Automatic vehicle replacement

[Blue-Ray]

How do i change the option from manual to automatic replace vehicles? Cannot find the option.
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[Huperspace]

how do you mean manuel: drive to Depot sell it buy new one?
the semiauto is:
click in linemanager on line, select vehicle replacement tab, hit the info symbol
auto: same as semi but with activated auto replacement after set lifetime %

[ChunkHunter]

...and don't forget to set the auto-replace to "on" ;)

[genemead]

Put another way (to set up auto-replacement):
* Open the Line Manager.
* After the name of the Line, there's a grayed-out circle shaped icon. Click on it.
* Select the vehicle(s) you want to replace the old vehicle with (click the "gear" on the right). Be sure if you're setting up a train be sure to include the engine and all the wagons you want- there's no "partial" auto-replace.
* Now click on the "On" button. Note that the grayed-out circle shaped icon in the Line Manager is now bright white, meaning the auto-replacement is active.
* Do that for each Line you want to auto-replace.

[Havan_IronOak]

Of course, auto-replace will be turned back off if the replacement vehicle you choose is no longer available. This always bugs me.

[Dirkels]

Maybe they can add a warning when a replacement vehicle is no longer available so you can update the replacement vehicle in time, just like the warning a vehicle nears the end of its life time.

[ChunkHunter]

Originally posted by Havan_IronOak:

Of course, auto-replace will be turned back off if the replacement vehicle you choose is no longer available. This always bugs me.

I've never noticed this!

Well, well - you learn something new every day.

[ancienthighway]

I like to control where my money is spent, so I never establish a line with auto replacement on. I'll decide when and where I buy replacement vehicles. Only then will I selectively turn on auto replacement and monitor progress, turning it off when all the new vehicles are running.

I've played too many times when I just set up auto replacement, and then never had money to do anything because of constant vehicle purchases. As long as a line is making money, even with out of date vehicles, I'm okay with it.

[Havan_IronOak]

Originally posted by ancienthighway:

I like to control where my money is spent, so I never establish a line with auto replacement on.

Understood.

I tend to be a control freak as well. I did an 1850 to 2000 Achievement run on Hard Mode to score as many Steam achievements as possible in a single playthrough and got to about 1935 with everything so profitable that the only thing to do was to let the game run to accunulate the $1 Billion and to get the year 2000 achievements. I was over $300 Million at that point.

I set all the lines to auto-replace and let it run at 3x speed and went and got dinner. It's only when I came back that I noticed that I was getting old age warnings on some vehicles.

The replacement vehicles I'd selected were no longer available.

Not a big problem.

[ancienthighway]

That sounds like one game I played where I forgot to pause it and went to bed. Deep in debt and everything needed replaced. Fortunately I had no loans so the combination of the loans and shutting down lines completely allowed me to slowly upgrade profitable lines and eventually get everything up and running again.

[Blue-Ray]

Thanks all of you for your comment and help. So do i also learn every day.

[Cold FX]

Also one small but perhaps critical point on auto replacing trains ., if you have cars set up for specific product pickup i.e. tools only , when the auto repalce occurs it wipes out product selections on the cars, only way around it as I see is to replace ony the locomotive but then the train still reads as being expired because the cars havnt been replaced. this would be a welcome fix for the developers if possible.

[Blue-Ray]

Thanx. Nice to know and it help a lot.

[Dirkels]

When selecting a replacement train you can also select which specific product each wagon should carry, just like when first buying it.

[Blue-Ray]

Meaning that you must relpace the wagons too?

[Dirkels]

Yes for automatic replacement you have to build the whole train (including wagons) just like you did when originally purchasing it.