Tips on line placement

[wutname1]

So i cannot for the life of me find a good way to figure out a good layout for lines, b that i mean how to plan their stops. When i click on a building like say a church or the airport i want to find out where people are going to and coming from regarding the building i clicked either via heatmap or something but i cannot find any way to do this. am i overlooking something?

the only way i have found is to click on cars and people and see where they are going to and from one at a times, over and over and over and its soooo annoying

 

[stevebone]

there is an info button on the right side of the minimap. there you can see where people mostly need to go

 

[delra]

This isn't OpenTTD. You can't just cherry-pick best lines in this game. You need a complex solution for the entire city that will let everyone get everywhere they ever want to go. Passengers will jump a few lines if they need to so if there's one line connecting suburbs and the city centre and another connecting city centre and factories, they will use both to get where they want to go.

It's good if they have to switch between bus, tram and subway on their way there, this way they pay thrice for the trip compared to if they only travelled by bus (even if they use 3 different bus lines on the way, they only pay once - but if they use bus and subway, they pay for both).

Best early idea for Vienna is connecting railway stations with the city centre (especially hotels there), preferably by subway. Game gets easier when you learn the city's layout a bit, know what's where and where people are who want to get there (and what they would like to use getting there too, like students and buses).

 

[unmerged(266800)]

When i click on a building like say a church or the airport i want to find out where people are going to and coming from regarding the building i clicked either via heatmap or something but i cannot find any way to do this. am i overlooking something?

You're not overlooking anything I'm afraid; this functionality isn't in the game!

I second what Delra said. In Vienna, I start with building a metro line in stages between the railway station in the east (on the island) and the one in the west. This is how real underground railways started - London's Metropolitan Railway was built to link three railway termini!

Generally, guessing works for planning routes. There's that industrial complex in the south-east of Vienna, miles from anywhere and surrounded by countryside (at least it is in 1950 - it gets built up later!) that's loudly saying "hello, i am here to make waterbuses useful for something". So I make a useful waterbus line between it and the city centre. Because there's nowhere in the middle of the city where a pier can be built, I build the pier just outside and link it to the metro with a tram line. And I build another tram line between the south-west pier and the factories. I just assume that people will want to go from the city to the factories, provide the means for them to do so, and voila they turn up.

In fact in the game I'm playing now there's a student who lives in the village to the south-west of Vienna who takes the bus to the city centre, the metro and the tram to the pier, then the waterbus and another tram to the factory where he works.

 

[ACEH]

In fact in the game I'm playing now there's a student who lives in the village to the south-west of Vienna who takes the bus to the city centre, the metro and the tram to the pier, then the waterbus and another tram to the factory where he works.

Hahaha, this guy loves to travel I guess