[FIXED] New Factory - Number of lines

[Eric.B]

1) There should be an ability to retool your factories maybe 2 months prior to the design being ready. That way you dont have to wait to retool and have downtime right after new designs are completed and reviewed.

This was planned but not feasible considering the price of the bounty and how long it took to implement. It may come back as a bounty of its own in the future.

2) Is there a feature for the auto adjust to also retool the factories? Or is the intention for it to always be manual? This gets quite difficult once you have multiple factories making multiple models

There is an "Auto Adjust" where "Auto Production" used to be in the Mega Menu. This adjusts production within the maximum value. There is no auto system for managing maximum production numbers. You're not expected to change it frequently. (As more sample gameplay comes in, I may increase the penalties for retooling max production.) The system is intended to be manual. Inventory management will become more of a factor as additional bounties are funded. However, the community funded the new production system earlier than planned.

3) Is it possible for the new trim/generation to have a checkbox to auto replace everything including factory production numbers?

Nope. Ideally, we'll be doing away with trims in the future. https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3835

4) IS a complete retooling always needed after you buy a new company and spin it off as a subsidiary? This makes it very tedious.

You'll need to expand upon this because I am unsure what you're talking about. What issues are you having? What is it doing? This might be a bug, but we're right at the cut-off for the next update. So, if you can let me know before I finish building GearCity v2.0.0.13, I'll look into it for GC:2G v2.4.0.1. (Save game pre and post issue is most helpful.)