Tycoons!
Our next free Update, 1.7, will bring with it one of your biggest requests – an alternative warehouse mode.
As we approach the release of the Industrial Wonders DLC, and alongside it Update 1.7, we wanted to give you a sneak peek!
We’ve heard your feedback about warehouses for a long time, and they have been one of the top topics on our list of player requests since release. Now we are happy to deliver the adapted warehouse functionality you’ve been asking for—similar to what you may remember from the original Railway Empire.
The newly introduced warehouse setting allows you to choose whether goods are distributed automatically, as was the case in Railway Empire 2 up until now, or a manual mode that allows you to store goods permanently until you decide to distribute them.
With this new setting, you can assign up to six goods per warehouse and define individual storage limits between 1 and 99 units for each.
You can also enable the new warehouse mode by checking/unchecking the “Automatic Distribution” - box in the warehouse menu.
When changing modes in pre-existing warehouses, here’s what happens: If you change the warehouse mode while goods are already selected but not stored, the goods stay selected.
If you change the warehouse mode from manual to automatic mode when goods are already stored in the warehouse, a warning will be displayed. Upon confirmation, all goods, except those already with a delivery destination, are deleted.
If you change a warehouse from the current system to the new manual mode, nothing will be lost and no wares will be deleted.
City-needs take priority over storing in the the local warehouse.
The new mode allows you to plan ahead in several situations that were not possible before. For example, a city does not need a good like Liquor yet, but will at a later point and you can produce more than you currently need. You can send Liquor to the warehouse, stock up on 99 units and as soon as the city needs the good, the city will use it from the warehouse.
The new warehouses need to be managed manually more often in the manual workmode, and you need to keep an eye on them to ensure that everything is properly set up.
Veterans may find that a mixed version, with some manual and some automatic warehouses, to be the optimal strategy for their railway empire.
If you change the warehouse mode back to automatic, please note that already stored goods, without an already set destination will be removed. The game will warn you and will ask for confirmation.
After thorough playtesting, our quality assurance department has found that for many players the manual warehouse mode can have a positive impact on their ability to spot problems and errors on their routes more easily. With complex railroad networks, a lot of problems can be found by just checking the relevant warehouses. For example, if your city is not receiving the goods you want and the warehouse delivering the city is empty, you know that the route to the warehouse must be the fault.
As usual, 6 products can be selected for each warehouse in the new mode and the stock level can also be determined for each individual good (up to a maximum of 99).
If you want to set up multiple warehouses that store the same goods with the manual workmode, you need to be careful and ensure that the route does not deliver the goods back to the previous warehouses. If you forget to do this, you can easily create an endless cycle of sending goods back and forth between your warehouses.
The city uses the warehouse to fulfil its city demands and needs, including industry needs for raw materials. Industries can NOT automatically place produced goods (output) into the warehouse within its city.
We have added a new paragraph on the help page for warehouses with additional details and explanations.
The city can use goods that are tagged as stored for city demands.