Planks not being produced

[valenti_scott]

Hello-
I have shipped, via train, some logs to a saw mill, but the planks are not appearing at the station for pick-up. At the saw mill I can see that it says 3/200 production (and it's flashing). It also says 1 log stored, consumption 6.

Does this mean the saw mill has produced three planks? If so, can I get a hint as to why they wouldn't show up at the station platform? Maybe production isn't finished?

By the way, there is demand "down the line" for the planks for tool production, and then demand for the tools at a nearby city.
-Scott

[Autocoach]

The check now with factories , is the consumers tab or the charts tab looking for red bars .If in consumers you have 0 then the game does not register the demand for planks and they are 'being consumed or sold elsewhere' and not available to you .

Really most of these issues are caused by road truck stations or train stations not having catchment because they are not actually connected to the road network .

[valenti_scott]

In the factory's consumers/charts tabs, I don't see any red bars (is that good or bad?)

Consumers are shipping zero. So I guess I got paid to deliver the logs to the factory, but the planks were already sold?

This seems different from TF1; I think they did not get produced at all unless the player had a consumer down the line. I think I like this new way of doing it better; in theory anyway.

The train station is connected to the road, and the factory is in the station's catchment area. So I guess I'm wondering how I can keep the factory from selling the planks to another party and instead place them on my station's platform...
Thanks for your help. -Scott

[Autocoach]

Basically 'you' have first call on 100% of production only if you don't need it does it go elsewhere . Dropbox the save game if it does not have too many mods or double check the routing for the planks. Those numbers indicate your planks line does not function.

[Hididigeigei]

Factory issues can be a bit tricky until you know what to look for. the "production" bar begins to fill, as soon as the input material is recieved, no matter the consumers, this works fine most of the time.

Then the second bar "shipment" is where it often fails, it tells you how many consumers are connected through an ACTIVE line. The line has to be established with actual vehicles assigned!

- If no line with vehicles is established, the factory will not see the consumers and wont start to fill the station.

- If a line is established, the problem could be connectivity. If you select the station and the factory or the consumers are not highlighted, then it is either out of catchment range or it is not properly connected, often through small height issues. Then you can try to expand the road next to it, or add abuilding to the station, move it a bit closer etc.

- If all of this fails, maybe you assigned a wrong vehicle type or encountered an actual bug ;)

[valenti_scott]

It's working now. I wasn't playing with any mods. I think I neglected to connect the station to a line which would enable the delivery to the next station to make tools. It's better now. Thanks again.