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[Squeegy]

holy christ

also, Lenfingburg was probably one of the fast-expanding cities.

[Nilocy]

Edit: Just realised i cant.

[Jay]

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Bump.

See that post for current server status.

[DJ]

OK guys, I need help figuring out how to use transfers efficiently.

I've realized that passengers from small towns can be great source of cash. I load them on buses and transfer them to a central railway station. From there I take them by train to the other end of the continent and get massive cash.

However, I'm not sure how to set this up in the other direction. If I set up reverse bus routes, ie ones taking passengers from the central railway station to the small towns, they end up taking the passengers that were just transferred to the railway station from those small towns.

So, do I have to build two railway stations (loading and unloading), or am I missing something really obvious here?

[zchris13]

Probably two rail stations. Or make it a really huge triangle.

This game had trains running around in my head for days.  I had to stop playing.

[qwertyuiopas]

I started thinking of things in the track pathing directions. I forgot what exactly, but I was thinking about *something* in terms of it.

[zchris13]

Was it traffic? Or maybe people walking the hallways of where ever you either work or go to school.

[qwertyuiopas]

Probably people. Can't remember though.

[Thndr]

Sounds like you have the bus unloading and transferring, then picking up it's own fairs. Do you get money from them?

But the way the game works, it doesn't matter if you bring people into thetown or if you take people out of the town, the town will still grow.

Although I'd set up a mail route in the town as well.

[Keiseth]

I think "Head-on Collision" Keiseth needs to get in on this action.

[Virex]

Sounds like you have the bus unloading and transferring, then picking up it's own fairs. Do you get money from them?

But the way the game works, it doesn't matter if you bring people into thetown or if you take people out of the town, the town will still grow.

Although I'd set up a mail route in the town as well.

If the bus takes the people away again imediatly, then you can't load them on the train and thus you can't make them go on a continent spanning journey. Thus you don't make as much money off them as you could and your continent spanning train line's also redundant.

[Thndr]

Sounds like you have the bus unloading and transferring, then picking up it's own fairs. Do you get money from them?

But the way the game works, it doesn't matter if you bring people into thetown or if you take people out of the town, the town will still grow.

Although I'd set up a mail route in the town as well.

If the bus takes the people away again imediatly, then you can't load them on the train and thus you can't make them go on a continent spanning journey. Thus you don't make as much money off them as you could and your continent spanning train line's also redundant.

Well if that is the issue, then he just has to make sure that instead of loading/full load, there is no loading.

Also, it's more along the lines of useless than redundant. The redundant thing is the bus transfers, then loads.

[DJ]

Oh, that's what I do. What I am asking is how I can use the same station to take and distribute passengers from the other end of the continent. Ie, I'd like to drive some passengers from the other rail station to the aforementioned small towns to make them grow.

[Thndr]

I have no idea what you're asking, as the controls for both the buses and trains are exactly the same. Are you having problems getting passengers at both ends of the tracks?

Also:
http://wiki.openttd.org/Town#Growth
You don't really need passengers coming in as long as you have some sort of transportaion in town.

[zchris13]

Massive triangles.  DOO IT.