Rail Logistics Dispatcher

by Viidi

Adds a dispatcher (building) to automate railway logistics based on provide and request stations. Has intuitive interface. Was inspired by LTN but went a different way.

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3 days ago
1.1 - 2.0
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Logistics Trains

g Why unique names?

13 hours ago

Why scheduling trains by unique station names instead of station uid? (Why is better?)

10 hours ago

Is there such a technical possibility?

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/concepts/ScheduleRecord.html - here only "Name of the station". No uids.

There is another trick - to make intermediate points before the rails that are near the station - but it looks ugly in the schedule and does not always work. Even so, the train can go to another station that has the same name.

And unique names are needed so that the train does not go to the wrong station, I think you know.

5 hours ago

My bad.
I got confused about which IDs are mentioned there https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaTrain.html#go_to_station
Also, train can go directly to station's rail (but "it looks ugly in schedule")
Another trick - make it by changing station priority (but only for 2.0 and disallow using max (255) priority)

Any chances of startup setting for "schedule to rail instead of station name" or something like that?

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