Locomotive's

Comments: 19

• 02 Jan
  certainOrder

  Trains literally make everything better.

• 11 Jan
  DeznekCZ

  The rails May be done likes a trasportation belt while construction.
  The station will then creator wagons automatized trains will take them bertween them.
  
  Rails piece: 2 steel Beam, 10 concrete, 10 gravel
  Station: depends on type, fluid/solid/loose loader
  
  
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• 11 Jan
  Dredd

  Maybe narrow-gauge railway ? normal railway could be to big for such small islands, unless islands could be bigger :D

• 31 Jan
  UberBlue

  Only if they are Hover trains that don't need tracks. Land already too messy with all the pipes and conveyors.

• 03 Jun
  Pandaroc

  The maps are way too small for trains. For what would it be useful gameplay wise. Nothing

• 05 Jun
  KEVIN

  While I understand the excitement in general around trains, I don't think it makes sense for the map scale in this game. For a game like Factorio with huge maps and super long distances and extreme scale, totally makes sense.
  
  I think the game already provides enough options to transmit material in bulk and to scale it up as you progress to later game.

• 07 Jun
  Eric

  Not a fan of trains as they would be grid based as in anno (I assume), though I do enjoy them quiet a lot, even when the rails look cringe as.
  If I had to choose transport I would go for cargo airships as they are exactly the same as trucks (saves programming) and can go over blocked paths like buildings, mountains and the likes.

• 09 Jun
  Mike Crosley

  I think they meant "Locomotives" with no apostrophe unless he is suggesting things that would belong to locomotives.

• 10 Jun
  rolar

  Trains are trains. In a game where you need to move loads from point A to point B, there just have to be trains. Not necessarily full-size and not necessarily very practical.
  Although it would be good to replace a bunch of trucks with one train on permanent routes.

• 23 Jun
  Pat

  I like trains but the maps would need to be larger, really no need atm

• 26 Jun
  Onur

  I would like to have train too into the game and each vagon could carry fluid, solid or loose.

• 26 Jun
  BluetoothThePirate

  Narrow-gauge industrial railroads would be nice to have, the kind that serve real-life factories and mines. They could move a lot of material and can be small enough that they could run through a one-height gap, meaning you could run them under vehicle bridges and the tracks could be the same size as current transports.

• 27 Jun
  Angrytreefrog

  I don't think Trains would be useful because of the distances and some people are saying make them like transports but the currents transports do a good job moving stuff already. Unless maps are being seriously considered to be sized up I don't think this would be helpful.

• 29 Jun
  Sindraco

  Minecarts could transport loose products
  
  Maintenance free and constructing rail is cheaper than kilometers of belts

• 30 Jun
  Sverre Brubæk

  Instead of trains how about a system like FOUP. I.e. pods. There is a need to make some sort of shared transport that will not jam as a bus of belts become rather unmanageable quick, and as they are first in first out they jam with mixed goods unless managed very carefully. A pod network wit compact loading and unloading stations could serve as such a shared transport without looking either too big or out of place, and in the endgame we are essentially making an outdoor waferfab so why not a FOUP in time for that?

• 04 Jul
  Mark

  Trains are neat, but above comments describe, there is no practical use for trains in this game that i can see.

• 07 Jul
  Captain Zuff Admin

  "Trains" (suggested by Robert on 2022-07-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 08 Jul
  Darkaiser

  While I agree that the scale is not big enough for full-sized locomotives, smaller (narrow-gauge) rails have been used a LOT in manufacturing. The Empire State Building had one on EACH floor to move materials around faster. I could see a real place for this as a replacement for longer truck routes and long belts. I don't think that liquids and gasses should be an option though...just Loose materials and the stuff that goes on Flat Belts.
  
  The lower tier would be coal/water while the higher one could be electric (cost more to build but less Maint. to operate maybe?).

• 12 Jul
  Ochiniwa

  I am actually not so much in favor of trains as this would fundamentally change the game. Everything can be done with trucks and bets currently. Trains would make it a different game and the maps are actually quite small for this. my 50 cents