Tools Wont Ship

[Azulín SZN]

I've spent a good amount of money on a good transportation network and it works perfectly, but one link is missing, the planks go to the tools factory, the tools factory makes the tools, but it doesn't ship them to the trucks, and yes i do have trucks, the factory is highlighted, i literally can't get it closer to the factory

[Thork]

Since it is a first time end-delivery, most likely over short distance, there are not that many sources for errors.
Have you given it some time to register the change since you created the line?
Are there business buildings in the deliver area?
Can your trucks carry the tools?

Don't see the point in speculations beyond that. Woud really help to see screenshots with line/industry/town windows etc. open.

[chrisasnyder]

You have to ship both tools AND machines. Which means you must supply materials to make both. The T/M factory is an advanced factory because of the long supply chain for the raw materials and double resource supply requirements. Any small balance issue with your lines will have dramatic impacts on the whole chain.

[chrisasnyder]

Not sure I follow your problem.

You have a choice with the T/M, planks and steel, steel and plastic, or all three. When the demand for tools and machins is high, it will pull a lot of the raw materials, so make sure you have you lines in order to meed to required supply. Planks demand can actually be larger than what 2 plank factories can produce if using steel and planks alone, so make sure you plan ahead for the material needs.

[Azulín SZN]

it still doesn't work

[El Presidente]

you need to wait for the simulator to have time to update. All simulation games are the same in that if you make a change then you have to wait a while to see what happens. In this game long transports can take a long time to update everything. You need lots of money to keep you in the green until everything gets smoothed out. That's assuming you didn't screw up the plan. It takes longer to fix a mistake.

[Azulín SZN]

no i'm not talking about not making money i'm talking about the factory is producing but its not producing onto the platform

[SBGaming]

The initial production is usually to fill the factory's internal storage. What is the demand that the Tools and Machines Factory is showing for Tools? How many towns are you distributing Tools to? Make sure that you are delivering Tools to the Commercial areas of a town. Machines go to the industrial areas of a town. If you're not getting any being supplied to your stations it could be you're not covering the right buildings, but if that's the case odds are you're getting a Potential of 0 for Tools.

Technically you should still be able to produce just Tools from the Tools Factory, but unless you actually supply the materials for Machines, you will be limited to a production of 50 and the factory won't upgrade until you do.

Screenshots always help when trying to determine what could go wrong.

[Azulín SZN]

oh my god can you people read english

[Azulín SZN]

I get all required items to factory, factory like "hey thats cool we can use that" they make the machines and tools, they be like "where the platform at though", so i go and build 60 other things that people tell me to do and it still doesn't work

[Azulín SZN]

also I can't access transport fever at my dads house because life hates me at that place

[SBGaming]

We certainly can read english, otherwise how are we responding to you if there was such a language barrier.

If you have everything setup such that the factory sees demand, you should be getting Tools transported to your infrastructure. If you're not getting Tools delivered to one of your stations, you've probably done something wrong. The only reason you get goods delivered to your infrastructure is if there is a specific buyer that those goods are being delivered to. No goods waiting for pickup, no buyer, and that means the Machine Factory is not seeing any demand.

Without screenshots (when you have a chance to get back to the game), there's little we can say that could explain what the problem is. All we have right now to go on is what you're trying to describe.

Alternatively when you get a chance, you can always upload the save game somewhere, post a link to it, and I'm sure someone would be willing to take a look at it. I can't simply because my gaming computer is inaccessible, and I wouldn't even want to try to run the game on this underpowered 1Ghz laptop...

[Azulín SZN]

i think theres no explanation, this is for advanced users maybe even game devs, because there is no reason at all why it shouldn't work

[Azulín SZN]

it should put tools and machines on the truck station thing which takes it to the airport that ships it to other places, instead it stores them in its own little shed thing and say "oh try to ship more items" then I say "try and have an iq of more than 6 and maybe some items will get shipped"

[Azulín SZN]

it will take 2 days until i get back to my moms house, in fact I didn't shut it off when i left so now i can't play anything until it closes

[Thork]

You leave a system running for two days just for a game without remote access? If it's just for TpF, you could simply play in offline mode to avoid that problem.
There might also be a way to disconnect/log out your other computer by accessing your account, but not sure...

Ofc. there is an explanation, it's just hard to find out without advanced desriptions/screenshots. Your inital setup even had a passenger station, so how would we know that you did not do some other "noob-error" as well.
You did not even mention the airport until just now...

If you try to use a modded cargo-airport/plane to deliver the products, there is a well known "bug". Cargo air-transport is not intended in the vanilla game, so it's hard to really call it a "bug", it's mentioned in the workshop for these mods though.
You first need to add planes with the specific cargo setup needed for the lines to get registered/viable. You can use the smallest/cheapest cargo plane available for this, afterwards add other planes (with automatic settings), then you can remove the inital ones when the line is registered...