coatsy35
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1 year ago Sounds like a great idea. Would be nice to sort of build a storage of vehicle and implement settings to use as presets so when you go to a new map you can recall your favourite vehicle settings without having to configure them all again. Would be even better if guidance lines can be stored outside of the save so they can readily be accessible on a new map save without having to transfer the AD file in windows after first saving a game.
Hello,
I've been heavily using AutoDrive in my latest play-through on a 4X map, and have a fairly complex AutoDrive implementation. My goal is a fully automated mega farm. I've been streaming my progress on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/cazineer if you're interested in seeing the complexity of my networks. This is not a self promotion.
My plan is to use AutoDrive for as much of my logistics as possible instead of relying on auto distribution.
I've made numerous changes to AutoDrive to better accommodate the concept of a mega farm such as monthly employee rates and more appropriate default settings for vehicles to cut down on the amount of reconfiguration I have to do. i.e. vehicles corning at 100% by default.
One thing I've been considering is making a plugin called the AutoDrive Farm Manager. What this tool would do is allow the player to click a single button and open a list of all vehicles configured with AutoDrive. Ideally, I'd like to be able to see/enable groups of vehicles instead of single vehicles. Like a remote control that can be used anywhere on the map.
The current process of loading into a save, tabbing to various map areas, running around and enabling each vehicle manually is allot of work, inefficient and error prone. I also have vehicle groups that get dispatched once their counterparts have completed their work. I.e. 5 mowers mow with Courseplay then once they've finished and parked, 5 windrowers get dispatched.
I have over 100 vehicles so tabbing through vehicles is simply not an option.
Would it be possible to access all configured vehicles? Are they saved with a AutoDrive ID or some other way to identify them? Any recommendations would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Caz