Transport Fever 2: How to...Goods? What are all these numbers about? 

Thank you!

Direct lines....you want to have full trips as much as possible... direct line means you are at least full 50% of the time, multi stops mean you will run mostly empty. This is if you only care about profitability. Personally, I like to over utilize my lines, by having multiple drop off and pickup locations, and use feeder lines (mainline setup), but that requires different guidance, plus most often 1 industry can barely supply 3 towns, so you need to combine industry goods (create hubs)...I just don't like direct lines very much, because they get boring very fast.

@bballjo Thanks. I have hubs but that's where the problems are. New lines i create to drop off stuff from the hubs just don't get allocated hardly anything in comparison with the existing lines which get allocated all the incoming goods....😫

@jeffjeffersen9813 that just sounds like you have more demand than production, which won't work. You need to at least produce enough to make everyone happy, ideally a little more. Then only deliver to the hubs from the industries, and then transport via mainline to either destinations, or transfer hubs...do the math. Also a trick: take choice away from the game, meaning don't allow multiple options to get to a location, always lock that down to only have 1 option, that keeps your lines full, and leaves things predictable for you.

Cities are the only buyers of products, otherwise no.

@@bballjo ok thank you. Great video.

For cargo you always want to to wait until full, unlimited time.

Goods have a predetermined destination, so they will only be split evenly if you are directly in the middle of 2 cities of the same demand with the same trains and the same landscape and the source has enough cargo for both locations, otherwise they will be different.