Automation

[Chaotic_Monk3y]

I don't quite understand how automation works so heres some questions and thoughts I have about it

1) When it says supply to other business does that mean the player owned ones or things like the Guard Camp when they request things like firewood etc.
2) When you're deciding to how to want to sell it would the point of picking never make it only used for supplying businesses that you own if thats how the "supply business" works.
3)Is periodically on a set hour during the day or is it a certain countdown from when you set the option.
Example A: "Periodically" Will set you to sell every day at 5
Example B: "Periodically" Will go to sell every 3 hours from the time set for automation and will not set to sell if there is nothing left in the wagon.

I've been trying to figure out automation for a while and maybe its just me who cant understand it

[Atorcoppe]

Just supplies your own businesses.

Periodically is usually when new jobs starts or work begins for the day, etc. Just random things.

[Chaotic_Monk3y]

Okay thank you

[Lucius Corvus]

Its reason way ai go broke is automation is broke the ai sells short. its double hit product drops in price when sell to market.

[Old Soldier]

Originally posted by Chaotic_Monk3y:

I've been trying to figure out automation for a while and maybe its just me who cant understand it

It's not just you. The automation thing is pretty non-intuitive, to me at least.

My question is, if I use automation (which I surely want to do) can I (how do I) tell my cart which market to sell to? Does the AI choose the market with the best price, or the nearest, or randomly select one?

Also I didn't see an option to tell an automated woodcutter to NOT sell at all but just store it. I can accomplish this by turning auto off, but then my employee (spouse in this case) stops working and just wanders around.

Is there no simple way to automate the PRODUCTION but not the delivery/selling?

I'm lost. Likely it's incredibly easy and I'm just not getting it. And the tutorial didn't clear things up for me, either because I missed something, or I'm too dense to understand it.

Ideally I would like to select my character, right click the cart, have my char pick it up and at that point have the cart behave identically to a backpack. That is, I can move things in and out of it in the same way, I can travel with it to wherever I want, just like a backpack, and I sell from it or add things to it, just like a backpack.

I'm sure the dev has a reason for doing it in the way it's done, but boy howdy is it a royal pain the arse to use. Maybe consider making generic carts that can be assigned (and unassigned, or reassigned by the player) to any given business of any sort?

[Atorcoppe]

You know this thread is 3 years old ae?

All good though. Anyway - If you don’t want to sell your items just set the “load cart” option to never. And the cart will never be loaded.

The market they sell to is the one that is going to net the highest return.

You can use the cart exactly like a backpack. Buy a cart at your house, or use an existing one at a business, assign yourself to it, and then with the cart selected move to wherever you want. While hauling you can easily trade between it and yourself as well.

You can even take a cart to a fruit tree or the ocean, set it down and harvest while transferring the received goods to the cart. You can do pretty much anything you want with it.

You can even upgrade to a horse cart, climb on the back, and then ride your cart around, again while easily moving items between yourself and the cart.

[Old Soldier]

That's all very helpful stuff! Thanks again for taking time to clear it up for me.

Yes, I knew the thread was old, but the issue seemed relevant. Perhaps not. Will avoid necromancy forthwith. :D

Originally posted by Atorcoppe:

You can use the cart exactly like a backpack. Buy a cart at your house, or use an existing one at a business, assign yourself to it, and then with the cart selected move to wherever you want. While hauling you can easily trade between it and yourself as well.

Great! I knew I was overlooking something simple.

[S J T G]

Highly recommend a shed too.

You get a lot of control back over buying, selling, and restocking.

[Atorcoppe]

All good!

[Old Soldier]

Originally posted by Sir Johnson the Girthy:

Highly recommend a shed too.

You get a lot of control back over buying, selling, and restocking.

Thanks, I can use all the tips I can get. At this point however, I am unable to obtain a shed. The few vacant lots available to build one are miles away from my wood cutter. :(
I assume that would make the time/energy budget prohibitively inefficient.

[Windy Winston]

Why does my corral insist on selling all my product when I have it set to dump at the shed?

[Atorcoppe]

Is the shed full?

Are you able to post a screenshot of the automation setup?

[Windy Winston]

Originally posted by Atorcoppe:

Is the shed full?

Are you able to post a screenshot of the automation setup?

The shed is not full.

Source: Market (though no ingredients are needed. I have also set this to "Shed" to see if that helps, but it doesn't.
DO NOT BUY
Send Items: Shed
When Transporting: Periodically
If Business doesn't need: Market (Can't change this).

Now I have noticed that if I send a cart to "Offload and return home" while it is next to its home, it will dump all goods immediately at home and stay. But If I move the cart away from its home, the "Offload and return" works. I mention this because a market is in the direct path of my cart and the shed. I am wondering if carts sometimes dump at the nearest available point for some reason.

EDIT: Also, will there be a way to specify which shed to auto dump at?

[Atorcoppe]

If you’ve set it to shed it shouldn’t matter which is nearer. How far away is the shed?

[Windy Winston]

Originally posted by Atorcoppe:

If you’ve set it to shed it shouldn’t matter which is nearer. How far away is the shed?

Yeah I just watched my cart pass the nearest market, and my shed, to go to another town to sell goods. My shed is in the same town as my corral. Only a couple seconds away.

[Atorcoppe]

Can you send me the save? And I’ll tell you what’s happening.

Send to [e-mail]

Saves are found by opening the load menu and then clicking the button at the bottom to open the saves folder.