Match truck and excavator size when available

Quality of life Vehicles & Roads
Scott H. [ideas] · 4 years ago

Absolutely loving this game! One thought from the other night. When mining, if there is a mix of excavator and small excavators as well as truck and pickups, would be nice to see COI optimize matching up vehicles so the bucket size to cargo size better align. Attached photo shows the excavator matched with the pickup and two small excavators matched with trucks. The queuing of this may be difficult due to partial loads in the excavators buckets, but if empty trucks/pickups are coming back clean, priority should be given to matching sizes.

SillySMS [ideas] · 4 years ago

This is in my mental category of "I'd like this, but I doubt it's worth the developer time." Still upvoted, but a touch skeptical.
Probably the biggest manifestation of this is when switching from small excavators with pickups to medium excavators and trucks. Every second a truck stands there waiting for a small excavator to slowly fill it up is a second that it's not hauling 60 soil to its destination or returning for another load.
The workaround for now is to build a second mining tower, and assign only small vehicles to one and large vehicles to the other.

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