construction offices sometimes not picking up auto construction

[Tarmok]

Noticed this a few times now. Seems like at times construction offices stop picking up new constructions and don't send out their vehicles, despite being in range and having all resources. Anybody knows why that could be?

[esbenmf]

Too many tasks assigned already maybe?

[Tarmok]

nah they had literally nothing to do

[Hephaistos]

road to the new construction is not constructed yet?

[Tarmok]

They are done, I can manually assign them and they start right away, it is just that they don't go for them on their own. It is basicly like I have auto search turned off for them

[esbenmf]

Constructions may be turned off?

[Titule]

Too far away, increase search distance?

Or report bug

[bkmmoore16]

rail construction yards are just as bad with task allocation, buggy in late game.

[Absinthe Eyes]

I'm close to throwing my PC out my window due to these construction office bugs.

• I've highlighted a section of mud road to be paved with gravel.
  
  
• The construction task doesn't cut off access to a source of gravel in storage from which I've ordered my construction offices to pull from. The only building presently cut off by the task is a small customs house.
  
  
• The first office transports the bulldozer while two others send off their respective dumpers to collect gravel.
  
  
• The bulldozer begins to work on the task after the first batch of gravel is deposited on site, before teleporting back to the office. The office immediately begins to transport the bulldozer back towards the task. It goes about about 1/6 the way before the truck pulls a sharp u-turn in the road and drives back into the office.
  
  
• The truck repeats this process endlessly. It is now looping.
  
  
• Each time the truck reaches the section of road where it aborts, the construction task is removed from the construction office task queue.
  
  
• Deselecting the instruction to only deliver mechanisms with trucks doesn't resolve the issue. Deselecting auto-search and manually assigning the construction task doesn't resolve the issue. Reloading the last save doesn't resolve the issue.
  
  
• Error message on construction office reads: "-Lost road connection to some source building(s)"

It's a straight drive down to the construction site. Building another road or footpath to provide a route to both ends of the construction didn't fix the issue. Also it made my nice graded road go askew, which is literally unplayable. Reload again.

In the end I find that the error message reads once the gravel is deposited on site. The only way I've been able to prevent the looping glitch is to babysit the task and reassign it manually to the construction office once it's automatically cleared from the queue. Then I have to pray that the dozer has enough fuel. Sometimes it seems the machinery remains on site until the task is done whether it's run out of fuel, and sometimes it teleports back to the office.

Jesus wept, this game...

[ruivil7]

Originally posted by ArnoldBrosEst1905:

I'm close to throwing my PC out my window due to these construction office bugs.

• Error message on construction office reads: "-Lost road connection to some source building(s)"

Same issue with COs, seems a new bug introduced in latest versions with those loops
For me it was a very strech of road that was blocking all COs.