can't get any cargo if too many competitors.

[Steven]

I have been playing TT for years but yesterday discovered something I had never noticed before;
It is possible to have vehicles trying to pick up cargo
from a station in range of the industry but not even have a rating because
a lot of the cargo is already being transported.
I have attached the save game if this does not make sense.

p.s. I am runnind TTD for windows, with patch 1.8.1

[Arathorn]

There is always some of the cargo transported to the stations in range.
So if you put your vehicles on load then it should work.

[Steven]

for some reason I can't take screenshots of tt at the moment. But if you
download the game and let it run you will see a truck on full load for over
a year at a station clearly in range of the coal mine.

[Hyronymus]

Is it really so strange? Here is how TTD spreads production over stations:

1st station receives all
2nd station receives one-third, leaving two-third for stat.#1
3rd station receives one-sixth, leaving two-sixth for stat.#2 and three-
sixth for stat#1
4th station receives one-twelfth etc.
At a certain point there is no more pie to share

[Steven]

Well there are only three stations operating at 70%, 70%, and 80%.
and the coal mine produces 480, with 64% transported. These numbers
seem a little low for mine to recieve absolutly nothing.

[Robert Raymond]

I think I've seen this before. Had a steel-mill that was hotly contested (input and output) between myself and two other companies. Eventually I put in a second train station to take steel out. No matter what I did, I could never get the game to recognize me as a shipper. The station would not list steel in my loads to be picked up there.

I checked to make sure I did not have wood cars attached. I pulled up the station and replaced it. I took up the station, waited until it's grey placement box had faded, and put in a new one in a different place. No matter what I did, I could not get the new station to recognize steel as the out-shipment.

Eventually, I just tossed out the whole idea and went on to other markets. Figured it for a bug.

[Rob]

If you have the money for it, buy exclusif transport rights for a year. That would generate enough coal to your station to start a good transport.