Tractors/Trucks or Conveyor Highways

[The_Dipl0mat]

As the title says, what do y'all prefer? I'm doing kind of both at the moment. With a coal highway delivering to a power plant. But trucks delivering iron/steel to separate factories.

[smegetti]

trucks

[Nolo Contendere]

Trucks/tractors.

Fewer resources and less of a pain

[K'senia]

trucks at least for awhile. Eventually most things are moved by rail later on.

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i have a tractor but cant figure out how to do my Record.. for it. lol

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by SinbaGaming:

i have a tractor but cant figure out how to do my Record.. for it. lol

Go to the first truck station, hit the Q button and click start recording. Then drive the path you wanna take, wait about 5 secs at the second station. Then drive the route you want back to the first and go through the yellow finish line that's set up

[smegetti]

or just use trains

[The_Dipl0mat]

Oh yeah, trains are fun once you unlock em. I haven't got em in my current run but I'm planning on setting up the infrastructure in advance

[smegetti]

oh

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my Factorys really need Help. being fixed.. just wish i knew people that would wanna help me fix my factorys that lives in Eastern time and has a "Stable network connection " ;/

[Zak]

I had one save where I ran belts all over the island, for kilometers. Only belts, no vehicles. It was my best functioning save compared to saves using vehicles. Trucks and drones are fun but can't compete with belts. And trains are PITA to set up, it's easier to just run long belts than build rail.

[kLuns]

Originally posted by smegetti:

or just use trains

What to do before they are unlocked?
Truck stations consume a little bit of power and on that matter the conveyor belt wins for transporting for free
Belt structures can block respawning of fauna and using a lot of them can cause performance issues. The truck wins when it comes to this.
Another thing is you need to refuel the trucks.

[Nolo Contendere]

Originally posted by kLuns:

performance issues. The truck wins when it comes to this.
Another thing is you need to refuel the trucks.

Honestly, not the hardest thing to do. I typically siphon off some of the coal they're delivering to the fuel part of the station. Once i swap over to fuel, I imagine it might be a bit tricky setting up a dedicated distribution network for fuel, but nothing too unmanageable.

[Schlappspaten]

Originally posted by Nolo Contendere:

Originally posted by kLuns:

performance issues. The truck wins when it comes to this.
Another thing is you need to refuel the trucks.

Honestly, not the hardest thing to do. I typically siphon off some of the coal they're delivering to the fuel part of the station. Once i swap over to fuel, I imagine it might be a bit tricky setting up a dedicated distribution network for fuel, but nothing too unmanageable.

I run coal for steel with trucks in a few saves. But setting up a fuel network extra to drive around other stuff (I tried nitrogen and alu oxide with big trucks at one time) wasn't my cup of tea. I needed a second truck station that receives fuel and distributes it to the main goods truck station and itself. Otherwise I ran into problems with clogging up my main truck stations outputs with fuel and disrupting production chains. You also can't mix fuels (say fuel at one end and coal at the other).

I terminally switched to trains and use road vehicles for personal transport only. This is simply because if I need to build a road for vehicles, I can also throw in some steel for the monorail and get a better, more suitable mode of transport. To get access to the monorail I don't need a permanent truck route, I can simply drive few truck/tractor loads manually.

As for drones: I never managed to get them to work properly. Producing batteries and supply them to drones used more batteries than I produced for the other products requiring them. And even then I wasn't able to keep battery production self sustained. I needed to bring in extra stuff by truck to keep production running at times.

[Wolfgang]

Conveyor highways. Easy to set up, no need to think about buffers or throughput (what you feed in at one end is what comes out the other given nothing gets added or split off). If you need more throughput you either upgrade the belt or add another belt.

[start214]

i prefer trucks/tractors, because belts are in the beginning easy to build,
but at the long run i get too much spaghetti :)