"Appalling" rating.

[ShadeSlayer]

I have this one game where there are a bunch of cities. Most of the cities are between 20,000 and 70,000 people, but there is this one that is 205,000. I provided bus services to all of these cities to see how well they would grow, and every city I have affected give me the "Outstanding" rating. Hell, I even leveled a town and it has me at Very Good.

Now, this 205,000 civilian city has a good bus system, no airport, no rail, no boats, and I don't mess with the city, yet my rating is always Appalling. I even did a test where I bribed them to give me the Outstanding rating, and after checking about 10 minutes later, it was back at Appalling.

Does anybody know why this would happen?

[Zuu]

Check the cargo ratings at your stations. What do they say? Do you have stations with bad ratings?

[el koeno]

Check the cargo ratings at your stations. What do they say? Do you have stations with bad ratings?

Station ratings don't matter. What matters if a station "transfers" cargo (not sure what that means). So perhaps you have a lot of inactive stations? See the wiki for more details.