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Mileage Taxi Services

In 1 collection by Vectorial1024
Vectorial1024's Transport Efficiency Mods
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Description
Simulate mileage-based taxi fares.



Quick Info
  • Requires After Dark DLC (duh)
  • Requires Harmony
  • Greatly inspired by Profitable Tourism
  • I bet you all are misunderstanding vanilla taxis
  • With this mod, taxis generate mileage-based fare
  • Works with Ticket Price Customizer, Transport Lines Manager, and Profitable Tourism

First, Explaining How Taxis Work
It seems there are a lot of misconceptions about how taxis work, which may explain why so many of us complain "it doesn't work" at Profitable Tourism.

Taxis in Cities Skylines collect fares ONLY WHEN the passenger has arrived at the destination. During the journey, the taxi does not generate any income. If for some reason the journey becomes invalid, then no fare is collected at all.

The final fare collected is calculated only with the straight-line distance (aka displacement) of the journey, and the actual mileage is not considered. This service income is accounted as "taxi income".

This does not look good at the budget screen.

Mod Effects
This mod is very simple: every tick when a taxi is carrying a passenger, it generates income based on its instantaneous mileage at around half the standard rate. The usual end-of-journey fare is unchanged.

Thus, mileage-based fares are simulated. With this, at least +50% overall income from taxi services are guaranteed, with potentially more depending on your road layout.

Moreover, you can now estimate live city-wide taxi usage simply by looking at your public transport budget tab.

Note: you may stack e.g. Ticket Price Customizer with this mod. This may make taxis unbalanced, but you do you.

GitHub Repo
This mod is open-sourced, and the repo is available here: https://github.com/Vectorial1024/MileageTaxiServices

最後,歡迎各位加入香港Cities Skylines Discord群組:
https://discord.gg/KeSDDydjSB

And that's all!
7 Comments
Vectorial1024  [author] 6 Jul @ 9:32am 
then, I think it overflowed somewhere

opening a github issue for now

https://github.com/Vectorial1024/MileageTaxiServices/issues/1

meanwhile, may you temporarily disable infinite money to see if it still happens? afaik you can just ignore the "you are in debt"/"bail out" warning in case your actual balance is negative
rhmgerards 6 Jul @ 8:43am 
When unsubscribed, the issue disappears, when I subscribe again the huge negative income is building up again. I don't really have that many taxi's, most depots are almost empty
Vectorial1024  [author] 5 Jul @ 5:08am 
or maybe there is some hidden edge case I did not think of
Vectorial1024  [author] 5 Jul @ 5:08am 
@rhmgerards

the only possible explanation I can think of, is that you have so many taxis, the statistics panel overflowed

try remove + re-add the mod
rhmgerards 5 Jul @ 2:11am 
This mod was working fine for a while but since a few days my taxi's have a huge negative income, at the moment it's -5,497,561,325. I play with unlimted money so harm done luckily.
SergeantSadman 8 Jun @ 12:51pm 
Fantastic mod:flammable:
Harranczyk 2 Jun @ 2:19pm 
Thanks!!!