What's a good way to replace a bunch of vehicles at once?

[ysg]

I have about 10 road vehicles that are just too old. I'd like to replace them with a newer model.

Is there a way for me to just select all them and replace them in one fell swoop?

And before you ask, yes, they haul the same cargo, passengers. Any ideas?

[Supercheese]

Yep, there's a function just for that: http://wiki.openttd.org/Replace_vehicles#Autoreplace

[tracerpt]

Heres how you do it, open the vehicles list (road, trains, etc) then follow the steps on the screens.


1st this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4024494/TTD/NKT ... 202177.png


and then this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4024494/TTD/NKT ... 77%231.png

[ysg]

Yep, there's a function just for that: http://wiki.openttd.org/Replace_vehicles#Autoreplace

I looked into doing that, but that's not what I need. I don't have the option to upgrade to newer
models, but only one, the same type of bus.

I went into the advanced setting section and selected the autoreplace option. I sent my buses to
the depot and... nothing happened, the same old buses were still running.

I can do the replacement manually, at the moment I have about 15 road vehicles, but what if I
have 400? There has to be some automated way of doing that.

[3iff]

What you can do...possibly, is to downgrade the vehicles and then upgrade them to the same type they are now.

It works fine with train engines. With road vehicles you may have a temporary loss of cargo if the older vehicles are smaller but we're only talking of a one-off loss of some cargo which should be of no significance.

It is annoying that we can't autoreplace like for like unless the vehicle is at end of life...perhaps someone could make it an option? Perhaps a command to 'refresh' the vehicle (by replacing it with the same type) if it's older than so-many years (controllable by a option parameter?)

[tracerpt]

Can you check this settings? Mine do replace themselves when they go for servicing.

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[3iff]

Yes, but they only replace themselves when they are at end of life...(max age). It won't replace vehicles that are old but still serviceable.

I'm corrently using UKRS2 and these vehicles get more expensive to run as they age. Rather that wait until they're 25 years old I'd like to replace them at say 10 years old but there's currently no easy way to do that...(but if there IS, I'd really like to know what that might be).

[ysg]

Can you check this settings? Mine do replace themselves when they go for servicing.

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Will do. That never occurred to me.

[ysg]

Can you check this settings? Mine do replace themselves when they go for servicing.

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Yeah, I just set that. No effect. I sent a bus to a depot and nothing...

[Supercheese]

I'm still a bit confused, do you want to upgrade buses to a different model, or replace them with new copies of the same model?

[ysg]

I'm still a bit confused, do you want to upgrade buses to a different model, or replace them with new copies of the same model?

Replace them with new copies of the same model.

[Supercheese]

Then yes, you will have to use autorenew, autoreplace will not do that.

[Tolmar]

I've not tried in but could you not set the autorenew xx months option to 120 months to renew 10 years early. Although if memory serve it currently only does a max of twelve months.

[3iff]

I did think of that, but the options are +-12 months maximum.

[Alberth]

Indeed.

The only thing you can do is manual replacement, or autoreplace to a different model and then autoreplace back again.