Implicit Orders only working in one direction

[poete]

I've got a passenger network setup where I've got two cities: C1 & C2, and also towns in between: T1, T2. I'm using asymmetric Cargodist but there are also plenty of passengers willing to go to any station.

I've got an express train between the cities: C1-C2 and also metro trains running via the towns: C1 - T1- T2 - C2.

The metro trains use entirely separate tracks and I've given them orders to go to C1 then go to C2, expecting implicit orders would fill in the visits to the towns for me and when they get to C2 I'd expect they turn around and visit all the towns on the way back to C1. I've checked that the orders are not 'non-stop' too. That is working great for the trip from C1 to C2 via the towns. They're picking up / dropping off as expected. What isn't working is the trip back from C2 to C1 via the towns. The trains pause briefly at the stations but don't load/unload and in fact make the entire journey completely empty. They don't even pick up anything from C2 to take to C1.

Is this expected? Am I missing something? HELP!?

(Long time reader but first post )

[kamnet]

It could very well be normal. You have asymmetric distribution enabled, which means that you're not going to take the same amounts of people in one direction that you do the other. Depending on the timing there simply may not be any passengers who want to ride the trains to any of those other stops at that time.

Somebody may be able to give a more precise answer if you upload a save.

[poete]

Seems I have a problem with cargodist. It's showing as passengers willing to go to any station but they're not hopping on any trains. They seem to be clearing out now and things are looking better.

[kamnet]

If you have passengers that are going to any station, it is because they were previously destined to go somewhere else, but cargodist is now rebalancing the distribution so that they'll go elsewhere sooner, or because you've opened up another destination that can be reached.