Construction office, forklift, storages, road cargo stations

[Spill]

Please make it so we dont have to have direct connection between cargo station and storage, in addition to the forklift in order for construction offices to undertand its connected

(playing experimental)

[MrKrabs]

I'm afraid I don't get it.
What do you mean exactly?

[Spill]

Say you have Road Cargo Station -> Forklifts -> open storage / warehouse

Construction office does not understand that the cargo station have resources it can use. while the distribution office does understand the setup.

it needs two factory connections, one direct connection, and one to the forklift. it also does not accept factory road splitters

(did also try vanilla construction office)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2653463144

[MrKrabs]

Now I got you. And the building you are trying to select is actually a storage?

[Spill]

The building i am selecting in the image is a road cargo station.
And that would work, if one line was directly connected with nothing in between

[ChalwaBechatex]

Well. It is faster to load trucks directly at storage. It has crane to do so. It makes difference if you are building new city with prefabs and each truck loads 10s instead of 2. With forklifts it will be even worse.

[Mr.Predator]

I see no reason why you would want that setup tbh. You could just run direct connections and the distribution and construction offices would not get confused.

You could do it like in the image (but only with manual lines I think, because construction and distribution offices get confused), but then you lose the bonus of the cargo stations (faster loading/unloading with more vehicles), because a forklift needs multiple trips to load or unload a single truck.

[MrKrabs]

Any pick up for CO needs to be a storage or a directly connected road cargo station. I got your point that you would like to load the trucks with forklifts. But I believe that would be hard to implement.
Also it will give you headache because loading will take forever. Also a truck would leave straight after he got his first load from the forklift.

[Spill]

What I made in the picture is a result of testing. What I actually wanted was one central place for the trucks to pickup from brick & panels factory on each side of a line splitter.

didnt know it was faster using storage direclty.
really feels like a bug to me. and the distribution center does understand it, so not impossible to implement

[Spill]

In my other game I had this layout. You see how it does work as long as one line is direct
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2653683951

[MrKrabs]

At the bottom right U can see my setup.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2652100775

[Spill]

so forklifts are only faster to say fill a mall?
whats intended use?

[ChalwaBechatex]

Originally posted by Bat Eyes:

so forklifts are only faster to say fill a mall?
whats intended use?

They are slow so they can be used for low volume distributed storage like:
- components for vehicle factory
- combine of chemical factories
- crops for ranch
- chems and uranium oxide to uranium processing

They can be used to push resources from one storage to other.
They are situational in most cases avoid and use direct connections.

[MG83]

i find forklifts pretty inefficient :( i still use regular connections all the time

[Spill]

Hope it improves then. forgot to mention i have a mod with 2t. must be why i did not find it innefficient for moving from factories to storages (brick,panel,fabric,cloth)

my towns are still small scale

but ill take the advice for high volume stuff

[Elessar_warrior]

Originally posted by Bat Eyes:

so forklifts are only faster to say fill a mall?
whats intended use?

Uses for forklifts:
1 - When you intentionally want the connection to be bad. I did this in a train parked in an open storage that was sucking all the steel from the steel mill and leaving nothing for the mec components factory.
2- Elec. components factory, as you have 4 in/outs and only 3 factory connections.

I did an experiment with a very small connection and they could not keep up with a steel mill wich produces 43t/day. They just can't transport more than ~30t/day. That is for steel though, for low volume goods the number is lower (and if you have a big connection).