pathfinding – Train Fever Official Website (archived) Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:51:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 [Suggestion] Better pathing (Fastest free route) /forums/topic/suggestion-better-pathing-fastest-free-route/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:51:11 +0000 /forums/topic/suggestion-better-pathing-fastest-free-route/ Continue reading →]]> I noticed trains in TF can’t leave the highlighted line route under any circumstances. This may sound resonable as noone wants trains to get lost in network, sadly it makes many realistic designs disfunctional & makes networks really shalow & ineffective.

One example being a simple “Optional sidepass”:

Image and video hosting by TinyPicThis will cause deadlock in TF while it should not, if trains were not completely blind & following pre-calculated paths.

Solution: When train enters “Waiting for free path” mode, let it try to search for an alternate paths to the next destination.

 

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