Increase consume of goods?

[accord2]

I am making a "roleplay" game and I can't get a "realistic" goods line, because shops take so long to consume goods that I may have about two good's trains an year. Is there a parameter in Simuconf that I can edit to raise the consume level?

[Vladki]

You can supply electricity to the shop, and you have to supply passengers (both employees and customers) to raise the consumption. And you have to supply more shops.

[DrSuperGood]

Worth mentioning that consumption rates are meant to be modelled around real time, and not real months. That means something like coal consumption in a power plant is 1:1 per hour and not 1:1 with the amount such a power plant would use in real life in a month. This is so that traffic is realistic, with a good mix of passengers and goods.

[accord2]

Thanks! So, maybe I can build a shop per town but isn't that going to make all towns grow to the point they all get to the same size? (instead of bigger and smaller towns?)

[Vladki]

I'm not sure about the effects on town growth, but it would be more realistic. Every town needs a grocery, butcher, coal merchant, newsstand,...