Do airports in different cities complement each other?

[Shukie 0]

Hi guys,

Perhaps the wording of my question is a little confusing, so here is what is going on. My current city is bugging me to build an airport, but Im planning on building skyscrapers there, so it would be unrealistic to have an airport right next to it. Therefore I want to build it in a neighbouring city, but will it still affect my current city if I do so?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Ordinarily, airports affect only the city they are in.  One of the airport packs, however, has some kind of depot that acts like an airport to feed passengers across a city boundary.  Sorry, I don't know which one.

[tungston 19]

I think there is a lot that is named a shuttle service, but it is just an airport on a small lot. The airports, as N O Body states, only benifits the commercial zones in the city it resides in. Sim residents don't use the airport for transportation.

[Shukie 0]

Thanks for your quick answers, I guess Im going to have to find a way to incorporate it then. Perhaps on an artificially created island Hong Kong style, that might still be realistic.

[tungston 19]

It doesn't matter where in the city you build it. It can be in the farthest corner, or on an island it is city wide in coverage. I see a lot of airports that are islands, I actually like that look.

[Sim_BOB 2]

you don't need an airport in your city though, regardless of how many times your advisors say you need to

[SMSmart 0]

Well, not completely true. Airports affect commercial demand in the given city. If you get the SimWings Airport Pack, there's a lot that's called an airport shuttle terminal, or something of that nature (though it doesn't actually shuttle people to a regional airport), but it basically simulates an airport without the runway and with a much smaller footprint. It has a cap of 100,000, I believe.

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

i use the shuttle lot and it works great! i hav actually modded the lot to look a lot better too. it functions as a airport and helps with realism. so your region only has to have one mock airport, even though it really wont get used.

[sobol 1]

NYRA1: Can you post up pictures of your moded shuttle lot?

Can someone link the original pack.. I am not sure what I am looking for.

[Shukie 0]

Another question, does an aiport made with the joerg airport pack give the same boost to commercial as a standard airport?

[SMSmart 0]

Another question, does an aiport made with the joerg airport pack give the same boost to commercial as a standard airport?quote>

Well, usually people build airports using joerg's pack in city squares that have little to no population, because they create large airports with long runways and huge terminals and the like.

Basically, the pack is used to create airports that are mostly "eye-candy", that is, they act as much larger regional airports in the players mind, but don't really serve any function of increasing commercial demand and the such. They're just built by players to create custom airport designs and to create airports much larger than what Maxis included originally with the game.

So in order to actually facilitate commercial demand in individual city squares, people use the included shuttle lot to add airport capacity to a city, without having to build an airport with a runway.

Oh, and to find the pack, go to the STEX search, type in "SWAP", and you should see the pack at the top of the list as SWAP SimWings Airport Pack.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I think so.  Maybe even better.  You should read the specifications of the lots.

[Cody02 0]

If you don't like the shuttle you could always use the larger terminal in the Simwings pack and just pretend like it's a government building or something.

[Shukie 0]

Thanks a lot guys

[Shukie 0]

I have one more question and I don´t want to make another thread when I already have this one. Will I need an airport in my city to reach stage 8 buildings for the extra commercial boost it gives or can I do without one? See, I like to keep things realistic and the city where I really want to reach stage 8 is the one where my downtown is and I bet having an airport five hundred yards from my skyscrapers would surely break some aviation laws.

[how_deep 2]

BTW, Using several highway, avenue and road connections can have the same Commercial cap effect as an airport can. I never have airports in the squares with my downtowns.

[tungston 19]

hmmmm.. I havn't heard that before, I think you might have dreamed it. In all seriousness, as long as the roads don't get congested, they have no affect on the caps. And then it would be a negative affect.

[sobol 1]

Interesting pack. The eye candy factor is amazing, but the shuttle option is interesting. SO, the question is.. when you build a giant airport in it's own unique region, and "shuttle" the people to and fro... is there a specific vehicle or what?