Multiple Goods Same City

[Benio]

WOW! This is the dumbest thing i've seen...

I've looked through the discussion board & it looks like people are saying to sell a good in the same city its made or to move a good say from a steel mill to a tools factory in the same city you have to have a train take the good away & bring it back??

Thats insane!

Please get this fixed guys, you are actually punishing people for planning well & getting the goods produced in the same city they are needed, where did this logic come from??

Please tell me i'm wrong & their is a better way to do this?

[Pomelowe]

The train doesn't have to leave the station in order to transfer it from one building to another (or to a city demand). Also building a warehouse in the city solves this issue :) We're not sure yet if and how this will change in the future!

[Grumpyolman]

Exactly Warehouse works well.

[jhughes]

Originally posted by Benio:

WOW! This is the dumbest thing i've seen...

I've looked through the discussion board & it looks like people are saying to sell a good in the same city its made or to move a good say from a steel mill to a tools factory in the same city you have to have a train take the good away & bring it back??

Thats insane!

Please get this fixed guys, you are actually punishing people for planning well & getting the goods produced in the same city they are needed, where did this logic come from??

Please tell me i'm wrong & their is a better way to do this?

Why.. A city would not really have just one place that serves every single part of the city. There could very easily be a train (or other transportation) required to get things to different places inside the city. Assign an engine to load from a factory and take to the town hall. Not sure that is a huge problem.

[chaney]

There may be an easy solution, but isn't that a bit expensive? An entire locomotive ($$$) instead of doing the *local* deliveries by horse cart? It doesn't make thematic sense, and I agree with Benio that from a game design and balance sense it seems unnecessarily punitive because of that cost.

[Benio]

Originally posted by jhughes:

Originally posted by Benio:

WOW! This is the dumbest thing i've seen...

I've looked through the discussion board & it looks like people are saying to sell a good in the same city its made or to move a good say from a steel mill to a tools factory in the same city you have to have a train take the good away & bring it back??

Thats insane!

Please get this fixed guys, you are actually punishing people for planning well & getting the goods produced in the same city they are needed, where did this logic come from??

Please tell me i'm wrong & their is a better way to do this?

Why.. A city would not really have just one place that serves every single part of the city. There could very easily be a train (or other transportation) required to get things to different places inside the city. Assign an engine to load from a factory and take to the town hall. Not sure that is a huge problem.

I agree with your point IF the city had 2 or more stations.

But people get delivered to the station & magically go wherever they are going...

Mail gets delivered to the station & gets transported to a post office presumably??

Wood / Food etc, all go to the station & get distributed to wherever they need

So by the logic of the gameplay, you deliver goods to the train station & they get distributed, its completely illogical that you would then have to take goods away & bring them back.

When you cook a meal do you take it back to the supermarket before you eat it?

[Benio]

Originally posted by ICE Pomelowe:

The train doesn't have to leave the station in order to transfer it from one building to another (or to a city demand). Also building a warehouse in the city solves this issue :) We're not sure yet if and how this will change in the future!

So you just need a spare train to park in the station?

[jhughes]

Originally posted by Benio:

Originally posted by ICE Pomelowe:

The train doesn't have to leave the station in order to transfer it from one building to another (or to a city demand). Also building a warehouse in the city solves this issue :) We're not sure yet if and how this will change in the future!

So you just need a spare train to park in the station?

Not park (well you could do that).. But add it to a train that already goes there for another reason.

[jhughes]

Originally posted by Benio:

Originally posted by jhughes:

Why.. A city would not really have just one place that serves every single part of the city. There could very easily be a train (or other transportation) required to get things to different places inside the city. Assign an engine to load from a factory and take to the town hall. Not sure that is a huge problem.

I agree with your point IF the city had 2 or more stations.

But people get delivered to the station & magically go wherever they are going...

Mail gets delivered to the station & gets transported to a post office presumably??

Wood / Food etc, all go to the station & get distributed to wherever they need

So by the logic of the gameplay, you deliver goods to the train station & they get distributed, its completely illogical that you would then have to take goods away & bring them back.

When you cook a meal do you take it back to the supermarket before you eat it?

Well, in this case.. It is 2 separate businesses. So you have say a factory that is weapons and one that is steel. You want steel to go from the mill to the weapons factory. You can deliver materials to either and they will transfer made materials automatically to city hall {if required}. But factory to factory you have to do manually.

Which I think it good.. What if you DON'T WANT to use that weapons factory.. But one you own somewhere else?

[Benio]

Originally posted by jhughes:

Originally posted by Benio:

I agree with your point IF the city had 2 or more stations.

But people get delivered to the station & magically go wherever they are going...

Mail gets delivered to the station & gets transported to a post office presumably??

Wood / Food etc, all go to the station & get distributed to wherever they need

So by the logic of the gameplay, you deliver goods to the train station & they get distributed, its completely illogical that you would then have to take goods away & bring them back.

When you cook a meal do you take it back to the supermarket before you eat it?

Well, in this case.. It is 2 separate businesses. So you have say a factory that is weapons and one that is steel. You want steel to go from the mill to the weapons factory. You can deliver materials to either and they will transfer made materials automatically to city hall {if required}. But factory to factory you have to do manually.

Which I think it good.. What if you DON'T WANT to use that weapons factory.. But one you own somewhere else?

I have no problem at all with it being manual, its the idea that there has to be a train involved which makes it ridiculous

The solution of using a train is just a hack to get round the stupid game logic

[Grumpyolman]

You should find that a city that large gains another space, Build a warehouse and deliver and transfer from there.

[Great Manitou]

We have made possibility to manual sell goods from your factory to the city and transfer goods from one your factory to other in one city.
However, right now this feature is in our experimental "testing" branch. You can try it. Moreover it has some additional fixes and features. More information is here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/797400/discussions/0/1629663273599969281/