Station area

[Dunderdon]

In TTD Patch there is a feauture to allow spreading of stations where widely.

I already posted a remark in the Problems subforum,
now my request here:

- Please make it possible to spread stations wider
- and think about increasing the catchment area of airports and large train stations somehow, maybe to a radius of 5 or 6 instead of 4.

This would not only make the game a bit more realistic, it would make it easier for me to build train stations with routes around the station so that trains can try from the other direction if the platforms of one side of the station are full. (that takes about 2-4 squares next to the train station, so it even gets difficult to access industries with the bus-lorry method)

It would also make it easier to build my quad-rail-system because it forces me to put stations where they fit between the nodes of my tracks and not where the industries or cities are. hehe.

And, last but not least, it would be easier to cover more than a quater of a city by an airport then.

Or should I maybe post a feature request on sourceforge? (I'm somehow not familiar with that)

[Steve]

I agree that the airport's catch area should be made much larger. At the moment it is a bit unrealistic. But if it is made large perhaps the number of passengers it recieves should be lower.

[charlieg]

I agree that the airport's catch area should be made much larger. At the moment it is a bit unrealistic. But if it is made large perhaps the number of passengers it recieves should be lower.

I'm uncertain whether it is the catchment area that is the problem or that you cannot 'only unload' at a station (ie if you forcibly 'unload' at a station accepting passengers, you get paid for them rather than them being added to the queue).

If you could forcibly unload instead of get paid for cargo, then you'd build up a network of buses and trains dropping passengers off at an airport, which is a more realistic scenario.

[Psicho]

I think a the catchment area shuold be bigger only for passengers, and mabye should be bigger only for the airport...

[Purno]

I think a the catchment area shuold be bigger only for passengers,

and for mail and goods

and mabye should be bigger only for the airport...

No, the catchment area should be bigger for stations too. Maybe it's an idea to let the catchment area depend on the size of the stations so that big stations have a catchment area of 6 squares and small stations something like 3 squares.

With a bigger catchment area the passenger trains will be full at least. Then you can simulate a big stations with 14 tracks and lots of very long trains. That would be very nice

[Psicho]

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Maybe it's an idea to let the catchment area depend on the size of the stations so that big stations have a catchment area of 6 squares and small stations something like 3 squares.

Yes, this should be really realistic I think!