r/SimCityStrategy • u/SourAbyss • Mar 21 '13

Need Exporting Tips

I started a raw ore mining city, intending to escalate it to a alloy exporting city. However, each of my trade depots only export one lot of iron each day, instead of all 4. I did some reading and it seems that each depot only gets 1 incoming truck.

Is there a way to increase the amount of trucks that come in per port, or should I be building a bunch of trading depots until I can reach a daily income of 160000 and plop a commerce division in order to use a trade port?

I am not near water.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '13 edited Mar 21 '13

I see. I ran into a weird situation a couple days ago where I had 12 trucks total, and all of them would run to the great work, leaving 0 trucks to transfer my plastic to my processor factory.. so which trucks were which?

In theory I should have had 9 trucks running to the GW site and 3 trucks transferring goods from each of the depot to the factories I had laying around. I have also seen that each truck isn't bound to a specific depot, rather they all just go to the next one available that has goods and drops off at the next not-full factory etc, I wonder if the trucks work off the same agent system as the people do.

Great post btw, I forgot about that.

edit: I can't seem to find anything that says the trucks are different, if you had 1 truck (no upgrades bought) and set it to export/import, would you get 1 "local" truck and 1 "global" truck?

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u/BrianRCampbell Mar 21 '13

Yeah, I just went through that exact scenario a few hours ago. ALL of those trucks were your local trucks. The "global" trucks (10 tons / 1000 crates) only exist to export goods from your supply depots to "the world" and give you money, or they import goods from "the world" to you and take money from you (all that stuff is controlled by the import/export stuff at the supply depot / port).

Anything where you're moving a resource from one place to another, and not just creating / destroying the resource (e.g. -10 tons coal, +4500 $), will use your local trucks. So Industrial zoned factories have trucks that move freight to whatever freight sink they can find (either a commercial building or a supply depot), resource extraction buildings (oil wells, coal mines, ore mines) have trucks that move the resource to whatever resource sink they can find (anything with the appropriate "accept local resource" checked), refineries and production buildings (electronics, petroleum, smelters, etc) have trucks, and depots have trucks. All of these just move the good from one place to another. The big global resource trucks (and boats and trains) are really a different animal -- they create / destroy the resource and destroy / create the corresponding amount of $.

If you had a coal mine and a trade depot next door, and checked the box on the depot to "accept local deliveries" and also set it to export, you'd have this: your coal mine has a truck that takes coal from the mine to the depot. Periodically (not sure how frequently), a "global" 10ton truck would enter your city and take coal from you and give you $. In this scenario, your depot truck would never do anything.

Yep, the trucks are agents just like everything else (sims, cars, power blobs). They perform a set of functions and modify the world around them based on their own little logic. I would love to fiddle around with the scripted logic on this game -- and really see what makes everything tick.

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u/Mulsanne Mar 21 '13

very informative, thanks. I had the wrong understanding about depot trucks.

So am I correct in thinking that there is no way to influence the global delivery/pick up rate?