And we're already out of stairs/escalators to do that, anyway. Why? Because there is no way to access B7 by escalator, except through the Metro Center. And during the times that condos are most active, hotels are least active, minimizing stress. They can take the "stairs are far away" penalty without landing in the 'conditions are terrible' red zone.īecause condos and hotels produce only one third as many sims per build, they can be serviced by elevators, however, these elevators only stop at 8-9 floors plus the lobby. Sims will ride an express elevator to a lobby, up stairs to work, then down stairs, through lobby and down escalators to get lunch, avoiding almost 100% of elevator wait penalties. To ensure equidistant travel (minimizing "very far" penalties), stairs/escalators should be spaced at 1/4 the range of the screen and 3/4 the range, so maximum distance from stairs/escalators to any office/shop is 1/4 of the screen, which is where the "very far" penalty begins. You will have two sets of stairs/escalators on each floor that uses them, three elevators and four express elevators. This uses exactly 64 stairs/escalators and all 24 elevator shafts. Do this at night, so the fast food joint opens when the offices start working. When you build 16,17,18 with offices you also build 14 with fast food. So when you build floors 2,3,4 with offices, you also build floor -1 with fast food. And of course, knowing this: build condos first.įast food is not optional-Office workers would otherwise travel all the way down to floor 1 at lunchtime, which is not something you want when condo users are also traveling at this time. You'll never be waiting long periods of time to finish construction. So you want 7 floors per 15 floor level, essentially making your construction of everything other than the lobby free. Condos sell for about twice what they cost, so every one floor of condos you build pays for itself and a second floor. Each identified transit tool connects to the lobby above it (escalators) or below it (stairs, elevators).Ĭondos are how you pay for everything. They must be forced to take the stairs ( disable elevator access to their floors!)Īs such, this format should guide the tower. Office worker population density is too high. I could go on at great length about this, but there's a simpler point to be made: office workers should never be using regular elevators to get anywhere. Which comes down to understanding who uses what, and how much. You just need them to be covering the right numbers of people. You don't need to screw with the elevator schedules at all. Simtower comes across as being about designing a complicated elevator plan that best works for huge numbers of users. For some reason this has never been done.
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