District System Feedback

[Eric.B]

='Eric.B' pid='6883' dateline='1436747869']

However if you do NOT set a district lock on Cairo branch, instead say you set shipping distance to 20,000km it WILL pull from every factory within 20,000km.

This i just nonsensical. Why would you want to do that. I do not understand the need for having that option.

I was just making a generalization that is easy to see what the system can do.

A better real world example would be a situation where you want low margin branches pulling from a specific low wage factory. And a high margin branch you don't care where it comes from, you just want units. So you set it without district lock to pull globally or whatever.

As for why people would want to do this, don't ask me. It's what people wanted. And the last two days you seem to be the only person who has a problem with it.

And personally I do not see the need to set the distance anymore. A well set up district works much better.

Good, but this doesn't make distance obsolete for people who still want to use them.
Outside of a busted data point, that I have said 4 times now, that I will fix or replace, what's the problem?

You could for example set EU West branches to pull from North America as well. In which case your EU West Branches would pull vehicles from North America Factories. Your EU West Branches WOULD NOT pull from EU West Factories.

Again, just making point using your district. Lets use a better example:

UK has high income. Italy does not. You're an Italian company. You want to charge $4000 for your car in UK, but only want to charge $2000 in Italy. Your factories are in Italy.

So you set UK district lock to Italy. And Italy District Locked to Italy. (The price difference is why you use Countries instead of Europe)

You do great! You buy a company in the USA. All your USA cars are district locked to USA. However you notice that Italy production is full and you have excess capacity in USA. Your margins are good enough you can eat the transportation costs. So you switch UK to ship from USA, and build a new plant in Italy. It's going to take 20 months for your factory to build in Italy. So it makes sense to ship from USA. You now have USA -> USA, USA -> UK, Italy -> Italy.

Say your new factory is built. There is SO much demand in London that it can fill both your Italian factories. Why limit your self to just USA? You go to London specifically, unlock district and set the shipping sliders to global. Your London branch is now getting all the excess production world wide. Your USA is still getting USA production, and Italy is getting all Italian production. And other UK cities such as Leeds is pulling from USA (since you set London individually and not district wide.)

Better?

It's is bugged as I showed earlier I had 4 cities drawing from London, but it reported only the London nr., in other words to little.

Yes, I know, as I said I will look at it. It's #3 on my todo list for 1.18.2. I'm waiting for uncontrollable factors to resolve themselves tonight before I can get back to work.