xarick wrote: ↑03 Nov 2017 19:47
Changes the way cargo amounts appear on multiple stations, and the way cargo is received by multiple industries accepting that same cargo type.
For stations, instead of spliting the load between the two highest rating stations for that cargo, it splits to all nearby stations, while still considering station rating from highest to lowest. The higher the rating, the more it receives.
For industries, instead of the first nearby industry accepting the cargo, the amount is distributed piece by piece, at random, to any accepting industries within the station catchment area.
The way I handled the delivery problem in my patch is to set every station, apart from bus staions, to a 1 tile radius. A cargo station tile needs to be in direct contact with an industry to handle incoming and outgoing cargo. There's no reason to serve stations that are not in direct contact with an industry. Place a (train) station tile against an industry and you can always link a truck or rail station or dock with it if you want to have some distance. Deliveries can be made to different station tiles placed in a row for instance (station1-station2-station3).
As far as I see, the core of the problem is the unbalanced distribution of cargo and the push based economy. Because of that I set cargo distribution to manual to evenly distribute cargo as I see fit, but it would be better if consumers (industries) created cargo packet requests at available source industries to maka a demand based economy, something I plan to look into when I solve the major bug in my realtime patch.
Another method is to set the final destination of a cargo packet to a specific industry instead of a station. For that you'd need to make a virtual link between indusstry and station. I prefer to use the reverse feeder station method though and distribute everything from a single station with trucks to various industries.
For example:
In my test game, incoming cargo is delivered to the north station and distributed by truck to industries while outgoing cargo is handled by the south station.
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