Issues with Train Distribution Office

[JFJohnny5]

Unlike the standard distribution office, the train ones behaves oddly. Two examples:
-It generally makes trains that are way too long for what it's going to deliver, such as I have 5 boxcars stored in the yard and it takes all 5 to deliver 4.7t of Mechanical comp.
-I set the Storage percent for a Load location to 20%, but it keeps draining it all way down (based on the need of the Unload location)

Are these bugs or am I missing something? The standard distribution office is good about only dispatching the size of truck it needs, and respecting the storage percent limits. The train ones seems to ignore both of those elements.

[Kim-Jong-JAY]

As I understand the storage % is how much you like it to fill. If set to 20% it will get filled to 20%. nothing more. Set it to 90% and see what happens.

[kiky]

if you set it to load at 20% it does not mean it will leave behind 20%.
it means as soon as 20% is surpassed a vehicle will load up to the entire storage if a delivery demands it.

truck Do's behave the same, however a truckload will most likely not empty out a sizeable storage, wile a train with 5 boxcars might.


it sending all the wagons out if there is not enought to load is a bit odd, did you perhaps sellect minimum train size in dte RDO by mistake?

[JFJohnny5]

Originally posted by kiky:

did you perhaps sellect minimum train size in dte RDO by mistake?

There's a "Minimum Train Size"? I haven't seen that setting.. I'll have to look for it next time I play.

[JFJohnny5]

Originally posted by kiky:

if you set it to load at 20% it does not mean it will leave behind 20%.
it means as soon as 20% is surpassed a vehicle will load up to the entire storage if a delivery demands it.

Ah.. Hmm.. Well that's unexpected behavior. I mean if that's the case, then what I'm seeing makes sense. It's just.. well, it would be useful to have a "minimum stockpile" amount that Distribution Offices will respect.

[kiky]

Minimum stockpile is % of storage you set - max lenght train.

if you have a 1000t storage and set it to 50%, a train will go there at 501t stored.
if the train can load 250t your minimum stockpile will be 251t
if you set it to 30% your minimum stockpile will be 51t

[Spencer]

you need to align the train lenght with the max. cargo load you want to pickup. It's difficult though if you have a big variance in the train cars, eg. aggregate type and boxed type. I use different Train DOs for that purpose.
but it can even be a challenge since box cars load different amounts of goods too. eg. a box car can load a lot of fabric but very little chemicals. It's possible to compensate this in the storage house settings, so you lower the % for fabric in the destination storage house, but increase the one for chemicals. I try to have the total storage capacity within a single storage building (or multiple storage buildings attached to the same cargo train station) aligned for all goods (eg. 50t for everything)