Many construction sites inaccessible to normal trucks cause idleness

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nerdpunkfu [discord] · 7 months ago

When there are a lot of construction sites that are inaccessible to normal trucks and need to be handled by amphibious trucks instead, it causes normal trucks to try to path to those sites for long periods of time in between jobs they can do. This causes other jobs to be neglected and pile up. For example the slag on my island is not getting moved properly even though there should be enough trucks to handle it because they are instead all just standing there trying to do construction jobs they can't reach instead.

I discovered this issue after placing down a very long bridge with a lot of segments that goes across the ocean to another area on my island. I think this is also causing amphibious trucks to haul materials somewhat erratically, preferring to go to distant bridge segments and not carry materials to multiple segments(eg. when a segment needs just 3 more steel but neighboring segments still need lots more, usually you'd expect a truck to carry a full load and the excess to 'overflow' to those neighboring segments, but instead they just carry the 3 steel and no more). As a result the throughput of my normal trucks has plummeted.

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nerdpunkfu [discord] · 7 months ago

You can actually do that. Put the dumping material in a stockpile. Set the stockpile to only accept amphibious trucks and to export to a mining tower. Set that mining tower to only accept from import routes and make sure it's area covers the dumping designations you want amphibious trucks to work on. Now only amphibious trucks will dump there, though they will only take from the storage(s) you assigned to the tower, so you need to manage that.

ihopethisisnt.taken [discord] · 7 months ago

yeah there's a workaround but it's more work and i'd love to be able to set a dumping area as inaccessible to regular trucks

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