Technology Progression

[JeffreyCor]

Yes! Once again we're thinking alike As usual you guys are awesome

[serothis]

Another question to add to my ever growing list!

In-game legal issues! let's say I make a really crappy car. I cut skimp on quality building supplies, low quality controls, etc. As a result my cars spontaneously explode. Will my company have to worry about class action law suits or will it just destroy my reputation as an automaker?

[JeffreyCor]

Reputation absulutly. If you make crappy cars your company will have a low reputation with the public as one that makes bad cars or deathtraps.

As for lawsuits, that I think will have a very big with as there would have to take into account the various laws of every jurisdiction around the world. Plus for any award of punitive damages it would also have to be programmed in to show recklessness or knowing disregard to be awarded. Even Ford wouldn't have been so heavily nailed on the Pinto of it wasn't shown that Ford knew of the problem and considered the price for paying wrongful death suits to be less than correcting the design defect.

[zeussy]

Another question to add to my ever growing list!

In-game legal issues! let's say I make a really crappy car. I cut skimp on quality building supplies, low quality controls, etc. As a result my cars spontaneously explode. Will my company have to worry about class action law suits or will it just destroy my reputation as an automaker?

Those are things that we want to eventually do, all in good time.

[SetsChaos]

So a new pinto bean would be a no-go, eh? Haha

[machalel]

Have you thought about implementing Industrial Espionage?

So you can put a certain amount of money into attempting to find out what other companies are doing, what their future plans are, maybe a bonus to your tech development if they successful infiltrate their engineering team?

[serothis]

how about a related ability, not industrial espionage but able to look at competitor's released (or show concept) cars and perhaps how well they're selling. Or how well they were received by the public in the case of a concept car.

[Daffyflyer]

There will be loans I would say, given what a major part of running a business they are.

Beyond that, the finance side of things hasn't had much design work done to it yet, so we shall see how it goes

[NoFace]

I would like to have the option of running a union free shop by being a fair employer, in other words if you pay good wages and such (like google hahha) you wont have your employees striking and unionizing just to be treated like humans...

Just a thought! I mean in the really old car game "Detroit" it kinda simulated that by if you paid your workers more then the average you never had to worry much about strikes and such...