Do exports make me money?

[Jefft]

If not, then what is the point.. I have a cargo train and cargo ship, both importing and exporting - I have the bank which, decreases the cost of imported goods and increases the price of exported goods.. I'm really confused as to where I see these prices? Is it even making money or am I just wasting money on my cargo train and cargo ships?

Pls help.

[Gentoo]

I believe you are not supposed to make any money on exports, just as you don't pay for imports, but instead the company gets the money and you get taxes off of the company. All that said, I also think it is currently not working as intended. I'm giving it a couple of weeks and checking back.

[icedude94]

You don't own the goods being exported and you don't own the companies producing those goods for export. You might, though I haven't confirmed it with 100% certainty though, be getting service charges when they use your cargo trains and ships for export.

The fixation the player community has on trying to export industrial goods to make money is a habit from the first game.

This game heavily discourages exporting because of factors like goods sell for lower prices as exports because of the cost to transport them. If there's no profit in it, companies won't produce surplus to export.

[icedude94]

It's just not working the way people think it's supposed to work based on assumptions of how they worked in CS1.

This is typically what comes in on an import train on my cargo rail yard to replenish what my industries have been purchasing from it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3065345055

This is a typical outgoing export train. This is the surplus production from extra industry buildings because I overbuilt on my specialized resource industries.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3064781220

This is the truck activity at all times at my cargo rail station
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3065346906

In addition to the trucks own by the station constantly making full load deliveries to warehouses around the city, the warehouses are sending their own trucks to make purchases of materials at the cargo rail station.

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by icedude94:

It's just not working the way people think it's supposed to work based on assumptions of how they worked in CS1.

This is typically what comes in on an import train on my cargo rail yard to replenish what my industries have been purchasing from it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3065345055

This is a typical outgoing export train. This is the surplus production from extra industry buildings because I overbuilt on my specialized resource industries.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3064781220

This is the truck activity at all times at my cargo rail station
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3065346906

In addition to the trucks own by the station constantly making full load deliveries to warehouses around the city, the warehouses are sending their own trucks to make purchases of materials at the cargo rail station.

Yeah I am enjoying watching the trains come in with cargo, and seeing trucks leave to go to their destinations. And watching the trucks leave the specialised industries looks very cool.