Import Construction Materials from border

[GermaneFranz]

Hi guys!

Is it possible to import building materials (asphalt, cement, panels etc.) at the border? Is there a way to select the customs house as a source of materials in the construction office?

Right now i find it a little annoying to build an asphalt or concrete plant to get those materials for self construction. I know you can import the rest at the border and deliver this stuff to storages. But i think the direct way would be neat.
Have a nice day!

[bballjo]

Asphalt and concrete are not really storable, as in real life, they have to be mixed relatively close to the construction site, because temperature and moisture content matters...this is why I wouldn't want them to be importable from the border, unless there are special CO related industries on the border...

Besides this I would like for storable items to be collected from the border by the CO, it feels like there shouldn't be a difference if the material was stored in the owned storage or in the foreign one... maybe this is still coming? They just added the ability to collect resources from the border recently, so I would assume the current mechanics aren't final.

It would be very nice to be able to create asphalt and concrete plants without those 2 materials, but that could maybe be handled when more vanilla buildings get added...

[troz2]

if we could import workers from the border, in a similar style as tourism (the workers would be there at the border depending on the wage you want to pay them, more wage more workers available) we would solve all our problems with having to have a starter city for things to work out

you would need only the CO, the concrete and the asphalt plant.

[ryantheskinny]

You *can* import all that, using a Distribution office and then bring it to your storages next to the border, which your Construction office can then use. However mixed asphalt, also known as asphalt concrete and mixed cement, known as concrete will have to be prepared at your own mixing plant do to the way they are simulated in game (which irl they have a limited lifespan and there os no way to store them in a workable form)

[ZILonaut]

Originally posted by troz2:

if we could import workers from the border, in a similar style as tourism (the workers would be there at the border depending on the wage you want to pay them, more wage more workers available) we would solve all our problems with having to have a starter city for things to work out

you would need only the CO, the concrete and the asphalt plant.

Foreign workers have a much higher wage than your people. About 3x.
You have them anyway, they eat your food and wear your expensive clothes.
Make them work for it.
And they need work or go unhappy.

Have a distribution office to import all the building materials. Have a small open storage and click on "Manage percentage". For example 30% steel, 30% bricks, 30% prefab panels and 10% boards. Tell your distribution office to import these materials and deliver to this open storage up to 90% (100% is not possible because they always bring in full loaded trucks). Tell your construction office to get the needed materials there.
Very easy and speedy pick-up for your construction vehicles. The border might be miles away.
The distribution office tries to keep the fill level while you are planning something else.

Build a small tank of 100t and tell the distribution office to fill it up to 80% with fuel. It will try to keep it always filled with 80t of fuel.
Then have another small distribution office to serve your gas stations from there.

You can do the same with covered storage and aggregate storage.
When you produce a product yourself, just unclick the material from the import list.

I think direkt import through construction trucks was in very early stage of the game and later deleted. The construction office always keeps the set level and saves you from micro management.

[Gorillaz Warfare]

Originally posted by bballjo:

love your hard series btw

[troz2]

Originally posted by Katzsche:

Originally posted by bballjo:

love your hard series btw

me too!

about the other comments, I know that we can have a initial setup and them go from there. But if we could pick workers at the borders this initial setup would be greatly reduced. Which does not mean that what we already have is bad. DOs are wonderful and the game is very challenging and fun.

[Thomas]

We really need small vanilla asphalt and concrete plants which can be build without asphalt and concrete. That's it, then everything else can be imported. Mods already exist, but not everyone plays with mods or spends 30 min looking through workshop.

[MrKrabs]

Strawling though the workshop for me is like being a little boy running through the toys factory 😂

[ZILonaut]

Originally posted by Thomas:

We really need small vanilla asphalt and concrete plants which can be build without asphalt and concrete. That's it, then everything else can be imported. Mods already exist, but not everyone plays with mods or spends 30 min looking through workshop.

Check the workshop of Novu. You can find them there.
Called Asphalt Mixer and Concrete Mixer plant.
Both do not need asphalt or concrete to build.

[Thomas]

Originally posted by ZILonaut:

Originally posted by Thomas:

We really need small vanilla asphalt and concrete plants which can be build without asphalt and concrete. That's it, then everything else can be imported. Mods already exist, but not everyone plays with mods or spends 30 min looking through workshop.

Check the workshop of Novu. You can find them there.
Called Asphalt Mixer and Concrete Mixer plant.
Both do not need asphalt or concrete to build.

Thanks, Captain Obvious. Did you even read my post?
Also did you read comments under Novu's mod for asphalt plant?Because if you did , you will find out it was me asking him for version without asphalt and concrete requirement.

[ryantheskinny]

Originally posted by Thomas:

Originally posted by ZILonaut:

Check the workshop of Novu. You can find them there.
Called Asphalt Mixer and Concrete Mixer plant.
Both do not need asphalt or concrete to build.

Thanks, Captain Obvious. Did you even read my post?
Also did you read comments under Novu's mod for asphalt plant?Because if you did , you will find out it was me asking him for version without asphalt and concrete requirement.

Might i suggest changing your tone slightly, no need to be so rude.

Thanks