Freight and Freight depots and other stuff i have noticed during gameplay.
Hello guys
Few interesting facts i have noticed during gameplay.
1.)
One Residental house (low density/wealth)
- 6 residents in total = 4 workers + 2 shoppers and 2 students but students are not counted to overall population of the city.
- shoppers visit shop once a day (between 7.am - 7:30.am)
- workers go to work at 6.am and work until 6.pm but it seems this stands for commerce only.
Industry workers working day/night cycle 6.am/6.pm and 6.pm/6.am. So you will not see factory full of workers at the same time. At least i have not even if i had enough work force.
2.)
One Commercial building (low density/wealth)
- can employ 7 sims = 5 low wealth + 2medium wealth
- satisfy 7 shoppers (sell 7 goods)
- generates 60 freight orders
- if freight orders are no satisfied, commerce building stays closed (even during day) until beginning of next working cycle (6.am)
3.)
One industrial building (low density/basic tech. lvl)
- can employ 26 sims = 20 low wealth + 6 medium wealth
- satisfy 90 freight orders
4.)
Freight - Trade Depot or whatever it is called
- generates 1080 freight orders so it is same amount like 18 commercial buildings (low density/wealth)
- one depot can satisfy 12 Industrial buildings ( low density/wealth)
I have made little investigation: I built 12 factories (low density/wealth) but no commercial buildings. So factories were forced to deliver all their goods to my Trade depot. And guess what? It worked perfectly fine. (only my sims were complaining that there are no places for shopping).
Trade depot was never full. It seems there is some unknown process that decreases amount of goods in Trade depot every hour. ( game hour). Dont know exact number but i have noticed it is something like 4.
But after that i increased number of my factories from 12 to 20 and suddenly Trade depot started to fill and i ended up with full Depot of goods, factories were complaining that they cant sell their goods and so on.
Dont know if this observation can help to someone but i wanted to share it.
