Coopetition ladder available

Today I’ve finally finished the first version of a coopetition ladder system. All games and results of future coopetition games will be tracked here. The only thing you need to do now is to go to the ladder website and register so more coopetition games can be held in the future.

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Self regulating orders (SRO)

When it comes to improving station rating, often the focus is on changing or extending the network and tuning the signaling to the needs or adding additional trains to single stations while the orders of trains are often overlooked and plain default orders like “GoTo A, full load”, “GoTo B, unload” are only given. This article will show a set of more complex orders which offer a solution to comparatively easy network management while it “only” requires a usual efficient two-way track layout all the same.

The current PublicServer game #151, is a multi-region map where different regions are connected by ICE trains (or rather Shinkansens in this case) but the local s-bahn is subject to individual design.
region overview

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Asynchronous SRNW stations

In PSG 149 we went with an exclusive SRNW (Self-Regulating NetWork) construction. This technique is a bit strange at first, but has some pretty clever ideas and possibilities. Building a single platform SRNW stations isn’t all that difficult when you get the hang of it. But when it comes to multi-platform stations for high-capacity industries, things tend to get very complicated and messy because you need to carefully design it to keep the dummy trains from stealing cargo from one another. This will mostly involve complex systems involving logical gates and more.

In the picture below you can see an example of my asynchronous approach which makes for a very simple but high capacity SRNW station:

Asynchronous SRNW station from PBS 149
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