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Article #431Re: My Buses keep getting clogged !!!
From: K
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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Elmo All�n <el...@saunalahti.fi> wrote in message news:7pccjf$cnn$1@tron.sci.fi... > About the stations tending to have few thousand people waiting: I usually > place one bus station in the middle of the town and some to the outskirts. > And then 2-3 buses driving lines, usually all visiting the central station > at some point. Then I "ride" with the combination railway station - lorry > station (or whatever the name was) by clearing some road out of the way and > then place a railway station, place a lorry station, demolish the railway > station, place another further up the way and then demolish the lorry > station and so on. Then I have a railway station gathering all the > passengers from the downtown but not taking the area of all the town. The > buses make the town grow very rapidly while the trains can handle very large > passenger quantities. Because I play original TT, I can't think about any > larger bus quantities than 3 per town (I heard the vehicle limits are much > more higher in TTDx than in TT original, am I right?). > Sometimes I let the game run and do something else (watch TV etc.), because I don't like the 50's and the 60's. One time I forgot that I had the game running, and when I got back my bus station had 4000+ passengers, the train station in the same town had 1000+. This was quite impressing, consideriing that the city only had 6000+ citizens!
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