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.

Every added buildable uses late and very late game parts.
Every main category has a separate unlock in HUB at Tier 8.
Everything is really expensive compared to vanilla railways.

Contents:

1. Hight-speed railworks - mostly for personal usage and low amounts, long distance transport

A. Light locomotive

Gains:
- goes up to over 450km/h on straight tracks in like 5-10sec, potentially could go near 600km/h on a long straight

Costs:
- slows down on track turns, you need gentle curves for that baby
- power consumption 0,2-12GW, around 1,5-3GW on average, power storage saves your brakers if you are low on power
- won't handle heavy loads

B. Light freight cars

Gains:
- drastically reduced weight of the cars themselves
- reduced weight of the load
- reduced friction

Costs:
- reduced max load from 32 to 24 slots

2. Heavy railworks - mostly for automation and the personal build train stacked with resources

A. Heavy locomotive

Gains:
- handles very heavy loads, one locomotive is completely fine hauling the equivalent of 36 fully loaded normal cars
- good acceleration even under heavy load
- max speed improved to 160km/h

Costs:
- power consumption 0,5-3GW
- always watches you (might be a gain if you are into it)

B. Heavy freight cars

Gains:
- increased inventory size from 32 to 160 slots

Costs:
- own mass increased 4 times

C. Heavy (fluid) freight platform

Gains:
- inventory size increased from 48 to 320 slots, fluid capacity from 2400m3 to 16000m3

Costs:
- operational (while loading/unloading) power consumption 600MW up from 50

3. Gravity assisted railworks

A. Gravity assisted railway

Gains:
- tracks can be put up on 45 degree slope

Costs: </br>- tracks can bend only half as much as the vanilla ones

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