this still has issues after all this time! PLEASE REMOVE maintainence! it messes with any other industry as well starting to charge maintainence for all other placed industries

Hi All. Can anyone help me ive downloaded this MOD and started a freeplay game but i dont seem to have any mail sorting office or waste centre?
Do they appear from the start or do they appear later in the game play? Cheers

Honestly, the change to have mail be loadable on Passenger Platforms would vastly help - certain mods have brake vans for passenger trains which gain the function to haul mail for example. As such, this not being able to be loaded onto passenger platforms is mildly frustrating.

Unfortunately this still suffers from the base issue with TPF2:

Pax and freight can't be loaded from the same platform without sacrificing the length of said platform. (Or possibly at all, I haven't really tried it).

If this was written to be loaded from Pax stations it would be amazing. Currently, its just an excuse to run dedicated parcels trains without needing Consumer Goods.

This needs a mod designer to make a mail pickup point similar in size as the small drop off points instead of having to use the large pickup points used for all the other goods. One idea is that the pickup point could look like a mailbox and the same goes for the waste with a trash can as the pickup point.

Not sure if this mod working, As have a truck line going from town to sorting center then back and back to town; other towns. Also mod 4 years old and question the compatibility of this version.

Is this mod responsible for the "maintenance other" thing? googling it up led me to industries expanded mod, but I don't have that on the current playthrough, I have this mail and waste add-on though (it seems to work all fine without the other anyway). - if it's caused by another mod, sorry about bothering you with it.

Is there some option to turn that setting off, or set how high it should be?

Why does the mod generate little or no mail?

I really wished the mod instructions make it clear you can't rely on regular goods stops with this mod.


*** THIS MOD IS UNIQUE IN THAT YOU CAN NO LONGER BUILD YOUR TOWNS LIKE YOU'RE USED TO ***


Regular goods stops only support dropping off goods, and this mod is designed around the idea that city buildings now generate goods. This means you WILL HAVE TO place goods terminals around your city to cover your residential, commercial and industrial zones. This is different from all other goods!

This comment thread is unfortunately an endless cycle of people not understanding how the mod works, and sometimes the game.

The mod works. Here's an FAQ and instruction on how to work with it. I will gradually expand this doc with screenshots and link to it periodically here to keep it up top:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZK9A7DYd_Ih4Yoj0Nz3mG9IoaipeKmliK7AHkiIKYUk/edit?usp=sharing

Well my transport logic system is fully operational, but still no waste. I have connected 3 cargo stations. One near to industrial building which are supplied with bricks, then cargo should be move to factory which should create steal and finally steal should be move to factory which will process steal into something else but still 0 waste pruduced in industrial buildings

Make sure that your logistic system is fully operationnal, with waste going to waste factories and the steel going to other factories.

I had my mail sorting facility placed a good distance away between to towns and I had no problem. The only ongoing thing is making a pickup mail point in the same size as the small drop off points instead of using the large pickup points used for all the other goods

I am not sure what i am doing wrong, but my truck load station doesnt want to pick up any waste, i mean my city doesnt seem to produce any waste at all even tho i have fully supplied industrial building with bricks for example and my truck load station is near to those buildings , any idea what can cause this issue ?

Mod seems to work alright. The problem is that my mail sorting facilities don't seem to actually produce anything. I've been taking mail to the sorting facility via truck, but even setting up a separate line for mail delivery, no mail seems to ever come out of the facility. Does it need to go to a different city?

There are a lot of good modders on Steam, maybe one will take up the challenge

@Red that's been suggested endlessly over the past 5 years or so and unfortunately making the truck equivalent to a truck drop/bus stop seems to be too difficult for modders to do.

There's a separate problem in that, while I love Transport Fever 2 and the work Urban Games has done, their support for the modding community is, well, terrible. It's essentially non-existent, which has lead modders to just leave (I have, and I created the USA map).

The ball is in Urban Games' court and they seem to just care about getting it running on Xbox. So, I would count on not seeing that mod.

I made a suggestion that someone considers making a pickup station similar to the drop off station, however it doesn’t seem to warrant enough attention at the moment. It might be worth you asking for this to be considered. I also asked the question on whether as the commercial buildings have both sorted and unsorted mail icons whether both could be picked up and the sorted mail be taken to another drop off point just like internal delivery. To me it seems pointless showing sorted mail icons on buildings if the only mail being picked up is unsorted mail.

On steam there are mail vans, as I use British mods then I use the Royal Mail trucks vans and Royal Mail trains to take them to the sorting office. I have separate lines for mal and also separate lines for trash. On https://www.transportfever.net/ there are actually garbage trucks and also a trash can than can be used as a sort of pickup depot but I had problems with that as it only allowed me to pick up 1 trash even though there were numerous industrial buildings being covered by the trash can.

I tried this mod, it works fine, however, it is a little bit complicated for collecting the mail and waste, obviously, the "drop station" doesn't work for them, because truck will not collect anything there, which means you need to have a truck station at most part of the city

Secondly, you need to plan the trucking route carefully, because truck can only pickup 1 type of resources or product (not sure if any mods will help), which means for example, if there is food in your truck delivery, they will not pickup mail at the truck station unless the truck is fully empty, even there is 1/xx product in your truck, they won't pickup, so you better create a dedicated line to pickup the mail and another line to pickup waste

No you can use this as a stand alone without the industries mod

Do I need the main mod "Expanded Industries" if I just want to use this one ?

Finally do you know why buildings show both types of mail when you can only collect unsorted mail, and likewise when sorted mail arrives from the sorting centre it gets unloaded at the station and disappears and doesn’t go to the truck depot for onward delivery to the buildings in the city.
In my reasoning then it’s pointless showing buildings having the sorted mail icon if they cannot receive sorted mail. I would have thought that post trucks could pick up both and distribute sorted mail to other places around the city as in real life.

Well I got the mail working now having provided the two demands the city needs, however the Royal Mail train I am using picks up the unsorted mail fine and takes it took the mail sorting centre. However for some reason the train doesn’t pick up sorted mail, I had to put in an extra truck stop so that sorted mail gets collected. This is weird because in the train list it shows the train can carry both types of mail plus goods, however on purchasing the train it only displays unsorted mail and goods.

I have never played a game where I was able to get all of my cities' demands fulfilled. I only have 2 cities in about 15 that have some of all products being provided,
I guess I'm just not trying hard enough

Hi thanks for the explanation, I found the problem in that not all my city was receiving all its demands. Will sort that out and hopefully everything will work.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! My target city is now generating trash and mail. The city only requires two products (Food and Fuel), both are being supplied (Food: 51% / Fuel: only 7%). Make sure you are using cargo trucks that are capable of hauling mail and/or trash and insure the cargo depots are placed in areas that generate those products. Remember: Some of all supplies required by the city MUST be supplied for this to work. Start with a city that only requires 2 products, like Food and Fuel. Hope this works for you

Still having a problem collecting mail and waste, now altered the map and placed depots covering the whole city. However mail and waste trucks have been covering the city for the last two days and nothing zero zilch items waiting at these depots to be picked up. I have also a rail link connected to the depot that’s connected to the goods station in the city and am using Royal Mail carriages and also waste wagons on the same train with the line connected to the waste management centre and the mail sorting centre.

I have ticked at each depot both sorted and unsorted mail and waste but nothing is there to collect. I have increased industry and commercial and residential numbers of the city so there should be enough to collect. I hope someone can help me out here as this is costing lots of money. Finally buildings show sorted mail so will that also get picked up and dropped of at other road depots in the city or in a further city, or if not then why is it shown if only unsorted mail will be collected and turned into sorted mail.

Still having a problem collecting mail and waste, now altered the map and placed depots covering the whole city. However mail and waste trucks have been covering the city for the last two days and nothing zero zilch items waiting at these depots to be picked up. I have also a rail link connected to the depot that’s connected to the goods station in the city and am using Royal Mail carriages and also waste wagons on the same train with the line connected to the waste management centre and the mail sorting centre.

On the last picture of my mod, I have a schema of the Yeol Senseless mod's system :https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941369838
I don't remeber exactly this mod, but it should work in a similar way.

Can anyone explain how do I pick up unsorted mail and waste and drop of mail from the hundreds of buildings in my city after taking it to the sorting centre. I cannot use goods drop off points to pick up mail or waste and surely I cannot drop lots of goods depots all over the city. Would be grateful for any advice or even a diagram of the setup from start to finish.

would there be any possible way for there to be a milk and dairy industry? how could this be done? very curious about the process and would help make it possible(if its possible). the idea of having express milk trains running on the lines would be cool to see, and would definitely enhance the wonderful industry system that you have created.

Sadly doesn't work

Do you mean a Free Game or specifically one with the Sandbox Mode mod turned on?

@soopahman but you dont play a sandbox game right?

This mod still works fine for me, I use it all the time.

You might have a conflict between 2 mods, if this mod seems to be breaking your game.

this mod softlocks my game - and is what killed my youtube series. and now i know why, please add me back so we can fix this issue! think it is overwriting some game code that has since been modified causing values to be way off. triple checked it is this mod. please message me, love this mod and really want to fix this with you.
- Hush

I tried playing with this MOD, it worked very well and I loved it. Then mid game it stopped producing mail. Now when I try to enable this mod (with nothing else enabled) it does not work. Any ideas?

Can you not make Mail Box cargo station that is very small to place on city side walk to upload and unload mail,same for waist.I asked the other modders that made cargo loading and unloading truck stops for smaller ones but they not interested to make it.I like playing with your waist and mailing mode but dont like the fact that i must build normal cargo stations in and around my city to load it,takes up to ,much space.

would be a varaint be possible, where (unsorted) mail and waste is generated independently of satisfaction of needs?
like it was in TransportFever 1, with some mods.

Thx....

Thanks for the tip.

When I put a link in parenthesis, I do it this way: ( the-link )

So it seems. It's the same link that was on my previous post : https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941369838 .

Klorid,
The link in your post is blocked as being malicious ... even though it's a SteamCommunity link. To get around this crazy error, you need to have a space both directly before and after the URL.

The last picture of my mod (https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941369838) explains the mechanism of this mod : for a new commercial building, there is a 33% chance that it produces, when correctly supplied, an "unsorted mail". This "unsorted mail" must be collected to a sorting facility to produce "sorted mail".

I am supplying my city with food and yet it doesn't produce mail?

For those who wish it, I've put a texture mod in the workshop for Mail and Waste cargo, here : https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941369838
There is also in the pictures a schematic explanation of this "mail and waste" mod.

@EarlyApex67 you're failing to deliver Commercial Goods (like Food, Tools, Goods) to the City. A City will not generate mail from its Residents until some kind of Commerce is delivered to it.