15-Star Beta Tester
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Joined: Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:34 am
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Cars: Seat Ibiza 6L 1.4
Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:35 am
Announcement: CTC - Car Tycoon Challenge
Car Tycoon Challenge
Let me announce a brand new kind of forum challenge: The CTC (Car Tycoon Challenge) is almost ready to go! Build a car according to the needs of the masses and compete with lots of opponents or search for your niché. Keep an eye on the expenses. Guess a good price tag. Sell cars and see if your model can take a big slice of the cake! The awesome thing is: There are no fixed opponents or calculations! All depends on what the other players try to sell and you won't know it (unless you talk about it).
Features
Winners in different categories:
Below are some teaser images of the result data (not finished yet).
Suggestions and questions are always welcome!
List of participants:
Nothing spectacular to see here, just an overview over the stats of the other cars. The most important thing is probably the last column where you can see how many cars have to be sold at the given price tag to make a profit.
List of customer groups and their preferences (weight on stats):
Here you can see how the target groups are focussing on different stats. Also the number of people in the first month (5 years are simulated) in each group are given.
Marketshare of participants:
This is the overall marketshare of each car.
Marketshare per target group:
Here you can see how the overall marketshare is divided up to the different target groups.
Profits of participants:
An overview over revenues, expenses and profits of each car.
Price tag analysis for a single player:
Here you can see how well the price tag choice was made. The calculations try different prices for every single car while the prices of the other cars are kept constant at their chosen values. So you can see that too cheap is bad and too expensive, too. Finding the right compromise is the key to financial success.
Now the most important thing:
How do you participate?
The Challenge has not started yet! Don't send me your cars!
Once the challenge has started, simply follow these ten steps:
Let me announce a brand new kind of forum challenge: The CTC (Car Tycoon Challenge) is almost ready to go! Build a car according to the needs of the masses and compete with lots of opponents or search for your niché. Keep an eye on the expenses. Guess a good price tag. Sell cars and see if your model can take a big slice of the cake! The awesome thing is: There are no fixed opponents or calculations! All depends on what the other players try to sell and you won't know it (unless you talk about it).
Features
- 15 groups of buyers with different preferences
- (Hopefully) lots of opponents
- Management of engineering, tooling and pricing (tools for estimating engineering and tooling costs will be provided); fixed R&D and distribution cost per sold car
- Insecurity of what the rivals will throw on the market
- A detailed analysis of your pricing: How close to the optimum price tag for maximum profit have you been?
- One single rule (manufacture year, probably late 80s) -> build whatever car you want and see how your company would do
Winners in different categories:
- Biggest overall profit
- Most cars sold (with profit)
- Biggest profit per car
- Most expensive car (with profit)
- ... and maybe some more
Below are some teaser images of the result data (not finished yet).
Suggestions and questions are always welcome!List of participants:
Nothing spectacular to see here, just an overview over the stats of the other cars. The most important thing is probably the last column where you can see how many cars have to be sold at the given price tag to make a profit.
List of customer groups and their preferences (weight on stats):
Here you can see how the target groups are focussing on different stats. Also the number of people in the first month (5 years are simulated) in each group are given.
Marketshare of participants:
This is the overall marketshare of each car.
Marketshare per target group:
Here you can see how the overall marketshare is divided up to the different target groups.
Profits of participants:
An overview over revenues, expenses and profits of each car.
Price tag analysis for a single player:
Here you can see how well the price tag choice was made. The calculations try different prices for every single car while the prices of the other cars are kept constant at their chosen values. So you can see that too cheap is bad and too expensive, too. Finding the right compromise is the key to financial success.
Now the most important thing:
How do you participate?
The Challenge has not started yet! Don't send me your cars!
Once the challenge has started, simply follow these ten steps:
- Build a car in Automation (with the right manufacture year 1988) and save it with your nickname as as car name.
- Go to this spreadsheet (Direct Link):
- For each major design choice you have to pay engineering or tooling cost. Depending on what you choose, copy the respective 4 white cells next to the chosen part from the "Template" spreadsheet" to the "Calculator" spreadsheet. The spreadsheet will then calculate engineering and tooling costs for you.
- Fill in the other data, your name and choose a price tag for your car into the other white cells in the form on the "Calculator" spreadsheet. Around 2*production cost is good for high-volume cars. Small series production cars need to be more expensive if you want to make profit.
- Once you filled every cell of the form, copy the cells from your name all the way down to Tooling Cost and paste the values into a .txt file. Save the file without any manual changes with your nickname as file name, i.e. "Der Bayer.txt" or similar.
- Delete your data from the spreadsheet so that not too many people can see what you built and that other people have space to make their .txt-file.
- Send me the .txt-file together with the car .lua-file in a PM (zip-file would be best) and you're done.
- I'll at least check if the winners cheated (stats, tooling and engineering cost, manufacture year, lua file cheating, ...), so don't try it.
- One car per player only! Your first PM counts, no extra revisions! The challenge will be open for one week and the overall number of entries is unlimited, so take your time.
- Questions? Ask in this thread!
