AUTO Upgrade Railtrack

[holmen38]

In Train Fever(the first game), we had a system where when you got to the Era of HIGH Sspeed Trains, you could simply choose to auto update al railroad to Electric high speed track, I so wish for that feature to return, because some one like me who builds massive rail networks early on, the manual upgrade all tracks and staions is just a huge task, so a small auto upgrade button would be good.

[SoftwareSimian]

I must've missed the "auto-upgrade everything" feature in Train Fever, I've never seen that?
Admittedly I haven't played Train Fever for several years, so perhaps my memory is faulty.

[MrKrabs]

The auto upgrade is very much missed by many users. It was there in Tf, not anymore in Tpf2.
You never can auto upgrade tracks, just vehicles.

[steve silent]

How useful is that when you don't have enough money to upgrade..

[philmo]

It would be nice to be able to select I area of the screen - as opposed to the whole map.
This way it could be scaled by value, however in my experience the time I need to update to say high speed tracks is when I have enough cash to do the whole map anyway.

Changing the track piece by piece is (in my view) boring micro management.

[CunkFeatures]

You only have to do it once. Normally when you go back to a line for tweaks optimization (as demand changes).
Only really makes sense to those who don't care about aesthetics.

[Doc Savage]

If you zoom out a bit you can do some really big chunks at a time.

Have to say, IMO there's nothing here that reeks of management. It's one and done. Make a choice, make it happen, done...

And truthfully, I don't want everything upgraded. Like ever.

Guess I could go either way. Be a shame to waste Dev time on it until end of cycle though, there's a lot of things that really do need attention right now.

YMMV... Cheers..!

[holmen38]

I miss the Feature, because I like fast trains, I got a map with more then 100 lines, sao manually upgrade takes hours, and i plan ahead so rarely *I have to take up the rail and replace it with new

[ArnilsoN]

Good discussion but my 2 cents:

First there was never any auto-upgrade-all-tracks or streets function in TF1. Maybe someone developed a community based extension for this?

Second this is an activity that only happens one time in one game.

I personally find it a 100 times more annoying that I have to update my trains and vehicles all the time because they get into bad condition. There must be an automation function for this or a faster way of doing this which I did not find yet.

[Metacritical]

Originally posted by ArnilsoN:

I personally find it a 100 times more annoying that I have to update my trains and vehicles all the time because they get into bad condition. There must be an automation function for this or a faster way of doing this which I did not find yet.

firstly, you don't need to do this anymore (TpF1 and TpF2 work differently), the only thing that is affected with bad condition vehicles is the noise pollution. secondly, you just select increase maintenance cost to very high and vehicles no longer get "bad" (you can select all vehicles of the same type and per line to select this so it shouldn't take long)

[holmen38]

Really really miss the auto upgrade