Train station works for me but not others

[Epic Lurker 108]

Hey guys, I recently updated my Amsterdam Central Station and now I'm getting complaints I can't reproduce so I'm looking for help. The station has always had the problem that the platforms were longer than the maximum lenght of train station track segments, which seems to be 200m. If you make train station track segments too long, you get cannot find path errors when you try to place stops at the station. My train station track segments are just short of 200m, which means the are recessed a little bit into the station but once you connect outside tracks it looks fine. And it works for me. 
But I'm getting a pretty steady stream of comments saying they can't create lines, which is what happens when the station track is too long.

What gives? Is max station track length somehow affected by some combination of DLC or mods? One guy sent me his list of mods and I can't get my station to fail even with his mods.

Also, if any of you could test my station and report if you can place stops or not, that would be great.
 

[Clus 24]

Hey ! 

I'll give it a try later in the evening.

But one question .... did you test the station as a local asset or did you test the already uploaded version. The reason I am asking is, that I encountered different pathfinding behaviors/issues between local and uploaded assets. Something that worked perfectly with the local not uploaded asset, wasn't working anymore after the upload to steam.

 

[Epic Lurker 108]

Good question. I was using the workshop version.

[Clus 24]

So ... at the first try it wasn't working...don't now why. But after I reloaded the save, everything worked as intended. I've attached the proof below ...

[Epic Lurker 108]

Thanks for running this test! So you are saying at first you couldn't place stops, then you saved and reloaded the game, and then you could?

[Clus 24]

Just reloading the same savegame again... no saving before.

In the time between I tried to shorten the station tracks in the asset editor to run another try with different track lengths (cause I thought that it might have something to do with the 25u long tracks), but the game didn't let me save the station after reworking it....so I gave it another try with the same save and then it worked as it should be ...

So... I have no clue why it didn't at the first try. But as we all know, sometimes the game does weird things  ... especially when you run a game with some mods.

[Epic Lurker 108]

Aha I think I've got it figured out! My station tracks are so close to the limit that building works or doesn't work depending on the orientation of the building. At some headings, it won't place stops. This never occurred to me until now. It will problably work for all orientations if I make the tracks a little shorter...

[Clus 24]

Never thought about that ... But it's great that you've found a possible explanation and solution for it. .:)

[Epic Lurker 108]

Train station fixed! Also fixed the issue where the asset wouldn't save by deleting and replacing some of the sub-buildings. I guess if you load and save the same asset to often the telomeres get too short or something.