If you can email me the save file, that will be helpful: http://wiki.gearcity.info/doku.php?id=troubleshooting:steam_savegamefile

All done!

Thanks much. I can't guarantee that I will get to it for v1.25 RC1, but it will be fixed by RC2.

No stress, fix it when possible. All the best!

Related bug in the same save:
No company offers E85 engine for production (2nd option), they offer only to license (1st option) in the same save. I will try to move to year 1920 or so to see if E85 ever show up for ordering to build by other company.

In general the AI is selective in which components they are willing to license and which they are willing to build. Since E85 is not a popular fuel type post 1903ish, they unlikely willing to build them for you.

I got a chance to look at your save game real quick. The only E85 engine you have licensed is 62 inches wide and 52 inches long. Your largest chassis can only support a 52 inch wide and 57 inch long engine. If memory serves me the longest the vanilla copy of the game supports is 58x62.

So that's why you can't use it in a vehicle design.

Did you win a contract with this engine?

I want to produce it, I just picked random engine. I will pick some smaller engine and maybe Electroengine to see if I can use them.

Originally posted by Traksimuss:

I want to produce it, I just picked random engine. I will pick some smaller engine and maybe Electroengine to see if I can use them.

Well to produce it, you either need to use it in a vehicle design or get a contact with it. You can't sell/outsource a licensed design.

I wanted to put licensed E85 engine in my designs for contracts. Hence I will just check if I license 10 different engines, can I put any of them in.

Okay thanks I tested and it works with the parts now, it was my fault as I did not filter by size. But
As a sidenote, now in 1917 even in licensing there are 0 engines that are not gasoline. So if you do not have the technology discovered, you are pretty much unable to license or ask to produce it for you, rendering contracts impossible to do.


Confusing thing was engine not showing up in any views after showing green as bought, thanks for sorting that out.

You should have no problem producing licensed engines for contracts if you do not have the technology. If you have a save game where you can not do this, send it over to me.

You can not assign a licensed component for outsourcing or licensing.

The AI generally tends to stick with the most popular fuel types when producing engines. Ethnol based engines for a brief period of time were popular in the early 1900s. But around 1905 Gasoline became king. Diesel starts to popup around the 1950s.