Example:
- Power station (a)
- Coal mines (b and c)
- Trains (<\> = network direction)
- Presignaling according to a memory track ( ! )
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.________<___[--a--]_____.....
/............................................\...
|.............................................|..
.\!______[--b--]_____>____/...
...\_____________[--c--]__/.....
..................................................
Each train has the orders to drop all cargo at the power station and thats it, no pick up orders what so ever. After it has finished the drop off, it moves on the mainline and starts heading to the power station to drop off again! But this is were the fun starts, the network forces the train to move to one of the two coal mines before it reach the power station again. The network makes the track descision by checking a bit (train) that says 1 if there is allready a train heading to/in the station or 0 if there is no train yet on that part of the track. When the train reaches the station it will autopick the coal thats waiting and move on.
I dont have this working yet, but it unlocks some cool posibilities, however dont expect some clean networking
. I like the idea of simply unleaching some trains on the network with only 1 order to get them into action, and let the network do the job!btw: when I give a train really no orders, the pathfinding doesnt seem to check the signals ahead. example: The moment a train reaches a T junction he randomly picks an option not looking at the next signal, so a sec after he chose the path he can stand still because the next signal has been red all the time... Is there a way to avoid this stupid behaviour when without using orders?
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. The trains on the main railline where not synced correctly. When they are synced the counter does work as intended