TEST MOD based on Real Estate Manager's (REM) changes to DA_T6SingletonAgent regarding ONLY Metro speed. REM seems to remove the station-number penalty entirely while also boosting Metro travel speed around as high as the game can supposedly still function with. (I recall seeing a message board discussion with either the REM's or other mod's creator, where they said setting the value too high somehow confuses the pathfinding AI. If someone knows where this thread/discussion is, please let me know.)

This TEST MOD is an attempt at boosting Metro Stations to the same max speed as REM, but keeping a modest penalty incurred for building more and more of them. REM sets both max and min speed at 3600, while the default settings are 2500 and 700 respectively. In a quick test of the REM numbers and no penalty, a citizen travels about 2 tiles per day of game time. On the same island with six stations, the default game settings seem to nearly quadruple this, with about 1 tile for every 2 days of game time. THIS mod sets max and min to 3600 and 2800 and keeps the default penalty rate of -5% per added station. Again testing on the same 6-station island, a citizen now moves just a little faster than 1 tile per day.

Since the asumption is that this will increase the number of stations one tends to build, this TEST MOD also lowers the effects of political faction favorability (Environmentalists and Intellectuals) or dislike (Conservatives and Capitalists) for building them. The penalty to Crime Safety is also reduced from -25 down to -20.

I repeat - this is TEST MOD. Use caution and backup your previous saved games before enabling. All feedback is appreciated, and please be charitable as this is my first publicly released mod.