Author Topic: Size is too small compared with real world (Read 166 times)

Airport ZRH · « **on:** December 28, 2018, 02:57:15 am »

Hello

First of all, this game is awesome and I want to thank you for all your effort.

The airport of Zurich (ZRH) is only size 6, whereas MXP, VCE, NCE, VIE, DUS, CGN, TXL, SXF have size 7. I've just mentioned airports from neighbouring countries that have a smaller PAX compared to ZRH. Also the sizes of the cities around ZRH are data that is about 15 to 20 years old. All the cities are around 10% larger now. And there are also some cities missing like: Kloten, Bülach, Dietikon, Schlieren, Affoltern am Albis, Zollikon, Horgen, Thalwil, Opfikon, Baden, Küsnacht, Wetzikon, Rapperswil, Aarau (just mentioning the most important ones).

Hope you can update that when you'll find some time.

bluesky · « **Reply #1 on:** December 28, 2018, 08:36:07 am »

-> not the dev

I'm trying to help patson with the missing cities since this is just filling up csvs and pretty much the only thing I can do, I've already added a lot and there's still some waiting for review.
The problem with Switzerland is that the cities are kinda weird, Geneva in itself has only 200k pop, while the practical city IRL has +500k, because smaller "cities" like the ones you mentioned, Vernier, Lancy, etc are missing from the game.
The solutions are
manually add the cities one by one (would take ages to have any impact cause all the cities are like 10k pop)
change the source cities data used in the game (will cause problems updating later on)
create a fictional city with the metropolitan area population.
We are still trying to figure out what would be the best way.

About the airport size, it's probably because of the low population (due to the city problem), but with the runways and IRL traffic I would agree that it deserves a upgrade.

patson · « **Reply #2 on:** December 28, 2018, 12:07:36 pm »

Quote from: bluesky on December 28, 2018, 08:36:07 am

-> not the dev

I'm trying to help patson with the missing cities since this is just filling up csvs and pretty much the only thing I can do, I've already added a lot and there's still some waiting for review.
The problem with Switzerland is that the cities are kinda weird, Geneva in itself has only 200k pop, while the practical city IRL has +500k, because smaller "cities" like the ones you mentioned, Vernier, Lancy, etc are missing from the game.
The solutions are
manually add the cities one by one (would take ages to have any impact cause all the cities are like 10k pop)
change the source cities data used in the game (will cause problems updating later on)
create a fictional city with the metropolitan area population.
We are still trying to figure out what would be the best way.

About the airport size, it's probably because of the low population (due to the city problem), but with the runways and IRL traffic I would agree that it deserves a upgrade.

Thanks@bluesky and ZRH

That's almost further warrant the next medium project of airport size expansion.

The size of the airport was first determined by some airport information gotten from online (runway count and size) and then manually adjusted further or major airports.

This game is half realistic - the initial data was indeed mostly based on real world stats however as the game evolves, it simulates different outcome than the actual world - which kinda makes the game more interesting imho

at first i thought i would have alot of free time doing coding this christmas, but turned out im a bit more busy than anticipated. I will address these issues later on!

Thanks for the suggestion!

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