r/subwaybuilder

I have the water to a khaki-ish color, but the color isn’t changing no matter what I do. I need help with this bug!

My slightly-Singapore-MRT-inspired Honolulu save. 7 light metro lines (5 main lines, 2 people-movers) and one commuter rail.

I had $6 fares during the building phase but it's breakeven with $1 fares and 55% demand.

Started from scratch (again) but successfully built a profitable system generating ~$72M/day. I'd like to keep expanding but at this point, any new extension is going to eat into my margin. Given the margin is currently at 41%, debating whether to expand towards Fort Worth for the sake of ridership.

System overview:

• Entirely light metro
• 4+1 lines (one line is a branch)
• 4 car per train on all lines
• Most lines operate every 15 mins at peak, 20-25 mins medium and 60+ mins overnight
• Quad tracked from Downtown all the way to Richardson, using the US75 ROW

So basically my question is why do I have so much delays? I'm running 30 minute headways during rush hour and you can see the delays are past 50 minutes. I have efficient track routing, and as you can see from the screenshots the trains are always about half capacity, so I don't see any reason for delays, anybody have any tips?

This I my first time uploading here, I would like to know what you guys think 400+ stations 15 lines

Don’t mind the squiggles they’re for making Honolulu’s city limit (blue) and the mountain that’s missing (green).

I used Google Maps to help with more realistic placements so I don’t accidentally build a station under building that aren’t modeled (As best as possible, some building may be gone).

Fun fact: The I(intercity)1 line follows the actual Honolulu Skyline Rail system from Pearl City to Puuhale Rd.

Hi everyone,

I made Network Planner, a planning and analytics suite for Subway Builder. It reads the game's real demand grid and live line metrics and turns them into decisions: where to expand, which lines need trains, when, and where crowding comes from.

It adds a three-tab panel, and the analysis works with zero setup.

Planning (where to grow)

• Walk-catchment coverage of residents and jobs
• Mode-shift potential: drivers whose home and work are both reachable, so you can win them on today's network
• A ranked "build here next" list of the biggest unserved markets (click a row to fly there)
• Per-route and per-station riders vs drivers, with success-rate dots on the map

Efficiency (how well it runs)

• Per-line load factor with plain-English advice (add peak trains, trim off-peak, over-served, rising or easing vs yesterday)
• Load-by-hour charts with day-over-day comparison and the game's High/Med/Low service brackets
• Expand any line to see the stops driving its crowding
• Remembers your data per save, so it is never blank on reload

It also has optional key-free satellite basemaps (Esri, Google, Hybrid, OSM). The core analysis needs no proxy or key; satellite needs a tiny local tile server (one-time setup, see the README).

Free and open source: https://github.com/davidkarpik/network-planner

Download the latest release, drop it into your mods folder, and activate it. Feedback and ideas are very welcome. 😉

*Update: Railyard or similar third-party platforms are not necessary to run the mod.

*Edit: Could a mod please edit the post title to Planner, instead of Planer 🥶

the junction is just so pleasing to the eyes

Track Anarchy removes Subway Builder's construction limits for every train type.

https://subwaybuildermodded.com/railyard/mods/track-anarchy/

Removed limits:

- removed minimum curve radius — on track and through stations
- removed the maximum grade / slope cap
removed track, station & tunnel clearance (they can overlap)
- removed minimum parallel-track spacing (tracks can stack on top of each other)
- removed the build-height floor & ceiling (−100 m / +20 m → effectively unlimited)
- removed the building-foundation gap (tunnel flush under buildings)
- removed minimum & maximum station lengths
- removed minimum & maximum track segment lengths
- removed at-grade road-crossing barriers

Still Enforced: (hard coded by game, if anyone figures out a way to bypass, let me know)

- stations must start & end at the same level
- different track types still can't connect
- airport runways & taxiways still block at-grade crossings

I am also the author of the Track Height Visualizer mod (https://subwaybuildermodded.com/railyard/mods/track-visualizer). If you have any feedback on either mod, please leave a comment.

I started playing and was able to create routes, but suddenly the nodes will not pop up at any of my stations, even in different saves and after closing the game.

I don't really know the game yet, so it is possible I am missing something, but it seems the nodes pop up for others automatically in videos. I just want to make lines!