Hi, I'm in a game where I'm at 1941, and am producing mechanized goods and automobiles. This smaller map has pretty much just one of everything, so for example it has one steel mill, one car factory, one mech. goods factory, one tools factory, etc.

My cars and mechanized goods both rely on machines, which rely on steel. Tools are also reliant on steel. So the steel needs to be prioritized for the right places in order to produce everything in the right amounts properly. Instead, I have:

1) Tools factory: A glut of steel stored at the factory, dependent on more planks to produce
2) Mechanized good factory: A glut of fuel, waiting for machines to produce mech goods.
3) Car factory: A glut of steel. waiting on machines to produce
4) Machine factory: A glut of oil, waiting on Steel to produce


When I look at consumers for the steel mill, I see:
>Car factory: Shipping 453
>Machines factory: Shipping 68
>Tools factory: Shipping 94

Now obviously for the tools factory I can just boost plank delivery. But for the car factory, why do I have 730 steel, no machines, and the steel mill is still sending much more steel proportionally to just sit at the car factory when it's needed instead at the machines factory to produce the machines needed at that same car factory? I understand the car factory needs 2 steel to each 1 machine, but I have a ratio of 730:0 stored there and my steel mill is still sending much more steel to sit at the the car factory vs the machine factory at a ratio of 453:68 which is around 8:1. It hurts more because I have another consumer for machines (mechanized good industry) that's also waiting for them.

The steel mill, car factory, and machines factory are all in the same industrial park. Trucks are moving materials between depots in the park, and none of the depots are overloaded with steel or machines waiting to be transported. Both steel and machines factory have a transport rate of 100%. as do all consumers of the steel mill's steel.

It feels like the "shipping" number from the steel mill should be much higher going to the machines factory than to the car factory and I'm not sure how to manipulate that.