Buses....

[ArchDan 0]

Okay so here is the deal.. I had one bus station maxed out.. 58min waiting time, which is yellow zone territory. Despite me having no traffic I saw this as a sign of the beginnings of traffic probs.. So I plopped another bus station maxed it out, waiting about 2days min.. New bus wait time, 58min... Seriously. Can someone please explain this..

[uebs 11]

The wait time should actually have gone up, because you are adding more buses that hold up traffic, doing silly u turns and random pick ups, getting stuck to each other

 

IRL adding more buses would decrease wait times, but this isn't IRL, this is The Sims City 2013

[TuPhat 27]

Agreed.   The pathing of the buses is horrid.  More than likely you have 10+ buses forming long congo lines each one of them trying to goto the same bus stop.   Until the pathing gets fixed, its a broken feature.  

[uebs 11]

The funny thing is I CAN'T believe Maxis actually concluded this will be how buses work...

 

The testers tested it and said yeah this bus logic is tight...

 

It's funny how they didn't stop and take a look at how buses work IRL, or how they work in other games like CXL or even Cities In Motion 2!

 

Bus Routes and Bus Schedules!!!

 

Because maybe, just maybe some routes need more buses...

Because maybe just maybe some times need more buses (rush hour, and pre and post events)

 

Other funny thing is they have blogs on their traffic logic, like it's some great algorithm...if the traffic was that dumb, I'd be embarrased and working hard in the background trying to fix it rather than blogging the mechanics of it, showing how truly dumb it is...

 

Then again it could be a ploy make people so pissed off about traffic then release a RUSH HOUR DLC

[ArchDan 0]

Ya this is ridiculous buses follow each other making it completely pointless to upgrade past 2 bus stations.. Train stations would be a better investment I think. But my waiting time has decreased finally by ten min still pathetic but its a change none the less... Prob even only made possible because of no traffic in my city otherwise the higher quantity of buses would just further clogg roads.. Lol.. I really hope they come out with an update soon...but if there bragging about poor algorithms then the awareness neccessary to influence improvements is clearly not there fml..