Cargo Services



Post Office City Service



Hello, greetings and welcome to today's Cities: Skylinesexpansion Dev Diary! Topic of the day isand something that I am sure many of you have been waiting for, theWith Industries DLC we've added multiple types of Warehouses and couple of Cargo Airports to help your Industry Areas and cities operate more efficiently. Post Office City Service will be making your citizens more happier than ever! But now it's time to get a better look at what we are here to talk about.We have again a nice tutorial from TwoDollarsTwenty:All the tutorial videos will be available on this playlist at Paradox Interactive YouTube channel!Industries expansion offers new ways to manage traffic and logistics with the new cargo services that tie naturally into the industrial theme. New cargo services include a variety of Warehouses, Cargo Airport and the mighty Cargo Airport Hub.For Players who have purchased Industries expansion the Warehouses can be accessed through the reworked Garbage and Industries construction menu. All of the new Warehouses are located in their own tab handily named "Warehouses". Warehouses store the goods produced by the processing buildings, Unique Factories and even can store goods from zoned industrial zones! Purpose of the Warehouses is to act as a buffer between the factories and commercial zones to prevent any material shortages. Warehouses also help with the logistic by acting as cargo hubs transporting the products in and out of the Industry Areas. For better control over the traffic the warehouses can be placed inside and outside of Industry Areas.Warehouses are unlocked at Milestones 3 to 6 depending on their size and storage. The smallest of them all, the Warehouse Yard, is unlocked at Milestone 3 (Tiny Town). All warehouses have three different operating modes;and. "", which is a default mode, aims to keep the storage half full and half empty. With "" mode the Warehouse tries to keep the storage full by acquiring the resource by all means necessary, this can mean importing, own production or acquiring the resources from another warehouse. As for the "" mode it tries to keep it as empty as possible by any means necessaryeither through selling, redistributing the resources to another warehouses or sending the resource to a Processing Building in need. Just remember that the results may vary depending on supply and demand for the resource, a good example for that is when processing buildings produce more materials than the factories (zoned and unique) demand, the surplus production is transported and stored in the warehouses. And when the Industry Areas or Industrial Specializations cannot meet the demand for materials, the warehouse storage's are used. It is worth mentioning that special goods and luxury products can't be imported, but Warehouse can still store locally produced special goods and luxury products.I'd also like to sharpen the difference between Raw Material Storage Buildings and Warehouses. Both of them have same modes and function very similarly, but the most important difference between them is that raw material storage buildings can only store Raw Materials such as Crops or Oil while warehouses can't store them at all! So keep that in mind while planning out your Industry Areas.For a new way to export and import raw materials and goods, Cargo Airport and Cargo Airport Hub are available. The Cargo Airports have a big capacity to transport cargo, but just like with the warehouses the import and export are based on demand and surplus of the Industrial Areas and zones. To avoid traffic on the roads the Cargo Airport Hub even has a built-in cargo train station that works really well with Cargo Train Stations. Both of these can be accessed via the Transport construction menu under the Planes tab.Next, to you fellow mayors, we want tell more about the new City Service called Post Office City Service which is a part of paid content in upcoming Industries expansion. Post Office City Service is here to answer for your citizens need for post services. When unlocked at Milestone 4 (Boom Town) all the buildings in your cities start accumulate mail. So it's a good thing that you can manage this extra layer of city-management with new Post Office City Service buildings; Post Office and Post Sorting Facility. Post Office building is unlocked along with the service at Milestone 4 and it is designed to handle the mail more locally. Post Offices handle the local mail delivery and collection by sending out Post Vans which will then drive around the city delivering and collecting mail before returning back to the Post Office. Additionally Post Offices will roughly once a month send out a Post Truck to Outside Connections, that is if you haven't built Post Sorting Facility.Post Sorting Facility is designed to handle large amounts of mail and excels with handling the Outside Connections. When a Post Sorting Facility has been built the Post Offices in your city will forward the mail to Post Sorting Facility which will then send the mail to Outside Connections. Post Sorting Facilities can also distribute mail to local Post Offices. Both Post Office and Post Sorting Facility can be found from Transport construction menu under the new "Post Service" tab.So what do you as a Player get from all of this? Well, depending on how well the city's Post Service is handled the citizens will gain boost to their overall well-being and become even happier than before. You also get to benefit and modify the new buildings models as well as the new model of Post Vans and Post Trucks in the Asset Editor. Hopefully the new Post Vans and Post Trucks come together with the new service so we don't end delivering the mail with doughnut vans. In addition of adding new Info View for Post Offices, from where you can easily see how well the post service is doing, we've also modified the Outside Connections info view to include all the vehicles carrying mail.That's all for today's Industries Dev Diary. We hope you have found it highly informative and we hope to see what you dear Players can make with these new features. You can take a screenshot showing your results and share it either through the Paradox Forums, Reddit, Twitter or Instagram!