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.
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.
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.
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.