Haul Load Counts in Territories

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Others may have figured this out long ago, but it has taken until now for me to fully understand it. And, I thought I should share it in case there are some who had the same questions I did.

The game counts the number of loads of a specific cargo type which is hauled to and from a territory. This is simple enough to understand (*), but it becomes a little more complicated when a sub-territory is embedded or remapped into a parent territory. It was the sub-territory which took me some time to figure out.

(*) Recall that all movement of cargo within a territory counts as being ‘from’ or ‘to’ the territory, and that RT3 displays only full load counts in the status ledger, yet continues to count partial loads to sum towards a full load.

As an example, let’s use territory ‘A’ with sub-territory ‘Asub’ hidden in A, plus an adjacent territory B, as shown below. Solid line indicates the load is counted, dashed line indicates the load is not counted.

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When the event condition is set to ‘from territory’ with A defined as the territory, then loads are counted if moved from station to station:
a) within territory A
b) to Asub
c) to territory B

Loads from territory A are NOT counted if moved within Asub, or from Asub to A, or from Asub to B.

When the event condition is set to ‘to territory’ with A defined as the territory, then loads are counted if moved from station to station:
a) within territory A
b) from Asub
c) from territory B

Loads to territory A are NOT counted if moved within Asub, or to Asub from A, or from B to Asub.

The same is true when the event condition is set to ‘from territory’ or ‘to territory’ with Asub defined as the territory – as shown below.

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The take home point is that a sub-territory, or hidden remapped territory, acts as an independent territory when haul loads are counted. This is important to remember when events are written to count loads to or from a large territory which has cities in hidden sub-territories.