My Metropolis (1500 population)

[Tegron]

Is there a method to getting city to grow? all my inner lines just go into red rarely going up to 50-60% line usage.. should I avoid linking to leisure/jobs and just have 1 line from some houses to train station?

[matsv201]

I tryed making a subway like system.. and of cause, its kind of problematic because the station have to be over ground, but making a hole and put the station in the hole (the hole just have to be tiny), then the game will make the station flat like a “level down”, just conect the station with underground tunnels and it even neatly made like 3 meters of over ground track to put in signals. This way no stupid railway tracks in side the city. 😉

[Mordeth65]

The more routes into a city the faster it can grow.    I tend to make a hub city as my county seat.   Each city has route into the hub.   That is 6 connections on a small map.    Then, make sure you deliver the freight it needs.   Have 3-4 bus routes feeding your people moving stations.

Just a note here, I have 6 hubs in the hub city that act as main stops.   I try to keep these on the outside edge of the cities.    A hub will consist of a large bus and tram station.    I used to use just Tram Stations, but every game had to be restarted at some point due to traffic lockup at station.     With the bus/tram station setup I have not had this issue.

You want that main hub to have 75% or higher people using your transport.     By about 1930 ish, you should be sitting at about 1000-1100 pop.      I have no idea how people get to 1000 by 1900, I know I cannot do it, the best I have been able to do was about 800.

 

 

 

[General]

“General, did your city recover? Did it get back to the original 2100 population quickly or stay around 1600? When I reloaded my Metropolis save game it was at 1499 instead of 1500 but almost immediately bounced up to 1508.”

Don’t know in this case, i just loaded the game for the screenie. It is, at that play date, pretty much a self runner – it makes comfortable money on itself and only requires the odd vehicle change,. I use it to experiment mostly these days as i have money in abundance. Also aiming for the Billionaire” achievement 😀

Last time i loaded it and played it a while, it recovered, i believe.

[Javis]

Thanks mucho for your elaborate explanation about terrain modding, Klinn !

Very interesting ! Must say i din’t know about M and N for road manipulation ( i do use it to turn stations around). Played around with it a bit and it works great. Understand you’ll have to be a rich man to work the terrain to your liking this way  😉

A very innovative method to make a city more appealing. Thanks a lot again for the inspiration ! ( I just did away with my latest, umpteenth map, no matter the 165M it accumulated, and started a new map in 1850 with your amazing Metropolis in the back of my head.  🙂

( not sure why but sofar i always love to start again, maybe it’s the early years of road and rail transportation that appeal to me much more than the later and contemporary means of transport, wish i could stay there much longer than is possible now)

[Yeol]

I made my goal for the current game to grow a city beyond 1500 inhabitants before the year 2000. I play on the small map, so the number of villages to connect to is limited (6).

In 1850 I started with a village of 220 residents. In 1860 they were with 330. In 1880 I had about 580 people, and now in 1900 I have 870 residents. Cargo is maxed out all the time, coverage is always 90% or more. I don’t know how I could have grow my town faster. 1000 residents by 1900 seems to me quite a lot.

[bencze]

Yep it does seem quite a lot. As I seen town growth is always slow no matter what you do. I use like 6 lines in my capital + the 6 incoming. It’s decades till you actually see some better numbers. 🙂

[SFG]

Here is my Town 2300+ supported with 19Lines and 29 Trains 🙂

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811142962269010&l=91630bf855

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811142928935680&l=cb3d9cddb0

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811142925602347&l=f48666560e

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811142922269014&l=86139a906d

greetings Markus

[pritt]

http://www.designamatic.com/GraphicsTrainFever/TrainFever-1500Town03-Medium.jpg

Great Job ! Very cooool !

Can you sent me the seed Number of this map ? Thank´s

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[Klinn]

@SFG — That’s an impressive town! Interesting the way you’ve got significant growth on both sides of the river. Is that because you’ve got a station over there as well as the two on the primary side?

@Pritt — Thanks, and I’d be glad to give you the map seed, but where can I find it? I didn’t write it down when starting, is there a command somewhere to display it?

[pritt]

@Klinn:

You must start the game / savegame with this town … And then …

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\192770587\304730\local\crash_dump\stdout

In the file stdout you can find the seed Number … Thank´s – stdout, this is an txt file

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[pritt]

@Klinn:

The best thing would be if you still had the city as a savegame of 1925 
(according to the terrain adaptation), and can put me in my Dropbox. 
That would be great.

I need your email adress and send you a link from my dropbox.

[SFG]

@ Klinn

the town always follows the stations means that the Center of the town Switches around the Train stations ……….

[Klinn]

Thanks for the help in finding the seed number Pritt. It’s listed as 1412521986 for that save game, and in case it makes a difference, it’s a medium size flat map.

Unfortunately I do not have a save from 1925 just after the landscaping was completed. The only one I have is when I hit the 1500 population mark in 2051. If you want it, you can download it from my site: http://Downloads.Designamatic.com/TrainFever-Game05-Year2051-Metropolis.zip (64MB)

 

[pritt]

Thanks for the help in finding the seed number Pritt. It’s listed as 1412521986 for that save game

No Problem. thanks for the savegame. It´s good for learning about how to manage good and passenger lines.

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