Allow goto depot orders

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Allow goto depot orders is a Patch that allows player to put a depot in a vehicles orders.

[edit] Description

When enabled, this option lets you include a depot in a vehicle's orders. This is useful for compulsory servicing at a particular point in the orders (maybe before a complicated junction you definitely don't want a train breaking down at).

[edit] How to use goto depot order

You can just order the vehicle to go to a depot, like with a station, and the vehicle will visit that depot when it sees that order in its list before continuing, much like any other waypoint or station in its orders.

When you select a go to depot order in the order list, the "Full Load" and "Unload" instruction buttons in the order windows will respectively change to "Service" and "Refit" ones.

If you do not want that the vehicle will visit the depot every order list's cycle, use the Service instruction: the go to depot order is ignored if the servicing intervall is not expired yet.

If you want that the vehicle will be refitted at the depot, press the Refit instruction button. A screen will pop-up, showing the refit options for that vehicle.

[edit] Use

This feature is enabled by default. You can disable this patch through the configure patches -> vehicle window or use the following syntax in openttd.cfg:

[patches]
gotodepot = false