Control tower placement?

[Gunman]

does the control tower need to be close to the airport or could you just plop it at the nearest town?

[MG83]

good question. i have not fiddled with airports yet. because i hate airports in my life ! so i do not like to build them in game. Note : i have worked in construction of airports also made my military duty at air base with its own airport *yawn*

not gona play it ! !!!!

[Gunman]

the tower is not expensive so i gues il just try it out :D seems like a waste to just buss the people to the airport

[MG83]

Originally posted by Gunman:

the tower is not expensive so i gues il just try it out :D seems like a waste to just buss the people to the airport

well open a new game with unlimited money but all aspects enabled and try it there to see how it goes. thats my general tactic :D then i implement my tests to my play game :>

[Gunman]

looks like it works. put it up in my closest town and evrything is working as normal.

[MG83]

Originally posted by Gunman:

looks like it works. put it up in my closest town and evrything is working as normal.

nice ! :D

[Gunman]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2353815725

actually earning atleast a little money from tourists with a quick tourist trap.
this might be a decent reserve income before you get any industry going, the planes arent to expensive, since i cant export power as i always do.

[Gunman]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2353829687

[MG83]

Originally posted by Gunman:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2353815725

actually earning atleast a little money from tourists with a quick tourist trap.
this might be a decent reserve income before you get any industry going, the planes arent to expensive, since i cant export power as i always do.

not bad. but if a plane gets out of lane at the end due to failure of breaks it will fall down upon the city

[polcorp]

Originally posted by MG83:

not bad. but if a plane gets out of lane at the end due to failure of breaks it will fall down upon the city

Socialist planes don't crash into cities ;)

[Gunman]

i expect the pilot to do the right thing then and aim for the sea.
btw whats up with steam screenshots being complete garbage? is there a trick to fixing it?

[DeadMechGaming]

Originally posted by MG83:

not bad. but if a plane gets out of lane at the end due to failure of breaks it will fall down upon the city

Nothing fails in Soviet Russia, just look at our nuclear power plant program.

[Owlchemist]

Say, did any of you ever manage to figure out what the range is on control towers?

[Lead_Hammer]

Originally posted by Owlchemist:

Say, did any of you ever manage to figure out what the range is on control towers?

About one map square width worth of radius is the limit.

I used superior socialist science to find out by blowing up my control tower and rebuilding it in a couple different spots, some of which worked and some didn't.

I didn't measure it exactly because I couldn't drag a road over the distance, too much in the way but that's about your measure. You don't need workers or anything to find out, if you have the runway built it will tell you instantly if it can control said runway or not.

[Leaf]

Thank you.

Had the same question. I wanted to put it in a normal spot... but running heating pipes (and pumps) all the way out there for 8 workers sitting on their butts seemed a little excessive.