Train skip station if...

Quality of life Trains
Warlok · 1 year ago

Is a good option to add the skip option for trains like have the depart option.
Like my Coal Power use limestone but I don't need to delivery every time because don't use it much. Now I have one train to coal power and other to foundry. If I can skip the coal power when is full or if is more than 90% I could use only one train.
Skip if is full.
Skip if is > X%
With this options we can save fuel and maintenance and make more sense why the train will go to the station if the module is full. Just skip and go to the next.

G [ideas] · 1 year ago

Yes please. Only having the option to call a train either empty, full, or all the time seems limiting. Especially for a delivery that is far away (which is what trains are supposed to mitigate) I’d like to have the option to be like, « when delivery station is <75% full, open train stop. » We have the functionality with boxes but not strain stations.

Danksinn420 · 1 year ago

On the right of the train station is a depart condition. Set it to Any Module Empty if it's imperative to keep it full. Set to All Modules Empty if you're using it more for things that are not as time sensitive. Easiest examples I can give for Any vs All would be Coal for the power plant vs Ammonia to make Fertilizer. While the fertilizer is needed, it's not such a need that missing a few moments of production waiting on the train to be detrimental. On the flip side, losing electricity when the train is late delivering coal would be very detrimental.
Additionally, you can set the train to not leave their source station until full of product in the train line manager window.

Warlok · 1 year ago

Danksinn we are not talking about depart conditions. The depart conditions function we already have! We need a skip condition.

Josh [ideas] 2 · 9 months ago

I came here because I can setup a line to go to wait station then go to load if modules are full then back to wait station goto unload station if modules are empty. In some cases its better if it can skip the wait station if lets say the unload station is ready for a full load. I dont want trains to stay at the load or unload station either. I was able to instead add wait stations as lowest priority to unload and load station groups but then if only the wait station is available the train loops the line until it can unload or load. This issue would be solved with skip station as suggested or if you are at a station and the next station group contains the same station you are already at you stay put unless another higher priority station becomes available. Till then im going to toy with it till its right.

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