Supply lines

A supply line sends spare coffee from one city to your other cities every few hours, using your own transports. It runs from a Shipping Office, and each office runs one line.

• It sends only what is above the amount you keep at home.
• It fills each city towards a target, measured in hours of what that city's Coffee Shop is set to pour. A city with no rate set needs nothing.
• It counts coffee already at sea, so it never sends the same shortfall twice.
• It never sends more than a city's Storehouse can hold, so nothing it sends is lost.
• A city that would get less than 100 is skipped that run.

Keep at home

Hours of this city's own pouring it holds back. 12 to start.

Send share

How much of the rest each run may send, from 10% to 100%.

Destinations

All your cities, including ones you found later, or the ones you pick.

Split

By need gives more to the city furthest below its target. Evenly gives each city the same, up to what it can take.

Target

Hours of each city's pouring to fill it to. 12 to start.

How often

Every 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 hours.

Most ships per run

So a line never takes your whole fleet.

On the Shipping Office page you can also leave a number of ships idle for everything else. Lines never use those.

• The office's level: 2,000 a day at level 1, and 1,000 more for each level after. A shipment you recall still counts.
• Idle ships. When none are free, the line waits and runs as soon as one lands.
• A run that finds nothing to send, or nobody short, waits a full interval.
• If the server was down when a run was due, it runs once when it is back, not once for every run it missed.

A supply shipment is an ordinary shipment. It shows on the Port's At sea list, and you can recall it like any other.

When a Coffee Shop's first level finishes and you have never set its rate, it starts at half of what it can pour. Over an empty store it pours nothing, so a supply line can see that the city wants coffee. Change it whenever you like, including to nothing.