[size=150]Car Tycoon Challenge Round 6: 1955[/size]
Another round of the 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 (according to today’s standards). 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 1955 -> build whatever car you want and see how your company would do/:m]
]Full modding compatibility: Everything which is downloadable on the forums is allowed (except stated otherwise)/: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][/ul]
What has changed since last round?
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] Adjusted (low) soft limits to game year/:m]
] Different year of course/:m]
] Nothing else/:m][/ul]
Current number of participants (Monday 8 p.m. UTC+1):** 48**
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, shown are the numbers for 61 participants):
Now the most important thing:
[size=150]How do you participate?[/size]
[ul]]Build a car in Automation (with the right manufacture year 1955) and save it with your nickname as as car name (attach a “2” to you second car, e.g. “nickname2”)./:m]
]Go to this spreadsheet or download the spreadsheet from here in your preferred file format (for example .xlsx)./: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. Set the number of cars you want to produce. This will determine factory size and cost./*:m]
]Once you filled every cell of the form, copy the cells from your name all the way down to Factory Cost (everything inside the red border) 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]
]Two cars per player only! Your first two PMs count, no extra revisions! The challenge will be open for more than one week (until Monday, 15th of December 8 p.m. UTC+1) 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! If you find any errors in the spreadsheets, please inform me as soon as possible.
[size=150]Participants Overview - Top Trump Cards[/size]
Here is the overview over all 48 participants:
[size=150]Final Results[/size]
The PDF file with the results is available here.
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Price Overview for every player: Google Folder
Grats to the winners and thanks to everyone for participating! I hope you had fun (because this is what the challenge is all about)! The CTC will now go into Christmas holidays.
