Construction office wont get the asphalt from the asphalt Plant

[Hanti Hut]

Welcome all you bright brains out there, a little problem.
I am trying to build a road for free connected to the hospital.
My construction office has already got the gravel delivered to the construction side - the road = Fine.
But my construction office wont deliver the asphalt, the question is why?
- Asphalt cant be stored so I assume it has to be brought directly from the asphalt plant
- My asphalt plant has the components to produce asphalt (0,5 t. stored there)
- The road I like to build is registrered at the construction office (Gravel has been delivered to the site, so thats not the problem)
- Why will the construction office NOT go and get the asphalt from the asphalt plant and deliver that to to the construction site? (the road) - AND yes I have bought a truck at the construction office that CAN deliver asphalt (the round one - T 138 mixer).

[johntarmac]

It's a dumper that delivers asphalt, not the mixer however if you've got gravel there then you have the necessary vehicle.

Is the asphalt plant assigned to the const. office?
Does the asphalt plant have workers?

[Hanti Hut]

Yes sorry I already have the dumper which provides gravel and asphalt at the constructions office, just a write error from my side (its the same vehicle, dumper, that did deliver the gravel which was fine).
To answer your 2 other questions:
- Yes, the asphalt plant is assigned just as the gravel storage is assigned
- Yes, the is all the time workers at the asphalt plant
I import the Bitumen thing and there is delivered the gravel, so status is output ready for 0,5 t. of asphalt by the asphalt plant.
Workers at the construction site doesnt matter for the delivery, I saw that when the gravel was delivered to the road, so what is the problem here?

[Hanti Hut]

I just manually pick up 11 t. of asphalt from the asphalt plant and put the working place of the dumper to the construction office. Well, the "manually pick up dumper now" is at the construction office with 11 t. of asphalt - but it still doesnt seem to go out and finish the road !!!
What did I get out of this: Well, the asphalt plant works correctly thats all I can say for sure.

So why does the construction office not pick up asphalt from the asphalt plant per automatic (assigned), there is several empty dumpers there and why cant it deliver the asphalt per automatic to the construction site (the road)?

[Hanti Hut]

I am so frustrated - the gravel has been delivered, why not the asphalt.......... have looked at it 1.000.000 times now, there is absolute no simple explanation or maybe its so simple that I missed it..............

[veyder]

The simplest answer is: because it's not needed there at this moment. The followup question would be: why not? Can you post a screenshot of the CO and the construction site?

[Hanti Hut]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2099887137

[Hanti Hut]

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[Hanti Hut]

The road I am trying to build is just below the constructions office.
You see the gravel has been delivered.
You see the road is waiting for 6 t. of asphalt.
You see I have an empty dumper + a dumper with asphalt which was manually filled up from the asphalt plant and workplace assigned afterwards, this should not be nessasary
By the way you see the assignments are correct

[OffTheRailsGaming]

There are no mechanisms or workers on site, you need at least a paver or some workers to get it started on the next stage

[Hanti Hut]

Well, the gravel was delivered by the dumper.
Why should the asphalt not be delivered by the dumper too?
Working has not begun yet, working requires the asphalt to be delivered first, right?

[OffTheRailsGaming]

Oh actually the gravel hasn't been laid yet, either workers or a bulldozer. Then you will need workers or a paver for the asphalt laying

[Hanti Hut]

SOLVED:
You were in the right track but the answer is I found out after seeing the torturial over and over:

After the gravel is delivered it has to be laid before the asphalt can be delivered, so everything cannot be delivered at once. Meaning the bulldozer comes and get the gravel done first. Then you are right you need all the other things for the road, but not workers:
- Dumper, Bulldozer, Paver, Roller (no workers)

For buildings you need:
Bus, Concrete mixer, excavator, open hull, crane
Worth mentioning for beginners like me, that the bus need to be assigned to the construction site like the other vehicles, and not by the construction site.
Thats it:-)

In the meantime I have wondered about maybe it could be a good thing to have more than one construction office to speed up the buildings in the game, when it comes to it we build a lot all the time right. Dont now if anyone have had some experience with +1 construction office?

[OffTheRailsGaming]

Workers speed up the laying of either stage. There are two stages gravel laying and asphalt laying. It says so in the window. Some buildings have multiple stages. You don't need workers for some jobs, they just speed up the process if you do supply them. Workers will also get the roads done without a mechanism but they will be much slower at it, it's best to provide both. I've been playing this game for over a year using construction offices. And yes, I always use more than one office. I have a mod pack and use an 8 space CO for paths only, 4 dumpers 4 mini busses, 16 or 20 for road laying only, dumpers, bulldozers, busses and add a paver and roller for upgrading to asphalt. Also flatbeds to move slow vehicles around but don't have the office assigned for flatbed goods. Then I have a separate larger office for the building crew, excavators, flatbeds, covered hull, dumpers, mixers, open hulls, busses. Making sure they aren't allowed to work on paths or roads so their queues don't get clogged up. I've had around 20 CO's running in one of my larger builds, but unless you are doing a lot of micromanagement you soon end up with some huge queues

[Hanti Hut]

Yeah workers speed up on roads to.
How interesting, well you seem like the right one to tell me about the in-game-future:-)
What i thought about was having maybe 4 offices:
- 2 offices for roads only, equipt with the road vehicles
- 2 offices for buildings only, equipt with the building-vehicles only
Not sure its a good idea - is it possible for 2 offices to get assigned to the same job?
I am not so far in the game - more waste of your time, I better play a few hours with this at least....
Thanks off:-)

[OffTheRailsGaming]

Yes multiple offices can work on the same projects, although that's when you get start getting long queues of them trying to get on site. It can be problematic in built up areas at times but you will soon get the hang of it. I generally plan out a large area and then set them all off at the same time and target specific roads and paths to get things done in a certain order, leaving the builders on auto to pick up the jobs as and when they can get to them. You don't have to do it like that though, depends how you like to play. It works for me as I make videos, I do around an hour or so of planning and then sit back for a few hours and record timelapses of them working, with a little bit of micromanaging here and there.
Your 2 and 2 idea is fine, that should work without issues as long as they have everything they need. I currently have about 8 or 9 on my map in two locations, although some of them are about to be bulldozed and new facilities built closer towards location no. 3. I do recommend a path only crew though as them paths can really clog up your road crews orders if you use a lot of them, which I tend to do in my towns. There's always load of short bits that need only a few days work but sending a bus with a 50 or 60 capacity is way overkill, so I have mini busses, I even used small cars for a while when I started this map as I didn't want to rinse my bus stops of workers needed for the bigger jobs