P1SIM Logistics Game

Graphics

• Very clean and simple 3d graphics
• Fluent transition between day and night
• Dynamic vehicle lights (i.e. headlights, rear lights, brake lights, turning lights)
• Stepless zooming
• Special effects like smoke, fire and explosions

Map & Terrain

• Randomly generated unlimited maps
• Height dependent ground types (deep water, shallow water, beach, grass, soil, rock, snow)
• Randomly generated ressources
• Trees & Bushes

Citizens

• Visible citizens and cars
• Each citizen is associated with one flat and one workplace
• Citizens buy goods in supermarkets
• Citizens visit other citizens
• Fire departments, Police departments, Hospitals, Supermarkets, Factories, Building yards
• Cities (always AI controlled) decide themselves when and where to build new apartment buildings

Traffic & Logistics

• Road crossings with direction lanes & traffic lights
• Optional one-way roads
• Train Stations, Bus Stations, Harbors, Airports
• Parking spaces parallel to roads or on dedicated areas
• 3 different road speeds depending on road type (2-lanes low speed road, 4-lanes high speed road, 6-lanes motorway)
• Fast cars overtake slow cars
• Several transport routes (walkways, roads, tracks, airways, waterways)
• Passenger transport (by foot, by taxi, by car, by bus, by train, by ship, by plane)
• Standardized cargo types (containers, pallets, piece goods, bulk goods)
• One container consits of two paletts. One palett consists of 8 piece goods.
• One bulk container can carry up to 16 bulk goods.
• Intra-logistics support through forklifts, conveyors, employees & internal train freight stations
• One specific radius for each road type
• 8 different radii for track curves
• Helix-curves to raise track by one tile using a 270 degree curve
• Seemingly plausible road/track slopes (10 tiles per height step)
• Warehouses for temporary storage
• Container bridges to transfer containers from ships/trains to trucks or from trucks to container storage
• Airports with seemingly realistic dimensions
• Intra-Airport logistics regarding passengers and passenger luggage
• No hidden vehicle characteristcs (i.e. no vehicle reliabilty/staff differences) to avoid micro management
• Train shunting & rail sidings
• Individual routing rules at decision points (signals, switches, station platforms), i.e. priority rules

Construction

• Module-based construction
• Multiple modules can be grouped and saved as new module
• Multiple modules can be copy & pasted.
• Multi-level construction of walkways, roads & tracks (up to 4 tiles above ground)
• Construction always takes time. No sudden construction.
• Construction vehicles find their way from building yards to construction sites
• Construction sites consume complete containers for each building element
• Earth works require one multiple trucks for moving the earth masses.
• Earth works require source and destination for each "soil element".

Economy

• No one time costs. Only running costs.
• Clear production chain logic: raw material extraction → semi-finished goods production → consumer goods production → sale in shops → consume at home
• Each raw material/semi-finished good/consumer good is available in 8 colors ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
• Each raw material/semi-finished good/consumer good of one color is available in 8 variants ❖ ✚ ★ ♯ ✱ ▶ ■ ⊕
• Thus there are 64 different raw materials, 64 different semi-finished goods, 64 different consumer goods
• Goods need to be bought by the transport company and sold to the using facility (factory, shop, warehouse)
• Goods price is calculated automatically including transport costs
• Transport costs and transport prices are calculated automatically
• Factories and shops prefer cheap goods.
• Warehouses only buy goods if the warehouse owner (a certain player) accepts buying specific goods
• Every object is a profit center. Loss-maker vehicles can easily be determined, even in complex logistic chains.
• Open-cast mining regarding raw materials

Multiplayer-Support

• Up to 64 players on the same map
• Every player leads one transport company
• Multiple companies can form a group
• Optional infrastructure sharing with associated usage fees

The game can be enhanced using community mods

• More trains, trucks, buses, planes, citizen & other game objects
• More logistic modules like more complex road intersections, further track switches and so on
• More decisions at relevant logistical positions (at switches/stations/...)

Features, that are not planned at the moment

• Mail transport
• Garbage transport
• Diagonal walkways/roads/tracks/airways/seaways