ECS Agricultural Vector. Tinning Factory

Tinning Factory

Drawn by andythenorth, snow by Irwe, improved by George

General data

Tinning factories process livestock, fish and steel and produce food and fertilizer. Tinning factories can be build by player. Building cost is £562,368. Tinning factories have 4 possible layouts.

Tinning factories have the production, represented in the table (production data is calculated for 8 cycles a month. During game play, there are 8 or 9 cycles, while the total amount of distributed cargo is adjusted with property for minimal amount of cargo distributed). The production in the table is calculated with assumption, that all lines process one cargo (livestock or fish). In fact every line can process one of them, so, the total production can vary between values for processing livestock and fish. The first line is always processing livestock, the second always processes fish. Other lines can process any material, and process livestock by default. Each line has the current state that indicates the current processed cargo. If some conditions are met, the line changes the current state. Changing the state takes about 2 months. Number of working lines depends on the current production level.

If the amount of one cargo waiting (livestock or fish) is ten or more times higher, then the other, every triplet of lines (lines 3..5, 6..8, ..., 24..26) that consists of lines, which do not change the state currently, forces one of lines to change production from second cargo (least cargo waiting) to first (most cargo waiting). If the amount of one cargo waiting is three or more times higher, then the other, every triplet of lines that consists of lines, which do not change the state currently, forces one of lines to change production from second cargo to first with 50% probability. In the other case every triplet of lines that consists of lines, which do not change the state currently, forces the triplet to balance. That means if all lines process one cargo, one of lines starts to process the other.

About 16 units of food are produced in addition from internal resources of the industry on the lowest production level.

To have a visual representation of lines, first letters for Livestock (L l) and Fish (F f) are used in the industry window. Every letter indicates the line. If a letter is L, the line processes livestock. If it is F - fish. Letter f indicates changing from livestock to fish and letter l indicates changing from fish to livestock.

Level	Lines	Food (livestock)	Food (fish)	Fertilizer (livestock)	Fertilizer (fish)	Livestock (items)	Fish	Steel
Very low	2	128	106	16	37	228	193	4
Low	3	192	154	24	54	341	279	6
Normal	5	320	244	41	86	569	444	10
High	8	512	417	65	147	910	757	16
Very high	14	896	744	113	262	1593	1352	29
Ultimate	26	1664	1365	211	480	2958	2482	53
Level	Lines	Food (livestock)	Food (fish)	Fertilizer (livestock)	Fertilizer (fish)	Livestock (items)	Fish
Very low	2	102	84	36	80	252	271
Low	3	148	122	53	117	365	393
Normal	5	235	194	84	185	581	625
High	8	401	330	143	316	990	1065
Very high	14	716	589	256	564	1767	1901
Ultimate	26	1314	1082	470	1036	3244	3490

Production change

Changing production level is calculated by comparing the sum of livestock and fish waiting with the value, represented in the table.

The industry can rise production level by one or two, and drop it to any level. Increasing production on normal and higher production levels also requires at least 50% of food being transported.

When industry has a very low production level and do not have enough cargo waiting, it tests close down conditions. Industries in service have a close down chance reduced by 50%. Newly build industries can be closed only if they are at least 2 year old. Industries, build by random map generator or map editor, can be closed only if they are at least 5 year old age. A close down chance is 6%, 8% chance for increasing production.

Level	Decrease	Increase
Very low	131	523
Low	190	758
Normal	301	1205
High	514	2054
Very high	917	3668
Ultimate	1684

Stockpile size

The cargo acceptance is limited by a storage size. If the industry receives more livestock or fish, than it can store, the cargo is accepted and immediately removed from the store. For steel the situation is different. If the store is overflowed, the industry stops to accept steel unless the storage is half-free. Than the industry starts to accept cargo again.

Level	Livestock	Fish	Steel	Steel (50%)
Very low	567	908	82	41
Low	822	1316	121	60
Normal	1306	2092	198	99
High	2227	3567	325	162
Very high	3976	6369	574	287
Ultimate	7299	11692	1060	530

Possible locations

Tinning factories should be build on the flat land near water (0 - 16). They can't be build near other tinning factories, animal farms, fishing grounds and steel mills.