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Wreckit wrote: ↑13 Dec 2023 20:30 Hi JGR
New update looks great tho by time i get round to playing again properly you maybe on another two versions
But overall keep up the good work. The programing signals have been great fun to use.

However the main reason to post is quirry if you've ever thought of implementing/ finnishing off Karn's "realistic shunting" to you're patch pack?

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I realise in its current state its kinda useless for cargodist but the potential it has could make for some great game play.


Regards

OzTrans wrote: ↑13 Dec 2023 22:58 I have a bit of a conundrum ...

I am emulating the rail corridor between London (Kings Cross) and Leeds / Edinburgh from Hitchin to Grantham with the rail hub of Peterborough in the middle so I can do some testing of high speed rail operations and signalling.

Now, some trains do some peculiar shunting at Peterborough. They need to shunt from the Nene Carriage Sidings (PB NCS) via PB N P4 to PB Down Fast, then reversing via PB NP3 in order to get to platform 3 to be ready for departure to Kings Cross. Trains are speed limited (signal restricted setting) at 60 km/h during shunting and revert to normal speed once leaving Peterborough.

This works for Push-Pull trains and Ordinary trains (with just one engine), but not for trains that have an engine up front and one at the back (reversed). That train, after passing 'PB Down Fast', slows to 21 km/h and keeps on going at 21 km/h until it runs out of track. Only if I stop the train manually and restart it, will it reverse and complete the shunting operation. Sometimes, it shows 'Cannot reach PB N P3'.

I have also tried signal restriction 'reverse behind signal' at a PBS two-way signal, once passed PB Down Fast normally, but that does not work.

Any clues ?

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JGR wrote: ↑14 Dec 2023 01:53

OzTrans wrote: ↑13 Dec 2023 22:58... Shunting ...

I have a reasonably good guess for what the problem is.
I'll add some mitigations for this failure mode in the next release.

Argus wrote: ↑15 Dec 2023 13:51 For some liquids - such as acids - the context help shows tonnes instead of litres. There are liters correctly in the window of the station or vehicle cargo.

Redirect Left wrote: ↑15 Dec 2023 18:17 Idea i had whilst laying down a huge line with nothing but stations on it (dang maps with lots of nothing in the middle!). When you drag signals, it will by default stop at the first obstacle it comes across, station or junction. Would it be possible to make a setting so signals will not be stopped by a station, and it continues laying signals beyond it until the end of a line, or rail junction? Unfortunately it will be impossible to predict any correct path of signals after junctions, but for stations is it possible to continue after them? May be a nice setting to add under the signals (advanced) category?

It would also be nice if you can do the same when converting, as you can do with signals. Drag in a direction whilst holding [a button], and it converts track type up to the first obstacle that it cannot convert (a depot with a train in it, for example), or junction.

Redirect Left wrote: ↑15 Dec 2023 18:17 Idea i had whilst laying down a huge line with nothing but stations on it (dang maps with lots of nothing in the middle!). When you drag signals, it will by default stop at the first obstacle it comes across, station or junction. Would it be possible to make a setting so signals will not be stopped by a station, and it continues laying signals beyond it until the end of a line, or rail junction? Unfortunately it will be impossible to predict any correct path of signals after junctions, but for stations is it possible to continue after them? May be a nice setting to add under the signals (advanced) category?

It would also be nice if you can do the same when converting, as you can do with signals. Drag in a direction whilst holding [a button], and it converts track type up to the first obstacle that it cannot convert (a depot with a train in it, for example), or junction.

JohnFranklin523 wrote: ↑18 Dec 2023 07:03 Partial autorefit when?

That means, when using the autorefit option, players can only refit the whole train for one cargo option. To make half of the train refittable to one type of cargo, another half to another type, is impossible so far, given the whole train has the same type of wagons.

I think this should be constructive but no one seems to have raised it. I didn't find it until hours ago. I think this might be a "blind area".

JGR wrote: ↑19 Dec 2023 22:32

Redirect Left wrote: ↑15 Dec 2023 18:17 Idea i had whilst laying down a huge line with nothing but stations on it (dang maps with lots of nothing in the middle!). When you drag signals, it will by default stop at the first obstacle it comes across, station or junction. Would it be possible to make a setting so signals will not be stopped by a station, and it continues laying signals beyond it until the end of a line, or rail junction? Unfortunately it will be impossible to predict any correct path of signals after junctions, but for stations is it possible to continue after them? May be a nice setting to add under the signals (advanced) category?

It would also be nice if you can do the same when converting, as you can do with signals. Drag in a direction whilst holding [a button], and it converts track type up to the first obstacle that it cannot convert (a depot with a train in it, for example), or junction.

This is implemented now.

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JGR wrote: ↑08 Dec 2023 19:34 Changing the language to English in the Game Options window should avoid this issue.

JGR wrote: ↑19 Dec 2023 22:32 Presumably you could use the refit to available cargo mechanism, if you need to refit a train to carry more than one cargo from a station.
This isn't any way to specify non-trivial custom refits in orders. Order lists can be shared by non-matching trains.

fridaemon wrote: ↑08 Dec 2023 19:41 Hi JGR
I will try to open the topic of endless water again...
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Would it be possible to create an option (ON/OFF) to replace the black background with water? Like the Earth is not flat? In the case of islands that are sometimes located on the edge of the map, it would make a nicer impression. I really believe it'd appreciate more players.

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JGR wrote: ↑21 Dec 2023 18:33 If the map really does have water at every edge tile, it can look OK.

dol422 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2023 14:22 IIRC there was a great which provided water at the edge. It was called wateredges or something like that.

Haven't a clue where I found it, and it is very old (as in around 10 or so years).

fridaemon wrote: ↑22 Dec 2023 12:58

JGR wrote: ↑21 Dec 2023 18:33 If the map really does have water at every edge tile, it can look OK.

Version With islands looks really perfect! In other cases not.
Soo ... Is there a possibility to have something like: Area around the map: DEFAULT (BLACK) / WATER ?