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AirToob Mar 4, 2020 @ 6:47am
Questions about Maintenance
We know that there are three levels of maintenance, normal, high and very high, and what these add to running costs.

My guess is that "high" maintains a vehicle in the same condition for ever, and I was told (and found out in practice) that "very high" will restore any vehicle's condition to "very good" after a short amount of game play (irrespective of vehicle age??).

Q. Does "high" actually maintain a vehicle in the same condition for ever? I recently got a warning about bad condition when I thought I had set all vehicles to high maintenance, but I might have missed on.
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doug Mar 4, 2020 @ 6:59am 
Vehicles will still deteriorate on 'high' maintenance, but it is a very slow process.
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AirToob Mar 4, 2020 @ 8:11am 
Thanks!
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Gorby Mar 4, 2020 @ 8:49am 
I believe with the 'High' setting the condition of the vehicles will not go below 'mediocre'.
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ajax_post Mar 4, 2020 @ 11:43am 
Originally posted by AirToob:
I recently got a warning about bad condition when I thought I had set all vehicles to high maintenance, but I might have missed on.
If you spot it in time, you can click on the vehicle condition message and it will take you directly to that vehicle in the Vehicle Manager.

Otherwise, you can quickly find old/poorly maintained vehicles by opening the Vehicle Statistics display, click the Condition heading and sort the vehicles by their condition, or Maintenance if that works better.
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Vimpster Mar 4, 2020 @ 1:04pm 
As Gorby said, the high setting will keep it from deteriorating below 50% and will increase the condition of any vehicle below 50% back up to 50%. You should not have seen any mention of bad condition if the vehicle was actually set to high maintenance. I think when you add new vehicles to a line it either disables any maintenance level you set for the line or the maintenance level simply does not apply to the new vehicle and you have to specifically change it for any new vehicles added. I'm not sure which one it does but I'm fairly confident it does one of those two things.
Last edited by Vimpster; Mar 4, 2020 @ 1:07pm
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Gorby Mar 4, 2020 @ 2:56pm 
Originally posted by Vimpster:
As Gorby said, the high setting will keep it from deteriorating below 50% and will increase the condition of any vehicle below 50% back up to 50%. You should not have seen any mention of bad condition if the vehicle was actually set to high maintenance. I think when you add new vehicles to a line it either disables any maintenance level you set for the line or the maintenance level simply does not apply to the new vehicle and you have to specifically change it for any new vehicles added. I'm not sure which one it does but I'm fairly confident it does one of those two things.
Anytime you buy a new vehicle - even if it's a replacement - the maintenance setting is Normal. Even when you replace a vehicle that was set to Very High, the replacement vehicle is automatically set to Normal instead.

I really hope at some point they will add an option to set a default maintenance level for all new vehicles, before they're purchased. At the very least make it so that replacement vehicles retain the maintenance setting of the vehicle they replaced.
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AirToob Mar 4, 2020 @ 8:21pm 
A default maintenance level would be a fine idea. Wished for that myself several times!.
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Wicked Mouse Mar 5, 2020 @ 11:19am 
What does the condition do to a vehicle in this game? Will the running cost go up? Will they go slower?
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canophone Mar 5, 2020 @ 11:23am 
Originally posted by Wicked Mouse:
What does the condition do to a vehicle in this game? Will the running cost go up? Will they go slower?

Emissions. They affect residential development in a city.
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Ade Mar 5, 2020 @ 11:58am 
Originally posted by Wicked Mouse:
What does the condition do to a vehicle in this game? Will the running cost go up? Will they go slower?
If they're not going through/near residential areas it makes no difference other than they look really rusty and dirty. If they go through residential areas it matters if the maintenance isn't kept up as they get noisy and it's sound emissions they care about.
Last edited by Ade; Mar 5, 2020 @ 11:58am
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AirToob Mar 5, 2020 @ 9:20pm 
Originally posted by Gorby:
Originally posted by Vimpster:
As Gorby said, the high setting will keep it from deteriorating below 50% and will increase the condition of any vehicle below 50% back up to 50%. You should not have seen any mention of bad condition if the vehicle was actually set to high maintenance. I think when you add new vehicles to a line it either disables any maintenance level you set for the line or the maintenance level simply does not apply to the new vehicle and you have to specifically change it for any new vehicles added. I'm not sure which one it does but I'm fairly confident it does one of those two things.
Anytime you buy a new vehicle - even if it's a replacement - the maintenance setting is Normal. Even when you replace a vehicle that was set to Very High, the replacement vehicle is automatically set to Normal instead.

I really hope at some point they will add an option to set a default maintenance level for all new vehicles, before they're purchased. At the very least make it so that replacement vehicles retain the maintenance setting of the vehicle they replaced.

But if you clone a vehicle, the new vehicle keeps the same maintenance (and condition) as the old one - right?
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Vimpster Mar 5, 2020 @ 9:22pm 
I don't know about the maintenance, though according to Gorby it will be set to normal. But in the case of condition I know that a clone will be in 100% condition. It is after all straight from the depot.
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Gorby Mar 5, 2020 @ 10:20pm 
Originally posted by AirToob:
Originally posted by Gorby:
Anytime you buy a new vehicle - even if it's a replacement - the maintenance setting is Normal. Even when you replace a vehicle that was set to Very High, the replacement vehicle is automatically set to Normal instead.

But if you clone a vehicle, the new vehicle keeps the same maintenance (and condition) as the old one - right?
It definitely does not keep the same maintenance, but it will be in brand new condition. It's basically the same as buying a new or replacement vehicle.
Last edited by Gorby; Mar 5, 2020 @ 10:21pm
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Wicked Mouse Mar 6, 2020 @ 11:22am 
Ah just emissions and urban development? Good to know.
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MysticDaedra Mar 9, 2020 @ 4:19pm 
Is maintenance worth it? I've browsed through a few older posts from last November, but as a newcomer from TF1 (howdy Vimpster, how've you been?! Long time!), I am finding it odd and frustrating that such a useful tool such as the auto-replace feature has been discarded. I saw a few people saying that nobody used that feature in TF1, which is either lies or truly a symptom of the "ignorance of the masses."

So yeah, is maintenance worth it? I found myself with virtually every single vehicle in "very bad" condition, and in TF1 I'd just activate Auto-replace for each line, and I'd never have to deal with it again in each line. Since there is already a maintenance fee for vehicles, why do I have to pay more to keep them from deteriorating? I wish I could just allow them to get to a certain threshold and then replace them, as in TF1. Seems like it'd be way cheaper than spending 50% of my income on this maintenance feature :(
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