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*Airplane: 160 units
 
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*Truck: 80 units

Revision as of 01:01, 20 March 2009


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The transportation function allows companies to carry out transportation of goods between the cities of Tycoon Online. Whenever market transactions are completed, the goods will need transportation from the city that they are sold in to the cities that they are sold to. Note, however, that this does not affect the time it takes to receive goods bought on the market. When buying goods off the market, the goods will appear in your warehouse as the game updates at the following whole ten minutes of the hour.

When you transport goods, you will earn a bit of money, but more importantly, a fair amount of company value.

Purchasing vehicles

On the transportation page, you may buy new vehicles. There are five vehicles to choose from and they all have different transportation capacity, max speed, and price.

When you purchase a vehicle, it will appear in the city that you are based in. There is no limit to the number of vehicles you can have, but for each vehicle that you buy, the price of a new vehicle will rise by 50%.

For instance, if you buy three cars, the first will cost 900 iKr, the second 1 350 iKr, and the third 2 025 iKr.

If you buy a car and and two airplanes, in that order, the car will cost 900 iKr, the first airplane will cost 24 000 iKr, and the second airplane (your third vehicle) will cost 36 000 iKr. If you had purchased an airplane before the car, your first airplane would have cost 16 000 iKr.

When purchasing a vehicle, you gain an increase to your company value equal to 1/15 of the price you paid for the vehicle.

Selling vehicles

When you sell a vehicle, the amount of CV loss and cash gain you will receive depends on how many vehicles you currently have.

Easy example:
You have one airplane and decide to sell it. The airplane costs 16 000 iKr to replace since it is your only vehicle.

You will receive 1/5 cash of the value and lose 1/40 CV. You gain 3 200 iKr and lose 400 CV. The net CV loss is 240 since the gain of 3 200 iKr offsets the loss. A 3 200 iKr gain raises your CV by 160.

Now for a more complicated calculation:
You have 2 airplanes and 2 cars. You want to sell one of the cars. The replacement cost on the car is 3 038 iKr since it is your fourth vehicle.

You will gain 1/5 iKr of 3 038 and lose 1/40 CV of 3 038. That's about a 608 iKr gain and 76 CV loss. The net loss will be about 46 CV due to the gain of 608 iKr. I say about 46 because the numbers are rounded.

Vehicle staff

An employee with a driver’s license must operate a vehicle. No matter what vehicle it is (whether it is a car or an airplane), a driver's license is all the employee needs to operate the vehicle. The salary of an employee operating a vehicle is calculated with a market price of 25 iKr (check the staff section for how to calculate salaries).

Drivers are professional chauffeurs. They use their profession points when operating a vehicle. Other staff can use their attribute points. The skill of the chauffeur determines the average speed of a vehicle, up to a max speed set for each type of vehicle.

When you view a vehicle's status page, the driver will be displayed along with his driving skill. A driver's skill is calculated with this formula: Number of profession points (if driver) or number of attribute points (if other profession) / 2 You have a professional driver with 85 profession points.

You have a professional driver with 85 profession points. How high driving skill does your driver have?
85 / 2 ~ 43. Your driver has a skill of 43%.

Gasoline expenditure

Once a vehicle has been bought, it will need to tank up. It does so within the next ten minutes. When a vehicle tanks for gasoline, the gasoline is paid for from the gasoline account you can find on the "Transportation" page. If there is not enough money on the gasoline account for the vehicle to tank up, the vehicle will not function until money is deposited to the account, and it is able to purchase gasoline. The price per unit of gasoline is the same as the market price of gasoline.

Gasoline tanked by a vehicle is lost if the vehicle is sold.

All vehicles consume one unit of gasoline per 200 kilometers travelled. Some vehicles have more gasoline capacity (the airplane, for instance), allowing them to travel further than other vehicles without tanking. Vehicles will tank only when they are running out of gasoline, and this will often be in the middle of an assignment. This means no vehicle types have limits to their reach. All vehicles may travel between all the possible routes in Tycoon Online.

Transporting goods

After having tanked, your vehicle will start receiving transportation assignments. These tasks are given to the vehicle automatically.

Every city has a transportation route to all other cities on the map. Each of these may be handled by several vehicles at once if there are enough goods for them to transport. If a vehicle is waiting for goods to a specific city, no other vehicles will be awarded that route until the vehicle has finished loading and has been sent toward its destination. When a company in the destination city buys goods from the market sold by a company in the vehicle's current city, the goods sold will be made available for transportation to its buyer. If a vehicle is in process of loading goods to the buyer's city, the goods will be loaded onto this vehicle. If no vehicles have been awarded the route yet, the vehicle queued first will receive it, and load the goods. When a vehicle is fully loaded, or the capacity used meets your chosen minimum capacity used, the vehicle starts its journey to its destination. Routes that have no goods to transport are not given to any vehicles.

Goods that have been traded and made available for transportation are made unavailable for transportation if 48 hours pass without the goods being loaded by a vehicle.

When the bank purchases goods, no transportation assignments are created. However when the bank sell goods on the market, there will be transportation assignment created, from the city in which the company that sold the goods to the bank are located, to the buying company's city.

For instance: You have a car in Malmö. It has a driver, has tanked up, and is ready for assignments. It is given the Malmö - Ystad route (the assignment appears under "Current assignments"). When a company in Ystad buys goods from the market sold by a company from Malmö, your vehicle will be loaded with these goods and sent to Ystad.

A vehicle will only head for its destination city once it has been fully loaded with goods or the amount of goods loaded has reached your chosen minimum capacity used. Thus, if a company in Ystad buys 10 goods from a company in Malmö, your car will be loaded with 10 units of goods. Your car can carry a total of 40 units of goods maximum, so it will remain in Malmö until more market transactions are made, or if you have set the car's minimum carrying capacity to 10 units.

When more vehicles are in need of transportation assignments than there is goods available for transportation, vehicles are queued in the cities they are currently in. Depending on the amount of market transactions, the queue will move forward as vehicles are loaded and sent to their destination cities.

You can order your vehicles to other cities yourself. To do this, enter the vehicle's profile, click the name of the city, and choose a city to go to. When choosing the city, you will be given information on goods currently in need of transportation in that city. When you give a vehicle such an order, it will not be transporting goods while moving to your chosen location. If the car has already been assigned to another task, your order will be queued behind it.

It is possible to delete tasks given to vehicles as long as the vehicle has not yet begun undertaking the assignment. Once it has arrived its destination city and has been awarded a transportation destination, it will remain there until it has been loaded and traveled to the given city. When deleting assignments, the latest given assignment must be deleted first.

If you click a task listed under "Current assignments", details about the amount of goods carried and company value increase gained from the task are displayed.

Vehicle capacity

When entering a vehicle's profile, you may set the minimum capacity it may carry to its destination. By setting the minimum capacity used lower than a vehicle's maximum capacity, the vehicle is allowed to leave its city before it is fully loaded. This is especially helpful if the vehicle is "stuck" on a route between two cities where little goods need transportation. To escape such a situation, you may set your vehicle's minimum load below the load it has currently loaded to force it to move from the city it is stuck in.

These are the current maximum capacities of the various vehicles:

  • Airplane: 160 units
  • Car: 40 units
  • Ship: 320 Units

  • Trailer: 120 units
  • Truck: 80 units

Vehicle speed

Each vehicle has a max speed. This is the speed that a perfect driver may manoeuvre his or her vehicle: An employee with the driver profession, 100 in all attributes, and 100 profession points.

The speed that your vehicle moves with depends on your chauffeur's driving skill and is calculated with this formula: (max speed /2) + ((max speed / 2) * skill). This means that the lowest speed a vehicle can move with, is half its max speed.

Your driver has 43% skill. He drives a car, which has a maximum speed of 120 km/h.
How fast will your driver be able to drive?
(120 / 2 + ((120 / 2) * 0.43) = 60 + 26 = 86 km/h. Your driver will manoeuvre your car at a speed of 86 km/h.

Transportation rewards

When transporting goods, you earn 1 iKr per unit of goods transported. The type of goods and the distance travelled has no influence on transportation payment.

More important is the increase in company value transportation produces. The company value gain is calculated with this formula: Units transported x distance travelled / 150.

You transport 320 units 100 kilometres. You receive 320 iKr for the assignment.
How much does your company value increase from the transportation assignment?
320 * 100 / 150 = 213 points of company value. For transporting 100 units 100 kilometres, you gain 213 points of company value.

Hint: Transportation is a feature that serves wealthy companies the most. The income gained from transportation is low and barely supports your vehicles' gasoline and staff expenditures. Companies that have reached their maximum amount of buildings require new ways of increasing the company value growth, and it is the company value addition that is attractive when transporting goods.

Hint: Although vehicles function without supervision, you can greatly increase the company value you gain from them by keeping an eye on what cities have more goods available for transportation and directing your vehicles to these cities. If no cities have goods available for transportation, you can browse the current length of the queues for assignments in each city by changing the city viewed on the "Map" page.

See also



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