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nikkione · Post by **nikkione** » 04 Dec 2004 19:50

This may seem like a silly question but how on earth and were do i unload goods too. I have a goods truck but its just driving round with the goods in ive tired all sorts of stops etc to unload but none of them are taking it. all help is greatly appreciated. thanks

Shifty Powers · Post by **Shifty Powers** » 04 Dec 2004 20:28

You can unload the goods at city's, but the people have to accept it, when you builded a station check the middle tab for the goods-picture below. If it stands there, the station accepts goods.

nikkione · Post by **nikkione** » 04 Dec 2004 21:15

ah that make sense lol thanks so much for your help

Shifty Powers · Post by **Shifty Powers** » 04 Dec 2004 21:23

nikkione wrote:ah that make sense lol thanks so much for your help

No problem, newby's always need help, better tell it then hear theme bother

coreynewt · Post by **coreynewt** » 23 Jan 2005 08:23

how large does a city have to be to accept the goods (or how many people in the stations radius)? Ratings will plummet if you don't deliver goods when an industry is creating them, so what do I do with them?

Shifty Powers · Post by **Shifty Powers** » 23 Jan 2005 09:10

coreynewt wrote:how large does a city have to be to accept the goods (or how many people in the stations radius)? Ratings will plummet if you don't deliver goods when an industry is creating them, so what do I do with them?

It doesn't matter how large a city has to be, or how many people in the stations radius, all you need to have is that the people in the city has to accept goods. It sometimes happens that they refuse to accept the goods when you allready build the railway and had some transport profits. So the best way to transport goods (as I always do) is in a later time, like the year of 1980, then I always start transporting goods, not before cause it happens a lot that the city's refuses to accept the goods when I allready builded the railwayline.

chevyrider · Post by **chevyrider** » 23 Jan 2005 10:24

A city will accept goods when enough large buildings are around your station.
When you hoover your mousepointer over a building then it says what it delivers or accepts.
When a flat says 1\4 goods, Then you need 4 of those building before a station accepts goods.
You can place temporarelly some tracks beside your station into to town and put a platform on it.(Best is to remove 3 tiles of road left or right.
This can catch a large building into the influence area.
The fastest way to let a town grow is to lay a tram track in it.

Severous · Post by **Severous** » 23 Jan 2005 18:23

Hi

We have been having a little challenge on another fan site on just this topic...how to make a town grow quickly so you have a market for goods (and food and mail).

As Chevyrider says you need big building types. You dont usually have these in a town that has less than 500 people. Upto then the town builds houses or cottages.

You need multiple vehicles making stops in the town for rapid growth...that and a 3x3 city blocks (no larger). Planting trees until your local authority rating hits 100% is a hunch I have that seems to help. I reckon you could make almost any town grow to acept goods within 10 years.

This took ten years from 1925 to 1935 to grow from 580 to 22,083

coreynewt · Post by **coreynewt** » 24 Jan 2005 01:06

thanks for the tips, but there is one thing everyone forgot to add. What do I do with all the goods I can't deliver that just drag my rating down?

Steve White · Post by **Steve White** » 24 Jan 2005 04:16

Well, you can make money by servicing the town before you make goods to worry about. Once the town is large enough you will have a steady income, and a city that will accept goods, food, mail, etc.

Severous · Post by **Severous** » 24 Jan 2005 19:36

coreynewt wrote:...What do I do with all the goods I can't deliver that just drag my rating down?

Dont bother trying to do anything.

The uncollectted goods will stockpile a while at your station. Uncollected they will drag down your station rating for hauling goods. But there is no downside to this. Because of your low goods rating fewer goods will be allocated to your station in future and your initial stockpile of goods will waste away.

Uncollectted goods will not obviously harm your town rating. I played oil oasis scenario a couple of times this weekend and delivered 50,000 oil to one refinery. Carted none of the resulting goods away. Just let them waste away while I concentrated on the oil target. I was watching the town rating..it went up if anything due to the oil service.

ladyceres · Post by **ladyceres** » 08 Feb 2005 13:15

My goods don't seem to stockpile. I've left the mouse hovered over the station info and when the factory receives what it needs it will say "2 tons of goods awaiting" and then they disappear fairly quickly. Is this a glitch? I haven't noticed the same pattern with things like coal or iron ore...they build up pretty rapidly and will keep collecting till I am able to move them.

chevyrider · Post by **chevyrider** » 08 Feb 2005 13:27

When you haven't a train or so full loading at the factory, the goods disappear after a while.
Look at the green bar at your goodsstation.
For everyday loading there, it will produce 1 % more goods after delivering some tons of steel or chemicals.

Severous · Post by **Severous** » 08 Feb 2005 19:17

Ladyceres

What is the Goods % rating for that station ?

My bet is you have not set up any goods pick up services there and your rating is around 16%. It wont go much lower.

Say its a refinery. An oil train with 240 Oil arrives. 240 Goods are created. Assuming yours is the only station there will be a little goods arrive for you but it will dissappear quickly.

Do as Chevyrider says. Set a train to 'full load' of goods. Gradually it will fill up as new oil is delivered and is converted to goods. But also more importantly the station Goods rating will go up. After a month of waiting the rating will be around 50%. It will keep going up to 82% or more as long as a train is waiting. By then you will see serious amounts of goods arriving. Any uncollected goods will stockpile. But only for a while. If uncollected stockpile is too high it will drag station rating down again and goods will waste away again.

Good luck

Menno · Post by **Menno** » 08 Feb 2005 22:02

.. and this way, the situation stabilizes, the industry in fact adapts to the transport

ladyceres · Post by **ladyceres** » 09 Feb 2005 00:45

Severous, I will have to try that. I am not getting as much playing time as I would like and I feel like I'm coming into these finer details very slowly!

ETA: When will other stations start accepting food/goods? It seems like it takes a long time! I put a new station in my biggest town (hopefully a city soon) and it still only accepts passengers.

d00mh4mm3r · Post by **d00mh4mm3r** » 25 Feb 2005 10:34

Lady... just wait awile, hell to speed things up, ffwd but make shore u have a tram network, ive gotton vountry towns with just 6 buildings, to have huge populations and with the added bonus of my 8 way trainstation be right in the middle, with 2 tracks going right through the city... im making a city loop, just need funds now lol...

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