Freight rebalance: honest travel times and fair fuel billing
Road hauls take realistic time so flying wins long distances, air and sea shipments are billed only their share of the vehicle's fuel, expected consolidation waits are halved, and quotes no longer propose token flights that drive the continent anyway.
Shipping economics got a hard look:
- Travel times make sense now. Trucks no longer cross the continent in minutes — long road hauls take hours of game time, so air freight genuinely wins long distances while regional road runs stay quick. - You pay your share of the fuel, not the whole plane's. Air and sea quotes bill fuel by the fraction of the hold your cargo occupies (with a small minimum), matching how road vans have always shared their trips. Small shipments by air just got much cheaper. - Shorter expected waits. A shipment joins a scheduled departure window partway through, so quotes now price the expected half-window wait instead of the worst case. - No more nonsense routes. A quote whose "flight" barely shortens the driving distance is discarded — the air leg has to actually substitute road to be offered.