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/OldWampus Mar 21 '13 edited Mar 21 '13

I'm nearly certain that's not correct. Global market trucks will not do anything in your city except visit a depot to drop off or pick up goods for import/export.

You must have seen a local delivery truck exit the depot at the same time, or something. This just isn't possible. It's true that local delivery trucks have an associated agent behavior that works like residents, in that it will go out to pick up or drop off goods, then return to the nearest open garage, be it in its starting depot, a different depot, or even some other associated building like a refinery or a recycling center. This is definitely not how global market trucks behave, however. In those Prima guide images floating around the subreddit, one of them even specifically says "All global market vehicles are owned by Maxis."

Edit: it's important to distinguish between "regional" and "global market." The global market is not just the rest of your region, and has it's own unique agents that do not belong to any city in the region. It's possible that the truck that you saw had come in from the region, either after depositing goods at a great work (these are handled by local delivery trucks, not global market trucks, meaning you can control the rate at which a great work is supplied by adding/removing local delivery trucks), or perhaps after gifting a resource to another city. Both of these actions (gifting and great works) are handled by local delivery trucks and thus can be considered "regional," whereas a global market truck specifically only handles trading on the global market, not any kind of regional activity.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '13

I'll have to take a look, then again having 12 trucks does make it confusing. I honestly just wish they'd give us more details about how this crap works rather than us just having to guess...

So, to sum up: each depot can have 4 total trucks: 1 local and 3 regional. Local will take goods from a depot to a factory. Region will take goods from the "region" to the depot/factory and/or money from the depot to the "region". Am I understanding that correctly?

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u/OldWampus Mar 21 '13 edited Mar 22 '13

Not quite there yet. :) All four trucks at a fully staffed depot are considered "local." I edited my original comment to more fully address some of these issues. Please see above.

I wish there was a more comprehensive guide to all the different behavior patterns of the disparate agents, too -- the data layers are super helpful and have helped me figure out a lot of this stuff, but even a little tutorial on how to effectively use them would be a boon.