Monthly Dev Post - April 2019

[jfs]

I'm... wondering... about the passsenger change. A year or two ago, I successfully got huge amounts of passengers transported. I did make some strange things at first, but once I added some realistically-sized trams, it was fine. Question: Will passenger supply grow as high as before, but slower? I'd be okay with that.

No, the pax production will be lower. The purpose specifically is to not make passenger counts be as large. It especially helps if you play with Cargo Distribution enabled.

Here's a graph of a simulation of the original and new methods, summing passenger production over 10 years of game time for various size houses. You can see the result for the largest houses (250 population) is about a quarter of the original.

[eekee]

No, the pax production will be lower. The purpose specifically is to not make passenger counts be as large. It especially helps if you play with Cargo Distribution enabled.

Ah, so this is what WoW players feel like when they complain about nerfing. Will this break one of my favourite save games? Perhaps not, passenger counts have continued to rise in another game which I played from late 1.8 to the present. All the same, in new games, just when I'm starting to look from a challenge from passengers again, you say the challenge won't be there. I don't particularly want to go back to GRFs with trams having a fraction of the capacity of real-life trams and which take days to load. Of course, lots of trains are like that already.

[PikkaBird]

All the same, in new games, just when I'm starting to look from a challenge from passengers again, you say the challenge won't be there.

It's a setting. You can still have the old behaviour if you want it.

[jfs]

The default for new games is the new Linear method. The default for old savegames loaded is the original quadratic method.

I've also included a screenshot of a test game I made with some huge cities, cdist enabled, and a bus feeder to a long haul airline. There are 40 buses on the route around the city, and 18 aircraft (Dinger 1000) flying across the map. The situation is similar at the other end. If there were more than two cities in the network, the passenger amounts everywhere would likely be even greater.

[eekee]

I'm sorry again, especially for my memory. I just hunted for the non-optional exploit fix, and found it was neither of these things. The non-optional fix is one I agree with, the station catchment area shape fix. I always expected it to work in the way in which it now does, so, barring mistakes, all of my old games should be fine with it. (Described in April)