Subsidiaries seem broken?

[19Peej]

Some of my trucks are losing money when in auto-subsidiary function.
It says they auto manage routes, prices and research?
There are several better options than they are sending my trucks between, I find myself often taking a vehicle out of the sub, relocating it to a new route, then putting it back on the sub.
Anyone else having issues like this?

[angrytoothbrush8]

I have not seen Subsidiaries reroute at all. The best function I can seem to get out of them is to no longer have to "full repair" the vehicles on my own. So to me it seems like such a small upgrade from a manager- and only for four vehicles inside a region that likely has far more vehicles than just four AND you can't have more than one Subsidiary in any one region.

In a grand strategy sense, Subs should be a delegation feature to handle intrastate commuters- I understand that Interstate travel is a little complicated for this but if it conquers the intrastate objective alone, late games would be exceedingly enhanced allowing you to set up city to city commutes or cargo routes to full extent. ie Create a subsidiary in the region and zoom out to handle commutes between the existing regions and one you just got a license for focusing again on that new region's city to city travel until you are ready to again create a sub to repeat the process eventually enveloping the entire system.

[Anyone]

Originally posted by Jeep91:

It says they auto manage routes, prices and research?

From my experience they sometimes change route. But they do horrible job. Not sure about how well they manage prices. They "manage research" means they will just spend a lot of money with no purpose.

Originally posted by angrytoothbrush8:

and only for four vehicles inside a region that likely has far more vehicles than just four AND you can't have more than one Subsidiary in any one region.

You can upgrade subsidiary. Each upgrade cost 25K per month and you will get 5 more vehicle slots.

[MightyOwl]

Just give us an option to upgrade our managers to do full repair each time, and then I'd never use subsidiaries. :)