Observations and doubts

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3 total messages Started by Carlos Correia Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:55

#28561

Author: Carlos Correia
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:55

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Hi all.

Since ever, i have noticed that the production of the farms is not so
"equal" as it look; when a farm produces "90 tons of grain" and "90
items of livestock", in very distinct games, i had very different results,
sometimes the production of grain is twice or trice the production of
livestock, and sometimes is the opposite. Why this happens?

Another observation is, an helicopter simply get stuck in the oil rigs
with the "full load" command, 'cose oil rigs don't produce mail... (but
they accept...). Well, i know the "full load on any" command line, but
it affects the entire game, not only helicopters... Any suggestion?

Thanks in advanced.

Carlos C.

Re: Observations and doubts

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Author: Tony Polson
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:27

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"Carlos Correia" <cak@oninet.pt> wrote:

>Since ever, i have noticed that the production of the farms is not so
>"equal" as it look; when a farm produces "90 tons of grain" and "90
>items of livestock", in very distinct games, i had very different results,
>sometimes the production of grain is twice or trice the production of
>livestock, and sometimes is the opposite. Why this happens?

This will not answer your question, but whether the grain and
livestock numbers are equal is a moot point.  That's because the
freight cars for grain and livestock have different capacities in any
case.

Re: Observations and doubts

#28563

Author: Stevie D
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:04

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Carlos Correia wrote:

> Since ever, i have noticed that the production of the farms is not so
> "equal" as it look; when a farm produces "90 tons of grain" and "90
> items of livestock", in very distinct games, i had very different results,
> sometimes the production of grain is twice or trice the production of
> livestock, and sometimes is the opposite. Why this happens?

The grain wagons carry 30t, the livestock wagons carry 25 animals. So
if you run the an equal number of livestock and grain trains, with the
same number of wagons in each, they won't balance.

If you run trains with 5 grain wagons, you need to run with 6
livestock wagons to even things up.

I've never noticed farms producing much more of one than the other -
you may get a small difference if your rating for grain is higher or
lower than for livestock - which I would expect to be the case if you
are running the same number of wagons for each.

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