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[[File:Porter_New.png|400px]]
When you buy a new vehicle, it is beautiful and shiny. But hard use and passage of time passed certainly leave a mark or two on its (not shiny anymore) surface. Whats more troublesome is that maintenance cost will skyrocket, if you do not perform regular renovations and/or upgrades.
[[File:Porter_Old.png|400px]]
==Age & Cost==
All the info is shown in the Info tab of vehicle window.
There is an intermittent arrow shown beside the amount and type of fuel needed. Each segment of this arrow represents 1 [[game tick|game tick]]. When the vehicle is new, the whole arrow is white. As time passes it changes color to green, until it reaches the end and the fuel is paid.
[[file:Operating_Cost_New.png]]
It takes 5 game ticks for [[Trains]] and 7 game ticks for [[Road Vehicles]], unless [[Operating costs|Fuel Cost]] is set to "Higher".
After 20 in-game years have passed the first segment of this arrow turns red
[[file:Operatin_Cost_20.png]]
and it is bypassed by the ticks counter. After each subsequent 10 years another segment of that arrow turns red and the fuel is being paid more and more frequently. After 50 years for [[Trains]] or 70 years for [[Road Vehicles]] the all but the very last segments of the arrow are red and the fuel cost is charged each and every [[game tick|game tick]].
[[file:Operating_Cost_50+.png]]
