August 17th, 2018 at 6:12 AM
@Guardian: The number of stops on a subway line depends on the length of the line. It is therefore more meaningful, I think, to look at it in terms of average distance between the stations. Clearly in the game, or at least in my cities, subway stations are closer to each other than in real life cities (*). It will probably be useful to show some examples of my CBDs with their subway implementations. I will not go into a 'subway rant' like I did in my previous CJ on Simmania, but I'll mention some of the shortcomings of the subway implementation in SC4. This will be done shortly.
(*) In RL cities it also depends on the density of the city. For example, in intra-muros Paris, that is a very dense city, the subway network was laid out in such a way that - with a few exceptions - no point in the city is more than 500 meters (about 1500 feet) away from a subway station. In more modern subway networks the distance between the stations tends to be longer than in older implementations.
@Brian: I am also interested in your underground railway implementation, so if you can put something together about that it will be welcomed.
(*) In RL cities it also depends on the density of the city. For example, in intra-muros Paris, that is a very dense city, the subway network was laid out in such a way that - with a few exceptions - no point in the city is more than 500 meters (about 1500 feet) away from a subway station. In more modern subway networks the distance between the stations tends to be longer than in older implementations.
@Brian: I am also interested in your underground railway implementation, so if you can put something together about that it will be welcomed.
