variable route tile weight

May 03, 2009, 08:15:52 pm

As an alternative to set waypoints in the Line's schedule as a way to force a convoy to pick a certain route/track/road it might be a good idea to add variable weights to tiles.

As I understand a convoy take the shortest distance when it looks for the route to take to the target. If I then can change a piece of track or road to look as 10 km instead of 1 km I can trick my convoy to not take the shortest route.

When using waypoints you "force" vehicles to go there.

When using variable weights on tracks/roads you can instead force unwanted vehicles to avoid that piece of track/road.

You can find the same thinking when you set up routes in internet protocol routers.

best regards
Anders

Re: variable route tile weight

Reply #1 – May 03, 2009, 09:03:13 pm

Actually the maximum speed is taken into account. The problem is that curves have quite an impact and as such the alternative strech must be considerably faster. A high speed train will use faster side track over 120kmh normal track when they are longer than roughly 50 tiles.