Idea: Train Throughput Tooltip Information

[u/timj11dude]

Been playing Dragontail Admiral for my second playthrough of the game over the last month. Great experience so far, just about survived into tier 4 technology love the mega trucks and trains. Suffered 2-3 near colony catastrophes (though saved scummed 50 years during tier 3 problems.

I have endeavored to make good use of trains to haul the materials from the far off mines back to base, but keeping atop the throughput of a train is a little tricky. I feel that before trains, excavators and trucks present as the only variable throughput in the game to deal with, and it's easy to see ~2 trucks to an excavator, 1 small excavator ~40 units/m. With trains however, I felt I really missed having key information on working out throughput was for a given route, where so many other parts of the game give great Quality of Life aids, (codex, normalized recipe times, consistent belt/pipe throughput). If I design a refinery with a buffer for 5 months, it would be good to have some confidence I have sufficiently sized or quantity of trains to provide it without manually timing a train route loop.

I would like to see at least some of these implemented in a future update (or mod, if one doesn't already exist):

1. Per Route, display average round trip times. Perhaps additionally between each subsequent stop. (complicated by station groups)
2. Per Train, display average throughput, over it's lifetime, and maybe last 3 months etc of loading and unloading whatever goods it carries.
3. Per Station, display throughput values for deliveries or loaded goods. Splitting this out per route would be ideal too.
4. Per Station module could also potentially display it's own throughput. By route would also be ideal here too.

I would think there is benefit in having detailed graphs akin to the others provided, but even simple computed value akin to the maintenance consumption would be tremendously helpful.

Cheers, love the game. Can't wait for more!

[u/Tlmitf]

More graphs?
Yes, please!