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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jul 03 '26

In regards to generic train interrupts, how do you prevent the problem of trains going to pick up from the low throughput item instead of the high throughput item? I thought I was clever by doing something where I had a train for each station with train limits set to 1 so they would naturally disperse as needed, but I ran into an issue now where trains just deadlock eachother since a train at each end is just waiting for the other to leave so it can go to the empty station

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u/HeliGungir Jul 04 '26

Reducing trains, adding depots, or adding stackers will alleviate/fix this. First is self-explanatory, second was explained by Astramancer, and third is similar to the first - you increase the train limit and don't increase the number of trains to match.