Train stops over their capacity

[javavall]

Is it normal for train stops to go over their capacity(for example 1788/704)?
There are very few unhappy passengers compared to overcrowded bus stops.
In that sense you dont need to upgrade/build stops, because the seem to hold everything they have.

Im using pak 128. Playing without timeline.

[VS]

Passengers that exceed capacity are these that got off vehicles and will board others. There will be nobody coming to the station to start their journey there, though.

[javavall]

Are there any plans to change that? Because it seems pretty easy to get a lot of cash in that way. That is, you get some stops where you will gather passengers, with low level stops to avoid high maintenance, then run it for a year or more and then buy some high speed trains to transport those passengers ==  large profit.

[Ters]

There are two settings one can turn on in the configuration files called avoid_overcrowding and no_routing_over_overcrowded. But generally, Simutrans lets you cheat if you want to.

Earlier this year, when the formula for passenger destination distribution was changed for the second time, I had up to 80000 passengers crammed into a station with a capacity of just 5000 as my network was being changed to cope with the new travel patterns. I didn't get much money out of that, but other things may have played a role there. It did however take a very long time to get that station back below capacity, though I didn't push train frequency quite to the maximum or do radical changes that would serve no long term purpose.