Free Refits and the High Seas

Refit costs are gone — every vehicle in the game, vanilla included, refits for free. The canal fleet learns some manners at sea, three new sea ships join the specialist rosters, and the record books now name the player behind every town and industry.

Every refit is free

• Refitting costs nothing, anywhere. Cargostrife vehicles always refit free; the vanilla fleet now matches — every wagon, truck, ship and aircraft in the game.
• Auto-refit is unlocked on vanilla stock. Free refits are the engine's own switch for it, so vanilla vehicles now take auto-refit orders exactly like ours.
• Vanilla wagon purchase prices are unchanged (to within half a percent) — only the refit charge died.

Why: refit costs were friction that punished flexible networks and never created an interesting decision.

The canal fleet knows its place

• Canal boats now hold HALF their speed at sea, up from a quarter — a Coal Barge crossing open water at 8 km/h was a war crime. They are still clearly canal craft: every true sea hull outruns them on the ocean.
• The talent board says so before you buy. Canal vessels' tooltips now read "39 km/h on canals (HALF at sea)" — and the whole canal fleet gained board tooltips it never had.
• "Barge" now means canal, full stop. Three sea ships wrongly wore the name and were renamed: Battery, Grain and Timber Barges are now Freighters. If it says Barge, it belongs on a canal; Freighters, Tankers, Clippers, Cutters and Packets own the sea.
• In game, every ship's buy window has always shown both figures — "Speed on canal" and "Speed on ocean". Now the names and the board agree with it.

Three new sea ships

• Timber Freighter sails the tropics now — lumber by sea on every climate that grows it.
• Fizzy Reefer (toyland) joins the refrigerated line, matching the Fizzy Van and its tram.
• Rock Candy Cutter (toyland) joins the vault line — rock candy is a valuable, and now it ships like one.
• All three arrive through the sea talent nodes you already own. Every cargo a canal barge can carry now has a full-speed sea specialist on every climate where it exists.

Records name their owners

• A town nobody built sets no record. The biggest-town record requires a stakeholder — no stakes in the town, no record, no announcement. Noise deleted.
• NEW: per-industry output records. Every industry type on every world keeps a record for the largest monthly output of a single industry — multi-cargo industries like farms count their combined output. Same law: somebody must hold stakes in it, and the holder gets the record and the XP.
• Fanfares name the holder and their stakes: "Gunningpool: 24,223 - biggest town grown - held by mugsy (5,538 stakes) - METROPOLIS MAKER!"

Compare your classes

• Every player profile on the site now shows all eight classes — level, XP, your rank among everyone who has played that class, the class average, and the class leader to beat.
• The leaderboard carries a CLASS LEADERS strip: the best career in each of the eight classes, at a glance.