Vehicle Traffic (Apocalypse)
Vehicle Traffic - when people tubes are too pedestrian.
Mega-Primus has city congestion rules which limit airbourne and road traffic to a minimum since a care-free population moved swiftly along the People Tubes to their destination have no need for a vehicle.
Civilian Traffic
When the tubes cannot be used, a vehicle is the only option.
Road or Air are available to inhabitants of Mega-primus.
Congestion
Traffic jams and congestion are not of a modern city such as Mega-Primus. The total limit of any vehicle, road or air, is set to a maximum by law.
- Total of all vehicles active in the city is 80.
- Absolute maximum vehicle ownership limit for X-Com owned vehicles is 71.
- Remaining vehicle quantity to reach maximum of eighty is 9.
Limits
- A total of seventy-one X-Com owned vehicles can only be reached if there is no general traffic anywhere, including no police. The city will be completely empty of all vehicles except for one space liner.
- The set remainder of nine is reserved for: company vehicles which launch when a building has been targeted for bombing, transfers between bases (using a maximum of eight Air-Trans), a single off world vehicle (the Space Liner), or any alien craft which appear out of the dimension gates. If a transfer or building-bombing is current, UFO appearance will be limited at that time.
- X-Com ownership quantities typically start to become limited at around 50 total vehicles since there are numerous Megapol police vehicles across the city. A message will start to commonly appear when nearing the limit: "...back-log of new vehicle registrations...".
- The backlog message may also appear when too many Air-Trans transport vehicles are needed to transfer large amounts of X-Com items between bases.
Note: Destroyed general traffic are commonly replaced by an organisation at the start of a new day (midnight) although police vehicles may be replaced sooner. It may be possible for X-Com to purchase another vehicle to 'steal' the available vehicle-quantity spot which slowly allows reaching the maximum seventy-one limit.