Feature Request: Multicabin Elevators

[nakor]

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The Tower I have is pretty crammed full of everything. Given the extreme pricetag on new floors there is hardly a way around it if you want to handle what it takes to bring an immensive 5 page newspaper out there to the people every sunday for a very reasonable price and provide great stories to all our ever growing base of loyal subscribers. :-D

So given that the elevator shaft comes in rather late it was quite a piece of work to rearrange everything to make space for even ONE elevator shaft. (I really can't imagine to free enough space for a second one) And now it's even worth than before!

I mean... I already did quite some micromanaging to move reports and text slugs between the floors but at least when I was to busy I saw that my employees were also quite good in moving those things around themselves, using the stairs.

-- First Trials: The sirens call of the new technology --

The first testrun I did between two floors was quite promising and I was looking forward to my employees basically moving almost like a flash between the floors, which they actually did... for roundabout a minute!

-- The Tower crumbles. The breakdown is coming --

When I looked at something else and came back just a minute or so later and looked at the situation long waiting lines had already formed in front of some elevators on some floors.

This happens of course because none of my employees actually enjoys taking the stairs so they will wait at the bottom floor for the elevator while it's single cabin is moving between all the upper floors. Which, of course are also busy, because we also want to inform our readers about impressive new offers and up there is the Ads... um... I mean the Sales department.

-- A devestated News Publisher might be forced to close down one of the most beloved news papers of the city --

Let's be frank... The usage of space to provide comfortable (or at least halfway so) working places, the practiaclly unpayable pricetag for the vertical expansion of the news tower, the thus by pure necessity already crammed space, where it's hard to say where I also later shall put illustrators and whatever into... that all makes it almost impossible to have free room for more than one elevator shaft.

We need to have more than one cabin per shaft... a bit like in that other tower game called SimTower ;-) (which was basically mostly about elevator optimization)

Please give us an option to put a second cabin in it... how about using a similar upgrade structure for it like for the pages? It would definitively be worth the influence points.

Making it costly moneyvice would also be possible, but rather a problem because you already have to save so much money for new floors etc. But however you make it... please add this feature.

[Sparrow Night]

Originally posted by nakor:

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The Tower I have is pretty crammed full of everything. Given the extreme pricetag on new floors there is hardly a way around it if you want to handle what it takes to bring an immensive 5 page newspaper out there to the people every sunday for a very reasonable price and provide great stories to all our ever growing base of loyal subscribers. :-D

So given that the elevator shaft comes in rather late it was quite a piece of work to rearrange everything to make space for even ONE elevator shaft. (I really can't imagine to free enough space for a second one) And now it's even worth than before!

I mean... I already did quite some micromanaging to move reports and text slugs between the floors but at least when I was to busy I saw that my employees were also quite good in moving those things around themselves, using the stairs.

-- First Trials: The sirens call of the new technology --

The first testrun I did between two floors was quite promising and I was looking forward to my employees basically moving almost like a flash between the floors, which they actually did... for roundabout a minute!

-- The Tower crumbles. The breakdown is coming --

When I looked at something else and came back just a minute or so later and looked at the situation long waiting lines had already formed in front of some elevators on some floors.

This happens of course because none of my employees actually enjoys taking the stairs so they will wait at the bottom floor for the elevator while it's single cabin is moving between all the upper floors. Which, of course are also busy, because we also want to inform our readers about impressive new offers and up there is the Ads... um... I mean the Sales department.

-- A devestated News Publisher might be forced to close down one of the most beloved news papers of the city --

Let's be frank... The usage of space to provide comfortable (or at least halfway so) working places, the practiaclly unpayable pricetag for the vertical expansion of the news tower, the thus by pure necessity already crammed space, where it's hard to say where I also later shall put illustrators and whatever into... that all makes it almost impossible to have free room for more than one elevator shaft.

We need to have more than one cabin per shaft... a bit like in that other tower game called SimTower ;-) (which was basically mostly about elevator optimization)

Please give us an option to put a second cabin in it... how about using a similar upgrade structure for it like for the pages? It would definitively be worth the influence points.

Making it costly moneyvice would also be possible, but rather a problem because you already have to save so much money for new floors etc. But however you make it... please add this feature.

Great write-up.

Love the in character vibe and some good points at it.
Sorry for the late reaction.
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