Cities in Motion: A Beta-Preview AAR

[Zarine]

Ahh ok. In that case then another question comes up. Does this automated rail expand as the city grows or will the city expand around the existing infrastructure?

Cities grow according to the timeline made by the devs for the map. If the dev set a statdium to pop 10 km from anything in 1930, it will pop there in 1930 no matter what. The city isn't developping by itself with some random element as in Transport Tycoon cities for instance.

 

[unmerged(84156)]

Hello Mosby,
I've got 2 serious questions:
1, is there a limit of the maximum lines, which can stop at one stop? In Traffic Giant, only 4 lines could stop at one stop.
2, are you able to stop the vehicles in the endstation for some minutes? In Traffic Giant, you couldn't.
Thank you for your answer.

 

[unmerged(18239)]

Hello Mosby,
I've got 2 serious questions:
1, is there a limit of the maximum lines, which can stop at one stop? In Traffic Giant, only 4 lines could stop at one stop.
2, are you able to stop the vehicles in the endstation for some minutes? In Traffic Giant, you couldn't.
Thank you for your answer.

1. No, you can have as many lines stop at a station as you want. Or in fact, as it can handle.
2. No, there is no endstation, the vehicles continue their set loop.

 

[unmerged(243766)]

Me again!

Do the metro lines always have a set amount of carriages?

 

[rsdworker]

1. No, you can have as many lines stop at a station as you want. Or in fact, as it can handle.
2. No, there is no endstation, the vehicles continue their set loop.

unless if metro has end tracks which trains has to go back - you might saw that when building underground - in few pages back when you had two stations there was no loop at either ends

 

[Emperor_krk]

2. No, there is no endstation, the vehicles continue their set loop.

I pity their drivers.

On a more serious note - is there something more to the ticket policy than just setting a price for a ride? I mean, periodic tickets, reduced fare tickets for rentiers and students, and so on? That would make the game a bit more realistic.

 

[unmerged(18239)]

unless if metro has end tracks which trains has to go back - you might saw that when building underground - in few pages back when you had two stations there was no loop at either ends

They indeed reverse out of the station.

 

[unmerged(230725)]

Question, does this mean trams, cars, buses, boats and helicopters will never disappear, as in they will just keep transporting people and driving around and parking?

For example, with Sim City 4, cars and trains would disappear, is it the same as this?

 

[Zarine]

Dev said somewhere that car evolve depending of the years, so they can dissappear somehow or be transformed.

About that, for a more realistic game, the game car tycoon had a great idea : set a junk building that destroy cars. You see car driving toward the junk and the junk building compress it.

 

[unmerged(193089)]

my god this looks good. I bet I could just watch the city do everything it does, and enjoy it without actually playing the game. Great work!

 

[unmerged(230725)]

With the recent gameplay that has been released, why does it look like the city is moving a bit to quickly?

 

[Polar Mongoose]

2. No, there is no endstation, the vehicles continue their set loop.

So is there some other way to regulate service and prevent vehicles from bunching up?

 

[Zarine]

According to what I read nothing prevent them from bunching up.
For metro, I guess load/unload time is always the same so there is no reason to see them bunching up if you don't place them together at start.
So the time between 2 metro will always be the same.

For buses, I think that the traffic of some places will do the trick.
But I agree that a depart time would be a nice idea. Like you set one or two stations with an order like "one depart every 10 minutes". If a bus is 9 mins after the depart of the last one, he waits until it's 10 mins. If it has been 11 mins, he leaves the station and timer is kept at 1 mins.

 

[unmerged(235471)]

hey mosby

liked the videos from the game I hope to see more great work from you .

your report is great to reread from the start unitl now.

keep up the great work up.

aleksanderIV

 

[unmerged(227710)]

Wow, very nice videos.

 

[unmerged(193089)]

Bunching up has always been a little bit of a problem to me, when busses or trams break down, the whole schedule is messed up. Have the developers though about this?

 

[Co_Karoliina]

Zarine and Unhostile, the cars are linked with citizens. Cars don't just appear out of nowhere, they have owners and the cars appear when they are used. Ypu could for example see a person leaving his house, walking to the street, and then the car appears and the person drives away. If there's parking space, they can leave the cars there, otherwise the car will just conviniently vanish when the person switches to walking or public transport. Every citizen does not own a car, it's calculated based on their social class, so business men and workers are more likely to have cars, whereas students and dropouts rarely own any.

As for the bunching up, there's currently no way to set a schedule. The way I do it is usually just have as many vehicles on a line as needed, since the passengers don't like to wait long. I'm currently trying out the Helsinki map and I have lots of long bus routes working fine when there's enough vehicles (up to 10 on the longest line). The scheduling would be a nice addition, but we've decided to concentrate on other issues, as the schedule is rarely a hard problem to solve in-game.

 

[Zarine]

So if a guy is lucky enough to have a parking at his start location and his destination everytime, as it will never vanish, he will never have a new car ? (I don't even thinks it's possible to be that lucky)
If so, too bad for him (who cares about a guy in a game anyway ) but nice for our eyes to see nice old car in the streets.

About the scheduling, I kinda agree that there must be other things more important. But it would be nice to have it at some point (maybe not at game launch but in a futur patch...)

 

[unmerged(18239)]

So if a guy is lucky enough to have a parking at his start location and his destination everytime, as it will never vanish, he will never have a new car ? (I don't even thinks it's possible to be that lucky)
If so, too bad for him (who cares about a guy in a game anyway ) but nice for our eyes to see nice old car in the streets.

Hey, I drive a 26 year old car myself. My previous car was even older, from '74.

 

[Kayapo]

Karoliina earlier in this thread there were some questions about having more control over the "timing" of your vehicles in the game. In short, the ability to make sure that they evenly spaced out so they don't bunch up together in one station.

Any information you can give us about this?



edit: It just occured to me that a good system would be to have signals like the rail signals in OpenTTD. They could be integrated in the stations, for example, a signal could be set to only allow the vehicle to leave the station when the next one is free or even if two stations down the line are free, etc.