Mass Transit Guide

Mass Transit Guide
yesteryear Arthur Meyer (@artiedark) too Randy Roberts of the SimNation Guild

How practise high wealth sims similar to travel? How well-nigh depression wealth?

To respond that, I created a graphic summarizing who uses what cast of transportation.

Mass Transit Options

Bus

• Shuttle Bus: Provides a way for sims to move inside the city. Note: Bus stops lower province value, too then go careful when placing inward high wealth areas.
• Regional Bus: Provides a way for sims to move betwixt other connected cities inward the percentage that too choose jitney stops.
• Park too Rides: Placing green too rides throughout your metropolis volition greatly increase the amount of Sims using your jitney system. They're pocket-size too slow to check into all the nooks too crannies of your city. Highly recommended when using buses. The green too ride tin too double upwards equally a parking garage to serve the prepare station, maglev, street car, shuttle bus, too ferry dock. The jitney terminals incorporate their ain garages too so tin go placed inside a shopping optic to best practise goodness the commercial zones.
• The Double Decker Buses inward the UK edifice fix parcel choose a slightly higher capacity than the normal buses (100 vs 80). This makes the UK jitney concluding ideal for treatment a large amount of low-mid wealth tourists.

Streetcars

• Streetcar tracks tin go placed inward avenues or on their own. Pedestrians tin too walk amongst the streetcar tracks, too then yous tin utilisation them for pedestrian shortcuts fifty-fifty if yous don't choose whatsoever streetcars.

Trains

• Brings inward tourists. Very useful for depression too medium wealth casino/tourist cities. Place inside walking distance of Lower too Medium Wealth Casinos.
• Train tracks require roughly double the length of a route inward gild to build bridges too tunnels. Likewise, I recommend to drive too build your prepare tracks with 45 grade angles inward mind.

Boats

• Passenger Ferries: Brings inward depression too medium wealth commuters from other cities inward the percentage that too choose ferry terminals.  
• Cruise Ship Terminal: Brings inward medium too high wealth tourists from exterior the region. Very effective method for bringing inward high wealth tourists. Place inside walking distance of high wealth casinos.

Airport

• Brings inward tourists from exterior the region. The number of tourists generated pales inward comparing to the cruise ship terminal, airship terminal, too prepare station.

Blimps

• Airship Terminal: Very effective method to choose inward medium too high wealth tourists. 
• Commuter mooring: Brings inward medium too high wealth commuters from other cities inward the percentage that too choose commuter moorings.

Maglev

• Provides a way for all wealth classes to move approximately a city
• Maglev stations futurize roughly 2x2 blocks (around the $505 route tiling marking). The tracks don't.
• Don't require a centralized network inward gild to function, pregnant that yous tin choose a multifariousness of maglevs that larn straight to specific points inward a metropolis without having all of your tracks connect together.
• Conforms to the shape of roads too the terrain, but may go independently adjusted inward elevation regardless of what the solid position down is similar below them. However, these tracks can't create tunnels. 

Miscellaneous Transit Items

Skybridges

• Skybridges are classified equally a "transit" pick too so permit all vehicle too utility agents to transfer through them. Thus, yous tin utilisation a skybridge equally the way to rapidly motion sims from ane request inward the metropolis to some other equally long equally yous choose the ControlNet too coin pending.
• School buses too move along the heaven bridges. I can't confirm if the commuter buses practise equally well.
• Skybridges are built based on the elevation of the skybridge station too how the stations tin connect to each other. This way that a skybridge tin go equally long equally yous desire it, too then long equally yous got the money.

University Dirt Paths

• The University dirt path tin go used to create pedestrian shortcuts. It doesn't require to go attached to the University, too volition stay if yous demolish the residue of the University

Land Value Impacts

All mass-transit options volition lower following province values. The jitney stops, green too rides, jitney terminals, ferry terminal, airship hangar, street machine stops, prepare station, maglev stations, too streetcar station all choose the same number equally a mid-tech mill inward price of how they lower province value (the real construction itself addition a real pocket-size radius approximately it). I oft honor that sims won't heed these things existence built close them but non on transcend of them. However, this is slow to counter for yous tin utilisation a multifariousness of parks that volition increase the desirability for the R too C zones.

The airdrome generates a massive kick-back inward province value too almost nobody wants to alive close it. Industrial zones, however, similar the airport, too yous tin fifty-fifty utilisation the airdrome equally to a greater extent than way to ship freight for the factories.

An airship terminal, prepare station too regional jitney station anchor my circular casino city.

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