The reason is simple. If it takes more then about 80% of time of frequency to load vehicle, then a downward spiral of vanishing production will start.

Therefore, I suggest to:

1. Remove full load order

2. Wherenver used, replace it with load for X seconds, where X is calculated as no more then 75% of base line frequency.

3. Introduce a player controlled “Load for X seconds” order for vehicles.

This solution will give players an option to space some trains by hand, provide a safe negative feedback to frquency altering problems, and would solve “my industries do not produce anything!!111” issues.

Spacing trains and other vehicles is easy that way and they will wait in the right moments (waiting for passengers), instead of this silly autospacing mechanic in TF.Haven´t the developers looked at such games, before they tried to ruin the genre ?

Most of the other mechanics are better, too and the game is freeware.

Partyschreck: Then go play simutrans. Been there, done that when Hajo was still developing it. This board is about TF. EDIT: Ifact that for a long time pak32 had a few sprites drawn by me.

This board is about TF.

We´re are writing about Train Fever in the german simutrans forum, too.

And what you can read there, is that I tried to like Train Fever in the beginning, but I got angry, when I saw that they did nearly everything worse and I paid money for that. Simutrans got much better in the last years, so maybe you should look again.

About the full load mechanic in Train Fever: If you balance the number of vehicles good you can use it, without problems and it spaces the vehicles. I used it at least at the starting of a line (especially cargo).
But certainly uzurpators suggestion is a good one.
I would do it as in Simutrans.

On the topic though, wouldn’t it be nice to also have the option make the trucks load until a certain percentage is reached? In conjunction with normal full load and a time limited full load, it would make it more versatile and easier to tailor the loading to your own plans and demands. Versatility FTW!

request for “no more then 75% of base line frequency” has very good reason. It eliminates greatest danger of the total stop of the line. Your idea “trucks load until a certain percentage” does not solve it.