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train dispatcher.

monitor special train workload, dispatch it to different station.
monitor station workload, broadcast "I dont need iron anymore"



load balancing on the world

"every factories, change your production capacity to support nuclear maximumly in the next hour, then return your daily-work"



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d4217621 @ tieba.baidu.com

train dispatcher：

a box putted near railway(like a station)
has many input and output, can be click on

output A: what kind of and how many cargo are beening transportting on the connected railway.
click on: a table shows signal corresponding train name
input A: select train by input corresponded signal.
output B: what and how many cargo on the train
input B: signal dispatch the train.

railway station:

input: what cargo it is needed can be set

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Working out how to do this kind of stuff in vanilla is fun
(Hint: you can have a train wait in a "requester" station until empty or needing any resource, then send it to a supply when necessary via the circuit network. You can set filters on wagons by middle-clicking.)

There's also a mod doing stuff like this:
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Optera/L ... ainNetwork