I am encountering a strange scenario, I am not sure if it is a bug or feature 🙂

I have a factory that produces goods from wood and nearby there is a freight rail station and a truck station. I did this in order to transport goods using truck in a nearby city and to transport goods by train to a far city.

But all goods that are produces by the factory are sent only to truck station. They are sent also to freight station but only first time train arrives in the station. Second time, no goods are sent to freight station to load them in train. Is there an explanation behind this behavior?

I also encounter another strange situation, only 3 factories on the entire map are producing something even if I have at least 3 big cities. What can I do more, to trigger more industries to produce? I am close to year 2300 and I am almost broke 🙂

Thank you.

Factories (the ones that produce goods) only expand if they are both recieving and delivering cargo, so in order to achieve factory growth you need to deliver cargo to them and then deliver what they produce to a city. Watch the city demand for goods. Start by only having one line delivering goods from a factory to a city, and when production won’t incrase no more, add another line to another city, and make sure that city has demand for it too. Also check the factorys demands.. need more resources? or need to deliver more goods?

Good luck to you! 🙂

Reagarding factories, I understood that I need to deliver raw materials (ore, oil, coal, wood) in order to produce goods. But, for example, when a coal mine starts to produce something? I have one near a relatively big city and it didn’t produced nothing in 200 years… I want to understand what I need to do in order for the industries to produce raw materials (ore, oil, coal, wood).

Boost Penrith industry by bus lines. When factories upgrade they presumably demand more goods. When more goods are demanded by these factories, presumably more raw resources are demanded. Only then will you see coal mine actually start producing anything.

1. use for cargo. Never use for passengers

2. used by cars. Never use for trains

3. use for pickup at mine/forest/factory. Never use car pick up at cargo train station.

4. Make sure that a building production capacity is 3x more than your single truck capacity. If not the line would devolve and stop.

5. Only one command “Full load” could be used per line. Only the first station in the line should be set to full load. e.g. In the line set “forest-saw-city” then full load would be on the forest. In case of two separate lines 1: forest-saw 2:saw-city. The “full load” could be set at forest and saw.

Keep in mind : “full load” caps your frequency. Therefore setting full load could lower the frequency. If complete delivery chain is close to 20 minute limit,  lowering partial frequency cause the whole delivery chain goes over the limit and stops.

Full load help in case you are safely in 20 minute rule. You deliver huge amount of cargo. You need efficient delivery. Typical usage : Feeding train station by cars from a mine on the hill. Deliver goods from factory thru the crowded city center.

In this game, you don’t pay for fuel. The vehicle maintenace costs the same if the vehicle is going empty back and forth or if vehicle is waiting in the station for full load.

So if you have a vehicle, just keep it going back and forth half empty, and if it’s empty all the time and if frequency of other vehicles on the line is sufficient, just sell it.

Another disadvantage of waiting for full load is vehicle desynchronisation. If you have normal station waiting times for every vehicle, they are better spaced out than vehicles waiting for full load because production varies and in turn makes vehicle waiting times variable too.

Until/if developers come up with some sort of fuel costs, or other realistic shortcome of “any load” against “full load”, it is completely unnecessary to ever use that command for vehicles.