Would be awesome if after a car has entered production that you could race completion to gain prestige and make your brand more desirable, Even if you have to pay to enter. The AI would really only need to be a table with a bit of randomness to work out ball park stats for the competition based on cost tech levels and other factors. At the moment you don’t rally know what the competition is doing and this might be a good feature to have in campaign mode. Simple rules for formula’s 2L 3L 4L+ etc so not looking at all those demographics. Not 3D or Race yourself I get that’s too much to expect.
And a production QTY Limiter so you can make 1,2 or 4 prototypes for racing and if they get written off then that’s life.
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Surely we could just do that on the forums? It could be made far more realistic that way too.
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This is Something I will look into when writing the automation accepted lore.
Yeah but winning forum competitions does not make your car more desirable in game, which is what I gathered the OP’s idea to be about
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True, perhaps it is an idea to pursue then.
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I’ve thought about the exactly same thing. I’d love to see this feature.
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But I definitely think the racing would be an interesting addition especially if they can integrate the bro bot type of racing results to improve your brand’s reputation and possibly link up with the whole R&D side of things.
On that note, I suspect we will be able to make concept cars again which could achieve a similar idea of improving your brand’s desirability while also hopefully not requires a factory either since most concepts are one-off designs built by hand.
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If they can simulate lap times with sounds and gear changes, acceleration and aerodynamics, I don’t see why they cannot simulate race teams. I guess the devs are bit bit strained by current projects that don’t allow for the time, but I can see it as a possible addon in the future…and it would be awesome.
YES. I don’t care if it’s post-release paid DLC, this should absolutely be in the game. Most manufacturers have been involved in racing in some form or another, and several brands consider racing to be integral to their identity.
Game could simply include basic parameters (Not unlike the scenarios we have now) and we would have to build and tune within those parameters. Taking risks on things like durability could lead to DNFs, and winning could gain both prestige and perhaps a little R&D.
Would be an absolutely AWESOME addition if you were a small manufacturer that wanted to survive on your name alone.
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I agree with @DeusExMackia, it’d probably be much easier on the forums. It’s not integral to the game either so I really can’t feasibly see it being put in.
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If you were a small manufacturer you probably wouldn’t have the funds to support a competitive team in a major racing series. Even some big manufactures haven’t been able to stay alive.
We can do all the competitive racing on the forums, like @DeusExMackia said.
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Heck, plenty of small manufacturers are in racing. Companies like Panoz, McLaren and (Formerly) TVR were all involved with racing, and if we expand that to include small-ish companies, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Porsche and tons of others are involved as well.
I realize it would be added work for the devs, which is why I wouldn’t dream of asking for it in the base game, not with all the rest of the things they need to worry about. That said, if they find good success in the base game, I’d be happy to toss more money their way in exchange for “more stuff” in the game, pretend racing leagues included.
McLaren, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, and Porsche aren’t that small. They all have their fair share of racing history, and have the money to support their racing programs. Even with the money McLaren hasn’t had luck in Formula One at the moment (But that’s probably because of Honda), and Caterham tried to get into the series and failed miserably. Most smaller car companies won’t have the money to fully support a racing program, but you do have some points with Panoz and TVR which were fairly successful and fairly small.
I like the R&D aspect
True but slightly more geared toward tech savvy and takes away from they joy of just shutting off and playing alone. I get social networking and human interaction but for a game like this it’s fun some times but I would suspect it’s shut up. I just want some me time
Good man
I think a lot of us have
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Yeah but actual campaign not even out yet and we seem to be a patent bunch. I reckon quality is a big part of their mission statement so why rush a good thing.
I thought dnf etc even if initial implementation sucks it’s like civ or any other type similar game. the one of chance of a bonus is cool. Gambling yes but business is a gamble if it’s a tycoon game a big component sold be risk/benifit. Think musk big gamble
And yes civ falls under this category just instead of human empire it’s automotive empire. And I think that might might be what’s missing to make it a stand alone offline epic. The ability to smash the competition
The scoring would need to change with more weight on margin but I think your right to sell the most don’t make you the best or most respected Pepsi vs coke. Apple vs everyone else. And no nit on appeal side. Oh hell no but at lest they van enjoy the awsomNess of this in that little virtual box they have.
Ps MS come on really apple beat you to this enable virtualization on all win 10 builds or what’s the point on promoting uwap. I know wrong forum off to vent rage elsewhere
Well look at it this way…there is a categorie for track cars which helps with brand knowledge ingame. I am sure that at some stage the devs mentioned being able to create concept cars for the campaign purely for R and D.
The way the automation lore wiki will work is fairly simple. There will b an accepted timeline from 1930-2020 however from that onwards the wiki will focus on individual manufacturers and thier story in the form of individual wiki pages. How the manufacturers relate to each other and what vehicles/markets is completely up to and owned by you the brand creator
this along with multiplayer (when it is introduced in the far future) hopefully will encourage multiple playthroughs
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Relative to the market? Yeah, they are. I’m not saying they’re “two guys in a shed” small, but compared to mainstay companies, they are. Automotive industry - Wikipedia
Also yes, Formula One is decidedly a smaller segment, but Formula One wouldn’t work in Automation anyways, so I’m not sure why it’d matter. WRC and LeMans are what we’d need to be looking at, as you’d still need vehicles that at least superficially looked like production cars.
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I like this idea, but i dont think it will be implemented anytime soon. Maybe after UE4
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Oh heavens no, I agree. Like I said earlier, given the amount of work that’d be needed to implement it, I’d be AOK with waiting until after launch and giving them money as DLC.
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Relative to the market they are fairly small. But that’s comparing them to companies like Toyota and Volkswagen which are huge car companies. A smaller manufacturer wouldn’t be able to support factories like the Ferrari Factory unless it was started by some rich businessman. I was focusing a bit more on money and history, but don’t take it from me because I don’t know everything about this. This argument should stop, it’s getting a bit out of hand.
