This is a great thread!
Perhaps one day, collectively, this forum will get to the bottom of the Mystery Wrapped In An Enigma that is the RRT3 passenger model. Or perhaps not...
Gumboots wrote:Been pondering something else about passenger behaviour. Sometimes I've been checking stations on a map, and seen a pile of passengers at one station who supposedly want to go to another specific station. For example on the default Germantown map, where there would be passengers in Chicago who want to go to St. Louis. So ok, I put on a new train running direct from Chicago to St. Louis, set it to express-only, and voila, it leaves the station empty.
I've also seen this umpteen times. No half-measures, I put on a train to
exactly where these 6.4 loads of passengers want to go, and... the train leaves empty. I may be misrembering, but I have a vague idea that sending the train back to the starting station (when it's hardly left) sometimes fixes the problem.
It's a complete pain when you're taking the trouble to view the passenger map to put on additional passenger services.
I have another couple of questions, which maybe people can enlighten me on.
1. Sometimes, I'm not sure when or why, passengers trains lose all of their revenue. Either while loading, or even while on their way, the train "coins" display goes to 0, and hovering over each passenger car shows "100% full, revenue USD0". Very annoying, especially when it's a long-distance train. I thought it happened when I insert/delete maintenance stops in the train route - but it doesn't always happen then, and often happens when I haven't changed the route one bit. Anyone else seen this, and/or have any idea how to avoid it?
2. I'm uncertain about exactly what the "passengers from" display means sometimes. Using the CPR map as an example (see image):
I'm looking at the passengers from Stockton. (I've added in the other station names on the map, to make things clearer).
a) The map says there are 1.4 loads for Santa Rosa, and 2.2 loads for "My lumber mill". What does this mean? Does the 2.2 include the 1.4 people who really want to go to Santa Rosa, but are willing to get on a train to My lumber mill because it's on the way? Or, if I add a train going Stockton-My lumber mill-Santa Rosa, will I get 3.6 loads (2.2+1.4)? I've tried testing it but don't get any consistent results (partly, probably, because of the "passenger-meh" problem that Gumboots mentioned - you lay on a train and they change their mind).
b) Same thing for Reno and Carson (you have to go through Reno to get to Carson). Is this really 1.4 people wanting to go to Carson, or 1.4 for Carson and 1.4 for Reno (=2.8)?
c) No-one wants to go to Sacramento. But if I lay on a train to Sacramento, will the 1.4 (or is it 2.8?) wanting to go over the Sierras, and the 0.6 for Yuba, get on it?