Transport Fever

Transport Fever

New Industry 2.54
Vitaro  [developer] Oct 18, 2017 @ 12:54am
How it works? Mail / Принцип работы почтовой системы.
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There are two types of the residental buildings in the game. The first type of buildings generates mail, the other – consumes.
The amount of mail produced depends on the amount of dwellers in each building. To distinct one type of buildings from another take a look at the sidewalk in front of the building. Mail producing buildings have yellow boxes on a sidewalk. Mail consuming buildings have mail requests in their description windows.
To transport mail you need to:
1) place a post office in a residental area;
2a) deliver mail from the post office to bus stops, which are also need to placed in a residental area;
2b) place another post office on the other side of the residental area.

In the case 2b you will have mutual mail production and consumption. The same approach works, if you deliver mail for one city to another:
Residental area <-> Residental area.

We wanted a player to immerse into the postal delivery and that is why we have created post office buildings, which can be found in the menu of truck stations. A post office is the same truck station, via wich you can transport all other goods.
Also, we have added mail boxes. You can find them in the menu of bus stops. Mail box can be used to unload any type of cargo or as a bus stop.

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Игра содержит два разных типа жилых домов. Один тип генерирует почту, другой её принимает.
Количество почты напрямую зависит от числа жителей каждого конкретного дома. Понять какое здание есть какое, можно просто посмотрев на тротуар перед ним. Здания генерирующие почту, выставляют желтые коробки прямо перед собой. Здания, которые потребляют её, пишут об этом в своем описании.

Для того чтобы почта работала, вам надо разместить в жилой зоне грузовую станцию, чтобы почта поступала на неё. Затем вы можете просто развозить её по автобусным остановкам для разгрузки. Их тоже следует размещать в жилых зонах. Либо разместить еще одну грузовую станцию в другом конце жилой зоны. В таком случае вы получите двусторонний обмен посылками. Между городами работает такой же принцип: Жилая зона - Жилая зона.

Специально для воссоздания антуража почтовой системы, мы создали для вас Почтамты, которые вы можете найти в меню "автомобильных грузовых терминалов". Они по сути являются обычными терминалами, и вы можете возить через них и другие грузы.
Кроме этого мы добавили Почтовые ящики. Их вы можете найти в меню "автобусных остановок". Служат они для разгрузки почты и/или других товаров. Также вы можете их использовать как самые простые автобусные остановки остановки.
Last edited by Vitaro; Oct 20, 2017 @ 2:05am
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Armandeus Oct 20, 2017 @ 5:29am 
I like the mail idea very much. However it is a bit confusing that mail is in both the passenger (bus stations, mail boxes) and cargo (post offices, train stations) menus. Many people, including me, seem to want to attach mail cars to passenger trains, and transport mail with passenger stations, but you need a cargo station, right? If mail is cargo, maybe all the mail buildings should be in the cargo menus, not the passenger menus.
Thank you very much for this great mod.
Bad Pipe Oct 22, 2017 @ 12:14pm 
How do I pick up the mails? I can't find a type of truck to transfer to post office.
Wandering Mania Oct 24, 2017 @ 5:59am 
Originally posted by Armandeus:
I like the mail idea very much. However it is a bit confusing that mail is in both the passenger (bus stations, mail boxes) and cargo (post offices, train stations) menus. Many people, including me, seem to want to attach mail cars to passenger trains, and transport mail with passenger stations, but you need a cargo station, right? If mail is cargo, maybe all the mail buildings should be in the cargo menus, not the passenger menus.
Thank you very much for this great mod.
But the thing is that normally passenger trains carry mail. Not cargo trains. So treating mail both as passengers and cargo makes sence.
Armandeus Oct 24, 2017 @ 6:51pm 
Originally posted by Wandering Mania:
But the thing is that normally passenger trains carry mail. Not cargo trains. So treating mail both as passengers and cargo makes sence.
Yes, and it would be easier to understand the game, I think, if all the mail-related things were in the passenger menus, not scattered between passenger and cargo. As it is now, we need separate train stations for passengers and mail, right?
Wandering Mania Oct 24, 2017 @ 7:22pm 
Originally posted by Armandeus:
Originally posted by Wandering Mania:
But the thing is that normally passenger trains carry mail. Not cargo trains. So treating mail both as passengers and cargo makes sence.
Yes, and it would be easier to understand the game, I think, if all the mail-related things were in the passenger menus, not scattered between passenger and cargo. As it is now, we need separate train stations for passengers and mail, right?
In the vanilla yes. But there might be a mod for a combo one. All my searching for one has gone fruitless so far. Maybe some one will make one some day. As I have seen already combo truck/bus/tram stations, so it is possible to make.
mairondil Oct 26, 2017 @ 1:57pm 
I agree that the mailbox in the Passenger Station menu is a bit confusing. But then, several other freight delivery styled bus stops are in that same menu. Perhaps its a limitation of the game where bus stops are only passenger stops and stations can be passenger or freight.

Two things:
* What type ship can transport mail?
* Why is there huge demand for local mail distribution via truck and huge demand for town to town via truck, but the minute I change to using a train the demand tanks? Two dozen town to town trucks keep a constant waiting to be picked up of several hundred while running full both directions. Replace with 1 or 2 trains and BAM! 15-30 pieces at a time, hardly ever full trains.
mairondil Oct 26, 2017 @ 2:01pm 
Since I'm here, How does one recover mail? I assume the Post Office pulls from it's catchment area. Can the trucks pull from the catchment areas of the mail boxes?
rip-m-up Nov 3, 2017 @ 7:14pm 
So from what I understand is that I need two post offices in a residential area of a town in order to get mail working, right? So would i need two post offices in each town in order to have a mail network via rail? Or does this work for only road freight? I want to deliver mail via rail but not sure how. And having two post offices confuses me. Is the other mail mod compatible with this by any chance?
Bospor Nov 4, 2017 @ 2:45am 
Все запутались с этой почтой. Нужно лучшее объяснение чем то что вы дали ребята. Иначе почта в этом моде обречена на забвение. Пожалуста постарайтесь объяснить подробнее, с примерами. Особенно о почте поездами, а то просто пипец
Vitaro  [developer] Nov 4, 2017 @ 3:29am 
Place cargo station (rail or truck) near resident zone in the first city and in the second city.
Start vehicle between this stations with post waggon or special post truck.
Bospor Nov 4, 2017 @ 4:23am 
If i place a post office building in the residential (green) area and place another post office in the other side of town (also green), send the mail trucks inbetween these post offices, so what are the post boxes are for then?
Vitaro  [developer] Nov 4, 2017 @ 5:41am 
post box placed on the sidewalk by roads and need only for unload mail and other cargo
Bospor Nov 4, 2017 @ 7:05am 
so, where does the Post Office building gets the mail from? If the post boxes are for unloading the mail to the public, where is the mail gets generated from?
Vitaro  [developer] Nov 4, 2017 @ 7:55am 
Mail it's a cargo. You need cargo station for collect. Post office it's truck cargo station.
rip-m-up Nov 5, 2017 @ 7:01am 
Thanks for the instruction. Got it figured out. Great mod by the way.
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