Taschi wrote: ↑18 Jan 2022 17:46
If you are capable of understanding how the other signal types actually work, you are also capable of opening the settings and re-enabling them.
This i did (literally immediately, this is probably the most irritating change to vanilla so far in my 12+ years of playing it), however i cannot locate any setting that basically is, use whichever signal was selected at time of A: save game you loaded, or B: the game overall before exiting if its not plausible to store that info into the save game for A.
Irrelevant tangent you can skip reading if you'd like, all 'the point' is above this; I use block signals as my normal running track, and then use path signals whenever a junction or station comes up. To me this looks much better, and is slightly more 'realistic', which I know is never the aim of OTTD or any patch packs, however it is 'best i can do' sort of deal. Which is why it defaulting back to path signals upon exit is generally irritating for my use case, and from the screenshot threads it seems somewhat clear I'm not alone in that usage of signals. Yes, path signals are easier for new people, but old people also exist. Path signals are IMO somewhat lazy for general usage, and doesn't really encourage getting to know the intricacies of signalling for the game at large. For my usage, I also never use entry or exit signals, nor combis. This is just because I was the aforementioned lazy early on, and never learnt them, perhaps they're amazing. It'd be quite nice if you can disable them from showing too, without also removing block signal, if anything.