Ship Fuel

[Vanderath]

Seem s to be an issue with pumping harbours connected to outward fuel pipes pumping out fuel reserves and thus unable to refuel ships (Ie when importing fuel by ship)

[tripodalt]

you talk about a fuel harbor that outward and dont buy fuel and dont have inward fuel pipe connected
or is a storage tank where both inward and outward connect and some pumps

[Vanderath]

fuel harbour not auto buying fuel. Ship has fuel as cargo.
tried as follows
Harbour > Pump > Tank(a)
Harbour > Tank(a)
tank(b) > Harbour > Pump > Tank(a)
some other combinations also, including
Tank(a) > Harbour > Pump >tank(a)

If Tank(a) is not completely full, harbour's fuel for ships is emptied, leaving none for the ship. Can turn the pump to tank(a) off to stop this, but that prevents unloading.

[Vanderath]

can't remember at this point if I tried it with tank >pump> Harbour > pump > tank

[tripodalt]

someone said that pump drain the tank so the pump have to be inbetween harbor inlet and tank and never inbetween harbor outlet and tank
im not sure if the harbor itself will drain all the tanker boat or balance with the tank and the pipeline
and by evidence the capacity of a tank is too much for just keeping a refueling reserve
maybe you can hack the system with a separate dock but with the size it sound abusive
i dont remid to had see any limitation with the liquid transportation as with the new distribution office that set minimal percentage to keep
tought the boat system is very new and i cant understand they not added ome little river boat before supertankers
especially with the stock map wheree we need to spend million of digging ground for have free space

[tripodalt]

the better is to try all combination with two tank on the same harbor for try to keep a full tank using pump in the good sens
tought i dont understand how is possible to feef the pipeline and in the same time not emptying what is before
my opinion you found a real issue because inlet and outlet dont have to merge

[Vanderath]

I was trying to set it up so that a refinery at one side of the map could send fuel and bitumen across a river without bridges, to a place with no local oil deposit.
...because bridges block the path of the big tanker ship...
pump after the harbour was intended to split cargo out to seperate tanks, which worked after the fuel section was entirely filled by manual purchase - which made the whole thing a bit pointless.

[tripodalt]

yes it lack of both bridfed and underwater pipes and worst of all the trolley cannot be passed under
the basic of the pipeline is high pylon or entrenced section that let road pass
i read one report than most expensive bridges are enought high for boats
actually its far more praticable to send workers to remote factory than transporting mass of raws
tought its a chalenge to bypass all the lack of the gameplay
i bet in the next patch it will be export harbors
it seem logic
give us info about the problem of the fuel for boat
is it shared or not by the inlet outlet ?