[Suggestion]: train integration

[Coox1e]

What is your suggestion?

I would really like to see tiered train wheels which allow for faster trains as you progress in technology levels. it would also be cool if trains could be powered by gregtech electricity as well as their usual fuel through overhead wires and connectors

[Coox1e]

potentially the wheels tier increases the max speed and the controls tier increases the acceleration at the cost of more fuel/power

[Chubbachoo]

Trains in vanilla Create don't consume fuel. This was added by Steam & Rails iirc

[Coox1e]

in base create trains will consume fuel from inventories which increases their speed to 40m/s from 28m/s. https://create.fandom.com/wiki/Train

[Electrolyte220]

I would like to extend this to using GT fluids (like diesel, CB diesel, etc), & also electric trains that use EU either from third rail or batteries directly on the train it can drain from.

[Chubbachoo]

Oh, I thought it just meant fluid fuel. I was not aware of that behavior

[Pyritie]

batteries would be preferred if possible, it would keep all the steam n rails rail variants intact and potentially allow for EU transportation as well

[Coox1e]

oh hey pyritie ^^

I think integration with overhead wires would look cool visually but if it impacts mod compatibility I'd be fine without it

[Coox1e]

what I'm thinking is having a pantograph block (certain materials handle certain voltages) that becomes part of the train mechanism and then just like 1x wires over the top of the rail at a consistent height, might not work perfectly for verticals but it's simple and cool

[Coox1e]

I've spoken to my train friends and they say the main issue with create trains is that they lose a lot of speed on the turns, because create rails can only turn over a couple of blocks. for the existing max speed of 144m/s the turning radius would need to be 800m. "standard HSR turning radius is 7000m, and at the current speeds of 144, 800..."
faster trains would probably need to address this in some way, I've thought of a few solutions.

preferably, some way of creating larger turns, additionally without having to tediously map out and dig out an exact curve. one way you could do this is with some kind of track layer mechanism for the front of trains, where you can set a destination and direction and it slowly moves forward (perhaps with mechanical drills in front of it) and places an exact curve to get to that destination facing that direction. that's rather complicated to implement however, so a second idea could just be having two rails from far away create a particle trail of where theyd need to be placed that stays visible until you click them again, and then you can mine the blocks along the particle trail to allow for rail placement.

otherwise, you could disobey the laws of physics for the sake of easier gameplay, adding either higher tiers of rail, perhaps with titanium rails and reinforced concrete sleepers, that allow for tighter turns at speed, or adding those tighter turn capabilities to higher tier wheels.

just some ideas, I don't expect anything to come of them but feel free to take inspiration if you consider this a problem worth the effort to solve