Can anyone please explain me Transport Rating?? is it bugged or what?

FLASH_overlord

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i have powered, connected to a path and working monorail station, and building right next to it still have red transport rating in the guests needs view.
one of the station is near park entrance, and then i have 3 or 4 stations elsewhere in the park that give acces to pretty much every general area, doesnt matter:
every building far away from park entrance has red transport rating and monorails stations do nothing. global transport rating is below 20% , about same value as without any monorails (i tried deleting them to check).
i can post screenshots if someone asks for it.

this seems to happen only on sorna and muerta. on tacano and pena monorails work fine and improve transport rating. didnt build monorail on matanceros and didnt go to nublar yet so i dont know for these.

so what?? what is happening? does anyone know how transport rating is calculated and what affects it? seems like that's not intended to me...

PS: does the more expensive path types even have an effect on transport rating at all? seems like they are purely visual to me. do building the wide path option have any effect on transport rating??
 

DragonNTiger

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I'm no expert (so forgive me if I'm wrong) but it seems like the guests really like it when they don't have to walk any real distance from hotels/kiosks/attractions to a Monorail Station... half the time it seems like you really need to focus your buildings around the monorail station itself, thus minimizing the walking distance as much as possible... fortunately, Transport rating doesn't seem to be a significant thing; lots of people say you can 5 star an island without any monorail in place...

As for paths, I don't think those have anything to do with transport rating... only monorails...
 

Gryphon_R

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A wider path is better than a narrow path especially in congested areas. But with monorails, I set it up so everything is around the monorail station and delete the paths between stations. That seems to push up the transport rating.
Guests don't like to walk, but given the choice it seems that some will walk, then grumble about it. I take away the option and make them use monorails.

[EDIT] Connect your buildings to the monorail station with a path, as long as the monorail system is connected by path the entrance, the rail system will satisfy the requirement for a path connection to the entrance.
 
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Chris Simon

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Yeah, what they said ^

It's all about the walking distance the visitors have to travel. As a rule of thumb, the longest path they have to walk should be smaller than the distance between two stations on the monorail. (I'm not saying that's how it's calculated, but that is how it seems to me).
So just cut your park into individula chunks connected only by the monorail.
 

FLASH_overlord

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Ohhhh deleting the path on between? Why that doesnt make any sence lol but i whouldnt be surprised if that worked, the guests needs system is so borked in this game in general... :p
Thanks for advice everyone i'll try it and see when i'm back home.

However: i still wonder why that happens only on sorna and muerta... i have long path between stations all the same on tacano and pena and the monorails does work for transport rating there... so still seem to me like something is bugged somewhere.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
FLASH_overlord said:
Ohhhh deleting the path on between? Why that doesnt make any sence lol but i whouldnt be surprised if that worked, the guests needs system is so borked in this game in general... :p
Thanks for advice everyone i'll try it and see when i'm back home.

However: i still wonder why that happens only on sorna and muerta... i have long path between stations all the same on tacano and pena and the monorails does work for transport rating there... so still seem to me like something is bugged somewhere.
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Pena is tiny. Basically just putting a monorail with two stations anywhere, there will result in 100% transport rating.
The whole system might work on the relative comparison of people walking the distance/riding the distance. Sorna and Tacano have the longest distance from one end to the other (Sorna is like three Tacanos in a triangle. :D) so it makes sense that they have problems with this. The visitors are stupid and they will walk if they have the chance, which means they won't use monorail, which means the transport rating is low.
 
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