passengers – Train Fever

People won't use the train

Nightsearch — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:48:48 +0000

Hi! Just bought the game today and I’ve played thru all the way to year 1890. And although I have bus lines, trams and three cities connected, people won’t use the train. Why?

The train is the much faster way to travel, and even if I remove the inter connecting bus lines, people won’t take the train. Why?

Thanks for the help!

On The Buses

Javis — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:10:25 +0000

I treat my citizens well. Not only a first class train station to take them to neighbouring towns but also serve them with various bus lines so they can travel to their chosen area of the town. And back and forth too ! Then why the heck won’t they appreciate that and hop on them !!??

Oh, yes, sure they will, for a couple of years…. But then, all of a sudden, they start avoiding my buses like the plague. Like the’re something so pathetic about them you don’t want to be seen in them. Oh,yes, driving around in their expensive Cord’s causing the most terrible traffic jams, that’s what they love to do. Snobs…

I’m sure i’m not the only transport tycoon having trouble with bus finance turning from green to red and staying there but does anyone have a clue why ?….

At the start of a bus line people can’t wait to hop on it. Bus stops glogging up with passengers so i add another bus, maybe two. I setup the line from one bus station (at the train station) to another at the outskirts of town. Carefully place bus stops along the route at each side of the streets and select them. First one side of the streets followed by the other side so that i have a perfectly looking double line without any odd zigzags or loops. I do that for another area of the town as well.

Works great initially, busses full, all figures in the green, but at some point in time it goes all wrong while the town at hand has grown to more then 500. Also the buses haven’t got more years on them than 10. My 3 pax train figures are green (serving 3 towns), my truck cargo figures are green, *all* my bus figures are red in all 3 towns…

It’s 1942 ( there’s a war on…. could *that* be it ?….), i have about 19M in the bank and, not withstanding the bus problem, still counting.

Btw, my fav bus is that lovely cream and red 1950’s Mercedes. Great little model !

Curious to know if anybody else also has to deal with these snobby citizen as well. First they love the buses then they hate them. Is there a way to sort these guys out and get ’em back on the bus ??….

Any hints/tips highly appreciated !

Passenger Destinations?

RickD — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:28:38 +0000

Another game mechanics question… I had a line connecting town A, B and C, the route was A > B > C >B and back to A. It seems that all passengers would disembark at the middle station before passengers for the next station boarded, so my question is would any passengers want to go from A > C (the travel time is under 20 minutes).

The reason I’m asking is because the line was making huge losses and now that I have split it into 2 lines they both seem to be making a reasonable profit, however this is not realistic to real life and I’d like to have lines going through towns to their final destination