Express Elevators, please

[Shaddam Padisha IV]

In real life, supertall and mixed use buildings need Express Elevators

[Tankfriend]

Elevators are already instant in this game, so... what would express elevators offer that current elevators don't?

[ZakTheFallen]

My point exactly, Tankfriend. How could an express elevator be any faster? The game already has unlimited capacity with its instantly elevator service.

[gonzaldd]

Maybe it could be a need or a desire for the most prestigious offices and homes or that they are on the higher floors, that the residents think something like: "normal elevators are very slow, we need express elevators :-|" or "these express elevators" are great :-)", that dont leave the building for it but affect their happiness.

Basically the idea is that it is another service, like the commercial printing or the laundry, that the tenants demand or want.

[thecheesemo]

To respond to Tankfriend and ZachTheFallen, express elevators would help alleviate the problem of tenant unhappiness cause by broken elevators. As an example, you could use express elevators to funnel all your hotel guest away from the elevators used by your office workers and residents, there by reducing the wear and tear and frequency of elevators break downs.

On hard difficulty, the effect of broken elevators is one of the biggest cause of moveouts, even with maxed out maintenance offices, if you don’t plan properly, it can be a serious problem.

[Lawrence]

Originally posted by thecheesemo:

To respond to Tankfriend and ZachTheFallen, express elevators would help alleviate the problem of tenant unhappiness cause by broken elevators. As an example, you could use express elevators to funnel all your hotel guest away from the elevators used by your office workers and residents, there by reducing the wear and tear and frequency of elevators break downs.

I don't see how express elevator would help with this problem. You are in a building, wether you are a resident or a tourist, you see "Slow as s*it elevator" and "Quick Elevator", you go for the second.

In this case, tuning of who can use which elevator is a better solution, or improved elevators with a lower breakage point, but express elevator would not solve this.

(BTW, you can edit the file pretty easily to make any elevator to have a lower breakage rate, so you can lower the fancy elevator one to 50% or 25% of the normal one, and consider this your upgraded more reliable elevator)

[thecheesemo]

But, that is not what an express elevator does. its not simply an elevator that moves faster. The purpose of an express elevator is that it only goes to certain floors, not all floors. It like an express train vs a local train, the express skips certain stops that the local takes.

with that kind of fuction you could say.. make it so your normal elevators only go to floors 1-39 and there is an express elevator to floor 40 with a different non express elevator saft for floors 40-79. In this example you would reduce the amount of traffic on the non express shafts by half.

[WannaSeeSomethingStupid?]

I would consider their functionality here to be fewer breakdowns.

[thecheesemo]

really, what should be added is some kind of office to provide PREVENTITIVE maintenance to elevators. this is something that could be added without messing with the mechanics behind the elevator system (i think)