Dragon Engineering

[Neon00]

I dunno, maybe it's the huge wing on the back? On the 9-litre engine, you're definitely not Italian, because I'm sure the Italians would put something bigger in it. I mean, after all they've made the Pagani Huayra, Bugatti Veyron, and Ferrari Enzo. Now, onto the car I've made.

Here's something a bit newer, from 2009. It's a Grand Tourer, built for that purpose, not something modified. It's the 2009 Dragon Thunder and man is it good. It's quick as the wind, made of carbon fiber, and doesn't look too bad either. I was hoping the boys could squeeze in four seats, but they couldn't which was a shame, but in a car like this, why would you want to weigh it down with two extra passengers? The engine sounds like it wanted to be a dinosaur but arrived too late, and the car goes like nothing before it. Sure it only goes 212 mph, but GT cars aren't designed to be insane like a Bugatti Veyron or a Pagani Huayra, they're designed to be fast, but reasonably so. You won't need to sacrifice daily comforts for that speed. Here' s the images the boys took.





I also got our office workers to put together a quick spreadsheet that I quite like. I'd like y'alls input on it.



So, now that that's all done with, I actually do want input on the car and statsheet I put together. I'm hoping to get something out later today that's a bit older than this, maybe from the 80's? Dunno. I'm considering going with elements for the car names because Dragon Flame and Dragon Thunder have both worked really well in my opinion. I really don't know what else to say, so I'll just end it here.

Quick Edit: I'm actually going to start using the Community Modpack by Jackgoe to spice up my cars, because although I like them, there are so many things I want to do that I have been unable to do, including smart cars like Mini or pickups.

[Oskiinus]

I dunno, maybe it's the huge wing on the back? On the 9-litre engine, you're definitely not Italian, because I'm sure the Italians would put something bigger in it. I mean, after all they've made the Pagani Huayra, Bugatti Veyron, and Ferrari Enzo. Now, onto the car I've made.

Here's something a bit newer, from 2009. It's a Grand Tourer, built for that purpose, not something modified. It's the 2009 Dragon Thunder and man is it good. It's quick as the wind, made of carbon fiber, and doesn't look too bad either. I was hoping the boys could squeeze in four seats, but they couldn't which was a shame, but in a car like this, why would you want to weigh it down with two extra passengers? The engine sounds like it wanted to be a dinosaur but arrived too late, and the car goes like nothing before it. Sure it only goes 212 mph, but GT cars aren't designed to be insane like a Bugatti Veyron or a Pagani Huayra, they're designed to be fast, but reasonably so. You won't need to sacrifice daily comforts for that speed. Here' s the images the boys took.





I also got our office workers to put together a quick spreadsheet that I quite like. I'd like y'alls input on it.



So, now that that's all done with, I actually do want input on the car and statsheet I put together. I'm hoping to get something out later today that's a bit older than this, maybe from the 80's? Dunno. I'm considering going with elements for the car names because Dragon Flame and Dragon Thunder have both worked really well in my opinion. I really don't know what else to say, so I'll just end it here.

Quick Edit: I'm actually going to start using the Community Modpack by Jackgoe to spice up my cars, because although I like them, there are so many things I want to do that I have been unable to do, including smart cars like Mini or pickups.

341 km/h is nice. However, I think this design is too simplistic. Experiment on the rear that seems too common to me
I want to see something more aggresive, as your company name stays

[Neon00]

Hey all, or at least the two people who actually seem to read this thread. I've got an announcement and request to make about the future of Dragon Engineering and my car designing all together. As you know I have started using mods, and in my current project, the Predator Savage Concept, they're working excellent. For two, I do not believe I will be able to keep with the Daily Release policy anymore, so instead I will attempt to update daily or every other day. If you're asking why, it's because after this project it feels like my other cars were piles of good put together in a hasty fashion making a mediocre car.

Secondly, with the longer projects, I'm going to start working with a second project to try to get out within the week, because I doubt I'll be able to get the Unleashed done with the week. After 6 hours of working over the past two days, I've rebuilt the engine three times, redid the body design, and messed with the suspension, tires, and breaks more ways and times than I can count. I mean, sure it won't be the fastest dragster, or break lap records at the Nurburgring or Top Gear Test Track. However, it will have the ability to scream, "I'm an American!" as it oversteers around the simplest corner in a fireball. What do I mean when I say it's truly American? No assists, strap a stupidly large engine in it, and don't worry handling too much as to take away from the stupidly large engine. Last thing to discuss is the appearance of cars, and one of the two people who read this thread made a comment about the cars I make. He said they weren't aggressive enough. Well, I looked at my cars and I shook my head and agreed completely with that concept. This means that our cars from now on, unless I make something like a Rolls Royce Phantom, will look meaner and much more ferocious.

[Oskiinus]

Hey all, or at least the two people who actually seem to read this thread. I've got an announcement and request to make about the future of Dragon Engineering and my car designing all together. As you know I have started using mods, and in my current project, the Predator Savage Concept, they're working excellent. For two, I do not believe I will be able to keep with the Daily Release policy anymore, so instead I will attempt to update daily or every other day. If you're asking why, it's because after this project it feels like my other cars were piles of good put together in a hasty fashion making a mediocre car.

Secondly, with the longer projects, I'm going to start working with a second project to try to get out within the week, because I doubt I'll be able to get the Unleashed done with the week. After 6 hours of working over the past two days, I've rebuilt the engine three times, redid the body design, and messed with the suspension, tires, and breaks more ways and times than I can count. I mean, sure it won't be the fastest dragster, or break lap records at the Nurburgring or Top Gear Test Track. However, it will have the ability to scream, "I'm an American!" as it oversteers around the simplest corner in a fireball. What do I mean when I say it's truly American? No assists, strap a stupidly large engine in it, and don't worry handling too much as to take away from the stupidly large engine. Last thing to discuss is the appearance of cars, and one of the two people who read this thread made a comment about the cars I make. He said they weren't aggressive enough. Well, I looked at my cars and I shook my head and agreed completely with that concept. This means that our cars from now on, unless I make something like a Rolls Royce Phantom, will look meaner and much more ferocious.

Nah, by simple designs I ment that if it's partially American it needs more chrome to me
But your cars

[Neon00]

Not all American cars have a ton of chrome slapped all over them. Look at the Dodge Ram, Viper, Dodge Challenger, Ford Mustang, and Hennessey Venom GT for a few examples. Heck I can think of more American cars without chrome than with.

[Neon00]

Here's something I'd like to do more often, the radical, extreme, and far-out. Sure, it may not be a record breaker, but it's quick. It's not got the handling of a European car, but it's got the excitement of an American car instead. What did you say, assists? Never heard of such a thing. This car is purely American, power, poor handling, and lots of fun.

It's called the Dragon Unleashed. It's a concept car. It's as fast and powerful as a Bugatti Veyron, as hard to control as a Dodge Viper, and is as vulgar as a Chevrolet Corvette. This is the essence of the American supercar, and it's also the essence of burning rubber around a corner that you're oversteering into a tree. The power is at a phenomenal 1030 horsepower, the top speed is approximately 245 mph, and the body is made purely of carbon fiber. Dragon Engineering is hoping to start a racing team with their first car based on the Dragon Unleashed, except tamer, quicker, and lighter. Here are some pictures:



[img]http://i.imgur.com/TJRPT3X.jpg/img]



Please provide input, and I'd also kind of like to know why I'm not getting any input or anything. I've tried really hard to make some quality cars and it feels like I'm being overlooked because I'm a noob or something. Dunno, maybe my cars just suck or I'm just overreacting. Either way, this is the Unleashed, which has had approximately 9 or 10 hours put into it. The body was rebuilt from scratch once with specific parts being taken apart and rebuilt two or three times by now. Being that it is a concept, by the time the official 2015 Dragon Unleashed is released, it'll probably be different, and when the Dragon Unleashed X comes out solely for racing, it'll be even different with lips, a bigger engine, and more.

One last thing is, how do you make a good race car? I've made fast supercars, and I've tried making quick cars, in quartermiles, Green Hell times, and Automation Airfield times yet they're all 1:17 or slower. Is there something I'm just missing, or is it a case of practice makes perfect?

Edit: 1:17 is the Automation Airfield time. I've seen people get 1:10 on a PRODUCTION car, which beats the Huayra yet I can barely break 1:18.

[utopian201]

There are no stats which make it impossible to comment. Tameness? Weight? Production units? Unless you only want feedback on the appearance. Anyone can make a 1000 hp car by having a large engine and turning the quality to 15 - hence the forum's general 'meh' to such engines as there is nothing special about them.

[strop]

The majority of companies, regularly updated or not, tend to be a little quiet until they pick up steam. Else they have some amazing or striking or controversial image or vision. Also forum activity waxes and wanes and dipped a lot over Christmas, and I don't know if its picked up again fully yet. I'm here mainly coz this is my main procrastination hobby

If you like I can take a look at the car and see what the deal with your car is. Note this game heavily penalises turbo MR cars on technical tracks, of which Airfield is particularly so. In fact MR is just generally tricky to tune. Just feel free to pm me the .lua model file.

[Neon00]

I'll put up the stats tommorrow, because I've gotta go to bed right now since I'm tired. It'll probably be later in the day since I'm finishing up on tweaking them. On the topic of tweaking them, that's why their not up. Just, at the moment I wanted appearance feedback since I know a wee bit about tuning, but less about good looking cars, and being that it's a concept my primary concern was the looks.

I'll also send you the lua strop when I've got the stats up so we can figure out that situation. It's got Jackgoe's modpack just so you know.

[Neon00]

I don't know if a month is considered necroing around here (so if it is, sorry), but with the release of the Steam port and new update, I thought I'd come on with a few announcements. One, I'm not dead, I've just been uninspired lately and been unable to make a good car design, or bring myself to put my best ones over the past month up on the forum, because frankly, I haven't gotten much feedback on my old ones, and it's hard to improve on a lack of feedback.. For two, I'm going to start putting up my engines on a separate thread in the Engines section. Three, I'm hoping to get up a new car later this evening, but it may be tomorrow or even as late as Monday. It really depends upon how much I get done tonight and how long my bowling tournament is tomorrow.