Cargo Trains mostly empty

[Lorax]

Cargo Trains are clogging up my rail lines. It's not that I have to much stuff to ship or recieve, it's that the trains all only have 20% load on them max. Some even only have 2%. The game spawns way to many trains rather than trains that are full. Is there anything I can do that will make the trains wait until they have at least say 50% load to leave?

(also frieght coming in from other cities also is all arrving inn like 10% chunks)

[hipsu]

Yeah I always had the same problem, the AI in this game is in many things not that great. Sadly looks like devs dont care about any of this problems. Because bugfixing dont bring you money.

[grapplehoeker]

Cargo 101...
1 terminal per outside connection:
Make sure that each cargo terminal is connected to only one outside connection and that outside connection serves only one cargo terminal.

Incidentally this rule applies to all connections to the outside, including passenger vessels, planes, boats or trains.

[barrygreybeard]

As well as what GH recommends, by using one way tracks you can also limit your cargo station to be used for import or export only.

[mdoliver_2000]

One way tracks is a clever idea! More than one cargo station definitely had an impact on how full the trains where.

[Useless Noodle]

Originally posted by hipsu:

Yeah I always had the same problem, the AI in this game is in many things not that great. Sadly looks like devs dont care about any of this problems. Because bugfixing dont bring you money.

More like people are too lazy and blame everything on AI.

[get your ass down here]

You need planning. It's true that AI needs improvement but with planning you can do a lot of things.

[hipsu]

Originally posted by NEETAH:

Originally posted by hipsu:

Yeah I always had the same problem, the AI in this game is in many things not that great. Sadly looks like devs dont care about any of this problems. Because bugfixing dont bring you money.

More like people are too lazy and blame everything on AI.

Pocket Cars, Cars teleporting to target instead of waiting in a traffic jam. Yeah thats a really great AI... the simulation accuracy is just not that good, devs made it themself easy instead of putting some more work into it.

[Useless Noodle]

It's called playable simulation, not AI-learning simulation. Do you know what will happen when they try "improving" AI for more realistic ? Head to the TMPE mod page and read about how it affect the game's performance.

CO has stated that they will not changing the AI whatsoever, for it will increase the system requirement, and having a realistic AI but only those with strong CPU can play, is a terrible business decision.

But sure, if you want to have more realistic gameplay, just get No Despawn, TMPE, Rush Hour, and have a blast for your own. The game has mod support for a reason.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by hipsu:

Originally posted by NEETAH:

More like people are too lazy and blame everything on AI.

Pocket Cars, Cars teleporting to target instead of waiting in a traffic jam. Yeah thats a really great AI... the simulation accuracy is just not that good, devs made it themself easy instead of putting some more work into it.

What is your point? Are you seriously expecting realism in a game that has very little? Do you think this is supposed to be a realistic simulation model? It isn't and it isn't intended to be. Get over it and enjoy the game... or not. Meanwhile try to stay on topic.

[AoD_lexandro]

Trains with low loads means you have too many trains on the line from too many stations. Its that simple. Turn down the train budget, remove excess stations, clean up your rail line to make it smoother and faster.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Trains with low loads means you have too many trains on the line from too many stations. Its that simple. Turn down the train budget, remove excess stations, clean up your rail line to make it smoother and faster.

When it involves cargo trains to and from the outside connection, these are automatically generated and are not lines that you can control with budgets.
Each terminal that shares a connection to an outside connection will spawn trains there and the load will be shared among all trains spawned. This is what results in the overspawning and inefficient load the OP is experiencing and the solution to it is as I provided above.

[AoD_lexandro]

I never allow outside trains on my lines. They stop at dedicated import export loops. Plus all my export trains and ship are 100% loads. I have a total of 5 stations on the map and have near 100% utilisation.

[ceo60]

Outside trains? How do you control that?