Just a logistic guide for massive cities that enjoy massive taxes Intro I finally found a setup that works well for very big cities and wanted to share it. The main purpose is to use your taxes and localized export depots to move resources around, making sure that no resource moves before being sold. It’s for cities that tax tens of thousands of resources, have extras, and manufacture extras, the other factions move all your stuff for you. Some definitions (raw resources = taxed resources; manufactured = produced in your colony; if you make raw resources in your colony, why? but anyway, treat them as manufactured resources for the purpose of this guide). Warehouses, haulers, and export depots use three different settings: fetch, priority‑fetch, and pull. Export depots also use “% of total storage” as a trigger for p‑fetch, but we will ignore that one here. An import hauler is one I define as pulling from a warehouse or hauler, and an export hauler is just a hauler on fetch, not pulling from anything. You need four components: a Throne‑Room Dump, your Main Storage Area, Localized Industries, and the Amenities Warehouse. The Throne‑Room Dump This will just be a big room with your throne in the middle, some temperature amenities, and tons of export depots. Every resource you tax in excess of what you consume will end up here so, basically, every raw resource in the late game. It needs to be far enough from the rest of your colony that the export depots’ fetch minimum range won’t pull from your production. Here you just set a bunch of export depots on fetch for every raw resources they do not pull from anything. The Main Storage Area One gigantic warehouse (e.g., 400+ crates) surrounded by import haulers (and import depots for the stuff you don’t yet produce). THERE ARE NO EXPORT DEPOTS that pull from the main warehouse. Everything you need for the Amenities Warehouse goes in here (think janitor supplies, food, furniture). You can put military stuff or rations here if you want, but those can be separated. Localized Industries A warehouse for taxed resources (if it uses raw resources) An import hauler (if it uses manufactured resources) An export hauler An export depot (If there is no output—nurseries, admin, research, etc.—you can skip the export depot/hauler.) The warehouse gets filled automatically by taxes, the import hauler will pull (set to 0% of the other hauler (is the default)) from a corresponding export hauler somewhere else for intermediary products like pots or metal. An export hauler to fetch the products, and a export depot to sell the excess of the products. Amenities Warehouse Put this next to your amenities buildings, and set it to pull from your Main Storage Area at 0% (no fetch or p‑fetch). With whatever you need local, like food or stuff to repair. How it works Let’s say for machinery: all your ore, coal, and wood crates get topped off automatically when taxes come in. The rest of the taxed resources dump into your Throne‑Room Dump, where you export the excess for cash. Your metal industry will have a warehouse full of ore and coal (filled purely by taxes, requiring zero hauling from your workers), and an export hauler (on fetch) will gather the iron—same thing for wood and furniture in their respective sectors. Import haulers at your Main Storage will pull from those export haulers (metal & furniture), and an export depot set to pull from the export hauler at, say, 90% full will sell the extra. For the machinery sector, you’d have two import haulers (one pulling metal, one pulling furniture) from the export haulers of simpler industries, a machinery export hauler (pulled from by a hauling depot next to the Main Storage and/or Military Storage), and an export depot exporting from the export hauler when it’s 90% full. Outro So the only hauling your people need to do is: Move intermediate resources to the next production step. Return resources that will never be sold back to the main warehouse. Distribute amenities throughout the colony. At no point do you need to haul taxed resources or move goods before they’re sold. Extra tips Keep production buildings that don’t export on the outskirts especially those that use only raw resources (libraries, nurseries, hospitals, labs, etc.) and cluster interconnected production lines as closely together as possible (for example, fabric and clothing shouldn’t be on opposite sides of the city).