Has anyone considered making industry chains for the aluminum and/or copper industries?
Aluminum
- Bauxite Mine, produces bauxite ore
- Aluminum Smelter, converts bauxite to aluminum ingots. This process requires huge amounts of electricity; would it be possible to not allow this factory to operate unless hooked up to power lines?
- End consumers may include canneries, soft drink bottlers, etc.
Copper
- Copper Mine, produces copper ore
- Smelter, produces copper ingots, further converted into copper pipe or wire
What do you all think?
The Aluminum chain was already suggest here (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=599.0) and there's a pak128 version of Bauxite mine... link (http://archive.forum.simutrans.com/topic/00033.0/index.html). The problem of this chain is that you may need to modify official end consumers, and the sources from some of them are not available.
The copper chain sounds interesting..
I would like to add my vote for the copper chain.
Also would like to add two others:
Gypsum (mine) to drywall for the construction materials end point.
Sugar beets (farm field) to bags of sugar for grocery stores. (There is a rather large difference between sugar produced from cane and beet.)