high vehicles maintenance

[Chipmunk197]

how can i cut down the maintenance cost on my tractors becuase iv got a 99 day old tractor and its costing 1,034 a day to keep and its not worth selling as its only 11,000 to sell and i dont have the money to replace it on normal mode

[m0ri]

Sell it to stop the hemorrhaging of cash, then do missions until you have enough cash to buy a new tractor. It kinda sucks, but that's my advise given your situation. Maybe someone else has a faster/easier idea. Have you already found all the golden nuggets? That's a free $1million. After you find the first 10, the rest are marked on your map and it just becomes a matter of spending the time to pick them all up.

[GrizzlyBearSims]

That is the way it works in real life. The older a vehicle gets, the more it costs to keep it running.

Work harder by doing missions and once a vehicle reaches a point where you feel it's costing more to maintain it, sell and replace it.

[Chipmunk197]

iv got the 100 goold bits and i got other needed stuff with that and now my costs are high and i went to look and seen my starting tractors are costing a lot to keep but i need them

[Vandragorax]

Sell everything they give you at the start, increase your loan size to the maximum, then re-buy some cheap stuff that you need for your first choice of venture (crops/logging/etc.). This way you start with new machinery without all the crazy overhead costs, even the loan interest is cheaper.

If you're on single player, you can also spend some time collecting the 100 gold nuggets for £1,000,000 and use that to re-buy equipment you need after selling all the old stuff.

[Syd Khaos]

You can LEASE EQUIPMENT.....

Such horrible advice in this thread.

DO NOT max your loan.
DO NOT be dependant on finding gold nuggets.

Sell all your starting equipment except for the little blue tractor and LEASE everything you need early game.

[Uncle2ill]

My early game approach is to sell everything, pay off loand aan do missions to save for some starter equip, I have also invested in a few Solar Panels in preparation to offset the maintenance cost that I will have shortly.

I love how the game actually makes you work for progress and spend time getting to know the economics.

[atimm693]

Leasing isn't all it's cracked up to be. A big tractor will have a 1000+ dollar per day lease as well, and you have zero resale when it's all said and done.

I have sold almost everything, bought/leased a basic corn sower, harvester, a couple tippers, and a skid steer loader and will be selling silage to the biogas plant. That's where the money was in FS15, hopefully that's the case for 17.

[Syd Khaos]

Originally posted by atimm693:

Leasing isn't all it's cracked up to be. A big tractor will have a 1000+ dollar per day lease as well, and you have zero resale when it's all said and done.

I have sold almost everything, bought/leased a basic corn sower, harvester, a couple tippers, and a skid steer loader and will be selling silage to the biogas plant. That's where the money was in FS15, hopefully that's the case for 17.

Prepare to be disappointed.....logging and silage both took a big nerf (and rightfully so, as both were way unbalanced to the rest of the game in FS15).

And leasing is VERY viable in early game....much better than purchasing.

Yes, a BIG tractor has a heavy per day fee....how big do ya need early game though....kinda pointless comment.

And if you are leasing properly then even $1k a day is managable. Don't keep leased equipment unless its being used....
Don't lease a combine and then let it sit there while crop is growing. Lease it, pull in your crap, and take it back to end the lease. Same with anything else.

[reoman56]

This super high maintenance cost feature is rediculous. I will buy FS17 as soon as some modder makes a program to get rid of it. I don't want to have to use a money cheat to be able to play FS17 and have fun.

[Syd Khaos]

Originally posted by reoman56:

This super high maintenance cost feature is rediculous. I will buy FS17 as soon as some modder makes a program to get rid of it. I don't want to have to use a money cheat to be able to play FS17 and have fun.

You don't need cheats if your pay attention to what you doing and learn the new mechanics.

I think alot are struggling with it because they trying to play like they did in FS15...and that will land ya in the red pretty fast.

Me and a buddy started dedi server last night, so no missions...sitting on just shy of 1/4 mill middle of 3rd ingame day.

Not only does this system give the game more depth, but it also gives you something to spend money on mid-late game...unlike previous FS games.

[Fjordland]

Originally posted by SydKhaos:

Not only does this system give the game more depth,

I love depth in games

[VicMac]

What a nonense. The interest rate for your loan is nearly nothing. And with the vehicles you have in the beginning you can work out money.
I take as much loan as it is possible and then with the vehicles i have i try to make money. In 2017 it is important to look at the prices. Only sell when the prices are green.
The "high" (in correlation to how much money you can make they are still ridiculous) maintance costs makes the game realistic and i think it was a good idea of giants.
In the past versions it was the same if you earn money with only 1 field and let the time pass fast and harvest it 10 times or if you had 10 fields and harvest these 1 time.
Buying new fields made nearly no sense as you could earn the same amount with fast time and only a few fields.
With these maintenance costs the game is much more realistics and more fields really give you a benefit and you have to plan to use your vehicles effectively.

[Simeta]

Maxing your loan isn't a bad thing when you are getting started. I had a 170k loan and only pay 470 a day on interest, which isn't much for how much you make from a harvest.

The long term goal is to replace old machines with new, although I hope they maybe add (or if a mod is possible) an ability to service stuff to replace parts and make the costs decrease a bit.

You can do what some have suggested and lease everything but I like to own all my stuff so doing it the longer way.

[H00TERSx96x]

Originally posted by VicMac:

What a nonense. The interest rate for your loan is nearly nothing. And with the vehicles you have in the beginning you can work out money.
I take as much loan as it is possible and then with the vehicles i have i try to make money. In 2017 it is important to look at the prices. Only sell when the prices are green.
The "high" (in correlation to how much money you can make they are still ridiculous) makes the game realistic and i think it was a good idea of giants.
In the past versions it was the same if you earn money with only 1 field and let the time pass fast and harvest it 10 times or if you had 10 fields and harvest these 1 time.
Buying new fields made nearly no sense as you could earn the same amount with fast time and only a few fields.
With these maintenance costs the game is much more realistics and more fields really give you a benefit and you have to organize to use you vehicles effectively.

I agree with the above this maintenance cost adds a must needed new element these costs make you replace equipment as any farm would over time. Yes at an accelerated rate but no one here is going to play the game for 10 to 20 years that some equipment will last. I worked on a large dairy farm for many years and we had to replace are skid steers yearly. At the cost of $20,000 a peace. I'd like to even see rain that affects your ability to work the fields or log if it rains for to long and you don't give it a chance to dry you get stuck.
There said my peace.

[Vandragorax]

Originally posted by JustinJ:

Originally posted by VicMac:

What a nonense. The interest rate for your loan is nearly nothing. And with the vehicles you have in the beginning you can work out money.
I take as much loan as it is possible and then with the vehicles i have i try to make money. In 2017 it is important to look at the prices. Only sell when the prices are green.
The "high" (in correlation to how much money you can make they are still ridiculous) makes the game realistic and i think it was a good idea of giants.
In the past versions it was the same if you earn money with only 1 field and let the time pass fast and harvest it 10 times or if you had 10 fields and harvest these 1 time.
Buying new fields made nearly no sense as you could earn the same amount with fast time and only a few fields.
With these maintenance costs the game is much more realistics and more fields really give you a benefit and you have to organize to use you vehicles effectively.

I agree with the above this maintenance cost adds a must needed new element these costs make you replace equipment as any farm would over time. Yes at an accelerated rate but no one here is going to play the game for 10 to 20 years that some equipment will last. I worked on a large dairy farm for many years and we had to replace are skid steers yearly. At the cost of $20,000 a peace. I'd like to even see rain that affects your ability to work the fields or log if it rains for to long and you don't give it a chance to dry you get stuck.
There said my peace.

There already is rain in the game, and you can't harvest when it's raining (and some other stuff I can't remember from the tooltip).