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kerrymcclement 18 May @ 1:33am
Depots and routes overhaul
While it would take a lot of work, which is the main reason why this probably will not be added, it would be cool to see a new system in which you can both send and mobilise trains from their respective depots, which you choose, and then you can select a route for them to drive from a drop down. You would have a button which says something like "Mobilise Train", which would be followed by a menu, where you can select a train which is in the depot, and then choose a route or station for it to mobilise to. There would be a similar system for stations, but you only get the choice to move a train to a depot, or start it off on a route, from the same type of drop down. It would be a nice thing to see, but it might need new tracks specifically for depots, or a choice to make a station without platforms and make it a depot through a drop down or something of sorts.
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adlet 18 May @ 12:05pm 
Are you suggesting to add a manual mode of managing trains? Since everything you describe either exists (e.g. there is no difference between stations and depots, any station can be a depot or vice versa, depots have their own tracks, and stations can exist without platforms), or can already be done automatically (trains get "mobilized" i.e. assigned to a line when they stand in a depot, but it happens automatically not by a choice from the menu). And you can do the same and "mobilize" trains from any station as well, again, automatically. Making manual choices could be interesting concept but this would likely be a fairly small piece of the game if it ever happens.

Or are you suggesting to replace the current automatic mode with manual choices? Given we deal with hundreds or thousands of trains and line choices need to happen many times a minute, this would make the game unplayable.
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kerrymcclement 19 May @ 8:12am 
I do mean this, but you can store trains that you arent using in a depot, so that when you buy a new train, you HAVE to choose a depot for it to go to until you chose a route for it to operate on. I have 1 spare class 777 from my Merseyrail network, but it would be great if i could store it in one of my depots, rather than it saying invalid orders. I do not mean a fully manual system, what I mean is a system where you tell a train to go to the start of one of your routes, and then the train just keeps doing that route until you tell it to stop, and send it somewhere else on other duties.
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Abysmo 19 May @ 9:41am 
Originally posted by kerrymcclement:
I do mean this, but you can store trains that you arent using in a depot, so that when you buy a new train, you HAVE to choose a depot for it to go to until you chose a route for it to operate on. I have 1 spare class 777 from my Merseyrail network, but it would be great if i could store it in one of my depots, rather than it saying invalid orders. I do not mean a fully manual system, what I mean is a system where you tell a train to go to the start of one of your routes, and then the train just keeps doing that route until you tell it to stop, and send it somewhere else on other duties.

You can make line with one stop in depot and use this line for this train when you don't need this train
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david_neibig 19 May @ 10:36am 
Originally posted by kerrymcclement:
I do mean this, but you can store trains that you arent using in a depot, so that when you buy a new train, you HAVE to choose a depot for it to go to until you chose a route for it to operate on. I have 1 spare class 777 from my Merseyrail network, but it would be great if i could store it in one of my depots, rather than it saying invalid orders. I do not mean a fully manual system, what I mean is a system where you tell a train to go to the start of one of your routes, and then the train just keeps doing that route until you tell it to stop, and send it somewhere else on other duties.


If you don't need the train (eg. because the line is closed), you can always set the train to mothballed
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