I understand the changes made to expensive items and all that in 0.9… though I think the changes to import deliveries to only 1 day a week is ridiculous and I cannot for the life of me see the logic in that decision, especially with the item limit that has been introduced as well. I think locking expensive items behind imports/factories only is actually a good change.
My biggest irk however is the change in time at which deliveries from imports are made, now they are at 8am instead of 12am. My issue with this is that if stores are low or empty on stock on Sunday nights, then delivery of stock imported now at 8am cannot be made until Tuesday now because warehouse deliveries are still at 2am.
I know this update is called ‘The Struggle’ but this has gone overboard. With 3 fast food restaurants for example, by Sunday night nearly all 20,000 burgers have been depleted. And because the warehouse deliveries are made at 2am on Monday morning, before the imports come in at 8am, stores go a whole day now without stock. This goes for kebabs, hotdogs, etc as well.
Manually moving things yourself is way too much hassle and defeats the purpose of having set up logistics in the first place. Please revert import delivery times to 12am as before 0.9.
But, that won’t actually solve your problem. Your issue is that you’re running out of goods. Right now you are saying that the goods come in on Tuesday, and you run out by Sunday.
If the goods arrived Monday instead….you’d run out by Saturday instead. Having them arrive a day earlier, just means you’d run out a day earlier.
But go ahead and send a bug report so we can check out your save and see if the limits need to be adjusted!
Hi David. That’s not really what I’m trying to say. The issue is the new time at which imports come in at 8am. Because of imports are not made now until 8am, and warehouse deliveries are at 2am, it’s almost like that night’s logistics is ‘skipped’ because stock is not replenished until 8am if stock is low.
This was not an issue before 0.9 because the imports came in at 12am before the warehouse deliveries were made at 2am, which was perfect and I don’t see why that was changed.
I do hear what you’re saying, previously the shipments arrived on the ocean linere at 02:00 and magically and instantly arrived at the stores the same moment. But now the warehouse gets the weekly shipment and unpacks the crates from the ocean liners.
The shipment arrives Monday morning, are unpacked during the day, and are ready to ship out that night for the Tuesday 02:00 shipments.
No matter what time the shipment comes in, you need to order enough for the week. As long as you order enough for the week, you’ll be good, but if you don’t order enough, you’ll have to wait for the resupply to be ready!
Hey I do understand you, but I see you are saying that your deliveries arrive weakly? Why is that? You can toggle in the Purchase Manager to restock every 1 day, every 3 days (that I see the most convenient during mid game) and every 7 days, also you have the option to just order once.
I don’t know if I am not exactly understanding your situation but it seems you are in the late game or at least making 100’s k. If you are this advanced I suggest you to start focusing more on the businesses that are giving you the most profit, I mean by switching gift shops, or fast food restaurants to I dont know electronics or jewerly or whatever. And also start making factories of those products. By doing this you are focusing on less products but more revenue, and becoming “self sufficient” or at least the most we are able in the game. This won’t create you surplus or if it does you can still open more of the same stores or offices, or export them and make money on bulks.
Remember that the real companies focus on between 1 to 3 different products or services, and that’s it, they try to become the best of the best in that area.
Again I do understand that you have a problem qith the delivery time from the importer and the delivery time from the warehouse to the different stores. The only way to solve this is to have surplus.