Automata Increaser?

[WannGLondon]

Is there any way I can increase my bus automata in the game? I would like more of my busses going about the city, but have not found a way to increase the bus automata. Please help, thanks.

Warren.

[Tarkus]

A Traffic Generator Lot would theoretically do the job.  However, I'm not aware of any that are set up to spawn buses.  Modifications to the Automata Tuning Exemplar could probably do the trick as well.

-Alex

[catty]

Another way would be to replace the taxis in the game with buses, not sure if that's something you would want to do, but timotheus4 uploaded a number of mods changing the taxis to something else ... my personal favorite is the "Elephants as Taxis"

http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/13381-elephants-as-taxis/

changing a taxis to a bus should be easier

-catty

[mrbisonm]

Plop more busstations....??.......Btw, there is a mod somewhere on a chinese or other asian site that I once saw that increases the traffic in all (including busses) and even creates road blockage in some cases. I tried it, but it is hard on the computer's capacity.

Fred

[WannGLondon]

A Traffic Generator Lot would theoretically do the job.  However, I'm not aware of any that are set up to spawn buses.  Modifications to the Automata Tuning Exemplar could probably do the trick as well.

-Alex

Thanks everyone for giving some advice, but Alex, is the Automata Tuning Exemplar in the Traffic Configuration Tool downloaded with NAM?

[WannGLondon]

I found this image posted by Peter007 posted a while back. Maybe there is a lot in this image that increases bus spawn rate?

[Tarkus]

The Traffic Simulator Configuration Tool (TSCT) only deals with the Traffic Simulator, not the Automata Tuning Exemplar (which requires the Reader to tweak).  However, looking at that last picture, that seems to hold some promise . . . I'd drop Peter a PM and see what he has to say.

-Alex

[WannGLondon]

The Traffic Simulator Configuration Tool (TSCT) only deals with the Traffic Simulator, not the Automata Tuning Exemplar (which requires the Reader to tweak).  However, looking at that last picture, that seems to hold some promise . . . I'd drop Peter a PM and see what he has to say.

-Alex

Thanks, will do.

[Lowkee33]

The property is "Travellers per bus" in the automata tuning exemplar.  The exemplar is included in NAM, starting with the letters "NetworkAddonMod_Automata_Plugin" (Its also in SimCity.dat, but if you use NAM you would want to mod the NAM file).  Lowering this value should increase the amount of buses you see.

I do believe that picture is a bug of sorts, those retaining-walled-lots you see are bus stops.