CC “Edibles Market” broken?
I think there may be something wrong with the edibles market, possibly in the assigned limits.
The problem is that it's not maintaining variety like the others do. If you place a regular market near a couple of bean fields then invariably farmers/laborers will start placing beans directly into the market. This will take the count above the markets set limit. The key thing is that in the regular market the vendors will start to remove the beans and shift then to the next market/barn. This is how the "Distribution Barn" works, it sets the target limit to 0 which has the worker constantly empty it.
The edibles markets doesn't do any of this & on my current map most of them are almost entirely full of a single type of good.
I've not seen the source for this resource but I suspect that the target count for each item is set beyond the total capacity for the market. IIRC it holds 10,000 items so the target count for each of the four food groups should be 2500. On my map there are Edibles Markets with with over 9000 of one item. My guess is that they've all been erroneously set to 10,000 each.
Interestingly, when it works right this is a very cool mechanic that can be used to build large cities that automatically move goods to where they are needed. One trick I use is to build markets at regular intervals. Say you had a chain of 10 markets equally spaced and at one end you had a crazy amount of bean fields. Provided you maintain a surplus you'll find that the beans make their way to the other side rather quickly as no one worker is carrying something the entire length. Works best if you put a dedicated kind of storage location in between them. Something like:
BBBBB.M...B.M...B.M...FFFFFF
Where B is a barn, M is a market, F is a field and a dot is some equal measure of distance. I made my own dedicated storage barns for each food type to make this work best. The aim is to have the surplus stockpile for any good at the opposite end of town from the producer, thus flooding the town with that good.
Submitted June 13, 2016 at 11:23AM by Mondoshawan
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