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It appears that Mitsubishi engines automatically cease production and convert to Nissan engines on the date Nissan engines start production.

It appears that Nakajima engines automatically cease production and convert to Kokosui engines on the date Kokosui engines start production.

PROBABLY that means Hitachi engines automatically cease production and convert to Toyoda engines on the date Toyoda engines cease production.

Well, you can put the devices to upgrade to itself and no problem. Let`s Japan pay for the goodies...

One thing that I didn´t liked always was the ability of both Japanese and Allies get a date, and automatically get 200 or 300 planes of a type per month, without ramping

This turns out to be the way I programmed it. CHS and stock (exception noted below) are set to upgrade to the same engine. [Stock has an error - Nakajima upgrades to Mitsubishi - which seems a bad idea]

In RHS right now Mitsubishi and Nakajima upgrade. I am changing the latter to not - because it is the Zero engine - and too important to lose (once switched it will never go back - even if you try it will just upgrade again).

The Mitsubishi engine has no function production wise - it exists in numbers greater than you will ever need.

This setting stuff is for AI - it lets AI upgrade without human help. Setting Mitsubishi to upgrade to a 1943 engine type is sensible and I will leave it alone.

As for aircraft - it IS realistic. Sorry if you don't like it - but in one case Japan had two different models on the line at the same time - increasing and decreasing as required. For near types it is perfectly valid (say a Ki-61 I and a Ki-61 II). What isn't valid is an instant upgrade between radically different types of aircraft - and we should not do that. In RHS we don't. Having worked at (not for - at) Boeing (as a resident engineer for a subcontactor) I am sensititve to such matters - and try to do them properly.