power station coal reserves rule

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nahgallaco

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Is there a Rule which will hold a train at the entrance to a power station until stocks fall to a set quantity?
I have tried the Resource Check Rule but it seems to do the opposite of what I would like to happen in that it checks the train/s approaching and not the stock at the power station - or am I not using the Rule correctly?
Thanks
Stuart.
 
Stuard, not that i know of. but you can give the driver these commands (drive to trackmark wait(time) drive to power station/unload.)
Set time to how long it take for power station to need more coal.
Danny5
 
What version trains you have?
I used the Resource Check rule pretty much as described by you, and it worked fine. Have the train schedule end completly just before the industry, when the rule is met, the schedule provided in the rule will fire
 
Thanks for the suggestions.

I did try timing the use of coal at the power station but I have several trains running AI and sometimes the coal trains get delayed or manage to beat the expresses so they end up either arriving at the power station before the coal is used and leave with half full wagons or arrive too late to keep the fires burning.

As for the Resource Check Rule, my coal trains run a repeating schedule avoiding express trains on part of the same track so I haven't tried your suggestion as yet Accipiter777.
Maybe I am expecting too much and should just run them off into a Portal and start new consists at the mine.

I was hoping that someone might be able to introduce a rule which allows a train to enter the power station when the stockpile reached a pre-determined level. Some sort of Trigger perhaps?
 
I sem to remember in 04 there was a way but I dont think anyone ever figured out how to make it work more than once.
sorry.

Roy
 
nahgallaco said:
Thanks for the suggestions.

I did try timing the use of coal at the power station but I have several trains running AI and sometimes the coal trains get delayed or manage to beat the expresses so they end up either arriving at the power station before the coal is used and leave with half full wagons or arrive too late to keep the fires burning.

As for the Resource Check Rule, my coal trains run a repeating schedule avoiding express trains on part of the same track so I haven't tried your suggestion as yet Accipiter777.
Maybe I am expecting too much and should just run them off into a Portal and start new consists at the mine.

I was hoping that someone might be able to introduce a rule which allows a train to enter the power station when the stockpile reached a pre-determined level. Some sort of Trigger perhaps?
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Yes I would like a rule like that. It could be used at a number of places like the airport, seaport, etc.
 
Hi

I use the SCS2006 rule (available on the DLS) for writing scenarios and this problem can be solved by using that rule. One of the commands allows you to load the current queue size for an industry into a variable which can then be checked against a second variable which has been pre-set to the level that will trigger the unloading action. The code would loop around every 10 seconds or so checking the queue size until the first variable fell below the value of the second variable. This would cause the scenario to exit the loop and continue with the rest of its commands.

It may not be what you are looking for but it shows that it should be possible for someone with scripting knowledge to produce the sort of thing that you are asking for.

Regards

Brian
 
I have looked at the Multiple Resource Check Rule which seems to set up what I want but I don't know how to get the trains to take any notice of it.

The SCS2006 looks to be beyond my capabilities at this time as I haven't been able to understand the manual yet.
 
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