Again I tweaked the buyer groups a bit and I think I am now happy with how it works. The latest test have been uploaded here again: drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4x5S3wQzQFlM01iOUZrR1lkUU0&usp=sharing
Automation Pro Tip: Don’t try to sell a car for $6,000,000,000.
Beta testing of this challenge is now closed, please don’t send me anymore cars.
I was just trying to make sure that your system wouldn’t allow Sheikh B.P. Esso McShell to buy a car that was so expensive that just one sale would get you a profit with a good chance of winning. I’m glad to say that your system has held up wonderfully 
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I’m surprised that my luxury car did so well, I honestly thought it was going to be keeping my single sale test car company near the bottom of the leaderboard
So is there any chance of getting in on this still?, or am I SOOL?
The competition has not even started yet
Yeah, all of the shown results have been of people who helped prototyping and balancing the challenge. Now let’s wait until the official update is released. Less bugs means more fun for everyone.
Awesome
Inserting the values by hand is such a chore. More so cause I can’t alt tab the game without crashing.
Play in windowed mode to solve that problem 
If you still cant get it to work then you could always take a few screenshots of the relevant information and shove them on a temporry powerpoint presentation or something for easy navigation
[quote=“Reaper392”]
Play in windowed mode to solve that problem
If you still cant get it to work then you could always take a few screenshots of the relevant information and shove them on a temporry powerpoint presentation or something for easy navigation[/quote]
Been running fraps when I play to take easy screens
Are you willing to tell us more about what is used to calculate Running Costs?
Beta game does it for him.
[quote=“shawa666”]
Beta game does it for him.[/quote]
Actually, it is a formula in the spreadsheet. Service costs is done by the game. He has added fuel costs per year and taken a percentage of the price tag to account for repairs. The formula is: Fuel Cost per Year + Service Costs per Year + (100 - Reliability) ^ 0.5 / 200 * Price Tag = Running Costs per Year [size=85](seen in cell C18 on the spreadsheet)[/size]
Fuel Costs per Year is calculated by: Economy * Fuel Type * 150 [size=85](seen in cell C16 on the spreadsheet)[/size]
[quote=“07CobaltGirl”]
Actually, it is a formula in the spreadsheet. Service costs is done by the game. He has added fuel costs per year and taken a percentage of the price tag to account for repairs. The formula is: Fuel Cost per Year + Service Costs per Year + (100 - Reliability) ^ 0.5 / 200 * Price Tag = Running Costs per Year [size=85](seen in cell C18 on the spreadsheet)[/size]
Fuel Costs per Year is calculated by: Economy * Fuel Type * 150 [size=85](seen in cell C16 on the spreadsheet)[/size][/quote]
Thank you very much. That’s exactly what I was looking for.
Is it going to be only 1988 vehicles?
And only a vehicle per person or can we make a vehicle for each category? like a line up.
1988, one car only.
Are we allowed to begin submitting entries now that the update is out?
The challenge will start in less than 2 hours, a new thread will be started for that purpose. This one will be locked.