Those sports editions should still be everday cars with 4-5 seats. For 2-seaters there are the other sports categories.
No, those buildings are assumed to be built already. Engineering costs for brake cooling are a bit too in-depth in my opinion, first get the main things working. This is only a forum game, we have to leave something to the full game.
Good idea, Iāll add that today.
Yes, I have, I wanted it to be a bit more realistic.
Yes, only the stats I ask for in the spreadsheet. Itās already very hard to find a good balance and working calculations. Track time is completely useless in this challenge.
Yes, it may seem odd that the cheap carss sell a bit in the expensive categories. Finding the right balance of āprice must matterā and āprice must not matter too much in the expensive categories but still a little bitā is very, very hard to do without making a new sales model for every customer group (which then is impossible to manage for me). The few sales in those categories donāt really matter in the big picture of hundreds of thousands sold cheap cars anyway. And when there are more (sporty) cars on the market, market share for the cheap car will drop automatically. Weāll see how it works, I still can adjust some exponents.
A car with good audio and air-con and soft suspension will significantly more comfortable. If I would make the market simulation the way youād like it, I would have to calculate and balance every single detailed stat (the ones the big stats are made of). Sounds like tons of fun and will never come out right.
Again I donāt expect you to make it super detailed, certainly not for a forum challenge. Iām just speaking my mind in general, has more to do with what I would want in tycoon part of game more than anything, also yes it would be pretty hard to balance.
Good find! It should be something from 8 to 10, Iāll have to try out what works best.
Another thing I will add today is the choice of factory size: It determines factory overhead and production capacity. Tooling costs will scale with factory size, too. Then it will be a bit easier to go for the niches.
If you want to help me balancing the challenge, you may send me the .txt file of a car you put into the spreadsheet in a PM. This does not mean that the challenge has started. You may send me more than one car and you are of course allowed to build a new car for the challenge when it is open. I wonāt publish the results, too, as the calculations are still subject to change and I donāt want to show other players what you have built. You would just do me a big favor getting more useful cars for balancing. Thanks in advance to all contributers!
In the factory section of the template, what timescale is the production units working to? Is it production units per day, week, month, etc? Also, in the calculator it says maximum production. Again, what timescale is this on? I assume it is either per month or for the duration of the challenge
Again, I changed tooling multipliers and the core of the buyer model, so if you want to build and send me some cars for balancing, go ahead! The first batch yesterday already helped a lot! Thanks!
I forgot to say, but one of the cars I sent you had some silly high quality sliders. It was meant to be an 80s equivalent of the bugatti veyron but i went overboard a bit. Hopefully that hasnāt offset your attempts at balancing too much
If it used much quality, it was expensive as hell. Itās good to have such a thing in there, too, someone will probably try to do the same in the real challenge.
Btw: I added taxes, 15% of the carās price tag will disappear magically.
[quote=āDer Bayerā]If it used much quality, it was expensive as hell. Itās good to have such a thing in there, too, someone will probably try to do the same in the real challenge.
Btw: I added taxes, 15% of the carās price tag will disappear magically. [/quote]
How much do we have to pay to move our factory to the cayman islands?
Things are looking good now and except from minor tweaks in the target group definitions we should be ready to go! We start as soon as the automatic update is out. Iāll make a new thread with the announcement then.
Damn, I forgot to adjust the cars I sent you for the updates so they havenāt been includedā¦ not that it would have affected sales much. Also, it seems that everyone has made their cars a bit too cheap
Could be that we trying aim for 1988 prices without understanding the relationship between automation dollars and the value of our local currency at that time
