Passengers & Offices: A cry for help!

[pipvac 0]

I have a 2.7m city with a large high density office based environment.

With one large airport, and around eight small ones, I have a passenger capacity of 798, and I am currently only using 298 of it. Yet my offices continue to have issues with available passengers capacity.

Every tick the passenger 'map' seems to shift the green areas like a tide going in and out. Regardless of how many airports I place, or their location (I now have placed three directly in the middle of the offices, and the rest on the outer edge of the map), the issue remains unchanged.

Have I missed something, in which case this is an issue for me to put right, and I would appreciate your advice please... or is this a bug, and is there a work around?

Thanks in anticipation.
Pip.

[0wn3d 2]

First off, somewhat off topic, if you place airports very close to your offices then they will close down due to pollution. Next make sure on your passenger map that it is green near your offices. Make sure you have a very large road near them connected to your airports or the edge of the map.

[morriswalters 16]

Passengers and passenger services are two distinct things.  Make sure you have enough business hotels and good roads, close to your office. I believe those are passenger services.

[pipvac 0]

Originally posted by: 0wn3d

First off, somewhat off topic, if you place airports very close to your offices then they will close down due to pollution. Next make sure on your passenger map that it is green near your offices. Make sure you have a very large road near them connected to your airports or the edge of the map.quote>

This is infact not entirely accurate.

Offices are unaffected by noise pollution, and airports do not generate air pollution (bizarrely!).

So you can place offices directly next to airports with only positive effects from passenger flow.

The solution was reached thanks to that chat box you pay for in the PO. We put our brains in gear in chat, and a couple of players with bigger brains than mine suggested checking traffic flows... Yep... that was it... traffic jams were preventing the passengers from getting to parts of my city with the offices. After about an hour or so tweaking traffic flows, problem solved.

In summary, if your passenger map shows that the green isn't reaching certain parts of your city, first check that you have enough passengers (eg airports and out of city connections), then ensure traffic flow is not preventing them getting to where they need to be.

Thanks goes to the many players online who took time out to discuss this with me.

[0wn3d 2]

Originally posted by: pipvac

This is infact not entirely accurate.

Offices are unaffected by noise pollution, and airports do not generate air pollution (bizarrely!).

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- Didn't know that

Never actually looked at the separate overlays, just kinda clicked on it and saw the red circle.

[Stef42 0]

Could you post a overview of the passenger services (a screenshot), because it's not very clear now..

[gyzzzmo 0]

-Passenger Services is the amount of passengers that come nearby a certain building, you can check it in the economy overlay (i believe).

-Passenger Capacity is related to trade, and is the amount of passenger-related tokens you can export. You can increase this number by building airports and intercity road connections.

Gyzzzmo

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