Station Maintenance Costs – Fixed or Dependant on Size?

[grimdanfango]

I’m trying to play on Hard difficulty, and well, just the maintenance costs from stations can bankrupt me easily if I’m reckless.

I was attempting to plan ahead at one point, and built a long-multi-platform station, but I noticed in my budget that my the maintenance costs jumped up and I couldn’t finish building the line before I wasn’t bringing in enough to cover it.

So, are smaller stations cheaper to maintain, or is it a fixed cost per-station, no matter the size?

[grimdanfango]

Well, to answer my own question, yes I does make a big difference!

I tried it out restarting the same save file a few times and building different stations.

In this case, it was costing:

1-platform, 160m – 0.9k per month maintenance

2-platform, 160m – 1.3k per month

2-platform, 240m – 2.2k per month

…so it seems longer stations may increase the maintenance more than having extra platforms.  Not sure if this is across the board, but in this case it certainly seems to be.

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