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Negative income for pax trains & buses

Started by ROCAMBOLER529, October 08, 2024, 07:25:53 PM

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ROCAMBOLER529

Hello everyone.

It seems that trains & buses for pax (and probably mail but I didn't try yet) have negative income in some stations or stops reducing the profit. I want to belive that's it's a feature & not a bug and wanna know how this kind of feature "works" (if it's not a bug) since I'm new in this pakset and usually play in others such as 64 or 128.

Here's some screenshot to clarify what I'm talking about.
The Argentian (Argentina Empire)

Leartin

It's the setting "pay_for_total_distance"
At 0, you get paid for each trip between stations. At 1, you get paid if the pax came closer to their next interchange, and at 2, you get paid if the pax came closer to their final destination.

Take a local bus heading north, then west towards a train station with pax that want to a destination far east.
With setting 0, you get paid while it heads north and while it heads west.
With setting 1, you don't get paid while it heads north (doesn't bring them closer to the train station), but will get paid when it head west.
With setting 2, you don't get paid while it heads north (doesn't bring them closer to the final destination) and goes negative while it heads west (takes them AWAY from their destination) - don't worry, you get it back on the train

All in all, it means you actually need to care HOW pax reach their destination, since you don't earn money for detours.

ROCAMBOLER529

Gotcha, thank you very much! Appreciate your time
The Argentian (Argentina Empire)