Freight Enhancement (Supply Chain) - Project Pony

[xoxide 377]

Currently I ships directly from each industry to the commercial buildings at specific times. 

 

Project Pony is the adding of a supply chain plop to the game that would act as a FREIGHT and PACKAGE handling system to streamline and lower the volume of traffic and also be more robust in interaction with the C on behalf of I as product is produced.

 

Once the Supply Chain is added, instead of industry shipping to the Commercial directly it would fill up a truck and ship that to the supply chain.

 

The supply chain would then handle distribution to within the city to handle and lower traffic volume of freight and demands required by the commercial.

 

What are you thoughts on this concept

 

 

XoXide - Project Pony

[CapTon 592]

This sounds like a very interesting and nice concept the fact that it would reduce traffic and get freight to commercial more efficiently is enough for me.

[xoxide 377]

this does work with project unicorn

 

Project Pony and Unicorn are part of the same ideas except one is inner city vs distribution between cities and clusters like a trade

[CapTon 592]

If both could be implemented, it would be great

[xoxide 377]

Project Pony would be first stage to improve CITY freight and make profit off of tax and cut down on traffic and other aspects to make deliveries more efficient and effective.

 

Project Unicorn would then take it to the cluster and map where you could supply it to anyone within region and make profit and tax and other aspects to give greater level of user engagement.

 

If completed .. walmar, target, idea and others would be possible to emulate

[originalpeachy 5]

Brilliant concept, better traffic allows larger population, it would also be very cool if distribution trucks could be modelled from reality to go along with the idea of walmart, target etc.

 

The concept will definitely ADD to the game, opening more possibilities.   

[xoxide 377]

Realistic rail

realist roads

realistic supply and delivery via train cargo ships and highway

 

that the point

 

we may be able to tie them to existing stores

 

if store X = active then Truck Template X is used

[elemental1100 50]

Well if you want realism, then we should be able to create entire regions that don't contain any industrial. Most of the stuff sold in the shops in any city in the western world is not made in that city. Much of it isn't even made in the same country.

 

In other words a freight distribution network that can import freight from outside the region (just like coal or any other resource in the game) would be good. Ideally it could import enough freight to keep commercial happy, without making industrial unhappy. So all shops would always have enough freight and the player can decide how much industry they want in the city and/or the region.

[bobp 29]

I can see that anything that reduces the distribution of traffic from factories to shops would be a massive bonus, but surely there would be traffic generated by a distribution depot? The idea of freight becoming a commodity as is oil, ore and coal etcetera is an excellent idea allowing you to import freight in a city, or conversely being able to sell freight if you have a surplus in a city. Or as elemental said in the above post being able to import from outside the region would enable you to create entire regions/cities without factories.

What would really be nice is a stock market where commodities could be traded as in the real world, thinking here of different buy/sell prices so if you produce freight you sell it at one price but if you buy it you pay a premium. Don't know if that's possible.

[xoxide 377]

There are multiple ways of dealing with different aspects.

 

Teleportation, Truck pickups and deliveries instead of 1 per industry building only as many as you plop on a schedule, train, air, water and road.

 

The way freight is programmed as I understand it .. you have a ratio of 5/8 2/8 1/8 R C I supply and demand need for building your zones.

 

D1/3 and d2 and d3 2 units of freight produced.  Commercial has enough to stay going for 1 or 2 days without complaining as basement stock of a sort.

 

I mean but this is not how normal freight and shipments take place.  Most shipments happen 1 time or 2 times a week unless its something that is more time sensitive.

 

but again.. as a group we should discuss what we think and expect this section and subsections to do and see what the community can build and make from it

 

These are not the only projects on my list that were not made by maxis and yet I think are foundation engagement features that should and would improve many aspects of the interaction and details a city would benefit from along with other expansions that could make use of the foundations

 

what I call compound mods

[xoxide 377]

NOT DEAD we need a team to work on this MOD .. please submit your desire to participate in Project Pony

[Ocram's Razr 963]

If and when this is implemented, I believe that high density industry should produce more freight and the low density industry produce less.

--Ocram

[xoxide 377]

That would be up to the team to figure out.  The idea is open to anyone whom wants to put information forward for the project as we figure out whom has the skills and time to pull it off with unicorn.

 

Taking current freight and making it behave differently along the lines what we are talking about with essentially 3 stages of behavior will be a challenge however I think it opens up the realistic aspects of business and would give birth to industries in a functional form from Ikea to Target, Walmart or any other major Distribution and supply chain with stores.

 

This would not only give form to malls and other aspects however it would add huge layers of depth to game play

[TheCraftKid 52]

Oh, you were right, Xoxide. This community is infectious. Once you get in, you want to make all the mods in the world!

 

I express my desire to work with Pony Distribution Corp (Which will be the name of the building)!

[TheCraftKid 52]

This actually goes well with what I was trying to accomplish with my um.. "WIP" Agriculture Mod. I say "WIP" because it's somewhat on a hiatus. I'm starting with simpler mods.

Multiple production sites -> Multiple factories -> Multiple freight centers -> Multiple consumers.

[xoxide 377]

we have some issues that need to be resolved and we are working on projects that impact other projects

 

cultures need a new handling process

 

Distribution and supply chain work with the idea that custom or new rules would also be needed for behavior changes .. its complicated in the sense we have no access to those parts we would need to make an effective implementation as of yet

[SethySquirrel 12]

I think this will perfect for my new  Industrial city project :3 

 

I think this will be a good concept ^^ hope you can make Project Pony and Project Unicorn a realty in simcity!: D