How is the "recomended ticket price" calculated

[SlayerKiller]

One game ago I did everything the same as this game and last game the recomended price was 45 per month for one zone. This damn round has 15!!!!!! How the hell does that change so dramatically if I haven't even done anything differently?

[❆🎄Douglas 🎁 🎂]

Ticket pricing is very tricky because how the passengers feel about the price is calculated every time a passenger buy a ticket. So, if a student buy the ticket he will most probably think its expensive, while if a business man buy the ticket he will think the price is ok. But since thousands of tickets about bought at once, the price remais more or less stable.

Another variable is how the passengers think the price is cheap or expensive. That depends on the routes. So as soon as you open new lines the feel of the prices will dramatically change. For example, if you have a tram line that go only a few miles and then you open a brand new line that goes in a very desired area and serve a lot of people, the feel of tram ticket price will be much better than before, as many passengers will be willing to pay more to go on that new good route.

So basically ticker prices are very annoying. At the beginning of the game I put all of them red and thats it. Then the system wont send me messages about ticket prices being expensive or cheap. Once you have a lot of passengers and you cover most of the city, ticket prices will be a lot more stable.

[SlayerKiller]

I get that, but is the yellow and orange then managed by system and the RED simply is ignored, though it is way off charts?

Will the people even buy enough tickets then? I right now have the issue of having to start a good coverage I started from the campaign map's lower right and the rural area and the working place area are coverd, as soon as I did it everything was dropped 3 times.

So if I just ignore the warnings and the "this is too high" and put all to red at the beginning I wil be making money instead of losing it?

And on that matter if this problem is so well known, I think the system should be applied differently until you have like 20 000 passanger's or smth maybe even 5000 get's more stable :)

Thanks man you answer me the most! :D and you know stuff!

[❆🎄Douglas 🎁 🎂]

If the ticket is too high (red) or too low (blue, I think) the game stops sending messages. Don't know why. If you insist in keeping them white, green, etc, you will be annoyed. Cause economy also change ticket prices and I don't know why CO never assumed that the economy changes way too fast for a game that goes by in weeks. Many complained by CO never said anything. Economy changes in a matter of hours.

People will buy the tickets even in red color. But less people will buy and more will try to cheat, so make sure your increase the number of inspectors and you will make a lot of money giving fine. Usually the best balance of profit and amount of inspectors is 30% of dodgers being catch. Once you have a better system with good capacity decrease the prices and you get more passengers. Its possible to have profit in both ways.