#Automatic self selecting repair request stations
gleaming spindle
so i seen people using like 1 inserter to load a specific load into a train was pretty cool lol
open viper
It may need to go in the questions tab
gleaming spindle
all from one chest
open viper
all from one chest
You can do that, even with what I've suggested, relatively easily
gleaming spindle
darn all the messages are in the other chat lol
i need a second monitor lol
ok lets get going step 1 im at a station lol
open viper
ok lets get going step 1 im at a station lol
Give me like an hour then I can get set-up too, do it with you so it's a little easier
nova estuary
are you trying to fill up with what is needed for a specific station, or generically load the train with specific amounts?
ie always stock 5 stacks of bullets, a stack of repair packs, ..., before heading out
open viper
It's gonna be if the outpost needs ammo, the train fills up with a certain amount of ammo, but if it needs bots than bots, or both
nova estuary
ah, so you lock in one station at a time
the actual loading of the train is the easy part then 🦆
open viper
essentially, although it will only load what is on demand
nova estuary
yeah, that's pretty easy
the harder part will be figuring out which station will be the one chosen
open viper
Well ideally it will just work on train limits, and since its only going when called it should be rare having multiple needed, so hopefully we can just cheat it and not need to worry about it going to the wrong station with the wrong items, although if it was to happen it wouldn't unload unless it is needed anyway
nova estuary
sending the train to the station will be a train limit - what happens if three stations need items?
I do know of a way to do it, if you need help with either portion
open viper
If three need items then the train will fill with resources that are requested but its really only rng if it picks the stations that wants what it has
nova estuary
so it could grab an entire wagon of bullets for a station that doesn't need any bullets
ideally you'll want to pick one station at a time to service
or have a set stock in the wagon
open viper
Not an entire wagon, just a set number
So it could have 500 repair packs and 200 bullets
open viper
ideally you'll want to pick one station at a time to service
The only issue with one station is then determining its request and seperating it from the other ones
nova estuary
yes, which is possible
open viper
How would you suggest that?
nova estuary
only broadcast requests when no other station is broadcasting requests
if there are multiple stations - they will end up all claiming the slot at once
you can use a system of IDs to choose one of them (<2.0, pain to set up, have to select an unique ID for each station)
or you can use selector randomizers to just randomize when a station will try to claim the current requesting slot
open viper
Interesting, then if its broadcasting you could also make it set the train limit to 1 while the others stay 0
nova estuary
yes
and once a train is on the way, stop being the requesting station
and let another station take over requests
also, example of an exact loading station
i set in the constant combinator how many stacks of each item i wanted
pretty sure the selectors can be omitted and use anything in the closer decider as output