How to assign commodities in Surveyor?

[ffccnn]

My coal mine is not producing any coal, my coal train is running empty back and forth between the mine and the power station and my fuel train is delivering aviation gasoline to the mine! c'mon...

That is an easy fix in Driver using the Commodities button. But I don't want to do that to each of my 50 tanks every time I switch to Driver to test what I am plotting in Surveyor.

So, my question is: how to set up what commodity would carry each individual tank while in surveyor?
(My guess is that it can't be done given this game lack of basic features like this one).

Anyways, if you know how to pre-set which goods to carry each individual tank in surveyor please let us know. thanks

 

[jkinzel]

What mine are you using? Are you using PL (proto lars) industries? They have to be set up to produce loads.

Are your tank cars going off line, i.e. to portals and coming back with the wrong commodity?
The only way I could solve that problem was to take a tank car and change the config file so the commodity that you want it to load is the first one in the list. That holds true for most cars, if they go to a portal MTY, they will return loaded with the first commodity in the list.

 

[ffccnn]

What mine are you using? Are you using PL (proto lars) industries? They have to be set up to produce loads.

Are your tank cars going off line, i.e. to portals and coming back with the wrong commodity?
The only way I could solve that problem was to take a tank car and change the config file so the commodity that you want it to load is the first one in the list. That holds true for most cars, if they go to a portal MTY, they will return loaded with the first commodity in the list.

I am using: 'Coal mine' kuid:-3:10050 and tanks both 'Tanker VTG' kuid:49267:15324 and 'GATX' kuid:-3:10035.
Both trains, one with coal and another with fuel, are running back and forth from/to their respective industries, no portals involved at all!

Seems that my guess was correct...this game does not have that basic feature. Thanks for your prompt reply....

 

[knight42]

I am using: 'Coal mine' kuid:-3:10050 and tanks both 'Tanker VTG' kuid:49267:15324 and 'GATX' kuid:-3:10035.
Both trains, one with coal and another with fuel, are running back and forth from/to their respective industries, no portals involved at all!

Seems that my guess was correct...this game does not have that basic feature. Thanks for your prompt reply....

It sounds as if the tanks are not configured for the product you want to use, rather than the game missing features. Other industries and assets work okay.

 

[danny5]

How to assign

Have you set your coal mine to produce coal ?
Have you set your hoppers to load coal ?
If thats to hard then D/L instant load command check it in driver setup commands.
Now in driver, give the command instant load.
Danny5

 

[ffccnn]

I followed jkinzel's hint to modify the config file and my tanks are picking up the correct commodity.

So, there is a way to setup commodities in Surveyor. Great!

In my particular case, I tried first the diesel as first in the list. It worked but as the refinery runs out of diesel it starts loading aviation fuel in the diesel tanks. On a second attempt, I just deleted all but the diesel product from the config file and renamed the tank with something like Tank Diesel. Same thing for other products and I ended up with three more tanks each one with specific name to easily distinguish each other.

And my coal mine is producing coal again.
This might be anotrher tip in the sticky thread.