Car ferries?

[Whalsamichael]

Now, I recently tired to make a map that uses ferries to get around the islands to avoid long bridges, but one thing ruins it.

You can only use foot passenger ferries.

Now, I understand that cramming 100 people on a small pier will use far less room and will be easier to use than a long car queue for a ferry, but I think it would work better than having just foot passengers.

For instance, you could have a large ferry that could fit 20-30 cars and 40-50 foot passengers. So people who want to walk or catch a bus can still use it. There could be a 3 lane queue for the ferry, one for large vehicles, and two others for cars etc to save having a very long terminal.

You could use it to connect multiple bus routes, like a bus could travel across the sea on the ferry to connect different isles to save having to build a bus depot for each island.

I have looked but can't seem to find a mod anywhere.

[Mr. Monday]

The problem's not from residents not wanting to use the ferries, because they will. The problem is that service vehicles (and to my knowledge delivery trucks) can't use the ferries. This means if the only connection to the rest of the map an island has is a ferry it'll have to have its own services located on the island.

You could have each island contain its own cargo train station for deliveries if that island has commercial and/or industrial areas on it, but that creates the issue with the long bridges. Alternatively you could make them as tunnels, or replace them with cargo harbors.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by da good guy:

I have looked but can't seem to find a mod anywhere.

Did you really look?
I just went to the Workshop, selected assets/vehicles and typed "ferry" into the searchbar...
here's one and there are others.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=931692258

[ams083]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by da good guy:

I have looked but can't seem to find a mod anywhere.

Did you really look?
I just went to the Workshop, selected assets/vehicles and typed "ferry" into the searchbar...
here's one and there are others.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=931692258

I think OP means a ferry that actually transfers the cars over as well, or a mod to enable this type of feature, as opposed to a ferry that just looks like a car ferry.

But I could be wrong, it’s only an assumption.

[Whalsamichael]

Yes, I was meaning that it takes cars, not just looks like a car ferry.
So if it actually can take cars and trucks, and sail then across. Then they drive off.
Will I just need to make cargo train stations or the freight boats and deal with it?
Thanks for the asset!

[ams083]

Originally posted by da good guy:

Yes, I was meaning that it takes cars, not just looks like a car ferry.
So if it actually can take cars and trucks, and sail then across. Then they drive off.
Will I just need to make cargo train stations or the freight boats and deal with it?
Thanks for the asset!

Yeah there’s nothing that allows the cars into the ferries to be transported over unfortunately.