User Guide

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our farms produce succulent foods. Your
industries turn out fine products and useful raw
materials. How do you get the food and prod-
ucts your citizens demand to them? And how do you
engage trade partners? The key is to fully develop your
city’s distribution system. An efficiently organized
storage and distribution system will help you meet
your citizens demands for commodities, increase the
productivity of your industries and boost your city’s
profits from trade.
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Once farmers harvest their crops, hunters prepare their
quarry, fishermen clean their catch and cattle ranchers
carve their meat, the food needs someplace to go.
That someplace is the Granary.
Each food farm and food-producing structure
employs a cart pusher. These burly fellows are respon-
sible for safely delivering food to the Granary. They
will always seek out the closest Granary first, but will
travel a great distance if all the nearby Granaries have
no room for their product. If all the Granaries in the
city have no room, or if they are understaffed and are
not working properly, cart pushers stand still, con-
founded, until a Granary can accept his food again.
Info-click on a stagnant cart pusher to find out why he
isn’t moving.
Cart pushers will bring their loads to a Storage Yard
(see page 84-85), again favoring the closest one, if you
have specifically told the Storage Yard to Accept a par-
ticular food. The cart pusher, in fact, will bypass the
Commerce and Trade
Granary