Females, carts and transport weight question

[tivaber]

I find it hard to understand these observations and hope somebody can help:

- At building sites, when laborers deliver materials, femal laborers never take a cart but bring everything with their hands although free carts are available. Same when firewood is delivered to charcoal piles etc. Only men use carts in these situations. Why?

- Next to my farm there is a granary with a female worker. A cart parking is linked to this granary. The female worker uses the linked cart indeed, but: using the cart, she transports 50 sunflowers, while the female laborers transport 50 sunflowers in their hands. Why does the worker with the cart does not transport more than a worker without cart?

[N3M]

did you allowd female worker /laborer to use cartshed ?
or as laborer supply (by hand/by cart...)?

[tivaber]

Originally posted by N3M:

did you allowd female worker /laborer to use cartshed ? or as laborer supply (by hand/by cart...)?

Yes

[kiska87]

In an older version of the game, women were not allowed to use carts at all.
Since then, the dev changed it, so that they can now use carts, but "with less efficiency" than men.

But this only affected female workers, but not female laborers. Female laborers can still not use carts.

Originally posted by tivaber:

The female worker uses the linked cart indeed, but: using the cart, she transports 50 sunflowers, while the female laborers transport 50 sunflowers in their hands. Why does the worker with the cart does not transport more than a worker without cart?

Tbh, I haven't paid much attention to it so far, if in any case a woman with a cart can transport more goods than without, but in this case, there could be another reason for this:

When the (granary) workers go fetch goods, they will reserve the amount at the corresponding building (e.g. farm). They can only reserve what's available. During harvesting, it could be the case, that at this time, there was not more of it available, so she reserved what was there, then she made her way towards the building. Meanwhile another female granary worker also was looking for goods to transport and reserved another 50 sunflowers, that were now available.

You will notice, that at cowsheds, sheep farms and chicken coops, the granary workers sometimes will transport just little quantities of milk/eggs, because they could only reserve what was there at the time, while meanwhile the building produced more goods. As a result, the transport of these goods is not very efficient. On the other hand, I have no clue how one can improve this, so that they don't travel across the map for just a handful of eggs.

[tivaber]

Interesting idea, thanks a lot. Will check this possibility.

"this only affected female workers, but not female laborers. Female laborers can still not use carts" This does not seem to be logical but it's good to know. Thanks again!