Germanunkol
commented
10 years ago Yes, this has been suggested before, and I really like the idea. I also like the upgrading idea - so far it was only suggested to use trains which can always carry two passengers.
I would probably modify dropPassenger like so: calling it in the original way, all passengers would be dropped. If the user gives a second argument "1" or "2", then only that passenger would be dropped.
hajo4
upgradeTrain(train) would buy another seat in a train, at a cost of, say 15 credits. This also needs a setting maxUpgrade, as well as an entry "seats" for the train.
dropPassenger(train) would unload all passengers with matching destination.
Dropping passengers at a place other than their destination would only be allowed for all of them at once (e.g. at an exchange-point as in Smalltown3).
Such a train upgraded to 2 seats would be a bit cheaper, but also less flexible than 2 trains with 1 seat each, i.e. it cannot be used to quickly collect VIPs at different places.
Cost vs. utility: 25 1_train1 = 1 passengers 40 --- 1_train2 = 2p 50 2_train1 = 2p 55 --- 1_train3 = 3p 65 1_train1 + 1_train2 = 3p 70 --- 1_train4 =4p 75 3_train1 =3p 80 --- 2_train2 = 4p 85 --- 1_train5 =5p 95 --- 1_train2 + 1_train3 = 5p 100 4_train1 = 4p 100 1_train6 =6p 105 --- 2_train2 + 1_train1 = 5p ... Also, fewer trains means less blocking.
This would give the players another thing to optimize.