Elevator Needs Adjusting

[J B Dryden]

In my second playthrough and decided to completely remodel with the elevator. Bad idea!

As it stands now, the elevator prioritizes whoever gets on first, and then goes to that floor, which means it bounces between floors every time. A quick fix would be to have the elevator stop on each floor going up and each floor going down and let people on and off as they need. I had to remodel all over again to get rid of the elevator because it was keeping my reporters from getting to their floor in a timely manner and ended up only printing 5 articles in a 4-page paper.

[fred_st_jean]

Same here!! Just before the end of 1932, i proceeded with a remodel of my building deleting stairs and add a elevators system... Result, unable to fulfill more than 5 news per week and lost all my work XD

[Centauri_Tyridius]

Agreed. Seems that stairs work better than the elevator

[jeffer_2]

Agree as well! I don't think I'll use the elevator in my next play through. IT is too slow, doesn't fit enough people, and so in my last game I had people standing line for the elevator for an entire week. It completely destroyed my productivity.

I think elevator AI needs some work, it needs to move faster, hold more people, and I think an upgrade to have a second car would be great!

[Lancival]

I think elevators are actually usable, it's just that you have to redesign your entire building to use a bunch of elevators. If you turn your ground floor into an elevator lobby, with 1 elevator dedicated to each floor, people can generally get around very quickly without waiting for elevators to stop at every floor.

[J B Dryden]

Originally posted by Lancival:

I think elevators are actually usable, it's just that you have to redesign your entire building to use a bunch of elevators. If you turn your ground floor into an elevator lobby, with 1 elevator dedicated to each floor, people can generally get around very quickly without waiting for elevators to stop at every floor.

Wasting an entire floor for elevators is a bad design, though, because eventually the floors starting costing tens of thousands of dollars, and that's just not good business. Besides, as a game design critique, that's also not a great way to have to play the game. While that might be a way to play, it shouldn't have to be the way to play.

[Beloega]

Elevator is going to be worked on.
First needs some deciding which way to go.
Will have an office meeting tomorrow

Thanks for bringing this point and talking about it

[Lee636]

OP - in your second playthrough, were the news stories the same as your first run?

[Nonvaio01]

I had the same, i used the elevator for the storage dude only, it went from 1st to 4th, that worked great for me, as no one else was using it.

[J B Dryden]

Originally posted by Lee636:

OP - in your second playthrough, were the news stories the same as your first run?

The stories are largely the same, yeah. They also repeat throughout the playthrough.

[Rodagu]

Or replace it with an Paternoster[en.wikipedia.org]? That should solve the problem with the waiting and it has style (IMHO)

[Rusteve]

A paternoster sounds like a great idea actually, never seen it done in any other game either. Would still like to have an elevator as an option though

[J B Dryden]

Originally posted by Rodagu:

Or replace it with an Paternoster[en.wikipedia.org]? That should solve the problem with the waiting and it has style (IMHO)

A neat idea but largely unused in the U.S. because of the conventional elevators that were implemented in the early 1900s because of the height of buildings. Paternosters aren't very practical once you get higher than 7-8 stories because they're too slow and become dangerous that high.

[dubesor]

I have a package guy on floor 5 and when deliveries arrive I do pretty much all manually because he will literally take the stairs despite the elevator being on every floor. I followed him once and he took every stair. Also he doesn't allow me to put paper into the paper stash as he will immediately carry it out to put into the printing press, even tho there is 1k+ paper in it already, I put it in there for other paper needs and wondered why its always empty.

[Admiral Duke]

i guess currently the only way elevator(s) can be used is as direct connection to the level where the printers are located. This way the resupply for paper is most efficient.
But this is just a theory i need to try out.

[The Real Folk Blues+]

Originally posted by Admiral Duke:

i guess currently the only way elevator(s) can be used is as direct connection to the level where the printers are located. This way the resupply for paper is most efficient.
But this is just a theory i need to try out.

This is what I did in my game. Everyone has to use the stairs for everything, except access to the printer.
Not only does it make it faster to get paper in there, but because there are no stairs, the printer noise does NOT leak to other floors.
I just have the printer in its own floor, all for it, with only the elevator. No walls, no panels, not even lights.