CTC - Car Tycoon Challenge #4 - 1977 [RESULTS]

[JoeySatriani1980]

Thanks!

[Dragawn]

After doing some tests I'm afraid people may be sitting too much on their cash again in this sales model
My non-sporty cheap compact has half the score of my high performance coupe in Supercar group at the moment (which means a crappy coupe would get 1/4th the sales of a proper sportscar?)
And just a 20% score difference in sporty coupe segment.

[Der Bayer]

No, the buyers are more picky than what the scores tell. The sportscar will sell a lot more.

edit: and in next round (and the alternative results this time), the cheap thing will probably not sell at all in the more "expensive" groups.

[8bs]

Anticipating the 80's arrives the Moderno. The plastic era has began!

In this challenge i choose the same model but with different trims and engines, a basic one and a more premium one.

Let's see how it goes!

Good luck everyone.

[maffc]

Interesting move, let's hope it pays off for you

[Der Bayer]

One week to go and we currently have 28 participants made by 15 players. Keep them coming!

[maffc]

2 of us only submitted one entry?

[07CobaltGirl]

I hope the score calc works much different than last time. Otherwise, I'm so screwed.....




Am I doing it wrong?

[VicVictory]

Looks like it. My scores were much higher than that, even for the worst car... and the scores weren't the same between groups.

[Der Bayer]

I don't know what's the problem, seems like GoogleDocs is messing something up. Online the formulas are correct (at least not identical), but as soon as you download the file, everything is the same. Can someone confirm that it's ok online? I will look how this can be solved.

edit: Here is the download link of a hopefully working OpenOffice file:
File

[Frankschtaldt]

I don't know what's the problem, seems like GoogleDocs is messing something up. Online the formulas are correct (at least not identical), but as soon as you download the file, everything is the same. Can someone confirm that it's ok online? I will look how this can be solved.

edit: Here is the download link of a hopefully working OpenOffice file:
File

My downloaded version seems to be working just fine.
I downloaded it in ODS format and am using Open Office.

[Der Bayer]

When did you download it? The GoogleDocs version was okay probably until I edited it to fix a possible exploit when using insane prices (causing bigger numbers than Excel/OpenOffice can handle). The exploit would not have worked because Matlab can handle bigger numbers, but still it had to be fixed.

[Frankschtaldt]

When did you download it? The GoogleDocs version was okay probably until I edited it to fix a possible exploit when using insane prices (causing bigger numbers than Excel/OpenOffice can handle). The exploit would not have worked because Matlab can handle bigger numbers, but still it had to be fixed.

Not long after the challenge was launched. So, about a week ago.
Just re-downloaded off the link in your last post and copied one of my cars aver and got the same results just now showing with decimal places (so it's definitely a different version because the formatting is different).

[xwing]

I had the same problem (xlsx in Office 2007), I just fixed it manually... the problem is that the formula is the same for all categories (for C$) and you have to change the column in the formula that takes values from the next list for the other categories. The funny thing is that online the formula was good (but cells for values were locked so I couldn't test my builds there) but it got bugged after downloading.
I also tried downloading in ods format and opening it in Office but that was even worse (formula was not bugged, but completely missing).

[Der Bayer]

I don't know what's going on there. I even tried making a completely new spreadsheet without copying stuff over and still it is bugged when downloaded. Screw you Google.