"Most efficient" use of construction yard space?

[Duke Flapjack]

I'm having trouble setting up my construction yards. I know I need to emphasize the "basic" machinery (buses, dump trucks, and open trucks) but I'm not really sure what the best ratio of them is. I've been buying one excavator, one paver, one road crane, and then generally 2x buses, 3x open trucks, and 4x dump trucks. This doesn't seem to quite be the best use of my 12 slots, so I'm interested in seeing what others do. I am more interested in having a "general use" construction yard rather than say one specialized for road construction (at least at first).

[Lac_M]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/794233491552686512/62B8BDB933AB660F27952961ED625EE0B291CA89/

[Pyro]

That's a good layout. I'd personally go for the highest capacity trucks available. Especially two Open Hull trucks as they are used to transport both materials *and* construction equipment. (cranes, diggers, etc).

[Duke Flapjack]

Originally posted by Pyro:

That's a good layout. I'd personally go for the highest capacity trucks available. Especially two Open Hull trucks as they are used to transport both materials *and* construction equipment. (cranes, diggers, etc).

Yep, generally I agree. Unfortunately for me due to my rules I don't have the semi-trucks available yet, so all my heavy equipment has to drive itself to the job site which takes forever.

[Dieziet]

What about putting equipment on flat trucks per default? That would expand the capabilities of a single yard, since the excavators etc drive back on their own, and the flat trucks can bring materials in that time.

[Anlauf]

I used to have the 1 building has all equipment to do all kinds of constructions (2 dumpers per building).

Now I use a highly specialised setup with 6 construction yards.

1 for dumpers
1 for concrete mixers
1 for excavators (6) - Tractors (6)
1 for cranes (8) and open trucks (4)
1 buses (4), road cranes (4) and closed hull (4)
1 for pavers (4), rollers (4) and open trucks (4)

This setup eats through constructions very fast.

May consider increasing it in the nearby future though.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1735513325

[pryt]

Why use only one office?

I got one with dumper trucks only, one with 3 open hull transports and 9 tower cranes, one with concrete mixers only and one with mixed everything and so on. In the end I got 7-8 constrcution offices, all working basically together.

When I plan to settle a new region I build the offices first, move (sell & rebuy) equipment and start rolling, then removing the old ones and keep one mixed office left.

That speeds up everything very effectively. Especially the tower cranes are awesome.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1735432630 ... 4 tower cranes in action, building the mechanism-factory.