Idea: Add train configuration setting to LTN stops
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:52 am
I recently made a suggestion to extend the train stops to allow limiting it to specific trains in viewtopic.php?f=6&t=99949
I would really like this feature for LTN stops because other than low throughput stations with LC / LF trains whenever I have items and fluids at a station I need trains of different sizes, mostly longer fluid trains than item trains. And that then means 2 stations or longer item trains can arrive at the station than the station can handle. Even for pure item or pure fluid stations it would be good to avoid confusing e.g. LCL trains with LCC trains.
I wonder if you would be open for a patch to add this for LTN stops as an alternative to setting the min/max train length. This wouldn't be circuit controllable as that would limit the configurations to 1. But have you ever seen a station with the min/max train length changing via combinator logic?
One thing I would add to the UI, above what I described in the suggestion, would be a button to pick a train configuration from a list created from all the trains waiting a Depots (or their train configuration limits). So if you build your LFFFL train and depot first you could just pick it from the list for new stations instead of having to enter the configuration everywhere. The train configuration limits would open as extra window whenever you open the train stop UI.
If any train configuration is set for the stop then the min/max train size signals will be ignored.
I would really like this feature for LTN stops because other than low throughput stations with LC / LF trains whenever I have items and fluids at a station I need trains of different sizes, mostly longer fluid trains than item trains. And that then means 2 stations or longer item trains can arrive at the station than the station can handle. Even for pure item or pure fluid stations it would be good to avoid confusing e.g. LCL trains with LCC trains.
I wonder if you would be open for a patch to add this for LTN stops as an alternative to setting the min/max train length. This wouldn't be circuit controllable as that would limit the configurations to 1. But have you ever seen a station with the min/max train length changing via combinator logic?
One thing I would add to the UI, above what I described in the suggestion, would be a button to pick a train configuration from a list created from all the trains waiting a Depots (or their train configuration limits). So if you build your LFFFL train and depot first you could just pick it from the list for new stations instead of having to enter the configuration everywhere. The train configuration limits would open as extra window whenever you open the train stop UI.
If any train configuration is set for the stop then the min/max train size signals will be ignored.