Town/Town House Cargo Acceptance

[Zutty]

Hi all,

More cargo based questions for you. How are people handling cargos like Gasoline in ECS Vectors?

I can find whether a cargo is produced in towns with AITown.GetMaxProduction() and I can find a sub-set of cargos accepted in towns with AICargo.GetTownEffect().

Something like the following...

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foreach(c, _ in AICargoList()) {
	local lbl = AICargo.GetCargoLabel(c);

	if(AICargo.GetTownEffect(c) != AICargo.TE_NONE) AILog.Info(lbl + " accepted in towns");
		
	local townprod = 0;
	foreach(t, _ in AITownList()) {
		townprod += AITown.GetMaxProduction(t, c);
	}
	if(townprod > 0) AILog.Info(lbl + " produced in towns");
}

However this does not capture the fact that Gasoline is accepted at petrol statons. If I'm not mistaken ECS allows town houses to accept or produce any cargo, just like industries. At the moment as far as I can tell an AI has no way to deal with this. Are there any plans to address this? Or am Im missing something?

Also may I ask what is meant by freight in the context of AICargo.IsFreight()? What does true from this function imply in practical terms?

Thanks

[Yexo]

Also may I ask what is meant by freight in the context of AICargo.IsFreight()? What does true from this function imply in practical terms?

The information I gave above was based on a wrong assumption. Frosch was so kind to correct me. The correct information is:

When IsFreight returns true for a cargo than the "freight train multiplier" applied to it. To determine whether you'll need a bus or a truck stop, see if the cargo is in the passenger cargo class.

[Zutty]

Thanks for the reply Yexo.

Humans CAN query tiles with the land area information tool, but I have no idea how this could be used in an API function.

[Yexo]

Thanks for the reply Yexo.

Humans CAN query tiles with the land area information tool, but I have no idea how this could be used in an API function.

If you don't mind to query per tile, you can use AITile.GetCargoAcceptance and AITile.GetCargoProduction with width=1 and height=1.