Transport Fever 2 - Season 1 - Need For Speed (And Profit) (Episode 5) 

I know everybody is waiting for new episodes so I'll see if I can upload more. Possibly another episode tomorrow

Tell me I'm not the only one who enjoys hearing destruction when Stealth destroys those railroad tracks. Call me weird

You asked (at about 4:00, and again at the end of the video) why they took away auto replace, the simple answer is because it's not needed anymore. Aging vehicles no longer cost more maintenance, only their emissions get worse. There is not a defined point where you "need" to replace them. Unless they run though a town (specifically the residential area), literally nothing bad happens when you run the exact horsecart you got in 1850 until 1970 or something. That also explains the maintenance slider you now have. It's essentially the replacement for "auto-replace": You set it to +25% costs, and the vehicle condition will never drop below 50% (or rise to that if it's below when you set that). If you set it to +50% costs the condition stays at 100% (and with that at the original emission level). You can see the exact percentage if you mouse-over the text that says "good" or "bad" in the info window of a specific vehicle. It's also an option to just temporarily "better maintain" vehicles to get their condition back up (it rises relatively quickly), but that is kinda micro-manag-y in practice. One final (personal) note: In TpF1, if you use auto replace on a truck/bus line, you would generally not use it to upgrade to newer vehicles (or at least it was a bad idea) because trucks/buses rarely have the same speed. If you set a replacement that isn't the same and you let it actually autoreplace, nothing will be spaced out properly (important for buses) and older vehicles would hold up the newer vehicles. That recudes their 'intended' profit, which is after all what the now higher running costs are based on. So you would usually also manually replace the entire line here. Then there's the case where you did set a replacement vehicle, but that's no longer available over time, so you're back to square one and you have to pick a new one (likely replace all existing ones as you do). Or a new vehicle comes out, you then have to edit basically all lines where you want to use that as a replacement in the future. I just played one last full playthrough of Transport Fever 1 from 1850 until the 2000s and managing the replacements was a just a chore and generally worked incredibly bad in practice. This new system where you can just NOT replace them is just so much better. Either ignore them (financially that's fine) or crank maintenenance a bit or to full, if you need to keep emissions down. So much simpler.

From what I know vehicle aging is indicated on their info cards by their condition. On normal maintenance they go down to poor. Keeping them on very high maintenance keeps them in good condition. I think it's mostly for emission control.

Hey Stealth, as your towns are growing, so does their road network. Noticed the towns have a tendency to build low-end streets, which slow down (your) traffic significantly - wouldn't it be an idea to spend a couple of thousand on high-end roads in soon-to-be built-up parts of town, thus preventing later bottlenecks in traffic flows (and thus profits)? It saves a lot compared to having to bulldoze development later, if you were to be inclined to do so. Keep it up man!

Please, consider building an airline in the next series, I know you like plains😉😀 It would be great if you connect big cities such as New York or Eric with Saint Paul. And use this airports for passenger and cargo connections. It would be outstanding because remote cities near to Eric seek tools but don’t have much opportunities to manufacture them, and Thornton near Saint Paul needs liquids which are in abundance in New York and Eric. So your plains would be full in both directions, and your airport would operate in a full load.

Hovercrafts died because they was a bit sensitive to harsh weather and also used a LOT of fuel. After the fuel crisis there was never any new hovercraft made. In the late 70-tys more foil boats replaced the hovercraft, handeling seas better, a but more fuel efficent and pretty much the same speed. Like this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_929 In the 90-tys those was mostly replaced with catamarans, at least for larger ships. Catamaran design handle sea better and also scaled a lot better. This make it possible to build them very large and still retain a resonable economy. There is some of those that is really quite huge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC_Benchijigua_Express

WHOA--those hovercraft! At first I was skeptical, but that insane income spike totally convinced me!

If you want to connect with the developers, you may suggest them add a column “lifetime” (and maybe a profit column for each vehicle, to easier manage optimization staff) in the “line transport manager” it would even more convenient than the button “replace if old”. The old button was awkward because it always replaced vehicles without your attention, and then you cannot replace newly bought but old vehicles with more technological ones without losing money.

5 passengers became shark food. RIP

Because vehicles work entirely differently now. Depending on maintenance they decay into a certain state. Normal->Poor. HIgh->Mediocre Very High->Good. Higher vehicle condition maintains lower noise/pollution emissions. Main effect on emissions is when it's emitted in cities, where if effects city growth. Higher emissions = Population penalty.

Great episode and enjoying a different game play of the game, most others started in 1850. Keep them coming.

I know this is cheating, but if you have sandbox enabled you can change the demand of the towns. Personally, every town should demand food. At the very least I will change the demand of any town that requires two "hard" items to one food/easy item (if there are no farms nearby) and one "hard" item, unless the means to make those items are reasonably close. I'm really enjoying this series, because you're getting into the details, making some mistakes, and figuring out stuff. That saves me a lot of thrashing about. Ignore those occasional rude comments.

Stick at it Stealth, thanks man.

sorry for the backseat gaming, but now that you fixed saint. paul trams, i can finally have peace. i haven't slept for days

i love your content keep it up:]

I too like hovercrafts, but I love hydrofoils. I hope the devs offer hydrofoils as a similarly fast alternative to hovercraft. I have very fond memories of catching the Manly hydrofoil, in Sydney, Australia, during the 80s.

Intresting idea for your Fuek/Passanfer line Boat: 1 section: Load Any 1 Section: Load only Pasanger's (x) means there the same in this loop: (x) Town 1 Passanger: Unload both sections of Pasanger's Town 1: Cargo: Load 1st section with Fuel Town 1: Pasanger: Load the 2nd section with Pasanger's ~~ Town 2 Cargo: Unload the 1st section of Fuel Town 2 Pasanger: Unload 2nd Section of Pasanger's and Load boath with Pasanger's ~~ (x) Town 1 Passanger: Unload both sections of Pasanger's

Crank up the maintenance spending to prevent vehicle being exhausting and lower the emission level.

Slightly disappointed that the title wasn't "My hovercraft is full of eels"

A word of advice for your funds I would repay your loan down while you have some money and it would be cool to see a few railway routes when you can afford to spend the money on them! Loving the content stealth keep it coming

I have only been watching your videos on this Stealth and I could be wrong but when you select the vehicle and go on the details tab their is a arrow circle on the right. That looks overly like the autoreplace icon from TF1. If not I would be interested to know what it is!!!

For TPF1 didn't people (sims) also make transport choices based on the cost of the ticket. I would of hence thought that would of been taken into account for Hovercrafts vs ships. Maybe they will be nerfed in the final release.

You could make it so that the ship first enters the passenger dock with unload only. Then go to the fuel with fill half( thinks thats an option) and than back to the passenger to fill the ship back up

Saint-Paul to Stockton would probably lower the demand for the Stockton to Thornton and the Thornton to Saint-Paul line, since as of now the passengers have to use both the lines to travel from Saint-Paul to Stockton. I don't know for sure how that will affect the other two lines, but it may be worth reconsidering it all. You could also maybe modify the achitecture of the docks to let the hovercraft docks faster in Thornton, byt setting the docks not in an U like it is actually but by a more open setting.

Do your filters not have the ability to set percentages at this point in time? You could set your filters at the one stop to 50% and 50% and then 100% on the way back.

Check if the port wear you have a lot of hover craft got enuf capasety to dock them the small dock can only dock 1 at a time so you might have hovercraft wating to dock

I liked it better when the vehicles had to return to the depot to be sold/replaced.

Not a fan of vehicles just randomly popping out of existence in the middle of the sea when being replaced. Upon hitting upgrade, they should go to their next stop, unload, route to the nearest depot and upgrade there imo. Like this there's no reason to try to keep depots in a central location or have sufficient density of them to facilitate upgrades. Also I hope they simulate the 1970s oil crisis whereby vehicles like hovercraft become dramatically more expensive to run, making .e.g catamarans, a better option, as was the case historically. Also maintenance really should increase running costs, increasing by say, 5% per year on low maintenance, 2.5% on medium and 1.25% on high, such that vehicles kept for a long time but poorly maintained end up costing more money than had they been properly maintained to begin with... as would also be realistic.

If you run hovercraft and those original ships on the fuel/passenger line will the hovercraft drain the passengers allowing the original ships to focus on fuel?

Your zippin through time really quickly and not letting lines even out. Nice vid though

We need the SRN 4 hovercraft in game tbh

Do the hovercraft go over land?

Question on your fuel passenger line would it make more sense to run the passenger line all the way through so Server with that speed boat both towns instead of 2 different lines ? If there is an island with more than one town use the tram instead of a train run 2 one way road to creat a dual carriageway and run the tram line in between them just make sure you lock the roads :-)

Can you do a game test for me? Skye Storm said it is more efficient to do a point to point train system rather than a normal train line e.g. A to B, B to C, rather than A to B to C to B to A

The hovercrafts almost seem too good to be true from a financial aspect - which makes me wonder if maybe they wear out a lot faster than the other ships, and so they have to be replaced more often and are pretty expensive.

You dont have to look in report every time. Next to your balance you can see your earnings if you profitable or not and how much you make in the moment.

How long is a game-year in real time at normal speed for this game?

There is an option to ''replace all'' and ''replace selected''....

please explain how a friggen paddlewheeler can even remotely be profitable in 1970???

But the hovercraft won't carry fuel and people like the other boats

I've seen no auto replace from any videos either. this is unfortunate.

You could have bought alot more hovercrafts on many of your routes tbh. Earning more cash much faster.

Why don't you pay back part of your loan so you don't keep paying interest?

Curious as to why you are earning 6mil a year and have a 29mil loan and 6.5mil in the bank you don't pay down the loan to reduce overheads for the year and thus increase income? Since you are making 6mil a year it would be quite swift to recoup the bank balance

Why not just pay back the loans. The more you still have in debt the more you have to pay the bank each year

Pay off your loans

You need to pay back your loan. Its costing you so much money

So sad that this game has pollution nonsense in it