Redditor: Brennwolf

I tried several things based on your tips but whatever I tried somewhere was a problem. I cannot afford high speed trains yet, and my map is very hilly (some tracks even have loop tunnels to overcome altitude, what makes those services extra unprofitable given the game mechanics, and speed is quite slow on those parts).

I just got back to the old A - B / B - C / C - D and so on services. If those fkers are too stupid to make proper usage of trains, they can switch trains at every stations. Dumbasses.

Comment by Brennwolf at 03/12/2021 at 22:17 UTC*

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I have a problem with my passenger station. Following situation: From the green arrow comes a train. He connects the station in the picture with one other city. 100 people arrive. 50 people go northbound (we don't care about them here, blue arrow) and 50 people go southbound (orange arrow). Beyond this station, there is only one station left.

Now comes the big question: As one of the 50 southbound people, would you choose a) the orange train that is empty b) the burgundy line which has a line of 400+ people.

As sad as it is, 25 of those 50 people choose to line up beyond 400, waiting until they find, one day far in the future, a spot in one of the burgundy trains. Meanwhile, the orange train, which only cycles between the station in the screenshot and the terminus station of the burgundy line, commutes half empty.

From what I read in the internet, the passengers choose the route as soon as they start and take frequency into consideration. Fair enough. But what does an advantage of 1 minute in frequency mean if you have to line up as the 400th person? Doesn't the game take into consideration that it takes them an eternity to arrive at their destination?

My solution would be a) cut the terminus of the burgundy line (from what I found out it is the most effective to just connect 2 cities and assign services accordingly, but this is kind of an immersion breaker); b) drastically increase the capacity of the burgundy line, which will run at 25% capacity through most parts of the map and being unprofitable, and probably quitting the orange line; c) increase the frequency of the orange line beyond the burgundy line (but will then the orange line run even more empty?)

It is kind of a frustrating situation. Any other thoughts on how to solve this problem? Thank you for your help.

Comment by Brennwolf at 06/11/2021 at 17:17 UTC

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Whatever the McDs thought them yesterday seemd to work. Awesome!

Comment by Brennwolf at 05/11/2021 at 11:43 UTC

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Yes yes!! That could work!! EDG加油！

Comment by Brennwolf at 01/11/2021 at 22:53 UTC

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So one of my colonists observed a corpse of an attacker, someone that wanted my people dead, and then decides to murder one of my other colonists. Because, you know, observing this corpse makes her unhappy.

A glance at her relationship screen explains everything. She despises almost anyone, barely likes her fiance she decided to marry. Now that's where the unhappiness of the corpse observation stems from. This filthy raider obviously wasn't able to kill any of her "friends".

Unfortunately she's the only capable constructer in this colony. 2nd chance I guess.

Comment by Brennwolf at 31/10/2021 at 16:45 UTC

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Let's see if 3 Chinese can win.

Comment by Brennwolf at 26/10/2021 at 10:39 UTC

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Interesting read, thank you!

Comment by Brennwolf at 20/10/2021 at 21:22 UTC*

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I was raided by bugs and everyone was down, except one girl. She was supposed to rescue her friends and patch them up again, but no...she decided to leave them behind. Half of them dead now. Unfortunately I didn't spend attention to what the final straw was because the situation was quite overwhelming =(

Edit: OK I just remembered I can check the history. Her last straw was "tired". Like everybody was on the ground either incapacitated, bleeding out or infected, and she just decides to leave because of "tired". I hope I don't see her again anymore, or her deserted friends might decide to put her to sleep forever。

Comment by Brennwolf at 20/10/2021 at 20:09 UTC

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Thank you, that saved my game. I know now what was the mistake: The bugs dug out a lot of components which I didn't notice.

My base turned into a raiders graveyard. Maybe I should have just settled in an enclosure on the same map? I probably would never fear a raid again =D

Comment by Brennwolf at 15/10/2021 at 17:50 UTC

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Since I forgot to pick it gave me DK > C9 > RGE > FPX, I still might sweep this group

Comment by Brennwolf at 15/10/2021 at 17:43 UTC

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You can go 0-6 in the whole group stage, but can you go 0-4 on a single day? NA beaten once more.

Comment by Brennwolf at 07/10/2021 at 12:36 UTC

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Looking forward to a BO5 of those two teams (❤ ω ❤)