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Optimised Outside Connections

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Harmony 2.2.2-0 (Mod Dependency)

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Optimised Outside Connections

Compatible with Cities Skylines 1.17 (23nd May Update)

Sick of 7% full cargo trains clogging up your rail network? Got a queue of near-empty cruise ships clogging up your harbours?

Optimised Outside Connections reduces the number of large vehicles (trains, planes and ships) in your city by filling each vehicle more. Mainly applies to large vehicles going to and from outside connections, but it also affects cargo trains within your city.

These vehicles will wait 4 times as long to collect cargo before appearing at the map edge or at stations. You can increase this even more in the options, but factories and power stations might run out of supplies. It only applies to large vehicles, not trucks or cars.

Tip: if you have Industries DLC, put a warehouse near power stations to help give them consistent supplies!

Also has options to remove dummy traffic (vehicles that go straight from one outside-connection to another) for each of road traffic, trains, planes and ships. These options remove both cargo and passenger dummy traffic. Please note that it can take some time for dummy traffic to stop spawning.

Optimised Outside Connections uses Harmony[github.com]. It can be safely disabled or uninstalled at any time. Thanks to Deeheks, Leader of the Monkeys[www.twitch.tv] and Strictoaster for testing, and to boformer for lots of technical help. This project would not exist without boformer's expertise.

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30 Jul, 2024 @ 4:51pm

Everyone's thoughts on traffic in version 1.14?

Quboid

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RedVelocity 13 hours ago

Not sure what's changed but the mod has stopped working since last few weeks, now my map is full of half empty cruise ships. Almost endless!

I LOVE OMON 20 hours ago

I don't know about others, but this mod doesn't work for me. With or without it, as soon as you set the option "Accept intercity trains" at the railway station, endless spam with empty passenger trains begins. This didn't happen before, none of the settings of this mod affect it.

Pineapple Brain 8 Jun @ 6:01pm

After some more time running, outside passenger train is also greatly reduced and with full load, no more queue too

KingofSpades 7 Jun @ 10:54pm

works great, I did have issue where if I put outside connects at the recommended three instead of default 2. with the three I noticed that incoming transport train and intercity buses became super heavy with min passengers. My intercity bus station also created hundreds of empty buses leaving as well. At the 2, intercity bus arrival is extremely rare and the incoming transport trains come in batches of 4 or 5 full trains.

Pineapple Brain 7 Jun @ 6:43am

The mod still works well (train, ship and plane)
Mainly use it for tackling train issue.
For now amount of cargo train is greatly reduced which is super great.
Amount of outside train is also reduced but not as effective as cargo one.
They still need to queue to get into the station but will no longer stuck everything.

caseyas435943 2 Jun @ 5:14pm

For those that get this to work great for you. Doesn't work for me. Most cargo trains run 5, 7, 13% full at the recommended setting of 4X. Set it to 9x nothing changed and say I did a full restart after changing the setting. Cargo trains still run almost empty. If they were 50% I'd have no train at all. But with most going 13% or less they backup off the map. After all these years trains are still broken in this game. Well not broken but horribly coded. No Cargo train in the world is running down the train 5% full 99% of the time. The rail company would go broke.