Night Lines?

[unmerged(722302)]

Hi there. I first want to say that this is an excellent game and I want to thank the developers for giving us such an awesome game.

But, there is one little thing which makes the game a bit less excellent: As I build my transportation network, I made different lines for day and night services. But passengers seem to ignore the timetables and get on the stops for my night bus lines at the day and the other way round, but as there is no bus coming for hours they start getting angry and leave the stop. I want to know if this is a bug or I did something wrong and if this is going to be changed in a patch or in a DLC?

Thank you for answering!

Jasguuo

 

[unmerged(611164)]

I asked this question before. The CO said it will change.

 

[unmerged(722302)]

Great thing to hear! :laugh: Did they say if it´s a patch or DLC and how long we will have to wait?

 

[unmerged(611164)]

Great thing to hear! :laugh: Did they say if it´s a patch or DLC and how long we will have to wait?

Sorry. It seems that it is not clear now.

The following is what I asked and the response.

"5. When the line are not in the operation time, people are still waiting for it. It is not understandably for me. It is hard to set the special line at special time. Because people are always waiting it and the reputation will be lowered."
This is a bug and will be fixed.

 

[unmerged(722302)]

OK. Thank you for answering.

 

[douglasrac]

This is strange for me. The only way we can know that this specific line have demand and you need to put more or less vehicles, and you need to extend or decrease the working time is by the number of cims waiting at the stop.

If the devs remove that how can I know where is my demand? Currently that is the way the game works, you know where and how much you are needed after you make the route not before.

Closed lines shouldn't attract passengers, but lines that already exist and are working should attract passengers even if there are no buses schedule, because otherwise there is no way to know our demand.

Timetables were designed to have day and night route, with different vehicles types and different intervals. I see no need for two routes. Obviously if you want a night route to go on less stations or clockwise instead of anticlockwise you might need that, but I don't think the dev answer is clear on that.

 

[unmerged(722302)]

Well, I want to make my transportation network as realistic as possible. And that includes not operating a line in an industrial area at night, just because there are also two residential houses with some people who want to go into the city. Of course, it isn´t nice for these people when they want to go out and have no public transport at night, but that´s the way it is in real life (at least where I live): Some areas just aren´t covered at night.

Additionally, two or more day lines are often converted to one single night line, due to less demand, so that the operator uses less vehicles and drivers. And that´s the way I want to have it in CIM2, too, without people camping at only at daytime served bus stops during night.

 

[kellergeist79]

Well, I want to make my transportation network as realistic as possible. And that includes not operating a line in an industrial area at night

I agree, this is the sense of special night lines or other special services like express lines only in the morning. Perhaps this could be solved the way, that when a com wants to go from A to B, at the given stop he only takes lines in to account which are supposed to come during the next hour. So if the first bus is expected to be at 11 pm according to the timetable at a stop nearby, he will take the line into his path when he leaves the house at 10 pm, otherwise not. Same calculation when he changes the vehicle.