Less traffic compared to the launch?

[d3sentry]

I wish we had a mod that lets us set how far cims are willing to walk (and nothing else, just that one simple thing). I know there are a few mods but it's hard to understand what the impact is and if they even work?

Lazy Pedestrians
Pathfinding Customizer
Pathfinding Costs
Pedestrian Pathfinding

Does anyone have any experience with these mods?

I read somewhere that Lazy Pedestrians was gamebreaking: cims couldn't go to work, school or shopping because they were far away, and they didn't have a car, but I can't 100% confirm this.

 

[PTOE Plays]

Hmmm I just had a random thought. Whenever we get a traffic dead lock the vehicles will despawn. I wonder what happens to private cars in that scenario. Where do they go? Do they just disappear to never return again? Maybe that explains why cars dwindle down to low numbers over time? Now I have to run an experiment, somehow

I recall someone who looked into the code mentioning that despawned vehicles are entirely removed from the game, so in the case of private vehicles the owner loses their car. After a private vehicle despawns, the owner will need to buy a new car if they want to keep driving. This was a while back, though, so things may have changed.

 

[martin4444]

I recall someone who looked into the code mentioning that despawned vehicles are entirely removed from the game, so in the case of private vehicles the owner loses their car. After a private vehicle despawns, the owner will need to buy a new car if they want to keep driving. This was a while back, though, so things may have changed.

I did place gas stations all over the city (using Find It), spreading them out so it makes sense to cover all areas. Something I had neglected to do because I assumed the game would do that on its own. Hopefully that will encourage car ownership now! They seem like popular destinations for the cims!

Now, I was going to encourage such buildings to spawn naturally by lowering the Commercial tax rate for Petrochemicals, but that category is missing as a choice(!?) so we can't do that! We can only do it with the industry version of the taxes but that won't encourage Commercial buildings to spawn. So, I think that is a bug/oversight and hopefully the devs will enable that tax rate in the game ASAP! Can't be that hard to get in there, like 30 seconds

 

[Arararamba]

Hmmm I just had a random thought. Whenever we get a traffic dead lock the vehicles will despawn. I wonder what happens to private cars in that scenario. Where do they go? Do they just disappear to never return again? Maybe that explains why cars dwindle down to low numbers over time? Now I have to run an experiment, somehow

Haha. Yeah we might joke about it now but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

 

[PTOE Plays]

I did place gas stations all over the city (using Find It), spreading them out so it makes sense to cover all areas. Something I had neglected to do because I assumed the game would do that on its own. Hopefully that will encourage car ownership now! They seem like popular destinations for the cims!

Now, I was going to encourage such buildings to spawn naturally by lowering the Commercial tax rate for Petrochemicals, but that category is missing as a choice(!?) so we can't do that! We can only do it with the industry version of the taxes but that won't encourage Commercial buildings to spawn. So, I think that is a bug/oversight and hopefully the devs will enable that tax rate in the game ASAP! Can't be that hard to get in there, like 30 seconds

That is a good point. If not enough gas stations spawn and the game tracks fuel for every vehicle, cims who would normally drive could be out of fuel and forced to walk.

 

[Arararamba]

Just a fun fact. I have pedestrian city. I only have three japanese mixed use all the rest is from German pack. All thous Japanese sell petrochemical, they are lucrative and if I zone low density many spawned companies become petrochemicals.

This is fun because of two things. First everybody is strictly pedestrian. Second are they selling diesel in plastic cans in this hipp inner city quarters? Maybe its something unique in Japan?

 

[Economist_Plays]

Just a fun fact. I have pedestrian city. I only have three japanese mixed use all the rest is from German pack. All thous Japanese sell petrochemical, they are lucrative and if I zone low density many spawned companies become petrochemicals.

This is fun because of two things. First everybody is strictly pedestrian. Second are they selling diesel in plastic cans in this hipp inner city quarters? Maybe its something unique in Japan?

It's not just that! I followed some Cims once around a new commercial area with lots of parking and a gas station. They park their car 2 blocks away and go to the gas station by foot... since they only sell petrochemicals you couldn't even say they go there to buy cigarettes or a coke or something

 

[Arararamba]

It's not just that! I followed some Cims once around a new commercial area with lots of parking and a gas station. They park their car 2 blocks away and go to the gas station by foot... since they only sell petrochemicals you couldn't even say they go there to buy cigarettes or a coke or something

They are really go getters. This days nobody have 60 liter diesel on there back for two blocks and then suck the tube to have a nice stream in to the car tank.