Bus routes bugged

[pat]

I'm trying to set up bus routes and I have a problem that I saw in Train Fever. Thing is, there was a workaround in TF that doesn't exist in this game. In the screenshot, I want the bus to be traveling NE when it stops at East St. I have a bus stop on each side of the street, and when I add it to the route, I'm definitely clicking on the lower stop of those two.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=803206026

In TF, you could "ungroup" the stop, but this isn't an option now. The only thing I can do is to add a second stop across the street that is far enough away that is doesn't group them.

If anyone knows how I can get around this, I'd appreciate some advice.

[killakanz]

I always get around this by using trams instead.

[Vimpster]

So based on your screenshot I assume you also have another line using the stop on the opposite side that is also going to the wrong stop? You want them to swap stops right? If so, maybe try deleting the one stop and setup the line how you want, than rebuild the stop and add the other line and see if that gets them on the right ones.

Like killakanz said, this is why I am fond of using trams as well. But I also find it strange that they removed the ungroup feature that Train Fever had that would fix this problem.

[pat]

Originally posted by Vimpster:

So based on your screenshot I assume you also have another line using the stop on the opposite side that is also going to the wrong stop?

No, but that's the plan. I run two bus routes in a city in opposite directions. I built bus stops on both sides of the street in anticipation of creating that opposing route, but hadn't yet set it up. If I delete the "wrong side of the street" stop, then the bus goes in the right direction (it has no choice). But as soon as I build that opposite side stop, it switches back. I've tried deleting the entire route and starting from scratch, but as soon as that bus stop has stops on both sides of the street, things go south (no pun intended). As a matter of fact, when I put the opposing route in, BOTH buses want to go the wrong direction.

I don't like this solution, but with nothing else, I think I'll go with killakanz's method.

[Vimpster]

Originally posted by pat:

Originally posted by Vimpster:

So based on your screenshot I assume you also have another line using the stop on the opposite side that is also going to the wrong stop?

No, but that's the plan. I run two bus routes in a city in opposite directions. I built bus stops on both sides of the street in anticipation of creating that opposing route, but hadn't yet set it up. If I delete the "wrong side of the street" stop, then the bus goes in the right direction (it has no choice). But as soon as I build that opposite side stop, it switches back. I've tried deleting the entire route and starting from scratch, but as soon as that bus stop has stops on both sides of the street, things go south (no pun intended). As a matter of fact, when I put the opposing route in, BOTH buses want to go the wrong direction.

I don't like this solution, but with nothing else, I think I'll go with killakanz's method.

I haven't tried this yet myself, but one thing you could try, after putting both routes in and having them on the wrong sides, is to add a 3rd route. The 3rd route would have no vehicles on it though. The game tries to balance line distribution of stops opposing eachother. A 3rd, fake line might switch them to the sides you want them on.

It would be helpful to see a screenshot with both lines going to the wrong stops though, just to see if there isn't some other way to correct the problem.

[pat]

Hmm... Here's what I did: I had the problem, so I dug tram lines into the route, and assigned trams to it. They all went in the correct direction. After reading your message, I sent all the trams back to the depot, bought a couple buses and assigned them to the opposing routes. Now they're going the right way. I can no explain it.

[Vimpster]

Well congrats than. It is a shame you didn't figure out what the problem was, but at least you got it sorted.