Using TLR with Industry Link (a tip for making it work)

UncleBuck

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The only way I could get it to work correctly was to have an industry that receives the raw goods and then have Industry Link send them to a dummy industry for processing and then have Industry Link send the final products to a pickup industry.

For example:
I have industries called Crude Oil (drop-off), another called Crude Oil (processing), and finally, one called Fuel (pickup).

The drop-off industry only has one queue which accepts Crude Oil but, as soon as it arrives, Industry Link shoots it over to Crude Oil (processing).

Crude Oil (processing) is not connected to any line and has four queues called Crude Oil, Petrol, Diesel and Avgas.
This dummy industry is what has the processes to produce Petrol, Diesel and Avgas.
Industry link will transfer these final products to Fuel (pickup).

Fuel (pickup) has three queues; one each for Petrol, Diesel and Avgas.

One thing to note is that TLR DOES NOT appear to recognise that the drop-off industry requires a product unless you have a process that uses what arrives (i.e. just moving it out using Industry Link is not sufficient). In the above example, I have a process running in the drop-off industry that consumes 1000 units on the hour, but Industry Link moves the product for processing to the dummy industry well before the hour has expired.

On a final note, the above setup was done using JR Multi industry II <kuid2:45324:400001:8> and Industry Link <kuid:122381:10007> and I have had them running for several hours with TLR and no issues (so far).

I hope all that has made some sense (and helps someone).

Cheers.
 
A couple of things I forgot to mention in the original post was "Why the need for a dummy industry?"

I found that if you have just the two industries configured with Industry Link, it (TLR) does not behave correctly; for example...

Having Crude Oil drop-off with four queues (i.e. Crude Oil, Petrol, Diesel and Avgas) and let the drop off do the processing, I found that even though I only had it configured to drop-off crude and load nothing, TLR (for some reason) always thought there was Petrol, Diesel and Avgas available and would send consists there to load them and never tried to load then from the pickup industry.

And lastly "Why is the dummy industry not connected to any other track?"
Simply put, if it's not connected, TLR dispatcher will never be able to get there.

Hope that helps.

Cheers.

Damn it... I also forgot to say to disable the dummy industry in TLR dispatcher.
 
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