Re: PCTC #1: Packbat's Car Tycoon Challege, 1955 [RESULTS]
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:12 pm
Woot! Thanks a bunch, great competition.
A tycoon game made for people who live and breathe cars.
http://phpbb3.automationgame.com/
koolkei wrote:boy oh boy.
1. so the number of consumers were multiplied by the number of entrants? this, i didn't knew, or i misinterpreted this. i thought that the total of 200k customer were the total of potential customer we were sharing. which was why i picked the smaller factory.
2. so my 'city' car seems to be doing okay in offroad? and my 'family' car in utility? O_o u w0t m8?
3. so i lost purely due to the pure production capacity? which was why the cricket almost dominates every major market?
4. so why are only zabhawkin's and my cars are the only one highlighted? is this supposed to represent something?
that said, this is more interesting than it was entertaining for me.
the amount of work you put into this is really mind blowing. i can't even understand most of the sheets. huge huuuge thanks to you packbat.
so now we have an example of what people did wrong, i really hope that we can get more participant next round
Packbat wrote:Note: all prices have been converted from 2010 dollars to 1955 dollars using the Consumer Price Index. Works out to about 12% of the Automation in-game prices.
Packbat wrote:...huh. I mean, the prices are reasonable - the 1953 Buick Roadmaster Skylark had a list price over US$5,000, so US$4,900 for a high-end luxury vehicle isn't unheard of. And the 1955 Fiat 600 cost the equivalent of US$7300 then, which is only a little cheaper than the cheapest cars entered. If $1000 would get you a house in 1955, then houses were cheap in 1955.
07CobaltGirl wrote:I'm guessing you missed a "0" in the cost of a cheap house in 1955, as they definitely were not $1,000. The cost of a new house, however, in 1955 was about $11,000. The cost of a new car was right around $2,000. In 1968, my father bought a brand new Mustang 289 Coupe for just over $2,500. The lowest "Sticker Price" on your list is $8140, which was extremely expensive in 1955, and using your website would equate it to almost $72,000 in 2015.
To use the "over-engineered" car I submitted, which was priced at $29,555($11,630 per unit), the 1955 price equivalent from the website you were using would have retailed for $3341.84(1,315 per unit). I'm really just wondering if I have completely misunderstood the spreadsheets.