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I would like to see an alert visible on the train GUI and/or overview map showing trains that have run out of fuel and are in automatic mode.

I have a fairly big bactory with ~100 trains in it, and I screwed up the fueling. I had to comb every inch of track to find all of the trains that had run out of fuel. In the end, 5-6 trains had run out, but it was not always obvious because some had run out in lightly used branches. I think it would be nice to have some sort of alert to point out empty trains.

I also think that the alert should not appear if a train is in manual mode because that's usually while you're setting up the train or possibly putting a train in storage. It's also a good workaround to shut up the alert if you don't want it shown - the train isn't going to be moving anyway without any fuel.

This would be a nice feature to have. Alongside this I would also gladly see trains with no path as well.
Also just to mention if you are running that many trains I would suggest using F.A.T. Controller mod which has messages for different kinds of trail failures such as train standing on a red signal for prolonged time

This is far from useful ... Much more useful would be to add a new method to change the schedule, if train fuel is under some level and automatically goes to a refuel station. Alerts are only useful, if it is already too late.

This would be awesome.
Don't understand why it was not implemented at the same time as the lack of logistics storage notification.

ssilk wrote:This is far from useful ... Much more useful would be to add a new method to change the schedule, if train fuel is under some level and automatically goes to a refuel station. Alerts are only useful, if it is already too late.

make it so