Railway-station names in the preview world map

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Railway-station names in the preview world map

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Hello fellow automatrons,

is there a mod out there, or did i miss the resp. menu marker for getting the names on the actual trainstations while in the preview window of the worldmap? in the regular, all names are visable, very fine. But when i actually wanna attach stations to a railwail tour, the names are missing, which makes it reeeeeaaaaaaally tedious to either name each and every station to remember better what it's for, or open the general worldmap and check&remember.


Not that i have that many tracks just yet, but even now with my 4 trains, it is getting rather... unclear.


I did some, rather short, research but found nothing. -Which means of course absolutetly nothing! :D :roll:
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Not sure about a mod that does that, but if you just name your stations while you build them, that's not really a tedious task.
Renaming stations is mainly a pain in the butt when you didn't bother to do it, and then have to visit each one afterwards to give them a proper name. :shock:

Also, naming your stations can have a nice added benefit in the way that trains pick up a new route when a new station has the same name as the old one.
Let's say your mine runs out of ores and you remove it, then build a new mine with a station that has the exact same name, your train will start running that new route
without having to mess with entering a new route. 8-)
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Oh, that is indeed very useful to know; that the trains continue to rail their way to new stations, as long as the name remain the same. Very useful to know indeed. Thank you alot!

Sure, it kinda sounded lazy, but this game just pushes me to get lazier and lazier! :D
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OldFritz wrote:Sure, it kinda sounded lazy, but this game just pushes me to get lazier and lazier! :D
Haha, that's what automation does to a person.
Just imagine the amount of jobs we could have brought to these planets, but noo we had to bring our fancy schmancy robots and machines. :mrgreen:
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Bushdoctor wrote:
OldFritz wrote:Sure, it kinda sounded lazy, but this game just pushes me to get lazier and lazier! :D
Haha, that's what automation does to a person.
Just imagine the amount of jobs we could have brought to these planets, but noo we had to bring our fancy schmancy robots and machines. :mrgreen:
Well, we all have an inner Lazy Bastard...now don't we?
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