Industry Output Boost

Tired of waiting for a farm or oil well to fill a single train? This mod speeds up raw material industries so your supply chains can grow faster. Choose a multiplier from x2 to x8 when you start or load a game.

Features

• Raw material industries produce faster: farms, mines, quarries, sand and clay pits, oil wells, oil platforms, forests, fishing grounds and every other industry that needs no input. Each production cycle keeps its normal size but completes up to 8 times as often.
• Optional boost for processing industries: factories, mills, refineries and the like can be sped up separately. They also consume their inputs faster, so supply chains stay balanced.
• Works on existing saves: industries already on the map are boosted as soon as you load, as are industries that spawn later.
• Keeps worker boosts: industries that are boosted by commuting workers keep that bonus, multiplied by your setting.
• Detects industries automatically: industries are recognized by their production rules, so industries added by other mods are included as long as they follow the base game structure.

Settings

• Raw material productivity (default x2): x1, x2, x3, x4 or x8.
• Processing productivity (default x1, unchanged): x1, x2, x3, x4 or x8.

Settings can be changed whenever you start or load a game.

Notes

• Storage at industries is not enlarged. Faster production fills it faster, and a full stock pauses production, so plan enough transport capacity.
• The game's own worker system can briefly reset an industry's productivity when commuter numbers change. The mod checks every two seconds and restores the boost.
• Changes the simulation, so achievements can't be earned while the mod is active.

Removing the mod

Productivity values are stored in the savegame. Before removing the mod from a save, set both settings to x1, load the save once and save it again. Then remove the mod.

Changelog

Revision 4

• First public release.