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!Ice-Man! wrote:

NearlyDutch wrote:

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Error in SmartTrains:
__SmartTrains__/Train.lua:240:conversion of data to type "j" failed

Same error here, but in line 250...

Tried to load yout demosave, even there. Latest version factorio, latest version mod.

 output.parameters[1]={signal={type = "virtual", name = "signal-cargowagons"}, count = 0, index = 1}

UntouchedWagons wrote:What's the panel where I set trains to leave only if their wagons are full or empty? I can't find it.

Therm wrote:I can't seem to get the auto depart to work for train lines. It seems to work just fine on individual trains but as soon as I assign the train to a line, it doesn't leave early if the flow is low, despite the depart box being checked. I am using the rail tanker mod as well.

Choumiko wrote:a double headed train might be L-CCCC-L.

UntouchedWagons wrote:

Choumiko wrote:a double headed train might be L-CCCC-L.

That's not what double headed means. Double Heading is the practice of having two locomotives at the front.

That being said, if I have multiple double-headed trains is SmartTrains smart enough to send them to the same refueling station regardless of the number of wagons? It seems odd that a LL-CCC train could not refuel at the same station as a LL-CCCC train simply because one has an extra cargo wagon.

Choumiko wrote:30ms is bad. There must be something wrong i guess. How many trains, lines, smart train stops do you have? How many lines have the signal and signal value rules?

Choumiko wrote:
You can do some pretty/fun stuff when using train lines and combinators together:

Smart Oil

The above uses smart trainstops with the Goto station # signal value to make trains skip stations when they are full and/or leave a station when the tanks are near empty/not filling up quick enough. E.g. a train at Oil 7 arrives directly after another one leaves so the tanks are only filled by 100 oil, once they are < 10 it immediately goes to Oil 4 (where the train before it never went because it got filled at Oil 7), where it get's filled to the max. Once it detects that it's full it skips all other stations and goes directly to unloading. In my case that saves me from having to setup trains for different stations/schedules as well as quite some travel time (~ 3minutes from Oil 7 to Oil 6 wiht 0 second stops at each station between).
One could do something similar for ore trains or even a supply train that only goes to stations when they are signaling that they need to be resupplied.

The better one is with combinators the more SmartTrains could do, though i doubt that any of your ideas would be doable. Partial requests/evenly distributing could be possible in the form of "if item at station < Y then unload X items, go to the next station, if empty or train cargo < Z go to loading station else go to the next station.