Allow to place railroad signals near each other.

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Allow to place railroad signals near each other.

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Currently i'm playing with railroads setups and can't get what is the difference for gameplay is to place signals near each other or 1 tile separated as now?
Game engine, pathfinding, etc. limitations? Or there is another meaning for that?

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Re: Allow to place railroad signals near each other.

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Rails are generally placed on a 2x2 grid and every rail (except diagonal) has exactly 4 places for a signal to be placed (2 exit signals and 2 entrance signals).
Signals are cutting rail segments into smaller ones but those cuts are never made in the middle of the rail. Rail always belongs to only one rail segment. Exit signal is when the rail segment is cut after the signal and entrance signal is when rail is cut before the signal.

Left is entrance signal, right is exit signal
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If 2 rail signals could be placed next to each other, depending on the exact position both rail signals could be indeed useful (would cut the same rail but on opposite ends) or they could be just around the same rail connection and both signals would be essentially doing the same work. First case maybe could be useful in some tight intersections but second case is completly useless and would only lead to confusion and bug reports. Because of that, rail signals next to each other are not allowed.
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Re: Allow to place railroad signals near each other.

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For example my situation. Typical chunk sized junction with straight road after.
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Would be cool if i could upgrade straight road into junction later, but now i can't because of incompatible signal placement.

1. They are two different rails, so there is no cuting rail into two segments in the middle.
2. So what if signals are do the same work? Like 2 signals with 1 tile between them not doing the same. You can't even place perpendicular road there to allow another train to use this tiny segment. Pretty useless too in my view.
3. There will be no confusion if people know this rule "no half rail segments" (as i know it now :D just didn't noted it before). Yeah, signals will do just the one work - separate segment in-between them with no new road segments. Again, so what? More possibilities to change roads with BP without removing something.
4. About new bug reports can't say anything...

PS. sorry if it sounded a bit rude, not native english, hard to choose words)

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Up)
Maybe you'll change your decision :D

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Re: Allow to place railroad signals near each other.

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Nope.

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