Trainsition

There was a land beyond the light, and from the light a hope has come. The people prayed and blessed they were, as no train came late and speed was free.

Not that free though.

Very late game trying-not-to-cheat mod - high gains, high costs railways.
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Every added buildable uses late and very late game parts.
<br>Every main category has a separate unlock in HUB at Tier 8.
<br>Everything is really expensive compared to vanilla railways.
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Contents:
<p>1. Hight-speed railworks - mostly for personal usage and low amounts, long distance transport
<br> <p>A. Light locomotive
<p>Gains: <br> - goes up to over 450km/h on straight tracks in like 5-10sec, potentially could go near 600km/h on a long straight </p>
<p>Costs: <br> - slows down on track turns, you need gentle curves for that baby <br>- power consumption 0,2-12GW, around 1,5-3GW on average, power storage saves your brakers if you are low on power <br>- won't handle heavy loads </p></p>
<br><p>B. Light freight cars
<p> Gains:
<br> - drastically reduced weight of the cars themselves
<br> - reduced weight of the load
<br> - reduced friction</p>
<p> Costs:
<br> - reduced max load from 32 to 24 slots </p></p>
<br><p> 2. Heavy railworks - mostly for automation and the personal build train stacked with resources
<p>A. Heavy locomotive
<p>Gains:
<br>- handles very heavy loads, one locomotive is completely fine hauling the equivalent of 36 fully loaded normal cars
<br>- good acceleration even under heavy load
<br>- max speed improved to 160km/h </p>
<p>Costs:
<br> - power consumption 0,5-3GW
<br> - always watches you (might be a gain if you are into it)</p></p>
<br><p> B. Heavy freight cars
<p>Gains:
<br>- increased inventory size from 32 to 160 slots</p>
<p>Costs:
<br>- own mass increased 4 times</p>
<br><p> C. Heavy (fluid) freight platform
<p> Gains:
<br>- inventory size increased from 48 to 320 slots, fluid capacity from 2400m3 to 16000m3</p>
<p>Costs:
<br>- operational (while loading/unloading) power consumption 600MW up from 50 </p> </p>
<br> <p>3. Gravity assisted railworks
<br><p> A. Gravity assisted railway
<p>Gains:
<br>- tracks can be put up on 45 degree slope </p>
<p>Costs:
</br>- tracks can bend only half as much as the vanilla ones</p></p></p>

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It's a work in progress, haven't been tested thoroughly, esp. with the automation, so the feedback is welcome (ping me on Sati mod discord or send me a mail pigeon).

Stuff I wanna do but need to learn first / work harder / pray more vigorously:
- custom models for trains (never modeled in 3d so that's like fuuuuture)
- make heavy freight station into 2 stations, loading and unloading one, both with 4 inputs/outputs respectively (should be easy)
- reduce vertical bending on Gravitracks, with the current allowed angle they look completely stupid when bent at max curve (couldn't find the property controlling that)
- custom horns (I was warned it's harder than it seems)
- setting tracks on fire after heavy loco (I just came up with that now)
- sun going black and demons wailing (hugs and kisses)
- ah right, the reason I actually started working on this mod - derailing at high speeds and on the end of the tracks (gotta go deeper into C++ for that though)

I hope the mod turns to be enjoyable for you guys, it sure is for me and my therapist told me that's all that matters xoxo