(07-12-2015, 03:37 PM)Eric.B Wrote:(07-12-2015, 01:58 PM)Shepherd Wrote: Could you not just sum the values from district sales and lost sales, and put it into the demand slot in district factory. As shown in picture under. That would be good enough I think.
The problem with that is that factories can belong to multiple districts, and multiple districts and even places that are in no districts can still pull from a factory.
Just off the top of my head, your UK factory belongs to: Europe District, UK District, Europe West District, And City of London.
Paris Branch belongs to: Europe District, France District, Europe West District, and City of Paris.
So which summation I put there? If we use Europe, then you could have data from cities that are not being pulled from there. If we use UK, then you wouldn't have French sales data in the summation. If we use Europe West, what happens if you assign Canadian Branches to pull from UK? That data wouldn't be included because it's not in Europe West district. (The same issues if we use "Selected District" summation at the factory level. We have to parse shipping in every branch in the world for every factory in the selected district. I believe this is the only way to get the information properly.)
So no, that wouldn't work.
I already defined my district, all the factories and branches should sort under the custom Europe west I created. Or under the default Europe if I had chosen that. If I build a new factory in any of the cities connected to that district it should also become a part of that district automatically.
The reason for wanting a big mega district factory is to simplify adjustments when having more than one factory in a district. The way it is now it has made the game a lot worse.
So for my Eu side of things. My defined district is Europe west, Currently built branches includes: London, Birmingham, Leeds and Paris. As you see of the picture under. They had 354 sales, 32 Lost sales.
Europe west production menu, should therefore show last months estimated sales of 386. At the moment there is only one factory and that is London.
But if you see in my old post there are 2 factories sorted under the default NA district I tried out there, I even split production of one model over 2 Factories. And adjusting production from the district controller works very well.