Influencing City growth

[Count Dastardly]

I made myself a sandbox scenario to try out Josef's patch: I've now got
a fairly complicated, if inefficient network (
http://www.impulse.org/TRT39.zip if anyone's interested ). What I'm
trying to work out now is what exactly makes cities grow: I've reset
the date in this game three times now and I can't seem to make the
city in the top right grow. It's got a frequent rail service, there's
goods coming in, there's a good coverage of bus depots, and
occasionally I fund some new buildings, but the city still refuses
to grow. What's the trick?

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Si.

[N.L.Allan]

So why do the maglevs sometimes spontaneously explode when going into
depots?

Many thanks,

Nick Allan
========
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

[Trikklennium]

Count Dastardly <dastar...@sux.net> wrote in message
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<SNIP>

but the city still refuses to grow. What's the trick?

When you first start up in a city I find its a good idea to pay for new
buildings a few times...This gives the city a kick start and it grows like
crazy for a couple of years then settles down to a steady growth..

Hope it helps......
--
Rick McGreal
If it goes around your neck...Why is it called a dickie?
tri...@transport-tycoon.co.uk
http://www.transport-tycoon.co.uk

[Count Dastardly]

"N.L.Allan" wrote:

So why do the maglevs sometimes spontaneously explode when going into
depots?

Er, beats me.. wouldn't mind seeing that, actually

I haven't tried loading the game without Josef's patch, but bearing in
mind that nearly all the trains are hideously long I doubt it'd even
load. I'll post an updated savegame.

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Si.

[Spider]

So why do the maglevs sometimes spontaneously explode when going >into
depots?

I think its cool..

this saved game is messed up...weird stuff going on...

[Count Dastardly]

Spider wrote:

So why do the maglevs sometimes spontaneously explode when going >into
depots?

I think its cool..

this saved game is messed up...weird stuff going on...

Er, Doh. Some config settings for ttdpatch.cfg

// I guess this is the important one, there's
// over 100 trains
morevehicles 3

// curves and mountain settings for maglevs that
// actually work
mountains 34
curves 34


I think the rest are all at defaults.

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Si.

[Boudewijn]

Count Dastardly <dastar...@sux.net> schreef in berichtnieuws
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I made myself a sandbox scenario to try out Josef's patch: I've now got
a fairly complicated, if inefficient network

http://www.impulse.org/TRT39.zip if anyone's interested ). What I'm
trying to work out now is what exactly makes cities grow: I've reset
the date in this game three times now and I can't seem to make the
city in the top right grow. It's got a frequent rail service, there's
goods coming in, there's a good coverage of bus depots, and
occasionally I fund some new buildings, but the city still refuses
to grow. What's the trick?

Build and maintenance an efficient road network in and *around* the city.
This will keep the city expanding, without having to build roads for
themselves.
Another thing you could try, is elevating your rail network as much (not as
high!) as possible in the city, and tunneling any crossing roads.

[Spider]

Another thing you could try, is elevating your rail network as much (not as
high!) as possible in the city, and tunneling any crossing roads.

How can tunneling those under those rails help??

Thanks in advance,

--Spider--
dol...@TAKETHISAWAYonlinemac.com

[Count Dastardly]

Spider wrote:

So why do the maglevs sometimes spontaneously explode when going >into
depots?

I think its cool..

this saved game is messed up...weird stuff going on...

No sign of any particular wierdness in my game, except when I reached
the upper money limit 0:) at which point I used the money cheat in
reverse to set it to 0. I updated the save game at the URL (
http://www.impulse.org/TRT39.zip ).. maybe Josef could have a quick look
if he's not too busy with all the stuff people usually do this time of
year? I'm quite pleased with the network in the game now, it's a
shame it effectively took three games to get there..

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Si.

[Paul Wright]

i found a eal wird bug, i have a huge network of tunnels bridges and cross
tracks, and a train jumped of a bridge and exploded, strange...

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N.L.Allan <n_l_al...@BLOODYSPAMaltavista.net> wrote in message
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: So why do the maglevs sometimes spontaneously explode when going into
: depots?
:
: Many thanks,
:
: Nick Allan
: ========
: Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
:
:

[Spider]

Paul Wright wrote in message <#HEet4XT$GA.270@cpmsnbbsa02>...

i found a eal wird bug, i have a huge network of tunnels bridges and cross
tracks, and a train jumped of a bridge and exploded, strange...

There's some weird stuff going on I tell ya.
you didn't happen to take a picture of that train jumping the bridge did ya?

--Spider--
dol...@TAKEAWAYTHISonlinemac.com

[Paul Wright]

i never saw it, just noticed a train off a totally different track had
crashed, when the newspaper came up,

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Paul Wright
"I love children, but I couldn't eat a whole one"
ICQ UIN: 38986089
E-Mail: paul-wri...@SPAMu.genie.co.uk
SMS: pwrigh...@SPAMgenie.co.uk
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Spider <askme...@myrealaddress.com> wrote in message
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:
: Paul Wright wrote in message <#HEet4XT$GA.270@cpmsnbbsa02>...
: >i found a eal wird bug, i have a huge network of tunnels bridges and
cross
: >tracks, and a train jumped of a bridge and exploded, strange...
:
:
: There's some weird stuff going on I tell ya.
: you didn't happen to take a picture of that train jumping the bridge did
ya?
:
: --Spider--
: dol...@TAKEAWAYTHISonlinemac.com
:
:

[Boudewijn]

Spider <askme...@myrealaddress.com> schreef in berichtnieuws
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Another thing you could try, is elevating your rail network as much (not
as
high!) as possible in the city, and tunneling any crossing roads.


How can tunneling those under those rails help??

Truck speed and accident-occurence.

[Spider]

Truck speed and accident-occurence.

He doesn't have any trucks going across them does he?

[Boudewijn]

Spider <askme...@myrealaddress.com> schreef in berichtnieuws
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Truck speed and accident-occurence.

He doesn't have any trucks going across them does he?

Who?