"All vehicles seem to have headlights on all the time."
This was a choice we made, that's how headlights have to be used in Finland. It's illegal to drive without your headlights on.
Could it not have been just as easy to add in an option to the settings menu to have something like "Headlights Day/Night Cycle"?
Just a suggestion
Rather than not appear at all, it would be nice to be able to toggle them on and off at will. Sometimes roads are a good reference point to have. Or maube have roads slightly transparent and not selectable with any tool.
Would it not just be easier to set an alpha channel and make the roads semi-opaque? (configurable via settings menu perhaps).
A few suggestions from me (apologies if they've already been mentioned elsewhere):
- Could really use some better financial analysis reports, such as profit/loss on a per line or even a per stop/vehicle basis. All graphs I feel need to be bigger in scale to be clearer.
- Bus Line > List of stops > Could we substitute the text for unhappy customers for permanently displaying the number of people waiting to be picked up. Perhaps you could make the happiness status as a tool tip and colour the text the appropriate colour or even just pop the unhappy face icon at the end of the stop number or something.
- Schedules > Copy From > really I feel there needs to be a checkbox here to copy the entire schedule over. Gets a little tedious having to click each tab in turn and clicking the Copy From button.
- Depots > Vehicles > would be nice to have a little more detail in here, such as vehicle type and capacity when sat in the depot awaiting assignment.
- Ticket Inspectors > I think something really should be addressed about these guys, I had 6 lines running with 80 ticket inspectors and they were only catching 10% of the dodgers which, by the end of one month, saw Students dodging buying a ticket by 100% - totally unreasonable given the number of running lines and vehicles. This worked out that I had 2 inspectors for each vehicle on the network. I want to ask, can we recruit the students and sack the inspectors to stop the ticket dodgers??? Ticket Inspectors are rubbish at their jobs
- Notifications > I feel there should be some form of notification when something happens to the economy which may mean you're going to see a drop in turnover. I was sat wondering why all of a sudden my revenue dropped to half the normal over a few weeks to find that the economy had dropped to a recession - could've warned me it was on the decline!!
- Also, would be nice to be able to change vehicle/company colours from within the game... sometimes one just gets bored of purple and pink and wants to change to something more soothing like orange and lime green
- Finally (for now) the only real bone of contention with me is the ticketing system, I feel much more could have been done to simplify this and avoid to having to constantly micro-manage the pricing (I'll elaborate once I've worked it out)
Steve
