Water & Sewage Problem

[richarddenotter]

Hello Comrades!

My sewage and water trucks never get filled 100% and I was trying to figure it out, until I realized it is related to pollution level. For example, 10L sewage truck loading waste with 50% polution will only fill up to 5L, and the rest is water (as shown in the overlay). Vice versa, water truck will load up to 5L, the rest is sewage. Has anyone else experienced it? If so, is there a way to fix it, i.e. make them fill up to 100% of their capacity, i.e. get rid of excess water/sewage the truck is carrying?

Thank you!

[potski]

Water trucks won't carry sewage. Sewage trucks won't carry fresh water. Never. They are two different types of truck, and a sewage truck will never go and load drinking water.

The sewage in the trucks (or in your sewage pipes, outflow etc.) is described as 52% polluted water or "Waste water". This compares with "fresh" water for drinking, washing etc. which is typically over 93%, but needs to be 95% or more to not cause any health issues. It will be 99% from the Customs House.

If you are using a Tech Services with water and sewage trucks, then you cannot control how much water or sewage they will load in any delivery. The Tech Services sends the trucks to supply a water substation or empty a sewage tank, and rarely needs to fill them. So if you have large water trucks then it might well only half fill them. On my game I am using a Tech Services with a remote factory and small 1929 (and cheap) 4t trucks. They are filled 100%, but are not sent very often and the water substation usually contains no more than 4t, so the trucks are full but the substation never is. It just doesn't need 20t of water, so the Tech Services doesn't send it.

[richarddenotter]

Thanks for your reply. In this case I am talking about individual trucks, not technical services. Of course, the water truck window does not show sewage amount it's carrying, and sewage truck will not show water amount. But if you enable resources overlay and choose water or sewage, you will see it corresponds to pollution level exactly. Even water truck carrying 95% pure drinking water will show on the overlay containing 5% sewage (10L water truck will show 9.5L water and 0.5L sewage). That's how I discovered it, as I could never understand why the trucks are never full.

[potski]

Originally posted by richarddenotter:

Thanks for your reply. In this case I am talking about individual trucks, not technical services. Of course, the water truck window does not show sewage amount it's carrying, and sewage truck will not show water amount. But if you enable resources overlay and choose water or sewage, you will see it corresponds to pollution level exactly. Even water truck carrying 95% pure drinking water will show on the overlay containing 5% sewage (10L water truck will show 9.5L water and 0.5L sewage). That's how I discovered it, as I could never understand why the trucks are never full.

Yes, I see this now on the Resource overlay. it does it only for trucks. A 100% full water truck with 95% clean water will show it is nearly full of pure water, AND it will showup on the sewage overlay as containing some sewage. Sewage trucks would show up as about half full of sewage and half full of pure water.

It does not do that with Water Substations and Sewage Tanks, nor any of the other water/sewage infrastructure, only the trucks. And only on these overlays. The truck interface is clear for the sewage truck that it is 100% full of sewage, even if that sewage has 52% quality.

This is clearly a bug and should be reported.

[potski]

Bug report here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/784150/discussions/1/3727323721769456055/