Truck Depots vs. Warehouse Destinations?

[AdmiralJedi]

So, I'm getting more and more into this game and really having a blast.

Can someone differentiate for me the difference between using Truck Depots and simply telling my Warehouse (with unlimited destinations, right?) to deliver goods to another warehouse?

To reduce traffic, I'm always looking to expand the capacity of trucks which are on the road. Keep 1-unit "delivery" trucks as local as possible, while having 2+ unit "transport" trucks driving the long-hauls.

I THOUGHT I understood this with the "Hold delivery until" feature, until I ordered my warehouse to deliver (toy) "Stuffing" to the toy store, and sure enough they're still leaking it out 1-unit at a time, instead of sending 2-capacity trucks to deliver.

What am I missing?

[Esbon]

If both warehouses have a truck depot you should see a little truck icon at the bottom of the destination rectangle. Click that and they will use trucks for the delivery. That's assuming you're doing manual destinations I have not used the request or trade route system yet.

[Esbon]

toy stores dont have a truck depot so you cant send trucks there.

[Alex, Master Penguin]

An easy thing to do is to place a WH with a Truck Depot next to a town, with the shops in its AoE. This way you can target it with the high capacity trucks, and the AWH will take care of feeding the shops. Easy!

[AdmiralJedi]

My question wasn't really answered, may I seek more clarity please?.

Example:

I can place a Gas Harvester with a warehouse near it. I set a manual destination FROM Warehouse WITH Gas TO Hardware Store. I check "hold delivery until." The effect of this is that a transport truck carrying TWO (2) units of gas will deliver from the warehouse to the hardware store.

I could presumably do this very easily with Warehouse to Warehouse manual destinations. So the question: why would I want a Truck Depot when I can just do what I've stated here?

[Alex, Master Penguin]

As you are targeting a non warehouse building, only normal trucks will be used. They have one capacity, so that button does nothing. The whole point of WH to WH destinations is to use advanced vehicles

[AdmiralJedi]

Alex, trucks carrying two (2) units of gas most certainly delivered to the Hardware store. Perhaps a bug? I wondered about this since I tried the same method delivering toy furniture and it only delivered 1 unit. So I think I was thrown off seeing a truck deliver 2 without a depot.

[Alex, Master Penguin]

Definitely shouldn't happen. Please upload the save and tell me where it happens

[AdmiralJedi]

Master of Penguins; save file + screenshot uploaded AdmiralJedi - GasTruck2Units (I'm killing myself for not naming it 2 Gas 1 Truck, oh well)

Easily reproducible:

1) Start in town w/ gas and hardware store that buys it
2) Put down gas harvester and bring to operational status
3) Put warehouse in range of gas
4) Set manual destination Warehouse -> Hardware Store, check on "hold delivery until .."
5) Behold 2Gas1Truck

Super enjoying the game so far, btw. Scratching a major itch =)

[AdmiralJedi]

Please let me know if you'd like me to open a formal bug in the Bug forum

[Alex, Master Penguin]

Thanks, got what I need, despite the glorious meme reference :D
Happy that you're enjoying it!

[zytukin]

They are holding 3 in my game. Quite a nice reduction in traffic. :p

Also the capacities for the various vehicles shows as 'null' in the warehouse.

[Alex, Master Penguin]

Bug confirmed. Fixed in 1.2.5 (now on the experimental branch, along with other stuff)

[Mylon]

the glorious meme reference

I dunno if "glorious" describes that meme.