Choose signal ignored

[Junna]

At Tarton Sheep Farm, Greenley Textile Mill, and Parborough Steelworks trains do for some reason not obey the choose signals at all instead, it seems.

[jamespetts]

When you say that they do not obey choose signals, can you clarify what you mean by that?

[Junna]

Those trains at the aforementioned places in the save game previously uploaded come to the choose signals for the goods yards, but do not choose a platform at the sidings, instead they wait and cause things to get stuck, because they want to use the particular siding their schedule is marked upon; they do not "choose" one of the other available sidings.

[jamespetts]

Testing at Greenley Textile Mill, it seems that, no matter how long that the game is run, no more than one train is ever in the yard at once; is there a particular time and place when this is known to occur?

[Vladki]

Hi in other game with the current devel version I noticed that one choose signal didn't work, and I managed to fix it by moving it closer to the platforms. Savegame is here: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=14853.0

[Junna]

Parborough is the place where it happens most often, though it happens to me on all of those eventually. A train reversing in the platform, a train arriving - it tries to reserve the specific platform in use and won't chose. There's no way to move the choose signals closer either without ugly track work.

[jamespetts]

I think that I have fixed this now - do you care to retest? Thank you for the report.

[Vladki]

I think that I have fixed this now - do you care to retest? Thank you for the report.

In my game the issue with choose signal that was too far seems fixed.