I've been trying for two days to figure out to change the direction cars leave the station. I have a coaster that is built, but the station got deleted before the coaster was finished and now when I place a new station the cars are going the wrong way. How do you change which direction the cars leave the station after a coaster is built?
Change direction cars leave station
- Thread starter SilentEagle1
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I've deleted the station many times and started it from both ends of the coaster (from where it would leave and from where it would arrive). I've done everything I can think of, besides the deleting the coaster and starting over, and it still points the cars in the wrong direction. Is there no option to select to just tell it which direction it should go? Just so frustrating after building a coaster and the station wants to send cars the wrong way.
Too bad the Beta forum is gone as we had the solution there. Tcczj is correct, though you have to give yourself room to make it work. Don't just delete the station - delete the station and a couple sections of track leading up to it and one section after it. Then start building from the end of the line, place your station, and hit auto-complete to fill in the last piece between the station and your lift hill (or whatever).
Thanks for your replays, but nothing seems to be working to reverse the direction. So, I just deleted the coaster and started over. Seems like there would be an option to just tell it which way the cars should go. Thanks for your help anyways. I just be careful next time and not delete the station.
Here are the steps for the "change monorail direction" from the beta forum that will also help with any situation where you build an entire circuit and somehow got the station going the wrong way.
1. In the first picture, there is a completed circuit with the monorail running counter-clockwise:
2. Destroy the station and use auto-complete to build a stationless complete circuit:
3. In this example, we want the station to run clockwise instead, so we next destroy enough track to give some room to build the new station but not yet connect to the rest of the track:
4. After building the station, use auto-complete and enjoy. The trains now run clockwise:
Original credit goes to Jcontardo who described this in words in a bug post. This is an illustration of the workaround that has worked for me every time for coasters, monorails, whatever.
1. In the first picture, there is a completed circuit with the monorail running counter-clockwise:
2. Destroy the station and use auto-complete to build a stationless complete circuit:
3. In this example, we want the station to run clockwise instead, so we next destroy enough track to give some room to build the new station but not yet connect to the rest of the track:
4. After building the station, use auto-complete and enjoy. The trains now run clockwise:
Original credit goes to Jcontardo who described this in words in a bug post. This is an illustration of the workaround that has worked for me every time for coasters, monorails, whatever.
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