Mail Generation

[Spenk009]

Short question: Is mail or post generated like passengers are or like in Simutrans standard?

In all the guides passengers are the main topic as they are most affected in the transition from the old game. But mail is ignored in the guide and never specified as being either.

Thanks

[jamespetts]

Mail generation in Simutrans-Standard is closely based on passenger generation, and it is in Experimental, too. Some of the Experimental specific features for passengers, such as journey time tolerances and private cars, are not relevant for, and therefore not implemented in respect of, mail.

The passenger generation system will be transformed quite considerably in the next major release (principally relating to the origins and destinations of passengers as well as the calibration of the amount of generation, and the abolition of distance ranges, which never applied to mail in the first place), and these changes will also, in so far as they are relevant, apply to mail.

[Spenk009]

Mail doesn't care about distance & how long it'll take. And it's generated in the same way as pax are.

Thanks for the reply, Simutrans Exp is quite something to wrap your head around after playing an outdated version of classic for years. Amazing work though, it's brilliant!

[jamespetts]

Thank you!