After buying a tractor, it starts as an order and takes time for production and delivery before it appears on the farm. The mod also handles world regions, customs duties, payment schedules, delivery delays and cancellations.
Features
- A tractor with basic equipment takes two days to produce and deliver.
- Equipment that costs extra, such as different tyres or a stronger engine, adds another two days.
- Many manufacturers are assigned to one of six world regions: Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
- The farm is also assigned to a region automatically on known maps. On other maps, the farm region can be set manually.
- Delivery time depends on the distance between the tractor’s origin region and the farm’s region. A tractor from Europe has a shorter journey to a European farm than to a farm in North America.
- The delivery days follow the game calendar. The mod counts a month as 28 days and converts this to the days per month set in the game. At 28 days per month, one delivery day is exactly one in-game day. At one day per month, a delivery time of twelve days is over after about ten in-game hours.
- With down payments enabled, the dealer keeps 20 percent of the price when ordering, and the remaining 80 percent is paid on delivery. Only the down payment has to be in the account when ordering. When down payments are disabled, the full price is paid immediately.
- Customs duty applies when a tractor comes from another region. There is no duty within the same region. Between two regions, the mod uses the rate set for that direction.
- For example, a tractor costing 100,000 euros from Europe to North America, at the preset rate of five percent, adds 5,000 euros in customs duty, for a total of 105,000 euros.
- The customs duty rates are game values that can be adjusted or turned off entirely.
- Before buying, the mod shows the customs duty, total price and payment breakdown. For an order already placed, these amounts stay the same.
- With delivery delays enabled, delivery can sometimes take a day or two longer.
- The order list shows which machine is being produced, which is on its way and when it arrives, along with its origin, destination and the amount still due.
- If there is not enough money on the delivery day, the order waits until the farm can pay the outstanding sum, including customs.
- An order can be cancelled while it is in production, while it is on its way or shortly before delivery. While it is in production, the amount paid is refunded. Once it is on its way, the dealer keeps part of it. Shortly before delivery, the amount paid is forfeited entirely and a cancellation fee applies. Customs duty is not charged on a cancellation.
- The delivered tractor has the chosen tyres, colour and ordered licence plate.
- Pallets of seeds, BigBags and other instant items, used machines, leased vehicles and free vehicles are available immediately without a wait or customs duty.
- The mod works in multiplayer. Everyone on the farm sees the shared orders, and the server sets the options.
