Turbocharged
Posts: 7
Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:17 pm
Cars: A piece of crap Malibu that calls itself a Cutlass.
This Game has Been Frustrating me Recently
I really enjoyed playing it back in the day. Despite its lack of organization (and features, for that matter), it was fun since I could quickly hammer out car designs and make multiple trims of one model by copying and pasting. Some time ago, there was an update that completely changed the interface and attempted to organize cars by manufacturer, trim, etc. It was confusing and clunky to me, and to this day I'm still not sure how to use it (I certainly could have figured it out better if I persevered, but the very fact that it was there in a game that I player only infrequently drove me away from it entirely). Recently I've tried to get back into the game, and I've been disappointed to find that it has only gotten worse. The organization methods haven't changed much from what I can gather, but its now riddled with bugs. If I do something the game doesn't like, I get a lua error about nil values thrown at my face. When this happens, I usually can't edit things like I'm supposed to, and it often causes whatever I've been working on to be (presumably) corrupted, therefore throwing errors every time I try to work on it. It isn't uncommon either - I've had it happen numerous different times in different situations. What gives? I'm only trying to build cars and engines like I used to. It isn't like I'm messing about with brand new, rough features. Shouldn't this sort of thing be ironed out by now?
I don't mean to discredit the devs' hard work, but it seems to me like the development of this game seems to be heading in the wrong direction. I've come across some new features such as the demographic testing in different fictional areas, and I think there's some new scenarios or something like that, but quite frankly these features mean nothing to me if the basic core of the game (building and designing cars) is flawed and I can't enjoy it like I used to. Though it may seem less interesting, I'd much rather the devs focus on consolidating and perfecting the features that have been added before moving ahead and adding new ones that, quite frankly, I really don't care for.
That's just my two cents.
P.S.-
Why is the year that EFI becomes available so... late? I owned a 1982 model Toyota with EFI, but for some reason it only becomes available in-game in the late 80s IIRC.
Killrob Edit: This is changed in the version coming out in a week, 1982 is the new MPFI unlock year, 1978 for SPFI.