Distribution Office doesn't perform all tasks.

[whiteg1971]

1: I set up the Distribution Office to pick up fuel at the oil refinery and selling to the Gas Station, the Farm, the Hospital, the police, and the fire department. I bought the necessary vehicle for this.
The Distribution office fills the hospital, police station, and fire station with fuel, but not the gas station and the farm. why?
2: Another task of the distribution office is to fill the shopping center with electronic and clothing products from a central warehouse. The shopping center empties out, yet the distribution office does not start the operation of the delivery to the warehouse to fill the shopping center with goods. why?
After several settings and trials, I deleted the Distribution office, I now use direct line.

[MrKrabs]

Does the gas station have electricity? If not no fuel will be delivered.
For the warehouse you need to be aware of the filling rate.
The filling counts total only.
So if the warehouse is filled with 80% of food, and the DO is told to fill up to 80%, nothing else will be delivered.
If my suggestions won't fix your problem a screen shot might be helpful.

I also suggest Bballjo's Channel on YT.
He covered DO's as well.

Edit : After rereading your post I want to ask. Do you have covered hull trucks in your DO as well?

[whiteg1971]

Yes, there is electricity, everything works, the whole city works fine.
The distribution office does not even start the vehicles when the fuel runs out at the gas station or the farm. And yes, it is assigned.
The same is true when you need to fill up the shopping center with goods.
Of course, there are vehicles suitable for the goods

[MrKrabs]

Hm, idk at the moment. Do you have a screen shot?

[bajecznie nawdychany]

Ad 2. How about lower threshold for DO to trigger operation? Maybe You need to set 0% as minimum input?

[Nokia 3310]

If destination can have multiple types of product (shopping center in your case) you must tick checkbox "limit amounts", otherwise distribution would not work.

However, can not say much about gas station and farm without screenshots. Double check if destinations have electricity and your tracks have fuel.

[Mudkest]

are the farm and gas station set to unload in the DO? can't imagine the gas station getting set to load, but the farm might.
are the covered hulls empty, or do they carying left over product? Can happen sometimes, for example 0.01t of food in it then it wont go to pick up electronics. if all trucks are occupied this way they just sit there

[MG83]

To tell the truth i never tried to use DO for those tasks.

what i do with gas stations is to chain them up ;
Oil truck takes from source deposits to station a . another oil truck takes from station a deposits to station b another one takes from b and deposists to c . and so on. cofiguration depends on length and direction.

For shopping centre supply i use train and truck system ;
trains deliver to ware house food cloth electronics then trucks take from warehouse (1 truck for each type but 2 for food) delivers to shopping centre.

i use DOs for example delivering wood / crops to chemical plants or delivering chemicals to nuclear fuel fabrication or similar industrial works. And have not encountered issue. But percentages need to be examined properly.

main reason i did not use DO for the fuel and shopping mall is that the DO can catch fire and may get destroyed etc which would cause issue in fuel / food chain.

[neemus]

Gas station and farm cooperate nicely with DO for fuel transportation.

[MrKrabs]

We all do different. However PO´s problem isn´t solved yet.
@whiteg1971 :
Please post a few screenshots.
If possible show us the setup from your DO and the the windows from the source- and target building.
I for myself can confirm that the DO´s are working.
At least they do here.
There got to be a mistake or something.

[jockeril]

I mostly never had issues with delivery of fuel to fuel stations using DO, though I usually use a dedicated DO for that, so it will have up to 18 fuel stations/farms/hospitals/secret police/DOs etc. to unload at. a loading port/station or a tank to load from and the next DO that is used to deliver fuel the same way - this way every fuel delivery DO has its own fuel supply,

The important thing to remember is the min (source)/max (destination) fill levels you set and the destination building needs to be powered - I think those are the only two requirements that the DO checks when considering when to deliver,

Originally posted by whiteg1971:

1: I set up the Distribution Office to pick up fuel at the oil refinery and selling to the Gas Station, the Farm, the Hospital, the police, and the fire department. I bought the necessary vehicle for this.
The Distribution office fills the hospital, police station, and fire station with fuel, but not the gas station and the farm. why?
2: Another task of the distribution office is to fill the shopping center with electronic and clothing products from a central warehouse. The shopping center empties out, yet the distribution office does not start the operation of the delivery to the warehouse to fill the shopping center with goods. why?
After several settings and trials, I deleted the Distribution office, I now use direct line.

As for your specific situation, when I read it I was thinking that maybe you just didn't have enough trucks to deliver to all the destinations ? did you ever see the fuel trucks sit idle at the DO with no product in them ?

another reason for that specific issue, that was already mentioned - when I had the same DO deliver fuel to fuel stations and other but also deliver bitoman to the asphalt plant - one or both would usually end up in the DO with some of the bitoman in it and so unable to deliver fuel or oil - I later changed that so that DO only delivered fuel and a shared one delivered the bitoman and other 'covered hull' requiring trucks so the tanker wasn't used for more than one product on any DO - maybe that's the issue you had ?

[Stele]

Leftover product locking trucks from taking new assingment seems to be fixed now. Returning truck drops all leftover cargo. You can lost hundreds tons of steel by halting construction with trucks on the way. :P
DO priorities targets higher on it's list if several passes conditions for delivery. If you have not enough vehicles it might constantly run to few on top, nnever having a chance to serve those on the bottom.

[jockeril]

Originally posted by Stele:

Leftover product locking trucks from taking new assignment seems to be fixed now.

I didn't know that happens with DOs as well as with CO (which I already knew about) - are you sure about that ? when was it changed, at the same time ?

Originally posted by Stele:

DO priorities targets higher on it's list if several passes conditions for delivery. If you have not enough vehicles it might constantly run to few on top, never having a chance to serve those on the bottom.

yes, and it's evident by not having any trucks of the required kind ever in the DO, which is what I mentioned first:

Originally posted by jockeril:

As for your specific situation, when I read it I was thinking that maybe you just didn't have enough trucks to deliver to all the destinations ? did you ever see the fuel trucks sit idle at the DO with no product in them ?

[Stele]

I'm not certain, but it hasn't happened to me in last playthrough with changed CO logic. Just my assumption it works the same for all automated line generation.

[MrKrabs]

In my current Republik, about 10 k citizens, I barely have lines but a lot of DO's. I run a lot of small modded ones with 2 or 4 Slots only.
No issues in 50 game years.
That's why I quit certain that they are OK.
And that's why I'm interested what went wrong with OP's setup.
Of course I want to avoid running into the same problem.

Is it solved by now?

[whiteg1971]

My previous save: The picture left side shows that the warehouse contains aviable Electronics and clothing .
In the middle, you can see that I have set the distribution office to pick up the electronics and clothing items from the warehouse.
In the picture right side, you can see that the shopping center has run out of electronics and clothing.
I marked in yellow that there are two covered flatbed trucks (a third that is not visible in the picture).
The distribution center does not deliver products from the warehouse to the shopping center.
Note: I could not find a previous save for the fuel delivery problem.
I don't use the distribution office at the moment, I've had enough of it, I use direct flights.
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