I love the game you’ve built, and coming from someone who has played TTD, OpenTTD, simutrans (however buggy that can be at times) for absurd amounts of time, this means you’ve done a great job at creating a similar but more modern atmosphere.

Sure, the game still contains all sorts of minor problems. I can live with these, except for one that is causing me to not fire up the game any more after a few evening-long sessions of getting used to the game mechanics:

The lack of auto-replacement of vehicles makes the game unplayable past year 15 of any halfway serious attempt at line-building. Combined with the high rate of time passing (yes, for me this could also be slower, but that’s less important) you run into this extremely quickly.

To me, at 15 years in I’m barely getting started, which makes it a bit disappointing beyond the great initial experience of 3D freedom and careful planning required to build train lines (gentle slopes), not to mention the great visualization!

Please consider implementing auto-replacement, I don’t even care if it’s realistic – actually I would prefer it not to be with the high rate of time passing. A global checkbox that when enabled essentially resets vehicles’ lifespans while subtracting the cost once more, at the point where it now triggers the popup that the vehicle is old: I can live with it. Whatever takes the least time to implement. To me, and I expect many others, this is a show-stopper because it makes the game Not Fun to the point of it being unplayable.

Hope you will consider to do something about this, and btw. great job on your first major (and it looks like successful) release!

So a + 1 from me.  Something, anything… other than a suggestion to sell all vehicles on a line, which results in selling vehicles too early, losing cargo / passengers and having to re-space the new vehicles out one by one.

How about a small button within the vehicle window that will autoupdate the vehicle (with or without going to the depot) – and if someone loves the micromanagement, he just not uses this button.

… and everyone is pleased.

or a settings option to automatically update the vehicles

“This needs to happen very soon. It’s a real chore replacing vehicles, and stops the game from being enjoyable once the chains of messages start appearing from 1865 onwards.
I find it tough to keep going once the replacements start, as it really is becoming monotonous.”

the right click button is sadly lacking in utility and could easily be made to allow replacement options + I would like like zoom to the vehicle/town/depot/line/goods

I this case I say: The more automatic the better. I hate micromanagement!

I don’t know what’s possible but at least the function “drop all passengers by the next stop, return to the depot and send another vehicle on track” is the least comfort I’d like to see.

Better if I can automate more, like a button (next to the $ sign in the line list), saying: replace all vehicles on this line (without loosing passengers) and replace them by …  (open the “buy vehicles” dialog and let the user choose which one and how many) would be great.

Even better: replace all (select age and/or vehicle time) by (select another vehicle) would be best. (like in RRT3)

Here it goes:::

+1