Make picking up tower cranes more convenient

[elbrus]

Hey, I hope I'm not suggesting this for the 100th time, but could you come up with some mechanic to make picking up tower cranes more easy. The amount of micro managing just to get the crane to the CO is way too high.
LOVE the cosmonaut mode, thanks for the release. <3

[FutureJohny]

+1
This game needs way to transport used vehicles: Tower cranes, Trolley busses, Metro cars, Cableway cars.

[rsdworker]

yeah we need speical lorry to transport them - like real life you can find trains transported by lorries

[Fry3k]

Sorry for digging up old stuff but can anyone actually tell how to pick up tower cranes from the border? I cannot send an open hull to the border a newly bought one refuses to take the tower crane on its flatbed.

[pryt]

Take the big Skoda Trailer - set waypoint "Customs House of your choice" - select "load vehicle" - select CO of your choice - select "unload vehicle", and start the line.

[Parakitteh]

Originally posted by Fry3k:

Sorry for digging up old stuff but can anyone actually tell how to pick up tower cranes from the border? I cannot send an open hull to the border a newly bought one refuses to take the tower crane on its flatbed.

Tower cranes, due to their size, will not fit on medium flatbeds. The large Kamaz flatbed (16 tonnes capacity) can transport the largest tower crane.

[Stele]

It might be possible, to check if any open hull present in CO is capable of transporting machines and according to that, unlock them in buildings buy vehicles window. Then send truck automaticly to pick it up from border post.

[Silent_Shadow]

Originally posted by FutureJohny:

This game needs way to transport used vehicles: Tower cranes, Trolley busses, Metro cars, Cableway cars.

You can move mechanisms (like tower cranes) from road depot to road depot. Just load a mechanism onto a truck in the same depot and then reassign the truck to another depot.

[jmb3d3]

Originally posted by Fry3k:

Sorry for digging up old stuff but can anyone actually tell how to pick up tower cranes from the border? I cannot send an open hull to the border a newly bought one refuses to take the tower crane on its flatbed.

Having the same issue. How the heck do you get the crane from the customs house?! So frustrating!

[Silent_Shadow]

You need to have a flatbed truck that can carry it and then make a line like so:

• Customs house - Load vehicles. (you may need to select the destination to be able to select vehicles).
  
  Ensure that "wait until loaded" is not checked. For some reason, this option makes vehicles leave without loading any vehicles.
  
  
• Construction office - Unload vehicles. The crane should be unloaded here.
  
  
• Depot - Nothing. This stop is included so that the truck will go to and wait at the depot instead of repeating the line and wasting fuel.

Note that for helicopter COs, you need to have a helicopter stationed there that can carry the tower crane, which will be either the Mi-10 or the S64; otherwise the crane will not be unloaded there.

You should also be informed that the tower crane is only good for very large construction projects where many people are needed. A road crane will perform as well for smaller projects and it will not occupy the time of a flatbed truck that you may have supplying sites with materials.

[Maarb]

Well It is late, but this is how I have done it.
1- Buy road depot (in roads section. I took the free one)
2- Buy Open hull truck and Tower Crane at the customs office
3- Set the Open hull to the Road Depot.
4- Let the truck pick up the Tower crane. Make sure you tick Vehicle and Containers and wait until loaded.
5- Deliver the crane to a CO and make sure it is offloaded. put a open hull in a CO

[Titule]

Originally posted by Fry3k:

Sorry for digging up old stuff but can anyone actually tell how to pick up tower cranes from the border? I cannot send an open hull to the border a newly bought one refuses to take the tower crane on its flatbed.

It's complicated. More complicated than it should be.

Originally posted by Maarb:

Well It is late, but this is how I have done it.
1- Buy road depot (in roads section. I took the free one)
2- Buy Open hull truck and Tower Crane at the customs office
3- Set the Open hull to the Road Depot.
4- Let the truck pick up the Tower crane. Make sure you tick Vehicle and Containers and wait until loaded.
5- Deliver the crane to a CO and make sure it is offloaded. put a open hull in a CO

Step 4 /5 is like creating a line and load vehicles at the customs house and unload it at destination.

I expected if I buy both at the customs house, there would be a possibility to load it on the truck right there, but I couldn't find a way to do it. I had to first assign the truck to the depot :(


Another thing: if you have a suitable truck and a tower crane in a CO and click "move all vehicles to another place", they will forget the crane and it will be abandoned.
I'd expect the trucks would not leave empty.

[elbrus]

Originally posted by Titule:

Originally posted by Fry3k:

Sorry for digging up old stuff but can anyone actually tell how to pick up tower cranes from the border? I cannot send an open hull to the border a newly bought one refuses to take the tower crane on its flatbed.

It's complicated. More complicated than it should be.

Originally posted by Maarb:

Well It is late, but this is how I have done it.
1- Buy road depot (in roads section. I took the free one)
2- Buy Open hull truck and Tower Crane at the customs office
3- Set the Open hull to the Road Depot.
4- Let the truck pick up the Tower crane. Make sure you tick Vehicle and Containers and wait until loaded.
5- Deliver the crane to a CO and make sure it is offloaded. put a open hull in a CO

Step 4 /5 is like creating a line and load vehicles at the customs house and unload it at destination.

I expected if I buy both at the customs house, there would be a possibility to load it on the truck right there, but I couldn't find a way to do it. I had to first assign the truck to the depot :(


Another thing: if you have a suitable truck and a tower crane in a CO and click "move all vehicles to another place", they will forget the crane and it will be abandoned.
I'd expect the trucks would not leave empty.

That is exactly what i meant. it's so much complicated micromanagement that doesn't add anything to the game. it's kinda frustrating on top, that some flatbeds can't even load the cranes even though their carrying capacity is sufficient. i still don't know what is causing this, maybe the length of the vehicle or something.

[Silent_Shadow]

Weight is ignored when it comes to carrying vehicles and containers. Vehicles can carry them if they have enough space on their deck/flatbed. You also need to have another stop in the line where the vehicles/containers could be handled at (a storage they could be unloaded into).