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Optimised Outside Connections

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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.

Source code[github.com]

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Popular Discussions View All (1)
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30 Jul, 2024 @ 4:51pm
Everyone's thoughts on traffic in version 1.14?
Quboid
556 Comments
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:steamhappy:
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. :steamhappy:
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.
AverageEuropeanTramEnjoyer 22 May @ 2:32pm 
This mod doesn't solve the issue where intercity trains spawn in my station each one by one, but it does work for outside connections only.. rip
Clever_Skipper 6 May @ 12:43pm 
Still works and reduces the numbers of freight trains to a realistic level.
Seiryuu 11 Apr @ 6:25am 
Can someone confirm that this mod just works as of now?
Necko 4 Mar @ 12:00pm 
@TsukiRunsu it works, the mod just increase wait time, nothing else
TsukiRunsu 21 Feb @ 11:41pm 
Does this mod still work? Sick of the fact that my cruise ships only have 3 people in it.
truffleshuffle 10 Feb @ 11:04am 
I'm also seeing NO intercity buses as others have commented, but passenger/cargo trains seem to work fine for me with this mod enabled.