How do I find Factories that are turned off?

[pad152]

I thought I saw a screen shot that showed this during development?

[jwilkerson]

Check out the "Industry/Resource" report.

[pad152]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Check out the "Industry/Resource" report.

I'm missing something, heres a picture, production of E1AI Jakes is halted at Hiroshima. (see next post)

[pad152]

ORIGINAL: pad152

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Check out the "Industry/Resource" report.

I'm missing something, heres a picture, production of E1AI Jakes is halted at Hiroshima. (see next post)

Now here is the Industry/Resource, it still shows 27 Jakes being built?

[pad152]

Bump! - Would like to get an answer to this one.

[jwilkerson]

AH, I see, the ones you turned off - not the ones that are repairing. Well the way I handle it is with a spreadsheet - I go around and plug in all the factories I want to track and track them. Not every turn, but roughly every three turns.

Not sure, but some of the "tools" and "tracker" thingys may help with this as well - but I've always done it manually and not had much trouble with it. Actually I can usually memorize it after a while.

I suspect this is true for most people who play Japan. It was totally overwhelming to me at first - and I thought I could never do it - but after having done it for first three games - and totally messed it up in the first two - I finally figured out how to do it - and like riding a bike - once you learn how - you never forget.

If people would like some help to play Japan - I would be happy to help tell them what I do - and I'm sure other veteran Japanese players would do the same. No reason to keep it a secret.
[:)]
The most complex part is not remembering what you are doing per se - but balancing the Heavy Industry across the various things it can be used for - and making sure you don't run out of anything - I use another spreadsheet to track that stuff.

[pad152]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

AH, I see, the ones you turned off - not the ones that are repairing. Well the way I handle it is with a spreadsheet - I go around and plug in all the factories I want to track and track them. Not every turn, but roughly every three turns.

Not sure, but some of the "tools" and "tracker" thingys may help with this as well - but I've always done it manually and not had much trouble with it. Actually I can usually memorize it after a while.

I suspect this is true for most people who play Japan. It was totally overwhelming to me at first - and I thought I could never do it - but after having done it for first three games - and totally messed it up in the first two - I finally figured out how to do it - and like riding a bike - once you learn how - you never forget.

If people would like some help to play Japan - I would be happy to help tell them what I do - and I'm sure other veteran Japanese players would do the same. No reason to keep it a secret.
[:)]
The most complex part is not remembering what you are doing per se - but balancing the Heavy Industry across the various things it can be used for - and making sure you don't run out of anything - I use another spreadsheet to track that stuff.

The issue is not just not showing things turned off, it's the totals don't add up once you change things.

If I turn off 27 airframes, the totals still show I'm build them!!!

How do I know if I'm really saving anything (HI/Resources/Fuel) when the numbers don't add up???

Sorry but, WITPStaff doesn't show factories that are turned off!!

[jwilkerson]

ORIGINAL: pad152

If I turn off 27 airframes, the totals still show I'm build them!!!

I think this is SAIEW.

[n01487477]

ORIGINAL: pad152

How do I know if I'm really saving anything (HI/Resources/Fuel) when the numbers don't add up???

Sorry but, WITPStaff doesn't show factories that are turned off!!

Yeah, but Tracker-Ae does [;)] (Due a few days after patch 1 iirc)

[Woos]

Sorry but, WITPStaff doesn't show factories that are turned off!!

Not completely true. At least for your given example (aircrafts) WitpStaff shows switched on and off factories. From the manual page 11 (which nobody seems to read so a good idea to Copy&Paste things here):

Build in: This column shows how many planes of an aircraft class are currently build and where. The first three numbers are CurrentBuildPerMonth/ MaxCurrentBuildPerMonth/ RepairingFactories.
Afterwards this is listed for each factory separately, so e.g. “(Osaka/Kobe-0((25)))” means that currently 0 planes can be produced in the Osaka factory, that the factory could be repaired by 25 units and that the factory production is switched off (outermost braces) as well as that repair is switched off (second set of braces around 25). “Osala/Kobe-10(15)” would mean that the factory produces 10 planes per month, that it can be repaired by 15 more units and the production and repair are currently both switched on. At least for me this solves the problem of “which of the starting factories did I convert to build which plane?”.

Admittedly it does not show for all the other factories which ones are switched off it just shows the overall production of all switched on ones. But most off those factories (except probably engines) one wouldn't want to switch off anyway.