City Buildings and Trainstation Buildings

[Eldiora]

Is anyone else annoyed how this is implemented? Pretty much every bigger City has to have a University or it will not grow. What is the point in City buildings (there could be a better selection tough) if all Cities if you want them to grow require their single spot fo have the uni instead of 2 slots where I can at least choose, or remove the requirement for the University for cities past 100k population.

Same with train stations. Nearly every train station needs a maintenance depot, I would like to experiment with the other buildings but mostly its 1 maintenance building and often something else.

It would be nice if there was a tech to get an additional slot for both of those.

[kenruof]

Put your maintenance depots in rural stations not in cities. IE A->Maint->B, B->Maint->A

[mrolli]

You can build a dedicated maintance station just outside the city.
Yeah, with the to high price for additional tracks this does get expensive. (e.g. 8 Track would set you back something like 400k more than simply placing it in the city-station)
Then you can you can build to things in the city.
And for Freight you can always use out of city stations for the maintenance.

But it would be nice to have something like 3 station / 2 city spots.

[Joney-F]

Originally posted by Eldiora:

Is anyone else annoyed how this is implemented? Pretty much every bigger City has to have a University or it will not grow. What is the point in City buildings (there could be a better selection tough) if all Cities if you want them to grow require their single spot fo have the uni instead of 2 slots where I can at least choose, or remove the requirement for the University for cities past 100k population.

Same with train stations. Nearly every train station needs a maintenance depot, I would like to experiment with the other buildings but mostly its 1 maintenance building and often something else.

It would be nice if there was a tech to get an additional slot for both of those.

This game allows you to build stations anywhere besides cities and resources. Therefore, regarding maintenance, it is only necessary to build a station appropriately in the middle of the route and build a maintenance facility there. There are no cities, no resources, no passengers, no cargo. So even if you build a maintenance facility, it will not hinder the development of the city. This allows you to create a pseudo-maintenance station.
Alternatively, place maintenance facilities at resource stations. This game does not require passengers and mail in resource areas. So you don't need a post office or a restaurant in the resource area, and it would be nice if there was at least an express delivery facility. Therefore, you can build a maintenance facility at the station of the resource production area. Even if almost every train station needs maintenance facilities, it doesn't have to be all cities.

[Fargel_Linellar]

In regards to city building, this is still a choice (even if more would be interesting).

As adding a museum rather than an university is quite good.
It make the city generate more passengers and mail without requiring more goods.

So museum are an easy way to generate more passengers/mails, while university allow to generate more passengers and mails, but require providing more goods to the city to reach the same.

[Krankheitsfall]

i wish i could build station on existing tracks like supply towers. Actually you have remove tracks abd fit the station. Its a high effort and its ruins the layout.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Fully agree with the OP.

All buildings should be buildable at the same time as they grow.

Silly to have to demolish buildings for the sake of accomodating another.

Applies to city buildings and station extensions.