Your Thoughts on My First FIRS in UKRS2

[sir_schwick]

I am curious how you, the community would precede with this game I am currently playing. The basics are FIRS 0.6.4, UKRS2, eGRVTS, and some other fun temperate GRFs. Also freight trains are at 5x weight. Started in 1930 at that sweet OilWell->Refinery->MachineShop location now known as Longbottom.

More details about operations later, but some general questions based on the game:

1) On the Livestock Run from Escher Heights to Houston Meta Packing, could I use something cheaper to run than the Austerity but still achieve the same throughput? It seems the main limiting factor is the max speed of the livestock cars.

2) With the EE Shunter available, should I contemplate replacing a lot of the RVs on the Longbottom Refinery system?

3) Any potential deadlocks or congested areas with the non-complicated junctions?

[Dave]

Screens please.

[Leanden]

Screens please.

/agree

I'd rather not have to download and open the save file, pictures will do just fine.

[FooBar]

I am curious how you, the community would precede with this game I am currently playing. The basics are FIRS 0.6.4, UKRS2, eGRVTS, and some other fun temperate GRFs. Also freight trains are at 5x weight. Started in 1930 at that sweet OilWell->Refinery->MachineShop location now known as Longbottom.

Based on this text alone, I'd suggest hauling coal and iron ore (and possibly scrap metal) to the steel mill and bring the metal produced there to the machine shop as well. This gives you a reasonable output of engineering supplies, which in turn you can transport to the coal mines, iron ore mines and oil wells. When done properly, this gives you an infinite (well, not infinite) loop of production increase.

Then decide if you like road vehicles or trains better, and do something with farms respectively quarries.

[sir_schwick]

I avoided the screens at first because of the length it would create. But now that there is interest I present Watkins and Co. in 1948 SW England.

Basic Operations

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This is the extent of Longbottom. The black stars indicate the oil wells that service the refinery, which is in yellow. They ship the oil via trucks(the original method) and a series of NEEF1s. These trains are among my best earners. The refinery sends petrol via truck and NEEF1 to the machine shop, in green. There is a fertilizer plant slightly off screen where the chemicals used to go. However a decision was made in the late 30s to shift the chemicals to the aluminum plant in grey. Aluminum metal from that facility goes to the machine shop. Also a feeder depot for the oil wells distributes Esupplies from the machine shop to the wells. At this point they are a little above 3x the base production.

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After linking up Longbottom Refinery and Longbottom Metals, the roads that once serviced the fertilizer plant were converted to service a nearby bauxite mine. A mainline was built to connect junkyards in surrounding towns and an additional bauxite mine to Longbottom Metals. This mainline also connects to Longbottom Shop which allows shipment of ESupply to all those mines and junkyards.

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This agriculture collection point is located on the SW terminus of the mainline from the picture above. It is just beyond the edge of the photo. Originally it just connected milk to the dairy located off the mainline in the picture.

[sir_schwick]

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There is the dairy in question, plus one of those junctions I am worried about.

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This is where the livestock from Escher goes. The Escher part of the mainline original just serviced the dairy, but was connected so it could also supply this meathouse. A nearby mixed farm bunch also provides livestock. It is located on the NW portion of the mainline.

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What will happen to this?