Sell all vehicles that are causing loss

[pcmelo]

Hello, I'm a new user on the forum, and this is my first post. I researched about it, but I didn't find any topic, so I want to make this suggestion. If you have any way to resolve this, please kindly teach me step by step.

I'm playing and I bought competitors, and with that I inherited the vehicles. I currently have 3600 vehicles, and many of them are making a loss. I wanted, somehow, to send them to the deposit and sell them. Is there any way to do this easily?

Because sending them one by one will be a lot of work.

Thank you

[odisseus]

Selling a vehicle that seems to be operating at a loss is, in general, a bad idea. It might be an important link in a transfer route that is profitable as a whole.

If you want to cancel the route entirely (say, because the accepting industry has been closed), the easiest way to do it is as follows:

• Click on a station that is used only by the vehicles you want to stop. This might be a source or a destination, depending on the way your network is built.
• In the bottom right corner of the station window, click on the each of four little buttons with the icons of different vehicle types. Some buttons may be inactive.
• You'll see lists of all trucks (trains, boats etc.) that visit this station. Click "Manage list" and select "send to depot" in the dropdown.
• Once all the vehicles have reached a depot, find each one and sell them through the depot interface.

[pcmelo]

Hi Odisseus,
Thank you for your feedback, but that is not exactly what I wanted. Some vehicles are in deficit as demand has decreased and not so many vehicles are needed to do the job. For example, in the past a city had more passenger flows and now it has less.

Changing this way that you mentioned, would be a lot of work for me, because as I mentioned I have more than 3600 vehicles, estimating that more than 500 are in deficit.

Is there any other way to resolve this?

Thank you

Selling a vehicle that seems to be operating at a loss is, in general, a bad idea. It might be an important link in a transfer route that is profitable as a whole.

If you want to cancel the route entirely (say, because the accepting industry has been closed), the easiest way to do it is as follows:

• Click on a station that is used only by the vehicles you want to stop. This might be a source or a destination, depending on the way your network is built.
• In the bottom right corner of the station window, click on the each of four little buttons with the icons of different vehicle types. Some buttons may be inactive.
• You'll see lists of all trucks (trains, boats etc.) that visit this station. Click "Manage list" and select "send to depot" in the dropdown.
• Once all the vehicles have reached a depot, find each one and sell them through the depot interface.

[LaChupacabra]

...I bought competitors, and with that I inherited the vehicles. I currently have 3600 vehicles, and many of them are making a loss...

Is there any other way to resolve this?

Of course it is, and it is very simple: not taking over poorly run businesses with which you will have more problems than good.
There is no other easy way to avoid the problem, and given the complexity of the problem, it is unlikely that an effective solution will emerge. In many situations, non-profit vehicles are nevertheless very important to the company and the entire supply chain. It would be difficult and very absorbing to indicate by game which vehicles they are.