What am I doing wrong with Freight/Warehousing???

[ViraCorp]

I posted this on reddit, here is the link for the picture:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RailwayEmpire/comments/13zwjyo/where_am_i_going_wrong_with_freightwarehouse/

Every stop has a WH that accepts sugar, there is a train running back and forth ebtween each WH, and there is a need for Sugar at the end of the line. So not sure why they are not picking up any sugar and moving it WH to WH till it gets to it's destination.

[Mudfog]

Do you have sugar selected in both warehouse in Topeka?

Strange that Topeka is not getting sugar as well.

You do not need a WH at the rural station.

Are the trains from the sugar supply set to carry freight , or Auto?

Are the trains from the sugar carrying any sugar at all?

[ViraCorp]

Originally posted by Mudfog:

Do you have sugar selected in both warehouse in Topeka?

Thank you for your response.

Strange that Topeka is not getting sugar as well.

You do not need a WH at the rural station.

Are the trains from the sugar supply set to carry freight , or Auto?

Are the trains from the sugar carrying any sugar at all?

ALL WH are set to sugar. Even the multiple WH in Topeka.
I do NOT have a WH at the pickup station. only all of the stations in between. since they run trains WH to WH instead of the full length to Depot. In other words, should pick up sugar, drop at WH 01, then next train drop at WH 02, and Next to the depot (Nothing stops at the clay station right now)

Everything is set to freight, and no, NOOTHING is being picked up at any station. Yes, it is odd, since the destination has multiple demands for it.

I jsut quit that game, and trying again. But I would love to understand how this WH is supposed to work!!

[Frost]

Check each freight train between each station to see which one is the first one to not carry sugar. Can help to spot where a possible issue is. I assume even the very first train is not picking up sugar from the sugar mill.

If a freight train has multiple freight to pick up, it seems even in RE2 it will try to fill up a city of ItemA before picking up any itemB and so on, which would mean if you don't have enough freight cars, then some items may rarely if ever get picked up. Do your freight trains pick up any other freight types? If so are they full of those each trip? If so that's why they won't (yet) pick up sugar. Adding another freight train can help such cases.

If you need sugar to be prioritized, you can edit the route and make sugar a higher priority, but then other freight types will suffer the same fate.

Other than that I'd have to look at the save file. Would be cool to upload a save file that someone else can load up and check.

[Mudfog]

Originally posted by Frost:

Check each freight train between each station to see which one is the first one to not carry sugar. Can help to spot where a possible issue is. I assume even the very first train is not picking up sugar from the sugar mill.

If a freight train has multiple freight to pick up, it seems even in RE2 it will try to fill up a city of ItemA before picking up any itemB and so on, which would mean if you don't have enough freight cars, then some items may rarely if ever get picked up. Do your freight trains pick up any other freight types? If so are they full of those each trip? If so that's why they won't (yet) pick up sugar. Adding another freight train can help such cases.

If you need sugar to be prioritized, you can edit the route and make sugar a higher priority, but then other freight types will suffer the same fate.

Other than that I'd have to look at the save file. Would be cool to upload a save file that someone else can load up and check.

Use the in game reporting system for this. Works well.

[Frost]

Originally posted by Mudfog:

Originally posted by Frost:

Other than that I'd have to look at the save file. Would be cool to upload a save file that someone else can load up and check.

Use the in game reporting system for this. Works well.

That sends it to the devs. Im talking about users loading other user's save file to help answer questions in the forum.

[ViraCorp]

Originally posted by Frost:

Check each freight train between each station to see which one is the first one to not carry sugar. Can help to spot where a possible issue is. I assume even the very first train is not picking up sugar from the sugar mill.

If a freight train has multiple freight to pick up, it seems even in RE2 it will try to fill up a city of ItemA before picking up any itemB and so on, which would mean if you don't have enough freight cars, then some items may rarely if ever get picked up. Do your freight trains pick up any other freight types? If so are they full of those each trip? If so that's why they won't (yet) pick up sugar. Adding another freight train can help such cases.

If you need sugar to be prioritized, you can edit the route and make sugar a higher priority, but then other freight types will suffer the same fate.

Other than that I'd have to look at the save file. Would be cool to upload a save file that someone else can load up and check.

NONE of them carry sugar. They wont pick it up at the initial stop. And I checked, and there are 24/24 jsut sitting there.

[Mudfog]

Originally posted by Frost:

Originally posted by Mudfog:

Use the in game reporting system for this. Works well.

That sends it to the devs. Im talking about users loading other user's save file to help answer questions in the forum.

Ah ok. Where do you upload the file to?

The first step of the in game reporting system is to create a save file which could be used.

[Frost]

Originally posted by ViraCorp:

NONE of them carry sugar. They wont pick it up at the initial stop. And I checked, and there are 24/24 jsut sitting there.

I can only point out what I'd be checking. Every warehouse in between has to have sugar selected, so I'd double check I didn't accidentally miss one even though I have a warehouse.

Are my freight trains too full? If so that could be the issue sometimes and I'd need more freight trains to meet demand of all other items on top of sugar, otherwise one item type may never get picked up.

[Frost]

Originally posted by Mudfog:

Ah ok. Where do you upload the file to?

The first step of the in game reporting system is to create a save file which could be used.

I have no idea - I just remember seeing it briefly a few days back. 8-)

[BlackFive]

Check out whether the end cities show a lot of incoming supply. If so, you may have a warehouse that is stocked up on Sugar somewhere - but that sugar is not prioritized... and thus not moving.

See my 'Warehousing Tutorial Needed' post for a longer explanation.

[Mudfog]

I just remembered something I did by mistake in one of my games. I set the trains
maximum wagons to zero. That caused a few problems. LOL.

Just a thought.

[Zieria]

Cycle through the warehouses to check the destination of all stored sugar. That might point you to the problem.

[ViraCorp]

These are all great suggestions, and I have checked them all. There is NO SUGAR coming in to that side of the map. And even when I did a direct connection from sugar by denver to topeka, it wont pickup a single sugar, and all of them are running empty. I will ahve to see if I can figure out how to find the save and upload it. I will SCREAM if it is something stupid I am missing like someone already suggested. :)

[ViraCorp]

I found the save file, just need to figure out how to share it :)

[ViraCorp]

Originally posted by Frost:

Originally posted by Mudfog:

Use the in game reporting system for this. Works well.

That sends it to the devs. Im talking about users loading other user's save file to help answer questions in the forum.

I was able to put it on my one drive and share it for anyone that would like.

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjI1JSf2y0pEgaRVvemgzrNU-YvIhQ?e=MQ9b8h