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How Local and Trade Depot deliveries work
NovaBlazer posted a topic in SimCity (2013) General Discussion
I think there is some general confusion as to how local delilveries from resource providers work versus trade depot deliveries. I am going to take a chance at tackling the hierarchy of events that can occur. My mine makes ore My ore gets moved to the smelter directly from the trucks at the mine. My smelter makes alloy. My alloy gets moved by my smelter trucks directly to the processor factory. My factory makes processors My processors get moved by the processor factory trucks to my TV factory. My factory makes TV's My TVs are moved by TV factory trucks to my depots. Depots/Ports then sell the items by either rail, boat or by *ug* trucks that come from the global market. Do I sometimes get items moved out of the depot that were earmarked for export and instead they go to local delivery: Yes. Do I sometimes get items moved out of the "Use Locally" depot that get delivered to the resource consumers: Yes. In almost all cases the decision tree is thusly, Resource is made/produced Resource will be deliever by the producer trucks to another consumer of your resource in your city. IF there are no consumers in your city for that resource the resource is taken to the depot IF there are no depots the resources sit at the original producer (step 1) until there is a need for them. IF there are no resources available at the producer site, delivery will come from a depot. IF there are no resources available at a depot and there is a depot set to import the item, a depot import order is placed. Now... questions I still have, and after many hours of watching the trade window... is IF a depot with resources is closer than a resource producer who gets the call from the consumer to deliver the resources... 2nd thing, If two trucks attempt to fulfill an order, one can be turned away at the place where the order is to be fulfilled because the other arrived first and filled up the stock. The truck that was turned away will then return to the depot and dump your goods in the trash. Pretty sure this is a bug. Upon review... this is far more Trade Nerdy that I expected. -
Hello, Anyone know if you can demolish individual lots attached as an upgrade to Trade Depots? What I mean is, I added 3 upgrade lots to my Depot, one for steel/metals, one for ore, and one for plastics. The problem is, I did not produce enough plastic from my recycling operations, so I "Closed" the lot, leaving the other 2 lots open, since they were profitible. Since you can only add so many lots to the original Depot, I wanted to demolish it so that I could replace it with a different lot, perhaps oil. Anyone know if this is possible? Or am I stuck with the old lot and need to build a new Depot? Thanks for any help! Mike
