Re: PCTC #1: Packbat's Car Tycoon Challege, 1955
Packbat wrote:Oh, this is something I probably should have fixed but didn't because it was a massive pain: are you typing in the engineering and tooling costs as millions of dollars, or as dollars? If you're typing something like "16.32" into the boxes, you'll get the wrong answer - you need to type "16320000". I think that effectively works out to multiplying the break-even by a million (so 230,000 cars), but I don't have the equations in front of me to check.
Packbat wrote:Mmph - that's one of the unfortunate side-effects of the system: the actual winning values aren't determined until the end.
...I'm trying to decide what I can justly say as the organizer of the competition - and I feel a little bad saying anything, given that a number of people have already submitted. That said: I think only one person has taken their one resubmit, and I'd probably be willing to allow them another for unrelated reasons. So I guess I can say this much: When I used the same equations from the spreadsheet I posted on my test cars, the highest score in each category was in the ballpark of ten times the Idiosyncrasy score for that category except in Luxury and Track, where it was significantly higher and much higher, respectively.
well then...... screw me. but so glad i haven't submitted mine.
so i just figured out, the aggresive low pricing is going to need me to conquer at least a single market to break even.....
but then you said the other one...... my car sales price as is...... about 15x the idiosyncracy value of the market im targeting..
so 2 options right now. up the price or make the car more shit.
this clears up a whole lot more
EDIT:
NOT!
i can't math.........