if you name an interrupt “Temporary Stop” it calls that interrupt when arriving at a temporary stop.

Then you program the interrupt how you’d like.

Re: Train's CTRL-click Temporary Stop behavior [passed -> inactive]

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:28 pm
by leoric
bombcar wrote: Fri Dec 06, 2024 2:39 pm This could be handled by interrupts.

Make it so if you name an interrupt “Temporary Stop” it calls that interrupt when arriving at a temporary stop.

Then you program the interrupt how you’d like.
Please elaborate. What condition and target should be set in the Interrupt?