What drives Luxury Liner Passengers

[Lamon]

I'm in the 3rd stage of the new scenario -- but getting 0 passengers even with 50% off ticket. Should i push to build up the receiving city or the sending city?

[Rolf]

Hey @Lamon :)
You are referring to the Task 2 of the 3rd stage, correct? Have you set up your Luxury Line properly so you transport the passengers as described in the hint (check the city names and conditions)?
In general you push the sending city for more passengers from that city, transferring passengers not included.

[Lamon]

Thank you! Yes Bucharest to Varna-- And i did not have it correct - was up late enjoying the new scenario. Will fix it and continue enjoying after work today - Thanks

[Omogoto]

Same here but I am on the task further along, transport 150 luxury non stop from Niz to Plowdiw, both cities have hundreds of passengers waiting on both ends and I tried all the way down to 50% on my fee's and am running 2 trains, both have made 2 full trips and have not moved any passengers at all. In this same scenario I have run these luxury routes with no issues, I don't see what is wrong?

[Dray Prescot]

Are there any Tourist Attraction Buildings (probably at 60k Population) that you could build in Both Cities, along With Station Buildings, and specialty Cars and special hired labor for the Trains?

I am just starting the very beginning of that Scenario, so that is all I can suggest.

[phy1kcw]

may be the train track is too long? try to make it more 'straight' between city?

[Dray Prescot]

Will your passengers board an ordinary Express Line between the 2 Cities, not a Luxury Line?

Just to make sure there is not a problem with the rail line, like being too long.

[agtk]

I'm having a similar issue, my luxury route is running and says it is full of passengers with full cars, but no one seems to ever get unloaded. And I'm just trying to get people from Vienna to Bucharest! I'm wondering if it's just not enough people or they're happy enough on a regular express line, but it still seems weird that it shows 7 full cars of passengers but the route isn't really making any money. Maybe I need to remove the dining car? I'll note I'm playing on gamepass PC.

Quick update, I removed the dining car and it seems to be working properly now. Maybe if you're having luxury passenger issues the dining car is the problem?

[Omogoto]

Solved with 2 things, yes I think the route may have been too long, and I went to 3 large cities in the area and sent luxury trains TO Niz, since I made two changes, not sure which change made the difference but my guess is the route length. I won't say more as a possible spoiler, in case some have not done this one yet.
Thanks to all that took the time to reply.

[evilcherry]

I worked around by emptying trains on an out-and-back luxury route. Don't understand why the dining car is so problematic.

[Schwalbe NL]

Please give a spolier. As I have been trying to figure out for hours how to get ANY luxury passenger from Budapest to Varna. Nothing I do works. Shorten line. Eliminate dining car. In budapest the city Varna is not even listed as a destination. A regular express line also has no passengers. I am getting tired of this.

[gardlt]

The luxury lines feature has many bugs. What does your setup look like? Are you using multiple stations on either end? What about rural stations with Hotels? Do any other trains run between Budapest and Varna? Try to get rid of other trains till it will load.

I recommend using just one station in each city and a direct connection Budapest-Varna for any trains on this route while you are trying to complete the task. If there are multiple stations, the game can do stupid behind the scenes in determining one station is "closer" than the other. If you have fancy train routes such as A-C-B-D-C that can also potentially cause issues. Try with simple A-B routes.

[Dray Prescot]

I just finished the 3rd Set of Tasks for that Scenario a couple months after 5 years of game play in Feb 1886. I had been building up the population of Bucharest (had 74k), and the other Cities in the region for the 280k population task.

Once I had enough cash to bridge the river and connect Bucharest and Varna, I had no trouble doing the 100 Luxury Passengers in only 3 or 4 round trips of a Luxury Train with 100% fares. I had been taking the Research projects that increase the revenue from Luxury Passengers, as I got enough research points. Varna had not had the time to change much from it's starting population. I got the Luxury Passenger Task well before the 280k population Task.

Now I know the next set of tasks: produce 20 Wine and 10 Nougat (requires a City of 110k population to demand it), in a new region/concession, as well as grow a City to 50k. I had Vienna and Pesburg at about 95k populations with Budapest not far behind. So I will go back about 6 months and start working on getting Vienna to 110k, (I think that eventually I need Vienna at 120k for late Tasks in the Scenario) so it will demand the production of 10 Nougat for that Task when the Task opens up. The produce 20 Wine is no problem, I have plenty of demand for Wine. Growing a City from about 25k to 50k is not hard either, it just needs supplying enough Resources/Goods and some time.

Growing Vienna to 110k is the big expense and time consumer, I will have to build an University and increment a number of Industries to produce more Goods for Vienna to consume. I had been ignoring that part of my rail network, while I was working on the 3rd set of tasks.

added: Checking my saved game dates: I finished the 100 Luxury Bucharest to Varna in late Aug 1885, and finished the 280k total Population Task in early Feb 1886, to get the 4th set of Tasks.

I should be able to do better with taking more Bonds sooner, but I also need to work on getting Vienna's population up to 110k, which will be expensive.

Right now I am still trying find out what the various future Tasks are, so I can try to get ready for them in advance, where possible. I have not been using Libraries to help Cities grow, which was a mistake. Bigger Cities sooner generate more revenue, in many ways. I also have not been using the Immigration centers, another mistake.



2nd added: I just started over again, with the Lady who gets big discounts (30%) on upgrading resources and industries. Mostly because upgrading Industries is very expensive, but level 1 is only produces enough for the City it is in with a small fraction left over, and if you want the goods produced for other Cities so they can grow, you will need 2nd and 3rd level Industries. And you need to grow the very limited number of Cities open to you to 90k to get the additional Industry Sites.

The Tasks and availability of Concessions to open more regions for Cities, in this Scenario, is very tightly defined/channeled along a limited path and timeline, at least through the 1st 4 sets of Tasks that I have seen.

[Schwalbe NL]

Originally posted by gardlt:

The luxury lines feature has many bugs. What does your setup look like? Are you using multiple stations on either end? What about rural stations with Hotels?

Simple A to B. No Hotels. No warehouses. Never use them. Hate them. Never work as I intend. I probably just don't understand how they work, so I never use complicated routing, as they hardly ever work well.

Originally posted by gardlt:

Do any other trains run between Budapest and Varna? Try to get rid of other trains till it will load.

Yes, but they won't load any cargo or passengers.

Originally posted by gardlt:

If you have fancy train routes such as A-C-B-D-C that can also potentially cause issues. Try with simple A-B routes.

Like I said before, i always keep it simple.

And just now I discoverd the source of this "bug". I read Budapest, but is says Bucharest. The bug is, that I am apparantly dyslectic and mixed up city names. DUH

[Lama]

Frequently made mistake.