Nobody gets on my buses anymore...

[the_corona]

Hi,

I just started playing a few days ago, so excuse my ignorance.

I have a rather large city and an extensive bus network. All the buses used to make a huge profit, but now even though all the stations are full, when a bus arrives at a station nobody gets on it. As a result all my buses stay more or less empty (sometimes a few loners seem to get on) and I make a huge loss.

Can you tell me what could be the problem? The tutorials/manuals don't seem to help much.

(playing with pak64 that comes with the installer if that is any difference).
Help me out
Thnx!

[prissi]

Do you have by chance switched avoid_overcrowding on?

Otherwise knowing you pak version (or a save game) would be need to give further assistance.

[the_corona]

Hi, and thnx for the quick reply!

I don't think i have that option on? In fact, most of my stations are overcrowed (32 capacity and and more waiting, I also always get the popup alert).

I have invested in a monorail now to take some pressure of the buses, and people seem to get back on now. But its weird, and no sustainable solution? I can send you the savegame, if you can tell me where it is?

Thnx again

Edit: well despite the Monorail the problem is back now...nobody even gets on the monorail anymore now

[the_corona]

Heres my savegame, would be great if somebody could have a quick glance :-)

http://drop.io/axemyjb

[the_corona]

So I noticed in the new maps dialog in settings if I click on default.sve on the top it'll toggle avoid_overcrowding to on. So it's possible that for this game the option is on, because I remember I was digging in thte dialog before. So I'll assume that.

Ok, so after some reading I figured out how to save the game as xml, which I now have. I can also see that it starts with einstellungen_t which I'm guessing is the area that this setting would be saved. Now if somebody could tell me which of the boolean values I need to toggle (and btw is there an easier way to do this?) to switch this option off, I'll be a happy camper :-)

Double please? :-)

[prissi]

If you have the XML and can open, you can seach <einstellungen_t> for lots of <i64>
Then comes eight <i32>
Then comes bool, i8, four i16.
Next is avoid overcrowing (bool) set this to false.
You are done

no_routing_over_overcrowded is found next.

[the_corona]

Awesome, it is indeed on!

heres the section:
<i8>0</i8>
 <i16>0</i16>
 <i16>2049</i16>
 <i16>0</i16>
 <i16>12296</i16>
 <bool>true</bool>
 <bool>false</bool>
 <bool>false</bool>

I'll change that to false, play a bit and report back. Thnx a ton in the meantime!

Update: Seems to have worked fine, buses are ful, finances are fine and I'm happy. Thnx again!