cars disappear instead of parking in a lot

[ommahead]

hello together.
i made a service area for the highway with some parking lots, benches, toilets and so on. but when someone comes to this place the car simply disappears instead of parking in some of the lots. this looks a bit strange for a sevice area, people sitting on benches next to the highway but no car far and wide. and when they finish their break the car appears from nowhere. someone an idea?

[OneJasonBradly]

The parking lot you are using, are they assets form the PARK section of the workshop? The parking lots from the PROP section will not allow vehicles to visit it, you must prop/plop vehicles upon them. Whenever I place a park my wife will always insist I place at least a small parking lot. Thinking they will park their cars and walk to visit the park next door or nearby. She is right, that is what they do and it looks great and realistic.

[OneJasonBradly]

The behaviour you describe with the vanishing and appearing vehicles is called “pocket cars” this “mostly” happens when a citizen get off a transit vehicle and cannot continue using transit to get to their destination, or transit system is too slow. Having said this I also have seen many occurrences of pocket car users. Most cases of pocket car users can be resolved but for this you need to investigate why they are doing it and solve.

[ommahead]

hm, i can't figure out what the problem is. in very rare cases someone is parking in one of the lots so i assume that the lots are ok, but mostly the cars disappear when the cim goes to a bench

[Lord Sauron]

For me not the cars are disappearing, but the citizens itself when entering the small parking lot. Perhaps it has something to do with addition pedestrian paths I drew towards to back side of the parking lot. They seem to be connected, but no citizen is using them to enter the parking lot.

[OneJasonBradly]

Originally posted by Lord Sauron:

For me not the cars are disappearing, but the citizens itself when entering the small parking lot. Perhaps it has something to do with addition pedestrian paths I drew towards to back side of the parking lot. They seem to be connected, but no citizen is using them to enter the parking lot.

Parking lot some are considered parks so yes citizens will disappear into them and emerge from them. This behaviour has always been.

[Lord Sauron]

Originally posted by OneJasonBradly:

Originally posted by Lord Sauron:

For me not the cars are disappearing, but the citizens itself when entering the small parking lot. Perhaps it has something to do with addition pedestrian paths I drew towards to back side of the parking lot. They seem to be connected, but no citizen is using them to enter the parking lot.

Parking lot some are considered parks so yes citizens will disappear into them and emerge from them. This behaviour has always been.

Might be, but it looks silly. Persons walks on a piece of concrete and is gone all of a sudden.

[OneJasonBradly]

Originally posted by Lord Sauron:

Originally posted by OneJasonBradly:

Parking lot some are considered parks so yes citizens will disappear into them and emerge from them. This behaviour has always been.

Might be, but it looks silly. Persons walks on a piece of concrete and is gone all of a sudden.

Agreed it does look funny. Or down right suspicious, Hmmm.

[barrygreybeard]

I believe that the mod TM:PE has an option to disable "pocket cars" forcing cars to park.

[mikelleh63]

In TM:PE there is a setting. It is under Gameplay tab. Parking AI - Check Enable more realistic parking. Done and done