What is the difference between Old Town and Ban Heavy Traffic policies?

[Catratio]

They seem to do they exact same thing.

Ban Heavy Traffic:
- prevents large industrial trucks from passing through an area
- does not prevent small delivery vans from going to commercial stores
- does not seemingly affect farming or forestry trucks. I had log trucks and tractors still passing through my Ban zone.
- residents, customers to stores, service vehicles are unaffected

Old Town:
- supposed to only allow people who live or work in a district to be able to come and go in/out, so it:
- prevents large industrial trucks from passing through an area (same)
- does not prevent small delivery vans from going to commercial stores (same)
- residents, service vehicles are unaffected (same) --- I'm assuming customers to stores are still allowed in as they have "business" there even though they are not employees? I put this policy on to test and none of the stores complained of lack of customers

Only difference seems to be Old Town stops private vehicle commuters from cutting through a zone as a short cut if their destination is outside the district and they are forced to go around. Is that really the only change? I have no idea how tourists are affected by this. I feel like I'm missing something here.

Also what IS a "heavy traffic" truck? As I said, forestry and farming vehicles did not seem to care at all about my ban on them and cruised right on through.

[CyberVibes]

I use the TM:PE mod to control vehicle restrictions, they actually obey for the most part, the only time they didn't was with the pedestrian paths from Network Extensions 2

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=583429740&searchtext=tmpe

[MarkJohnson]

I seem to remember, that trucks were allowed in, if they had no other choices.

Maybe sure you have plenty of alternate routes so they can make deliveries by going around the district. I think highways are immune to the traffic ban as well. So make sure a highway is accessible through the district if needed.

[kristofburger]

Originally posted by Catratio:

- does not seemingly affect farming or forestry trucks. I had log trucks and tractors still passing through my Ban zone.

If you can replicate this in a completely vanilla environment, report it as a bug. Log trucks and tractors are considered heavy traffic and shouldn't be allowed where the policy is enabled.

[ScrltFox]

You would be correct. Old Town is meant to keep commuters on the main road and only allow businesses and residences access to the zone. rmjohnson144 would be correct. Anybody not doing business in that district will seek alternative routes. Pretty usefull if you have traffic issues on your smaller roads, but not the larger ones. I tend to only use it on small/residential roads/zones.

[Catratio]

If the forest/farm trucks had no other choice then maybe that's why they circumvented my ban. It was a few days ago and it's likely I had only the one freeway connection at the time. I remember trying to set it up when my main artery into town was too clogged.

I just wanted to be sure it wasn't banning customers too. In fact it seems too overpowered then if you can just ban all non-relevant traffic to an area. I did have it on my tourist zone earlier by mistake and wondered why it suddenly had zero traffic but continued to prosper. Wouldn't putting it on every district basically solve every traffic problem?

[Metacritical]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/heavy-traffic-ban-and-the-new-industries-dlc.1126046/

[kristofburger]

Originally posted by Catratio:

Wouldn't putting it on every district basically solve every traffic problem?

ConflictNerd does this on almost everywhere except main roads and no, it doesn't solve every traffic problem because the main roads can't handle all the volume :)

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by kristofburger:

Originally posted by Catratio:

Wouldn't putting it on every district basically solve every traffic problem?

ConflictNerd does this on almost everywhere except main roads and no, it doesn't solve every traffic problem because the main roads can't handle all the volume :)

+1

Not only doesn't solve all problems, but like all policies, it will create new ones from altering the base game rules, and may cause issues down the road.

As a rule I never use policies, raise taxes, nor adjust budgets. Doing any of these things changes the rules of the game and make it harder to learn/master the game.