More Cars in Coaster?
- Thread starter BitJumper
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If you want to have more cars, you can do this in the ride options (in the operations tab). - Maybe you will have to increase the size of your station to have enough space for the cars.
If you want to have more trains, you can do this in the same options tab, too.
To have more than one train, you're coaster will maybe need block sections. - You always need one more block section than trains to clear the next section. - (Chain lifts and the station itself count as block section, too)
If the option to increase the number of cars/trains is gray/grey, then it's because you have to do something else first to make it possible to select more cars/trains.
NOTE: the use of "cars" in PC is a bit ambiguous. It can refer to either a single peep-carrier going around the track (ex. Loony Turns, spinning coaster), the length of which cannot be increased, or it can refer to part of a "train" of multiple "cars", where the trains are the separate entities going around the track. But regardless of meaning, the procedure for changing the number of "cars" is the same.
Here are some of the things you have to do first (not all of which might be applicable to your situation).
1. Close the Ride
If the ride has already been opened for business, you can only change the number of trains/cars, or the number of cars in a train by closing the ride. Also, all changes to the number of trains/cars constitute "editing the track" so the ride has to be tested again before you can re-open it.
2. Enable Block Sections
This setting is a check box on the Operations tab, and must be selected before you can increase the number of "trains" above 1. I believe this only applies to coasters using "trains" of multiple "cars". If the coaster only uses individual "cars" (ex. spinning coaster), I don't think you need block sections at all.
3. Increase Station Length
Regardless of whether the coaster uses multi-car trains or individual cars, the maximum number of cars you can have is dictated by the length of the station platform. You can only run as many cars as will fit on the station platform (NOTE: this limit applies to coasters and transport rides, but not to track rides.). This is a lot harder to change after the ride is in operation in a park because to make the station longer, you have to convert some of the track on either end of it into station platform, which of course will screw up the existing brake run at the rear of the station and entry into the lift hill at the front of the station.