Spawn vehicles with even intervals on a line?

[unmerged(266221)]

Hi!
I tried the Cities in Motion beta, which was pretty fun. But I think that the game misses a really big feature - the ability to spawn vehicles on a line with regular intervals between them. For an example if I have a busline, I want to be able to spawn buses on it, without having to wait between the spawns to give them some distance between one another. However, if I have a line in the current beta version, they all spawn next to each other on the line. This leads to that a small amount of people gets on the buses that are last in the row, and I get unhappy people at all stations, because it takes so long time until the bus caravan reaches them.
Please fix this until the release of the game. =)

 

[Sebihunter]

definitely agree. Such a feature would be definitely needed.

 

[unmerged(266221)]

Nice to see that I'm not the only one to experience this. It was really fun to spend money on setting out bus stops, buying busses, building some lines. But then it all fall apart when all people got sad (because my lines where so long), so I had to spend a lot of time to give the busses the right positions on the line. I hope they fix it.

 

[unmerged(233017)]

According to a statement of CO, such a feature is actually not in production but will be taken into consideration.

Their prioritys are elsewhere at the moment.

 

[delra]

Maybe it'll be different when private motoring bug is fixed. Vehicles won't be allowed to just blitz between stops, they will be stuck in traffic everywhere and thus won't be able to cut the distance to the vehicle in front of them so bunching together might take longer than now.

Either way, just restart all your lines every year or so to restore spacing. You have to check them for profits anyway.

 

[unmerged(230229)]

In "TrafficGiant", there was a button of the function "The bus is made to stand by in the stop until a previous bus left the next stop".

 

[delra]

There also could be a button to "wait till full". Let's say there's a high-speed train connecting airport with the hotel in the city centre, you'd rather not have it run half-epty either direction wasting energy.

 

[Zarine]

you'd rather not have it run half-epty either direction wasting energy.

Are you sure that in CiM the vehicles don't use energy when they are not moving ?
Because I had some buses always on the run and one making tons of load/unload and they pay the same amount for energy.

About the spacing, yesterday I saw a Gebbiz saying that "Player vehicles are also spaced much better now."

 

[delra]

They are always moving in the game so it's impossible to see if they use fuel when stopped. It's a feature request so I don't expect to see it till an add-on or CiM2 anyway. Just saying it wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

[Poro-]

According to dev statements, they already improved vehicle spacing, but hopefully later on they implement some measures for player to manage intervals.

 

[unmerged(18239)]

According to a statement of CO, such a feature is actually not in production but will be taken into consideration.

Their prioritys are elsewhere at the moment.

From the version I use for my AAR it looks like they have changed vehicle. When introducing multiple vehicles on a line they won't all start at the same point. Wait, let me show you:

[video=youtube;tzpL6iUC_3M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzpL6iUC_3M[/video]​

 

[Bel_Alex]

Buses appear at every stop, if the open line staffed. It was the same in the open beta.

 

[unmerged(233017)]

Answered to that in the AAR thread, would be great if we could keep discussion in one thread.

 

[stevebone]

queues of vehicles will still occur even in the changed open beta with vehicles spawning at more than 1 station

 

[City Builder]

Wait a sec... So we have basically a traffic simulator game but we don't have the ability to insert schedules into the routes?

Wouldn't being able to schedule the routes thus level out the vehicles? Much like a real life bus route if the bus arrives too early at a stop it sits and waits, if traffic is heavy and they are behind, they try to make up time in any way that they can.

 

[unmerged(262092)]

Gebbiz (a dev) already said they'll improve the spacing with the next version: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ack-thread&p=12080203&viewfull=1#post12080203

Let's hope it's implemented nice (I personally would favorize if the vehicles wait at a end stop or special 'waiting stops' to get the perfect distance (km devided with vehicles = best distance in my opinion)).

 

[Riffraffselbow]

Let's hope it's implemented nice (I personally would favorize if the vehicles wait at a end stop or special 'waiting stops' to get the perfect distance (km devided with vehicles = best distance in my opinion)).

Any traffic engineer would tell you that's a very naive solution; a better solution would be to approximate actual time, taking into account traffic loads etc. I don't know about you, but my hub station can have vehicles waiting for a good bit, and spacing them based purely on distance wouldn't help much.

 

[Ne0Que]

If a time schedule / calculator is not included in the release version of this game. I think that this will be a top priority for modders to make. The community can write it's own mods by extracting the archives and edit script files. I've also seen a 'addon' script that allows people to put scripts in c:/user/<name>/documents/cities in motion/scripts/*.script. Ive read many times that devs didn't support this, but why is it in the script then ?