Vehicles

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While building your industrious Soviet Republic you can choose between various forms of vehicles: road vehicles, trains, cableways and ships.

Different vehicles can be bought from the Soviet Bloc (with Rubles) and from the Western Bloc (with USD) at the depot building for the vehicle type. For example, road vehicles can be bought at a road vehicle depot. Alternatively, it is also possible to purchase the vehicle's blueprint and manufacture them locally. Manufactured vehicles are marked as "brand new" and can be exported by delivering them to a customs house or, for ships, by telling them to move to the border.

A vehicle's price is dynamically calculated based on the current price of its material resources, its age and its statistics. A vehicle's blueprint is priced at 13 times its normal buy price. Some vehicles are part of the same "family", for example, the different versions of the V3S truck. If you purchase the blueprint of a vehicle in a family, then all other blueprints for that vehicle family will have their buy prices reduced by a massive 87%. When exporting a "brand new" western vehicle to the east, the price will be doubled. Similarly, the price of an eastern vehicle exported to the west is halved.

Vehicle speed does not relate directly to in-game time and distances. The in-game distance traveled per day can be estimated with the conversion factor [math]\displaystyle{ 15.625 \left ( \frac{\left ( \frac{m}{day} \right )}{\left ( \frac{km}{h} \right )} \right ) }[/math]

Vehicle type	Bought at	Manufactured at
Road vehicles	Road vehicle depot, construction office, car dealer, parking lots	Vehicle production line
Trolleybuses	Trolleybus depot	Vehicle production line
Forklifts	Forklift garage	Vehicle production line
Cable cars	Any cableway station	Vehicle production line
Helicopters	Airplane parking spots, Helipads	-
Planes	Airplane parking spots	-
Trains	Train depot, rail construction office	Railway production line
Ships	Ship dock (small), ship dock (medium)	Dry dock

Mechanics

Energy management

Main article: Energy management

When the player enabled the Energy management setting to 'Buildings + vehicles' the player has to take care of providing fuel to vehicles.

Fuel is necessary for vehicles to run if playing with vehicle fuel enabled. A vehicle will automatically try to go to a refueling station such as a Gas Station or Train diesel station if running low on fuel even if very close to its next stop. If a vehicle runs out of fuel it will stop and display a fuel icon. It cannot move and will block traffic. At present it seems the only option at this point is to sell the vehicle.

Vehicle production

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Vehicles can be produced at their respective manufacturing plants.

Resource costs

Equations in this section are derived from an analysis of vehicle stats.

Vehicle production resource costs are calculated by the game based on the vehicle's stats. The exact equations used by the game have not been revealed by the developers, however the community has been able to derive some of them.

Resource cost equations for most vehicles:

• Workdays: Equation unknown.
• Steel: Equation unknown. Correlated to empty weight.
• Plastics: Equation unknown.
• Fabric: Equation unknown. Minimum value of 0.005. Fixed to 0.010 for track builders and 0.004 for aircraft. Correlated to passenger capacity.
• Mechanical Components: Equation unknown. Correlated to engine power.
• Electronic Components: Equation unknown. Correlated to engine power.

Purchasing and selling vehicles

Purchasing vehicles can only be done from a suitable site such as a Road vehicles depot, Train depot, Agro-farm, Construction office, Fire Station, Gravel quarry, or Rail Construction office using Rubles or Dollars. Certain sites restrict the types of vehicles which can be purchased. For instance, only fire trucks can be purchased at Fire Stations.

Sell vehicle will immediately sell the vehicle for the current price of the vehicle. Currently there is no depreciation of assets.

Currently vehicles do not require workers to be assigned as drivers.

Schedules

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Once a vehicle is purchased, a schedule can be assigned to a vehicle by clicking on the vehicle itself and then clicking on add stop and then clicking on suitable locations for the vehicle to go. A schedule must have at least 2 stops and there must be a completed pathway to the stop. The vehicle will move between stops in the order in which they were assigned.

Note: Road vehicles cannot travel through sites and can only travel on roads. For instance, buses and other vehicles cannot travel through bus platforms despite appearing to have a path that runs through the platform.

Pressing the start button will cause the vehicle to begin moving between assigned stops.

If a path between stops is broken, the vehicle will stop and a "?" will appear above the vehicle until the path is restored or the stop is removed.

A schedule can be copied to another vehicle by clicking the Copy schedule button and then clicking on a different vehicle the schedule is to be copied to.

Delete stop will remove a stop from a schedule, however, no less than 2 stops can be on the schedule.

If a site is destroyed it will automatically be removed from the schedule.

Move to stop will override the schedule and move to the selected stop.

Go to depot will prompt selection of a suitable depot such as a Road vehicles depot, Train depot, etc and override the schedule to move the vehicle to the depot selected. This can be canceled by clicking on the Cancel go to depot button.

View/follow this vehicle causes the camera to follow the movements of the selected vehicle. This can be canceled by clicking on the Cancel the follow camera button that will appear in the upper right hand portion of the screen.

Loading and Unloading can be specified per stop by clicking on a stop within the schedule.

A vehicle will try to acquire all of the workers, passengers, students, or cargo checked in the load section if load is checked. If "Wait until loaded" is checked, a vehicle will wait at a site until it has acquired the maximum amount of cargo it can haul before leaving a site.

A vehicle will try to unload all of the workers, passengers, students, or cargo checked in the unload section if unload is checked. If "Wait until unloaded" is checked, a vehicle will wait at a site until it has unloaded all of the selected cargo before leaving a site.

"Wait until loaded/unloaded" is not available for workers, passengers, or students.

On this station load/unload % dictates how much of the total possible amount of workers, passengers, students, or cargo will be loaded/unloaded at the specified station. For example, a bus with a total capacity of 60 passengers will try to unload 6 passengers if "On this station unload 10% Passengers" is specified even if less than 60 passengers are onboard.