I just want to be sure about something. I know there has been talk about whether to use 1970 as the model/trim year or use 1975 as the year and set techpool to -5 on everything.
The way the current rules are written, if you are using 1970 as the model/trim year you are still able to use techpool however you want. From reading the comments, if you use 1975 as the model/trim year you must set techpool to -5 for everything.
This does not need to be changed and I’m not complaining about anything. I just want to be sure that I’m understanding the rules correctly.
If both options that GT&O outlined are valid, then what keeps me from going for 1970 and putting +15 into every techpool?
If you want to introduce variation through techpool, then shouldn’t it be something like: “Tech year needs to be 1970. This can be achieved by e.g., 1965 for trim/variant year with up to +5 techpool for everything, 1970 for trim/variant year with 0 techpool or 1975 with -5 techpool.”
That said, techpool is a bit clunky in its current implementation and prone to not updating stats or price every once in a while, so I think this is not a particularly enjoyable route, locking quality (which is built for such differentiation) but having some freedom for techpool.
Also, only Beam-based evaluation criteria? How do you evaluate safety and ride quality in Beam? (and why would [REDACTED] care about safety?)
As stated above, 1970s tech is the maximum you can bring, technically you can make a car with technology of 1950s, might be the cheapest, might do fine but 1975 is only selected from a lore stand point that this fictional country is calling for designers to design a car. That is all (note, if. Getting the Automation’s Car file, I can see what’s been used on the vehicle and if it passes the rules).
Testing as you can see above only some of the points can be received from BeamNG, the saftey tests are breaking distance, deer test and a simple crash test. (in BeamNG)
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It’s left hand drive, think of the mix of Germany, Russia, Italy and a hint of middle east. It’s a large country that has long highways (made for military initially), mountains, and plain fields.
…I’m not known for my ads. So… yeah. The Chèvre Panier, offered as a 5 door hatch for private use and a 2 door van for commercial services.
And maybe, if the government would be agreeable to it, the moving of the engine behind the driver make a more potent performance model… if any sort of motor car racing is looked favorably upon.
Not officially part of my entry, but a few of the more… crazy individuals at Chèvre decided they wanted to make a performance car out of the Panier. They took two of the 3 cylinder engines, stuck them together, and imported some go faster parts to the newly minted V6.
Oh, and they moved it to the back of the car to power the rear wheels and stuck some thicc fender flares on it. They did that too.
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