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During the game your road network will change: more roads, more connections, faster roads. Even a newly installed line of your trucks may be used by the AI to ship something completely different in another direction, and beating you with your own truck! This all may result that suddenly another town supplier is faster in delivering it’s good then your intended line, that’s running for years, with the same trucks and same frequency. The demand for your goods stopped suddenly and your routes make huge losses.
It’s a challenge to find out what happened. Why your city is looking elsewhere for goods. Why is the other supplier faster then you? It’s all to do with speed in delivery. You have to be the fastest to keep the job. It’s a part of the fun, I think. Strategy, counter strategy and problem solving. The cargo transport system with the hubbing of freight and passengers is one of the big pluses of this game.
27…30… The problem is that the simple bus stop does not seem to have a limit. Why should I chose to build a more expensive, encumbering bus station, when a simple and cheap bus stop is better? Is it a bug, or intended?
The bus stop is working fine, with 50+ possible people waiting per line (I did not notice a limit), but the bigger bus station seem to have a limit 27 per platform! This makes the bus station rather useless. At least, that’s what I seem to observe in my games.
Nobody else noticed this bug? Nobody noticed the disappearing people above 27 waiting passengers at a bus station?
This is the best game I played in a long time. It’s a real challenge to get a rail network running (unbalanced game play, picky track laying, scattered interface,…) but I love it! I really hope the developers will continue to repair what’s wrong and add what’s missing, because this game has the potential to sit along the other great railway games (OTTD, RT2, …)
Replacing stations results in a sudden death of the program, with a crash to desktop. So beware trying it and save before! 😉
For the moment there are no left hand side signals in the game. The signals are based upon the German system; right side running. I’m also wishing the left hand side signals will be available soon, because in almost half of the countries trains drive left (Belgium, Italy, UK, Japan, France, ….).
So, until the left hand signals are available (if ever), you have two options: driving at the right hand side and placing the signal as usual at the outside of the parallel tracks, or driving left and placing the signals between the 2 parallel tracks. Both options are not very prototypical, but it works. 😉
Above line layout I used from 1850 until the automobile invasion period (1940-1950). I’m with my current game at 1941 and notice a severe decline in public transport use. So, I have to restructure the lines to take as many people to trains as possible, and forget about inner-city connections. Within a city, people are much faster by automobile at destination (door to door) then by walking to the bus stop and waiting for the bus (1-2 minutes).
No problem 😉 Glad to see your curious.
Mostly I will add a stop at the centre of town; the crossroads were the name of the town is placed. Sometimes I will add a second stop, if the town is large enough.
Secondly, I will often add a bus line to collect people from the outer edges of town to the 2 or 3 tram stops on the centre line (the bus line uses the stops at the centre and the railway station itself).
If needed, I’ll make this evening a screenshot of a typical layout of lines I use in a town.
You want to convince commuters to take your train. Therefore you need to get them to the station as fast as possible, without unnecessary detours. They only have 20 minutes to get there where they have to go, so every minute counts! I use straight tram lines from city centre to the railway station.
Circular lines work well to get some money from people who commute inside the city, but on its own it is counter-productive for your train business.
Having both (straight lines to the station, AND circular lines for inner-city traffic) is possible, but without straight lines to the train station, your trains will suffer.
Just my experience and playing style (learned after playing only on hard mode). Everybody is free to play as he/she likes. There is no “enforcing law” to play a certain way. Just have fun!
I really would like to see some terrain settings introduced, to change some aspects during the genesis:
- an even more hilly setting (mountainous)
- denser/sparser cities
- denser/sparser industries
- area aspect (square, longer/narrower…)
- even bigger map then large (huge)
