Hello!
After a long time trying to work around the vehicle selection/spawn menu in OMSI, i'd like to make a suggestion while Lotus is still in development.
Please allow us to have plate number/fleet number-specific repaints/configurations. The selection workflow should be as follows:
1. Select vehicle itself (For example some certain model of Citaro)
2. Select either fleet number or number plate from dropdown lists, both selections should 'follow' eachother (e.g I select a certain fleet number, the number plate changes as well).
I believe LOTUS supports Fleet number and Registration plate lists like OMSI does? (.org files)
3. After selecting a fleet number/number plate, only then allow to select a repaint. The repaint-dropdown could even be grayed out if there is only a single repaint available.
And lastly, ability to restrict certain (multiple!) repaints & 'setvars' to only specific number plates/fleet numbers.
Of course this system i'm suggesting would only work if there are defined lists of fleet numbers & registration plates. If not, it would work like it currently does. (enter any number you want, select any repaint you want)
The reason i'm asking for this feature, is because it isn't uncommon at all for buses (applies to other vehicle types as well) to be sold/brought to different operators over their lifetime. With the menu working the way i've suggested, i could recreate history of vehicles and for example, how a batch of buses has split to different operators over time.
Feel free to correct me if i don't know something or there are features like this already planned.