I agree that comfort should be irrelevant in the game. We do have different social classes but that made more sense in CiM 1 where you have helicopters, etc. I don't think most people make a network with co-existent lines, one being for students and other for business people with more comfort vehicles. Specially because the price is the same for everybody. (P.S.: also I remember that in CiM 1 students and blue collars happily used helicopters, even in red range price. The formula needs some weight review.)
Most or all of the time there is no choice. Public transport is public transport, you have your route and you use that route. In real life I rarely do some decisions about my routes based on the type of bus, but for the game it only makes the AI not understand how we planned the network.
It is interesting that when you upgrade your fleet with more comfortable vehicles then you get higher class customers, but the choice of vehicles is 99% of the time based on capacity and reliability rather than comfort. Also comfortable vehicles are usually with less capacity and not necessarily more expensive.
Attract different social classes should be more about upgrading the stations with real time information, upgrading the vehicles with air conditioning, upgrading the stations to protect passengers from rain and sun, add TV to the vehicles, etc. Something that could be done in a more general way, not vehicle by vehicle.
I will never replace my fleet to less capacity vehicles with more comfort just to get business people as customers. When you have a huge network its irrelevant. Its more about where the public transport can take you and how much and how fast.
Most or all of the time there is no choice. Public transport is public transport, you have your route and you use that route. In real life I rarely do some decisions about my routes based on the type of bus, but for the game it only makes the AI not understand how we planned the network.
It is interesting that when you upgrade your fleet with more comfortable vehicles then you get higher class customers, but the choice of vehicles is 99% of the time based on capacity and reliability rather than comfort. Also comfortable vehicles are usually with less capacity and not necessarily more expensive.
Attract different social classes should be more about upgrading the stations with real time information, upgrading the vehicles with air conditioning, upgrading the stations to protect passengers from rain and sun, add TV to the vehicles, etc. Something that could be done in a more general way, not vehicle by vehicle.
I will never replace my fleet to less capacity vehicles with more comfort just to get business people as customers. When you have a huge network its irrelevant. Its more about where the public transport can take you and how much and how fast.
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