Fulfilling a contract

[Dave100e]

Hello, I've recently purchased this game and have absolutely fallen in love with it. I've had no problems so far, and found it incredibly intuitive but I've come across an issue with fulfilling contracts.

I've already supplied some chassis to a race series, but now I have taken on a military contract for complete vehicles and for some reason can't find how to fulfill it.

I find myself on the assign contracts screen. The contract is for the US military. I have several factories located around the US. I have left some production lines open to give the option to build and I also am over producing the vehicle required in order to fulfill the contract. I also have a large inventory of vehicles from over production. However when I try to set it up I select the vehicle and in the bottom right there is a "contract first source location" drop down menu. I can't seem to select anywhere on this, but it does show "any". Below that is apply but clicking on that makes no difference.

The assigned vehicle is highlighted in red. Does this mean the vehicle is in fact not suitable?

I can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help?

Thanks, Dave.

[Nomad]

You have to produce the number of vehicles per month as stated in the contract.
You can look that up in the reports under contracts or in the plant production window on the map. Just select the vehicle and it shows the number of vehicles which you have to produce per month, respectivly the number of vehicles you are short to fulfill the contract.
Possibly you just don't produce enough to fulfill the contract.

You can't even offer a vehicle when it isn't suitable for the contract so no problems there.

[Eric.B]

Originally posted by Dave100e:

The assigned vehicle is highlighted in red. Does this mean the vehicle is in fact not suitable?

I can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Dave.

Which version of the game are you playing?

Are any countries at war?

And are you producing the correct vehicle model?

if you email me the save game I can verify this information for you: http://wiki.gearcity.info/doku.php?id=troubleshooting:steam_installfolder#sending_a_save_game

[Dave100e]

Hello, sorry for the slow reply.

I'm guessing the most likely cause is that I didn't produce enough cars.

There were no ongoing wars and I did produce the model. I'm playing v1.23 SP4 (Default build). I only recently installed it and have no mods or changes installed. I really think it's most likely my fault though, I may have gotten some numbers mixed up.

I'm going to try contracting again later. If I produce enough cars will the car selection become green and allow me to press "apply"? Will cars in storage from overproduction be used in the contract?

Thanks for the help.

[Eric.B]

Originally posted by Dave100e:

Hello, sorry for the slow reply.

No worries.

I'm going to try contracting again later. If I produce enough cars will the car selection become green and allow me to press "apply"? Will cars in storage from overproduction be used in the contract?

Thanks for the help.

If it is green, then you are producing enough cars, correct. From what it sounds like, you weren't producing any vehicles, hence why it wasn't allowing you to assign a factory to pull from.

With vehicles, you do not have to pick a pull location. It's just there to tell the game to ship from a specific factory. Otherwise it will just pull from the oldest production lines first.

If you run into it again, feel free to email me the save file. It's much easier for me to look at what you're doing wrong than guess what you're doing wrong. :)