Gameplay Settings
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Overview
Use these Settings to make traffic more realistic.
Settings
Vehicle Behaviour
Use these options to control some key aspects of vehicle behaviour throughout your city...
Reckless drivers percentage
Determines the percentage of vehicles that become Reckless Drivers
Set to Holy City (0%) to disable
Individual driving styles
When enabled, each driver will have a slightly different driving style:
They may drive slightly faster or slower than the speed limit
They will choose different places to make lane changes
For best results with lane changes, enable the Advanced Vehicle AI and set Dynamic Lane Selection slider to a non-zero value.
Road condition has a bigger impact on vehicle speed
When enabled:
Poorly maintained roads will cause vehicles to slow down (all biomes)
Wet/flooded roads will cause vehicles to slow down (non-winter biomes)
Disable despawning
When enabled, this prevents vehicles from "despawning"
See: Toggle Despawn
Filter Disable despawning vehicle types
Allows you to allow some vehicle types to always despawn
See: Toggle Despawn
Advanced Vehicle AI
Use these options to improve road lane usage throughout your city...
Enable Advanced AI
Vehicles will try and avoid congested routes
Lanes usage is more evenly distributed
See: 👴 Advanced AI
Dynamic lane selection
Determines the rate at which vehicles will change lanes on long roads
Parking AI
Use this option to make car parking behaviour mandatory and more realistic...
Enable more realistic parking
If enabled:
Prevents "magic pocket cars" (where cims magically have a car after getting off the bus, for example)
Encourages cims to actually find a parking space near their destination
Encourages cims to return to their car to drive home afterward
See: Parking AI
Public Transport
Use this option to make cims behave more realistically at stations...
Prevent unnecessary transfers at public transport stations
If enabled, adds a pathfinding cost when a cim switches from one public transport route to another
This reduces the chance that cims will try to use public transport to get from one side of a station to another!
FAQ
Q: Which settings are best for full lane usage?
Enable Individual driving styles and Advanced vehicle AI
Experiment with the Dynamic lane selection (DLS) setting
Note that DLS often works best when the slider is somewhere in the middle, because reasons.
See Also
Mod Settings
Global Config File — if you want to fine-tune gameplay values
Mod Toolbar Tools
Legacy Documentation
TM:PE v10.x Wiki (use Wayback Machine Internet Archive)