Storage for vehicles and containers

[frederic.bonave]

It seems that vehicules and containers are not moving automatically to storages which are connected to plant ( loading container or car plant ). Do you confirm ?
And what is the largest vehicules storage ?

[melkij]

If the factory storage area runs out of space, new machines/containers will start to appear on the connected storages.

With the exception of railway equipment - trains and wagons cannot move through factory connections.

[ChalwaBechatex]

Direct industry connections are passive there are two cases when goods moves through them:
- passive: overflow of source
- active: something is pulling resources at destination (vehicles or factory).

So you have to be careful how you connect them.

Eg. cars factory -> vehicles storage is ok but
Steel mill -> open storage -> mechanical factory will be working only if steel mill internal storage is full

[frederic.bonave]

You mean that if steel mill internal storage is half and open storage is half , nothing will move to the mechanical factory ?

[polcorp]

Originally posted by frederic.bonave:

You mean that if steel mill internal storage is half and open storage is half , nothing will move to the mechanical factory ?

For the steel mill, it will only fill the open exterior storage if its internal storage is full.
Thus, if you connect a factory to an external storage in the open air, it can consume all the steel of this storage, if for some reason (outage of production) the internal storage of the steel factory is not full.

For containers/vehicles (your first question), the factory will only start filling an external vehicle/container storage when its internal storage is full.
It therefore takes some time to wait before seeing containers/vehicles arrive at your external vehicle/container storage.
Same with container loading facilities.

[Holyvision]

Originally posted by polcorp:

Originally posted by frederic.bonave:

You mean that if steel mill internal storage is half and open storage is half , nothing will move to the mechanical factory ?

For the steel mill, it will only fill the open exterior storage if its internal storage is full.
Thus, if you connect a factory to an external storage in the open air, it can consume all the steel of this storage, if for some reason (outage of production) the internal storage of the steel factory is not full.

For containers/vehicles (your first question), the factory will only start filling an external vehicle/container storage when its internal storage is full.
It therefore takes some time to wait before seeing containers/vehicles arrive at your external vehicle/container storage.
Same with container loading facilities.

The way I mentally visualize this when planning, is just imagine that all the buildings/storage drain out of the TOP of the unit, and not out of the bottom. Eg: You have to spillover your storage to move to the next factory/storage/etc in line. I wish there was an option to allow "bottom draining" storage, for things like capacitor-like storage buffers for oil/fuel loading zones and the like; you can still achieve the same thing though it just has a longer startup time.

[thibaulthc]

is it possible to LOAD vehicles from a "space for vehicles/containers" to a scrapping facility, or a repair station (less useful since a road depot (and maybe parking lot too)next to it works fine)
I tried but it doesn't seem to work

[Egodeus]

Originally posted by thibaulthc:

is it possible to LOAD vehicles from a "space for vehicles/containers" to a scrapping facility, or a repair station (less useful since a road depot (and maybe parking lot too)next to it works fine)
I tried but it doesn't seem to work

It doesn't seem to work for the scrapping facility (tried the same thing myself) but the bigger problem is why do you necro almost two year old thread, not cool.