Yes. And if you take those 3 it will produce 3 more.

I think reducing the weight of Locomotives would be a better way to balance the two systems.

@disentius: trains pathfinder as currently implemented does not allow to add a target train stop penalty. All the penalty sources can be only due to rail segments or due to junctions between two rail segments. This would require doing some changes to the trains pathfinder itself. But i would appreci...

Consumer priority could be implemented by giving us a "skip next schedule if condition is met" feature. The high priority stops would be listed first in the schedule. If they are full (train limit) or disabled they get skipped. Low priority stops would be scheduled for leave when empty. Wh...

I can not see the button in the sections mentioned in the OP
But I can see it for example in "general discussion" and in "show your creations"

So it's not deactivated for some users but in some places

Space trash is a problem in orbits 600k and above. The bulk of starlinks satellites will operate at 330k and 550k where they will decay in reasonable time in case they malfunction. Live satellites are easy to track so you never run into them accidently... So why do you call what Dave wrote propaganda?

well , is there a way to make it go the empty station first. Any suggestions When the rail block is guarded by a rail signal set to red by the circuit network -> Add a penalty of 1000. https://wiki.factorio.com/Railway/Train_path_finding#Path_finding_penalties Thats one way to further encourage you...

I suggest you test this using the mod and setup they use in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=194&t=46855

in other words, will a train prefer nearest empty station or a nearest station with train limit less than maximum. When a station is occupied it gets a penalty for the pathfinder. So it will tend to prefer smelter 2. But if your train is near smelter 1 and far away from smelter 2 it will still go t...

Why do you need that?
You should be fine if you just replace the backwards stop with a railsignal.

Thanks for the FF!
Thanks for the railstop limit!!!

I think a clock is not needed.
Just wire the signal at the entrance of your solid fuel station to the coal station.
Set the coal station to send signal to train and set the train to leave on circuit condition yellow = 1

I would not do that with a clock.
You could read a second signal that is placed after the controlled one to check if the train has passed

5 - RHD

Because i don't care how much space it takes on straight lines, but I don't like it when I have to make a dent into the straight line on junctions only to make place for those that trains that have to turn left.

You will incur some initial evolution for destroying the spawners, but after that you will only incur the minimum evolution over time, which means the biters will be weak for a very long time. Thats not correct From https://wiki.factorio.com/Enemies#Evolution The global pollution production increas...

I'm all for the each choice. It would be useful. But for loading a train from multiple chest you would still need lots of combinators. What would change would be that you subtract 12 form the count between each inserter. So when you need to load 30 items the first inserter loads 12, the second 12, ...

I was about to make my own post then I saw this one ;) Here is my service Station: Service Station V2.png Each wagon has it's own constant combinator. Set your desired goods there and the station will automatically load exactly that amount. The design exploits the fact that in factorio most of the t...

So I got this working using combinators but at least for loading trains it's not worth it. The problem is I can do it for one chest - but loading a train and avoiding that multiple inserters would not mess it up is not possible. Except if you simply divide the requested goods by the number of insert...

If you have fixed trains for your goods and just want to reduce how many trains try to path to one station at the same time than this would help:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Concurren ... estriction

Additionally:
Use efficiency modules in the early game - less pollution means less biter evolution and less attacks

In late game I use atomic rockets for clearing out and artillery only if I want to make sure they don't come back