Engine repair

[willist0]

Both of my engines are in serious need of repair. I have both in the Whittier engine repair shed. The repair parts box car is 1/2 full. I’ve put the game to sleep 2 or 3 nights in a row and nothing happened. I’ve clicked on the the boxes for Whittier repair track what else do I need to do

[bfcmik]

Have you got a repair crew available?

If you click on the Whittier engine house tab on the main interface 'Locations' tab it should give you a report of all activity that is taking place at the shed. If your engines are in need of serious repair, spend the cash and hire in more crews - the more the merrier as your locos will repair much quicker. You can reduce them to 1 active crew once your repairs are complete.

[willist0]

Found my problem, I forgot to unload the parts boxcar

[TheLostPenguin]

Postat inițial de willist0:

Found my problem, I forgot to unload the parts boxcar

Good to hear you found the issue.

Postat inițial de bfcmik:

Have you got a repair crew available?

If you click on the Whittier engine house tab on the main interface 'Locations' tab it should give you a report of all activity that is taking place at the shed. If your engines are in need of serious repair, spend the cash and hire in more crews - the more the merrier as your locos will repair much quicker. You can reduce them to 1 active crew once your repairs are complete.

This is pretty much all incorrect now. It is no longer possible to hire/fire repair crews, only change how many will be automatically hired/fired when vehicles requiring repair are left in the workshop. So long as 'stop work' has not been selected, and there are repair parts in stock, crews are hired and fired per vehicle for the duration that those vehicles are parked in the workshop and require work.

[sbmarauderman03]

Postat inițial de TheLostPenguin:

This is pretty much all incorrect now. It is no longer possible to hire/fire repair crews, only change how many will be automatically hired/fired when vehicles requiring repair are left in the workshop. So long as 'stop work' has not been selected, and there are repair parts in stock, crews are hired and fired per vehicle for the duration that those vehicles are parked in the workshop and require work.

Thanks for posting this. I was struggling badly last night trying to figure out how to hire repair crew personnel only to notice my engine was being repaired even through I had not hired anyone. After reading your post the final piece of the puzzle fell into place and now I understand how it works.

[killakanz]

This is kinda how it is in early access game development.
I'm not knocking the devs for launching into Early Access, I've put over 600 hours in this game... But you do need to keep in mind that things are likely to change. The devs are active, we get big updates fairly regularly, and some features do change. You need to keep an eye on patchnotes.