Station Transfer

[olwagejaco]

Hi all

I need some help please

I have a train station with 3 types of cargo coming in.

Food
Tools
Fuel

I have 3 truck stops connected to it. Each truck stop have its own line and trucks, carting the goods to town. The reason for each line with its own stop is to prevent queuing trucks blocking the other lines.

The problem I'm having is. The different cargo types get mixed up between the 3 truck stops. So I would now have:

10 fuel
8 Food
3 Tools

at the truck stop with the fuel loading line. So now the tanker truck pulls in, load the 10 fuel and then wait for more fuel. The fuel that is at the other 2 truck stops does not transfer to the tanker truck or the fuel truck stop.

I did set the filters for load and unload in the line menu for each line.

I hope this make sense

[RoofCat]

Should work if lines are separate and filters set properly. Is by any chance any delivery target also in the range of the train station (not just the truck stops)?

iirc I had issues once when my port could reach both end stops of a carriage route. It couldn't reach the real delivery target though - industry behind the second one. And carriage route didn't work until I moved destination stop out of the range of port supplying everything. If I'm not mistaken (was a while ago and I was just starting my career) and if that helps? Some kind of a logic loop.

Kind of not allowed to unload at second stop directly, as that would be cheating carriage-less transport over distances by using multiple stops. Doesn't trigger first stop either, because second one is accessible as well and kind of nullifies the lane priority. At least that's how I remember it and imagine. Engine having trouble sorting out stuff and building unique, reliable, legit connections.

Sorry in case I made it worse by confusion? :)

[Vimpster]

If the filters were not set right away then the cargo could be left over from before the filter setting. If so then it should disappear over time.

[Oakshield]

First thing you may consider is to use the truck stop where you pick up the items, to become a stop with 2 different platforms.
That way you will make sure you won't be able to have two items waiting at the same platform and thus cause confusion.

Second thing you may consider it to check if you haven't set any filter to wait for X-amount of goods being available, or to wait until it has loaded "any" goods as priority. Especially with the latter it may wait for something to pick up which isn't there.

Third thing to consider is removing one route and instead move two of the items on the same line. If you make sure you're supplying just a little too little of one item, your route will pick up the second item as well on a next stop.
Seeing you got two items meant for the commercial zone, I'd suggest you put the food and tools on one line; use the vehicles on both previous lines for that one line.
With those two items being send to the commercial zone, check if each and every stop on your route is actually picking up and unloading!! the items it needs to transport. Disable everything else, but keep them all selected in the unloading part; as that will always make sure you end up with an empty vehicle; even if you have accidently chosen a wrong item.

And finally, check the timer to see if you haven't increased the waiting time.
I've found that using 10 - 20 seconds for stops is more than enough to pick up and drop off items.
If you have one showing 3 minutes, drag the slider back to the left, so the timer is as short as possible. That will certainly help.

Thorin :)

[olwagejaco]

Thank you all for the reply's. Vimpster is right, I didn't set the filters from the start. So it took a while sort itself.

I wish there was more control over stations.