airports?

[chrisnhl50 2]

Hi guys, I was just wondering if I build one big custom airport and provide adequate transportation will it be able to service all my cities in my region or does every city need its own airport?

[JakeMD 107]

If you mean an in-game maxis airport, then you should have a large airport in every major city, and have small commuter airports in some of the smaller cities.

[chrisnhl50 2]

oh ok! well i meant i was going to download the airport packs from the stex and build one using those tools. Will one big one be enough? Ech city has about 500000 residents.

[JakeMD 107]

Ah, the airport packs off of the STEX, they are not functional. Eyecandy only. Thats the only downside for those!

[GMT 389]

you can, tho, simulate a regionwide working airport.

idk which airport pack it was, but it offers a lot which acts as an airport but looks like a big bus station (shuttle-service if you want).

it doesn't require you to plop down an airport in every city in you region but still, you're sims think there's one.

Especially for your needs, chris, this is a handy little trick. hope it helps

[Argon Vex 1]

Joerg's aiport pack as well as the SimWings Airport pack (which includes parts Joerg's airport pack) include an airport tram you can plop in each of your cities. That's what GMT is talking about.

What you can do is build a regional airport as big as you want. That airport only serves the tile it's build on (so you can build it on a separate tile or as part of a larger city). In the rest of your cities you put down the tram, which looks like a big parking lot, it functions as an airport with a capacity of 100,000 (with full funding) but there are no planes or anything. It does produce a moderate pollution though. As GMT said, it's a great trick.

I'd recommend the SimWings Airport Pack (SWAP), it has more pieces as well, and it's cheaper in maintenance. Just remember, the terminals are the functional lots of the SWAP (they provide capacity and the games recognizes them as airports), whilst the control towers are the functional lots of Joergs' pack. Without those, the airports do nothing and are just expensive eye candy.

[GMT 389]

I suggest voltaire's airport puzzle pieces aswell as the acb stuff.

they are very well done stuff that will make your airport look just like a real one.

[chrisnhl50 2]

You guys are the best! When I get a break from school I'm going to be all over that.

[psander5 198]

I use this mod of Joerg's airport tram by Suplado.  It replaces the sometimes bulky airport tram, appearing as a 1x1 plaza lot.  I use it to make my custom airports functional by placing them, and some dummy plazas I made myself, infront of my terminal buildings like this!!

One of the squares (or both) with palm trees is the actual lot I linked you to above.

In real life, major airports are usually built away from the main commercial districts who need them most, and often a few kilometres away ( a couple of city tiles seperation).  This 1x1 lot allows you to almost invisibly place an effective 100,000 capacity international in the heart of your commercial districts, or anywhere in your city tiles. 

[danza3343 1]

Yeah I downloaded those and the choice is awesome.

Although it said the only dependency was a SWAP airport pack which I have and yet many things such as the cargo boxes, planes and even stuff on the terminals do not appear ?

Any reasons why ? D:

[grbac80 5]

Thanks for those tips from my side as well, didn't know all that, especially the airport tram. Now one question about it, airport support file is a dependancy and it's locked, not supported anymore. Any suggestions? Will it work without it?