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This tips should help to play Simutrans. Some are short, some are long and complicated. Please tell me if you have other tips you'd like to see here. A little bit of feedback if this tips are useful would be nice too! Just send me an email.
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Use faster vehicles to get higher transport fees. Not true in current (14-Oct-03) versions. The feature will soon be introduced again. |
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Town halls and monuments generate/attract more passengers than most other town buildings. |
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Transporting goods gives a much higher revenue in the beginning of the game than passenger services. Build freight routes first. Use the income of the freight routes to build a network of passenger services. The more destinations you have connected to your passenger transport network the more passengers will use your service. Connecting two cities with a bus line will not attract lots of passengers due to the lack of reachable destinations. Combine traffic: use trains or passenger ferries for the long distances and use busses to collect the people in the cities and drive them to the train stations and docks. Keep in mind that the passengers have destinations. They will transfer from one type of transportation to another to reach their destinations. They will not use your service if you don't offer a connection to their destination regardlesss of the quality of your service. |
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Some passengers are tourists and like to visit tourist attractions. Connect many of the tourist attractions (churches, castles, stadiums) to your passenger network to attract more passengers to your service. |
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Don't forget to service the workers who travel from their homes to their workplace and back every weekday. |
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You can cooperate with the AI. If the AI supplies a steel mill with coal, you can add iron ore supply and transport the produced steel. If you build the steel service first, the AI will most often not build another steel service in competition to yours. You can safely rely on the AIs coal service, it will not remove it as long as it gets a revenue from it. |
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Steel is usually the most profitable good to transport, because it gives a good revenue per ton and you can transport a lot of it at once. Oil tends to be second best, followed by coal and iron ore. Watch the AI players, they calculate the revenue of their routes very carefully before they build them. If the AI prefers a good, you should prefer it, too :-) On the other hand, passengers and mail can give the absolutely highest revenues, because you can transport more than 100 of them in one waggon, but it is difficult to attract that many passengers to your service in the beginning of the game. |
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If you go for passenger transport, make sure all your services are interconnected. The more destinations you provide, the more passengers will actually use your service. |
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You can interconnect all types of stations to create multi transport mode stations. Stations are considered connected if built on adjactand squares. Adjactant means the eight neighbours of a square. You can interconnect a bus stop and a dock by building a road which ends one square off the shore. Build a bus stops there. Then build the dock by clicking the shore tile in front of that bus stop. Now you have a station which includes the bus stop and the dock. Works similar for train stations and bus stops as well as with train stations and docks. Passengers (and goods) use interconnected stations to transfer from one type of transportation to another to reach their destinations. |
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Vehicles for bulk transport can transport any bulk goods. I.e. bulk transport waggons can transport iron ore as well as coal. This allows to use one train to serve different transports, i.e. by bringing both coal and iron to a steel mill in subsequent runs. The catgories are bulk transfer, piece goods and special goods. Special goods always need their very own transporters, but bulk transfer vehicles and piece good transport vehicles are multi-purpose vehicles. |
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