[size=150]Car Tycoon Challenge[/size]
The CTC (Car Tycoon Challenge) is now ready to go! Build a car according to the needs of the masses and compete with lots of opponents or search for your niché. Keep an eye on the expenses. Guess a good price tag. Sell cars and see if your model can take a big slice of the cake! The awesome thing is: There are no fixed opponents or calculations! All depends on what the other players try to sell and you won’t know it (unless you talk about it).
Features
[ul]]15 groups of buyers with different preferences/:m]
](Hopefully) lots of opponents/:m]
]Management of engineering, tooling and pricing (tools for estimating engineering and tooling costs will be provided); fixed R&D and distribution cost per sold car/:m]
]Insecurity of what the rivals will throw on the market/:m]
]A detailed analysis of your pricing: How close to the optimum price tag for maximum profit have you been?/:m]
]One single rule: Build a car in 1988 -> build whatever car you want and see how your company would do/:m][/ul]
Winners in different categories:
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]Biggest overall profit/:m]
]Most cars sold (with profit)/:m]
]Biggest profit per car/:m]
]Biggest marketshare per target group/:m]
]… and maybe some more/:m][/ul]
Current number of participants (Monday 5 p.m. UTC+2): 44
These are the target groups (the number of people in each groups scales with the number of participants, but the share in percent will stay the same):
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Now the most important thing:
[size=150]How do you participate?[/size]
[ul]]Build a car in Automation (with the right manufacture year 1988) and save it with your nickname as as car name./:m]
]Go to this spreadsheet (Direct Link): [spreadsheet]1C2J3p0silokMj_NK4wv3pI2kbsvHJvpBw5LBNoJpKlw, 1[/spreadsheet]/:m]
]For each major design choice you have to pay engineering or tooling cost. Depending on what you choose, copy the respective 4 white cells next to the chosen part from the “Template” spreadsheet" to the “Calculator” spreadsheet. The spreadsheet will then calculate engineering and tooling costs for you. (The example in the spreadsheet will be my own entry for the challenge)/:m]
]Fill in the other data, your name and choose a price tag for your car into the other white cells in the form on the “Calculator” spreadsheet. Around 2…3production cost is reasonable for high-volume cars. Small series production cars need to be more expensive if you want to make profit./*:m]
]Once you filled every cell of the form, copy the cells from your name all the way down to Tooling Cost and paste the values into a .txt file. Save the file without any manual changes with your nickname as file name, i.e. “Der Bayer.txt” or similar./:m]
]Delete your data from the spreadsheet so that not too many people can see what you built and that other people have space to make their .txt-file. /:m]
]Send me the .txt-file together with the car .lua-file in a PM (zip-file would be best) and you’re done./:m]
]I’ll at least check if the winners cheated (stats, tooling and engineering cost, manufacture year, lua file cheating, …), so don’t try it./:m]
]One car per player only! Your first PM counts, no extra revisions! The challenge will be open for one week (until Tuesday, 2nd of September 8 p.m. UTC+2) and the overall number of entries is unlimited, so take your time./:m]
]Questions? Ask in this thread! 
/:m][/ul]
Have fun! Feel free to share pictures of your submitted cars in this thread!
Participants:
Google Folder
[size=150]Final Results[/size]
Participants:
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Marketshare per Group:
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Total Sales:
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Finance Overview:
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Biggest Marketshare (with profit)
- NormanVauxhall (6.74%)
- Molotov (5.77%)
- GenJeFT (5.65%)
Most Profit:
- xwing (6.15 billion)
- Janekk (5.71 billion)
- Killrob (4.95 billion)
Most Profit per car:
- PMP1337 ($171,301)
- xwing ($116,072)
- Jakgoe ($39,010)
Compact $:
- NormanVauxhall (36.4%)
- Molotov (35.4%)
- GenJeFT (16.4%)
Compact $$:
- NormanVauxhall (7.4%)
- GenJeFT (7.1%)
- conan_murder (6.5%)
Hot Hatch:
- Dragawn (9.2%)
- Zatotm (6.4%)
- conan_murder (5.7%)
Mid $:
- lztd15 (6.2%)
- GenJeFT (6.0%)
- conan_murder (5.9%)
Mid $$:
- Janekk (5.8%)
- mer_at (4.5%)
- lztd15 (4.2%)
Mid Sport:
- Dragawn (10.3%)
- Janekk (6.1%)
- Zatotm (5.2%)
Large $$:
- mer_at (6.3%)
- Luilakkie (5.5%)
- Janekk (4.6%)
Large $$$:
- xwing (14.0%)
- PMP1337 (7.1%)
- Luilakkie (6.8%)
Trackday:
- Dragawn (36.0%)
- 8bs (7.7%)
- Renowrench (4.93%)
GT:
- xwing (12.6%)
- Luilakkie (6.8%)
- ohm1996 (6.4%)
Supercar:
- Dragawn (14.7%)
- Luilakkie (8.9%)
- ohm1996 (8.8%)
Transport:
- Killrob (10.8%)
- NormanVauxhall (10.2%)
- conan_murder (5.6%)
Family:
- Killrob (6.4%)
- Janekk (5.6%)
- lztd15 (4.5%)
Offroad $:
- Killrob (25.5%)
- Fralbjabar (10.3%)
- NormanVauxhall (6.7%)
Offroad $$:
- Killrob (10.4%)
- Fralbjabar (6.6%)
- mer_at (4.8%)
Price Overview for every player: Google Folder
Grats to the winners and thanks to everyone for participating! I hope you had fun! Please post your thoughts and ideas. Next challenge will start next week!
