Too Many Cars

[thebear05]

The Whittier interchange gave me some thirty cars at 6:00am this morning. Two of these were Stenzel MFG, both were empties. However Stenzel has a loaded inbound car already in their siding. Their siding can only take two cars. I am going to shuffle them around to see what happens, I might have to leave one our till the next day.

[Lemon Friend]

On Discord, complaints have surfaced that extra cars are being left at the interchange. (One person had 24 cars for Whitter saw mill SO1/SO2). The advice is to wait to see if the load balances out over the next few game days.

[thebear05]

With the two Stenzel cars, there were twelve Whittier Sawmill cars. These I could fit by splitting them in two to fit in there two loading tracks. It is supposed to be a transport/management game, I will just have to manage. Normally Whittier Sawmill loads fairly quickly so it should not be a problem.

[Rudolf Jan]

Just like in real life. If you don't want this, be careful in leveling up the tier.

[Lemon Friend]

It seems to be somewhat of a glitch caused by the latest update. Hopefully deliveries will normalize within a day or two.

[Exocet]

Originally posted by Lemon Friend:

It seems to be somewhat of a glitch caused by the latest update. Hopefully deliveries will normalize within a day or two.

Devs have replied on Discord that yes, the supply of cars will normalize in a day or two following when you update your game to the 2024.2.X patches.

[ThreeLineRifle]

Been having a few issues too with extra cars. Both tracks filled with hoppers waiting on coal and 3 more cars than the Sawmill could take using both tracks, Those are the only ones with any issue for me so far.

Originally posted by Rudolf Jan:

Just like in real life. If you don't want this, be careful in leveling up the tier.

Been running the sawmill at tier 3 for a few ingame weeks which fluctuates between 6-8 or so cars while the first morning after the patch it got probably close to 20. It has been a few days now so it IS catching up but makes me hesitate doing anymore expansion right now.

[thebear05]

Originally posted by Rudolf Jan:

Just like in real life. If you don't want this, be careful in leveling up the tier.

I did this type of work for a living except with a lot of trucks. For every problem there is always a solution.

[jfitzpa3]

I have total gridlock at the Sylva interchange. Started the day with 2 interchange tracks filled and an announcement there were more coming. Cleaned them out and returned latter in the day with both tracks filled again including a solid track of empty hoppers going to Alarka and a 21 car work train also going to Alarka that I had just ordered that day and an announcement there were more coming. Some of my industries like the sawmill and the sawmill storage track are completely filled. Not sure where to go from here, especially as a single player.

[Nikoli Voldkif]

This was part of a deliberate change, it will reduce on the following days. Basically industries want cars at their siding 24 hours of day now as opposed to the old tier 5 stenzel where you would deliver 2 in the morning and they would be ready to go back to the interchange at 1600. High tier contracts cause the biggest initial problem, if you have low tier contracts you basically won't notice anything.

Once you get everything sorted it returns to the old volume you will just have more cars overnight at industries. For example, I had about 100 cars delivered on the first day, including 21 company cars. following day it was back down to around 20-30

[Schorsche]

at 9:45 I have 143 new cars and Andrews still got capacity warning at the 08:00 deliverance. Lets see what will happen at 12:00

[SupaNerdo]

Neighbours aren't going to be pleased with all the 2-3AM shunting!

More seriously, I'm also having this issue, I have more cars than I have places to store them. Sylvia is marshalling hell (Hostile may of been a mistake). I had spare loaded pulpwood, but its all going to have to go up the other side of the interchange (once I clear enough sorted cars to get to the other side of the interchange!), because I need the space for coal and boxcars that won't fit into their allocated sidings.

Its gone a bit from cozy relaxed chill, to "This is my job now", as a Single Player. I think I have 24 cars for the saw mill

[BSEnt]

This is a pain. Update dropped right in the middle of my Alarka branch mile stone. Was keeping up with single player with Bryson and Wittier at tier 5. Sylva at tier 2. Now on 2nd day of massive influx of cars. Well got go and deliver 10 more cars to the sawmill. Already delivered 24 so far.

[Omogoto]

One more somewhat related question. Does it matter what order you return cars to the interchange? or can it be random? just place them where ever they fit?
My last service at Whittier had a few cars as mentioned above that seemed like too many, to fit at the destinations, AND a few of them seemed out of order in regards to delivery locations, I had to pull them apart a little more than usual to get at certain cars buried in the middle?

[thebear05]

Originally posted by Omogoto:

One more somewhat related question. Does it matter what order you return cars to the interchange? or can it be random? just place them where ever they fit?
My last service at Whittier had a few cars as mentioned above that seemed like too many, to fit at the destinations, AND a few of them seemed out of order in regards to delivery locations, I had to pull them apart a little more than usual to get at certain cars buried in the middle?

As far as I am aware you can return cars to the interchange in any order whatsoever, I put the outgoing cars there in what ever order I collected them. After all you get a mix of cars from the interchange yourself.

[Iron Angel]

Got the same sort of problem, sidings are full and cars are not unloading after a couple of days. Do I need to take them back to the Interchange or just leave them?