Happy to have pointed out the smaller trucks option ^^ It seems the best is using decentralized storage with several warehouses per city connected by train to factories.

Every city gets a warehouse and meat storage facility connected to a road cargo station. Set filters to only allow Food, Alcohol, Clothing, and Electronics. I'll use one distribution office to fetch items from the factory storages and bring them to the city storage, and another distribution office to move the items to where they are needed in the city. It's also better to place the distribution office closer to the destination rather than closer to the storage as the trucks will only grab what is needed at the time the truck is loaded. It will cut down on the amount of trucks on the road.

I just learned that DOs adjust the percentege of cargo on the fly, I used them since they were implemented and never noticed it. I wish they would add advanced settings for cargo of each vehicle in offices, this way you could make big truch only load food, and small truck only load clothes and electronics.

Great, as always. :) I was really curious, and wanted to see how a DO would handle trucks with different advanced cargo allocations. Sadly, we cannot change that in the DO. I sent all of them to the road depot, changed their advanced setups, sent them back to the DO, and while at first it looked like the restrictions stuck between transfers, once the DO sent them out for a delivery, they just loaded whatever they wanted, completely disregarding the restrictions. Basically the first one was only allowed to haul crops, but was sent to pick up food, so it ended up with 6.5t/0t in its cargo space. Shame, would have been a great workaround.

@bballjo

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for testing that and letting us know! It would have been nice! I'll see if it's something Peter may add in the future

Dude, I've been loving these videos where you show the comparisons. It makes it so simple to understand what is happening and learn the best way to do it based on how you like playing the game. THANK YOU!

Many thanks for that. I get very frustrated when running out of something here is my solution that works for me, it is a bit on the expensive side but you don't ever have to worry about supplies to a shop. I use a road depot get a truck to collect food, deliver to the shop (road cargo station) and wait to be emptied you have enough space in the road station so there are no traffic jams or hold ups. I do the same with the meat, clothing and electronics. I found that using a distribution office no matter what settings you use, if the distance is a bit long and you have traffic sooner rather than than later you will run out of food.

Thank you. I wasn't sure about what pourcentages mean. I'm french so I'm not sure I understood everything but I'll rewatch this and take time to observe my trucs behaviour.

Now i agree with your Setup. Good Video, nothing to add. Instead of Loading stadion I like to use a tiny Storage, but its only available via mod.

An interesting guide, thanks!

@bballjo

2 жыл бұрын

Highly recommend you check the follow up guide...I said some things in this one that turned out to be false

I use a warehouse, a meat warehouse to fill 50%. Works fine! And never small shoppings

I still believe D.O is better for imports or supplying industrial needs (cement and gravel for concrete, or bitum and gravel to asphalt), but citizens needs like food meat, clothes and electronics are better with a special delivery truck, cause the consumption is so different that they will never stop moving and thats fuel wasted, that is what i believe. Love watching these tutorials and test cause i learn a lot and makes me a better player. Also i would love if you can make a tutorial about the new feature in bus stations, i don't get how it works

@bballjo

2 жыл бұрын

After the last 3 tutorial tests I think I may redo my standard logistics setup...DOs are much better than I gave them credit for, and lines still have a place. It's nice that both matter:)

@antonisauren8998

2 жыл бұрын

It just forces everyone to drop at that station and wait for an hour for another transport, like walking into station by foot.

I know that really improves efficency of DO, but I can't imagine every truck in 50-80 had a radio to change order on the go. Neat idea as something that kicks in in 90's or so, when CB Radios basically became "u must" in every TIR.

@bballjo

2 жыл бұрын

Even as a research option...

Great video as usual. No matter what I do, I can’t get my DO to work. The trucks sit there and don’t collect clothes and deliver to the store. Both are correctly allocated and the trucks are small. Goods are piling up in storage and the store has nothing. I guess I’ll try a test setup to explore what I am doing wrong.

Dunno mate i do prefer to make a storage with food, cloth and meat near each city, and do it like with your prev video, office only to diliver from factories to storage, and line for each individual good for a store. Terminal for store is essential that way but if you set to wait until unload, you get extra space that the truck provide and you dont use that much fuel. Terminal provide 4 spaces to park, you need only 3 goods, so you still got atleast 2 parking spots with the store one for additional support.

@esunisen3862

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is you need to buy many trucks that will most the time do nothing but wait. But since there are no maintenance costs, it works.

@mrofka18

2 жыл бұрын

@@esunisen3862 The time they wait they expand storage of store by thier cargo. And for bigger cities they dont move much so its lower chance for traffic jam

i put a meat storage 2 my grocery store and small warehouse its all depends on the area and people u havta service with the big grocery store

One of additional programmer(s?) in this game is my classmate from 1993/1994 school year, a former friend of mine from 25 years ago. I wrote to the main dev himself and at first I thought that the name in credits was my classmates brother, (year 1982 I think, the actual add programmer is from 1985, both are programmers btw) I asked about stuff that is hard to start / comprehend and my English isnt that great when it comes to technicalities, I sometimes run the game for the music :P (text written in Slovak had atrocious grammar I thought Id help with) I told him that there is no info on how to start, what to do, the only thing resembling it I played was Transport Tycoon when I didnt even have a computer 21 years ago. So much unexplained. I tried to tell him that he should take a look from the perspective of a person who does not know how what works. And he told me that there are people who made it to work, implying it is all good. I was thinking of replying but it seems like he knows his stuff too well to be bothered because others made it to work, I assumed my help with grammar would be unappreciated, after all Im not his inferior. My feedback was that I did not know what was not working and how to fix things. That was back in June. I wish him/them to succeed in making this game awesome, the project has many things thought through. I thought of looking up the files how what works, but then I was short on patience looking at things that did not work or how to make buses work, my guys went on foot everywhere :D. There are options but no explanations. I tried to make 2 bus stops, to ferry folks away but somehow nobody ever went there. I absolutely also had no idea how cars were supposed to work, especially when folks teleport from work, they dont go back with their car right ? I could not make an internal construct as to what was functional state or how to get there. One thing is seeing something does not work, but when it does not and you dont know why, it feels like sort of self-harm :P I did see some of your tutorials, very in-depth, been banned on steam for countering woke paraphilia with arguments and truth for year, so I cant even put a review for the game. I have to say I dislike English being pushed everywhere, I like you use your own language at least a bit. We really need actual diversity, not unification in everything and giving centralization the diversity name. Because its like Miru Mir subversion and propaganda nonstop. NATO, EU needs disbanding to promote actual diversity.

@bballjo

2 жыл бұрын

You say many words without actually saying many things...I think I got the gist of it...but I don't think there is a question in there for me that needs answered? What's your steam username?

👍

So what is it that i shoukd do in the end? Set limits on items in the destination locations to as close as possible to a full truckload? Such as 73% on food in the grocery store

@bballjo

Жыл бұрын

Set the destination limit to be low enough so that a full truck load fits within the 100% of the storage...for the source, set the limit large enough that the current storage can fill a truck/train

@markkussusa

Жыл бұрын

@@bballjo trying this now with a meat storage (75 tons) to fill from customs house. Truck still running at min load (out of 6.5 tons) attempting to top off as consumption progresses.

@markkussusa

Жыл бұрын

I set it to run at 16% of storage load in DO settings (min won't be allowed below 10%). So that should be close to 2 truckloads, about 12 tons. But after a short rest when storage was initially filled, it's back at running 4-6% loads...

@bballjo

Жыл бұрын

So, you're looking at only a small bit of the equation...what is emptying the meat?

@markkussusa

Жыл бұрын

People eating it. Fast. One grocery store on the entire town. But I don't understamd this question. At first the meat was in the store. Them i put it into the meat storage connected to the store. Still empryikg at simliar rate, and truck still running at 6% of load... Some decimals of a tonn. Will do some more testing over the upcoming weekend. Otoh, thanx to your RR explanations, I'm finally able to build usimg two constructor train sets! I manually assign segments to be built and keep it without semaphores until rail is all done.

Did you tested adv setup thing?

@bballjo

2 жыл бұрын

I recorded this a week ago, so no.

@thomaskoehler2135

2 жыл бұрын

What is ADV?

@Barten0071

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaskoehler2135 advanced cargo setup thal let you select how much material can truck pick up

@bballjo

2 жыл бұрын

@hmuda checked this, it's not working:/

I still don't understand the distribution office. I'll look for more explainer videos from you; I already went through the last one.

@bballjo

Жыл бұрын

There is a "corrected" version...make sure you watch that one.

The setup with the distribution office and the fields doesn´t work. - All fields and the distribution office have road access. - The distribution office has fuel - Fields are marked as "load" and destination buildings silos/farms as "unload" - Source Buildings 0% and destination buildings 100% - destination buildings are empty But, the covered-hull-lorries don´t start and hundreds of crops spoil by snow in november All other distribution office are doing what they suppose to do, except the ones for the fields What shall I do?

@bballjo

Жыл бұрын

If all of that is true, then you are missing a detail you aren't sharing...

So don't use lines then? just the DO?

@bballjo

11 ай бұрын

Lines have their place as well :)

JUST SHOW ME HOW TO MAKE TRUCKS DRIVE

As a novice, I find this extremely confusing... 😭😭😭

Your not really explaining how the distribution system works ingame? I am a noob and just want to know how to que jobs, didn't really help! Maybe change the thumbnail to Advanced Distribution tips?

@bballjo

Жыл бұрын

You don't que jobs in the DO at all, you'll have to actually use the tool the game gives you, and that's explained in here.

@Ryan-lx6oh

Жыл бұрын

@@bballjo Ok I will have another look, thanks man.