How in the world do you transfer goods properly?

[Homuya]

How in the world do I for example transport crops/corn between 3 cities? Imagine I have city A, B, C. At the end of C is a crops/corn industry/farm and I connect that and let it go from there to C,A,B and back. However the train unloads everything at the first city and seem to leave the others out. What am I missing? >:

[aKamikazePug]

Only if the first city doesn't need it all will the freight car continue to the next city. Otherwise you will need another train going straight to city B

[Homuya]

Hmm, a bit like a thought so is it viable to just do my example? having 3 cities and 1 thing that produces goods? they seem to deliver so much usually. Or is that way too less?

[Mansen]

You use a Warehouse (or several) to centralise storage of goods, then use trains that move between these and the individual cities.

[Homuya]

Originally posted by Mansen:

You use a Warehouse (or several) to centralise storage of goods, then use trains that move between these and the individual cities.

Yeah thats the tooltip of it but I was asking about the distribution of wares because when I was playing and was trying to deliver goods to serveral cities, only one seemed to always get all the ressources for the most part /= I really wish there would be maybe a slider, lets say my train packs 20 grain and I tell it to never unload more than 5/city (for example) or is there someother solution to distribute that better?
Only cause a warehouse centralizes it >which is great< it wont help me with the distribution or does it allows me to make more precise settings? I so far haven't built one cause I got too frustrated overall

[Mansen]

Not sure I understand. One warehouse between two or three cities, one line going to each city from it carrying any kind of goods (add more as required)

General use goods like corn will quickly reach a full point, where trains won't send trains full of the stuff, letting the other cities get more.

OR buy and upgrade the farms, then send more trains to the warehouse.

[Homuya]

So far it just seems that if I add trains from the production places into my city network they always only get 1 city most of the time, I watch them and they unload everything in one place and I just wonder if the game is properly programmed so that when train sees that the city has enough corn, it'll move on and not unload anything where its not needed

[Mansen]

Cities won't accept (and thus trains won't send) goods that aren't needed past a certain storage treshold. If a Warehouse containing corn is used to supply two cities, they will eventually even out, since city storage reaches a point where they won't accept any more.

[Homuya]

Originally posted by Mansen:

Cities won't accept (and thus trains won't send) goods that aren't needed past a certain storage treshold. If a Warehouse containing corn is used to supply two cities, they will eventually even out, since city storage reaches a point where they won't accept any more.

Alright, thank you very much! though I wonder how many trains you need to properly supply a few cities, I so far found it to be such a pain if you play realistically (with train collision) and I end up easily loosing overview (though alot too cause of the bad UI/controls, good for 1-5 trains but not for more literally)

Anyway, thanks for the good answers ^-^

[Mansen]

It's been a while since I played (Waiting for my pre-order to unlock on release...), but you roughly need one train for the assorted goods like Beer, Cloth and Corn. Stuff that is consumed by the city naturally, not by industry.

Industry is a bit more by ear - A low level meat packing plant can easily tie up a train completely, since it needs 8 cartloads every week, which only gets higher as it progresses.

One thing you can do is set up a circular line for the Warehouse/City connection. Exit on one side, enter on the opposite end of the platform, then set up one way signals (Hold shift to block opposite way) roughly ever train length. This way you can easily run 4 or more trains on a line.

[solarism]

Originally posted by Homuya GER:

I really wish there would be maybe a slider, lets say my train packs 20 grain and I tell it to never unload more than 5/city (for example)

exactly that you can do (but with maximum 8, not 20)

[Monzun]

Originally posted by solarism:

Originally posted by Homuya GER:

I really wish there would be maybe a slider, lets say my train packs 20 grain and I tell it to never unload more than 5/city (for example)

exactly that you can do (but with maximum 8, not 20)

If you are talking about the min/max amount of wagons per station; this is not what OP asked for and what he wants cannot currently be done using any slider.