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Post Sun May 04, 2014 5:58 am

Some things that would be good to think about.

So after playing around 10 hours straight to make a nice race car I had some ideas, if you like, that I would like to see in this awesome game.

1) The ability to balance the "weight" correctly around the tires of the car. Except it will add some minds to overdrive in order to balance the tire weights in order to have extra stability in the steering section, it also will help in the correct consumption of fuel by the engine if you want an economy and environmentally friendly car. Also the animation of the weight correction machine (I don't remember the name of the machine sorry) will be sick :lol:
2) More customization of the headlights and taillights. I would like to see more customization over the light section of the car, beyond the 4 arrows, I know it's extremely difficult to program something like that, but it would be pretty neet.
3) The ability to ran the game windowed or at least to fix the issue of alt-tab the game, because it's crashing every time.
4) Stickers for the type of Turbo or Supercharger you use, like TSI or FSI with the red letters indicating how much you have, or V12 Twin Turbo. That would be awesome.
5) Suspension type, like racing or comfort which would make a huge impact in the statistics in the end, like how the car reacts in the corners and different types of roads and if the car would be more racing like or comfort for all family in any road. Also height change suspensions like the old Renaults (we had something like that and was funny).
6) Depending of the overall car manufacturing the company will be more for comfort cars for the family, luxurious cars for businesses and high tier VIP's or the first choice of racing enthusiasts, like the Nissan, Mercedes or Subaru is today.
7) A wind tunnel that indicates the air flow around the car and the statistics be interactive with the choices you make on the fly, like if you put an air vent it will change the entire air flow, again I know it's a headache to program but it will worth it.

That's the things that came to mind when I first played the game and I would like to see. As far as I know the game is awesome and the 35 dollars that I spend worth it till the last penny. You are awesome guys, keep the hard work !
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Post Sun May 04, 2014 6:10 am

Re: Some things that would be good to think about.

3) You already can run the game in windowed mode. In the launcher, click 'Options', from there you can select the graphics quality, the game language, the resolution, and you can switch between full screen and windowed mode.

5) Changing the suspension stiffness, camber angle etc will have an effect on ride comfort and cornering. In the next big update there will also be presets for suspension settings for comfort or sports suspensions etc..

6) It's up to you what kind of company you run. Image is everything however, and if you release a car that doesn't keep with your company's brand image, then customers will most likely give a negative reaction. (e.g having a company which is known for producing top sports cars, and releasing an ecobox)

7) I'm not sure how this will add to the overall gameplay value, but it would be a nice-looking feature to add. Maybe post-release?

As for your other suggestions, I'll leave that to the devs! :P
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Post Sun May 04, 2014 8:03 am

Re: Some things that would be good to think about.

Nio9345 wrote:So after playing around 10 hours straight to make a nice race car I had some ideas, if you like, that I would like to see in this awesome game.

1) The ability to balance the "weight" correctly around the tires of the car. Except it will add some minds to overdrive in order to balance the tire weights in order to have extra stability in the steering section, it also will help in the correct consumption of fuel by the engine if you want an economy and environmentally friendly car. Also the animation of the weight correction machine (I don't remember the name of the machine sorry) will be sick
There would be no advantage at all from unbalanced wheels, therefore it only makes sense to assume they are balanced automatically.
2) More customization of the headlights and taillights. I would like to see more customization over the light section of the car, beyond the 4 arrows, I know it's extremely difficult to program something like that, but it would be pretty neet.
Nope. Devs have said it will stay the way it is now, exactly because it's "extremely difficult to program". There will be more lights and variants of them though.
3) The ability to ran the game windowed or at least to fix the issue of alt-tab the game, because it's crashing every time.
There is a windowed mode, just as pleb stated.
4) Stickers for the type of Turbo or Supercharger you use, like TSI or FSI with the red letters indicating how much you have, or V12 Twin Turbo. That would be awesome.
I believe there will be some badges for this sort of thing. Devs have not stated how it will work, but it'll probably have either complete badges, or individual letters. No large-scale decals though, there are some technical limitations.
5) Suspension type, like racing or comfort which would make a huge impact in the statistics in the end, like how the car reacts in the corners and different types of roads and if the car would be more racing like or comfort for all family in any road. Also height change suspensions like the old Renaults (we had something like that and was funny).
This is done by adjusting the suspension settings. The easy mode is in beta already, and before the full game release, the active suspension options will very probably be added
6) Depending of the overall car manufacturing the company will be more for comfort cars for the family, luxurious cars for businesses and high tier VIP's or the first choice of racing enthusiasts, like the Nissan, Mercedes or Subaru is today.
There will be no mechanics restricting your choice to one particular path. You will be free to do any of these, or any mix of those.
7) A wind tunnel that indicates the air flow around the car and the statistics be interactive with the choices you make on the fly, like if you put an air vent it will change the entire air flow, again I know it's a headache to program but it will worth it.
It definitely would look cool, it would be interesting to see the air flow around the body, but you seem to overestimate its actual gameplay value and/or underestimate the amount of work needed.
That's the things that came to mind when I first played the game and I would like to see. As far as I know the game is awesome and the 35 dollars that I spend worth it till the last penny. You are awesome guys, keep the hard work !


Replies in color. I'm not a dev, but that should be pretty close to their opinion on the matter.
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Post Sun May 04, 2014 9:09 am

Re: Some things that would be good to think about.

When i asked a dev about the airflow modelling a few months ago they said that the absolute furthest they would even consider going with this would be to calculate the drag of the base car (and possibly the fixtures as well) on the airflow around the 2D profile of the car. I suspect that even doing this graphically would increase the difficulty of the programming a lot. I wouldn't expect this to be added though, the developers probably wont add anything more than the current system of a base drag coefficient being modified by fixtures and ride height

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