Introductions

[Der Bayer]

Hi guys!

Time to introduce myself!

Name: Martin "Der Bayer"

Occupation: student (automotive engineering), future Automation betatester (thanks Killrob! )

Location: original Bavaria, now Thuringia, Germany

Interests: cars, virtual simracing (rFactor 1+2, GT Legends), soccer, electric guitar

Vehicles Currently Owned: Seat Ibiza 6L 1.4

Dream Garage Vehicles: Ferrari 288GTO, Porsche 911 (993), Ariel Atom

How did you find us? Searching Google to find out whether there are some community patches/mods for Car Tycoon... Found out that there will be a much better alternative.

About: I already made two friends preorder the game, working on more.

[cschrille]

Guess I should introduce myself aswell

Name: Christoffer

Occupation: Student in car mechanics.

Location: Sweden

Interests: Games, Cars, Bikes, well anything with an engine really.

Vehicles Currently Owned: 125cc Workz Pitbike, next year I will most likely own a Volvo 7/940 Turbo

Dream Garage Vehicles: Too many to list here.

How did you find us? Youtube

About: I turn 17 this year, I love everything that has an engine mounted to it. When it comes to cars im more in to the engine tuning part.

[Omicronus]

Name: Matt

Occupation: Security guard

Location: Canberra, Australia

Interests: Gaming, making music, cars (still need to learn a shit load more)

Vehicles Currently Owned: Mitsubishi Lancer 2010 ES. (If I had knew more about cars before I got it I would never of got it, lol)

Dream Garage Vehicles: Probably will get a lot of hate but I'd think it would be fun driving a Veyron..

How did you find us? Facebook ad.

[TecnoLord]

Hi everyone!

Name: Paul Fijma (age 46)

Location: Netherlands, Almere

Occupation; Sr. Technical Application Mgr. at www.autotrader.nl

Interests: Games, online gaming, 3D design, AD&D, Music (listening), movies, driving fast, rally racing, photography and females.

Vehicles currently owned: none.. last car was a Hondac Civic Typer-R (2009-2011)

Deam Garage Vehicles: Duesenburg SJ (1935) / Nissan GTR / Ford Mustang GT / (and many more...)

How did you find us: searching for tycoon games.

[2StepTuning]

How's it going everybody?

Name: Othello Taylor II (Age 20)

Location: Afghanistan* (San Diego, California)

Occupation: United States Marine

Interests: Building cars, racing, gaming, firearms

Vehicles currently owned: 2005 Ford Mustang GT (black), 1989 Toyota Supra 3.0L Turbo

Dream Garage Vehicles: 2008 Maserati Gran Turismo S, Cathram 7 R500, 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS, Just about any REAL Honda Type R

How did you find us: online add, I believe on a car parts website(?)

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[B1GM4K]

Name: Makenzie Steves

Location: Rochester NY

Occupation: Machinist, Cook

Interests: Cars, sports car racing, music, hockey, games

Vehicles Currently Owned: 1987 Chrysler Conquest TSi (the track car), and a 1998 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT Wagon (the daily driver)

Dream Garage Vehicles: 1994 Ferrari F40 GTE, Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV, and a Ford RS200

How did you find us: Thread on some random car forum

[viperfan]

Name: Paul Skelly

Occupation: Student

Location: South Bend IN USA

Interests: Games, Computers, Religion

Vehicles Currently Owned: None

Dream Garage Vehicles: 300 SRT8, 2010 VIper ACR, Buggati Veyron

Previous Vehicles of Interest: ?

How did you find us? Autoblog

About:

Live in the USA!! Am a freshman in high school. I was born in michigan. I have 6 siblings.

Now a question, does automation already have a game? if so, how do I find it? All I have found is the engine demo.

[Alekius]

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[FordManFromHell]

Name: FordManFromHell

Occupation: Working

Location: When writing this I was at home

Interests: Right now im pretty interested about this game

Vehicles Currently Owned: Currently I own Ford’s

Dream Carage Vehicles: Well I do like Ford’s..

Previous Vehicles of Interest: Well.. Ford’s?

How did you find us? Every now and then I google for a game like this and now I finally found it. Well actually I found this couple of months ago but I just registered now

Hope you guys are keeping it together and relatively “simple”, and not trying to squeeze in too much super detailed features into this game just because someone asked for it on the forums. That is actually my biggest fear with this game. Otherwise finishing the game will last forever and even when its finished, it would just be bloated with meaningless micromanagement and half broken features. I don’t think anyone would be happy with that kind of result. That said I still think that some sort of racing should definitely be in, and that it should be a bit more deep system than just deciding how much money you want to invest into it.

[SamFM]

Name: Theodore Samokhin

Occupation: Student, Sales manager

Location: Russia, Moscow

Interests: Simulation games, F1, Group B Rally cars, Ocean Liners, Youngtimer cars (mine especially)

Vehicles Currently Owned: '84 Porsche 944 (Inline 4, by the way), '87 BMW 518i (Rallycar project), Honda Transalp (XL400VN)

Dream Garage Vehicles: Porsche 911 Turbo (930), Ferrari F40, Audi Sport Quattro, DeLorean DMC-12

Previous Vehicles of Interest: Audi 200 TurboQuattro!, Audi Coupe (85)

How did you find us: Internet, Google, Youtube. Might be some racesim forums or F1 management game forums.

About:

I absolutely adore the Automation project. Never thought, that someone might want to get and really start working on non-mainstream game for people that really love cars and automotive racing or management games. I wonder just where to send my money ("Shut up and take my money!"), because I want to support the whole car-nerds community here.

[T16]

I wonder just where to send my money ("Shut up and take my money!"), because I want to support the whole car-nerds community here.

http://automationgame.com/preorder/

[TumzDK]

Name: Tomas Linnet

Occupation: Service technician at Gibotech

Location: Oksboel, Denmark

Interests: Road Racing, Games(Flight Sim, Live for Speed, Automation), Vehicles, WWII airplanes

Vehicles Currently Owned: '05 Seat Altea 2,0TDI 103KW Sport Up

Dream Garage Vehicles: Honda RC30(king of bikes!!), Honda NC30(had one) Honda NSR500, 997 GT3RS, ’73 2,7RS

Previous owned vehicles: ’83 Suzuki GSX400E, 75’ MZ TS 150, ’95 Yamaha XJ600S, ‘88/’93 MZ ETZ250/251 w sidecar, Honda NC30, Yamaha TZR250R 3XV(racebike), Suzuki RGV250SP VJ22(racebike), ’98 Aprilia RS250(racebike), 99 Aprilia RS250(racebike), ’97 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 212D, ’01 VW Polo 1,9TDI Variant.

How did you find us? Live for Speed forum

About:

Born in 1976 on the Danish west coast and still live there.
Started dating my wife 20 years ago. Still with her and she is now the mother of my two children (7 & 9 y o)
I’m a trained machinist. My current job is to install, repair and maintain Italian build CMS CNC routers all over Denmark.
Most visited websites: http://www.facebook.com,http://www.ee138.net,http://www.youtube.com, http://www.lfsforum.net, http://www.automationgame.com/phpBB3, http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/ , http://www.tv2.dk
My favorite music is Metallica, Volbeat etc.

[WildKarrde]

Name: Wild Karrde

Occupation: Mechanic/Parts Sales/Full Time Student

Location: Upstate SC, USA

Interests: Cars, Games, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering

Vehicles Currently Owned: '79 Mercedes 300SD (For Sale), '85 Mercedes 300TD (For Sale), '85 Mercedes 300D (Parts Car/For Sale), 1988 BMW 325i Convertible (Current project, building a 2.8L Stroker engine for it along with a complete suspension overhaul, and converting the tranny to 5 speed manual.) '89 BMW 325is (Parts Car), '89 BMW 325iX All-Wheel Drive Turbocharged Beast. (Trading for help and unlimited access to a huge parts bin for the '88 Vert.)

Dream Garage Vehicles: '89 BMW M3 S52, Ferrari 288 GTO, Ferrari 458 Italia

Previous Vehicles of Interest: Mazda Miata (Owned an NA and NC), Dodge Stealth RT

How did you find us? Steam Greenlight

About:

I've always been interested in cars... pretty sure since before I knew how to talk. Up until recently I was in the Air Force, but I got injured and got an early discharge. Currently I'm working at an independent BMW shop while going to school full time to be a mechanical/auto engineer. I'm also rebuilding an '88 325i Convertible from the ground up. Building an M20 stroker engine to put into it, which should be putting about 225HP to the rear wheels. I loved my turbocharged 325iX, but it was just too much for me. Maintenance is about 2-4 times what a normal E30 cost, so I traded it for the convertible, help rebuilding it, and access to a virtually unlimited parts bin.

[calicoe]

Hi!

After a few weeks playing the demo and reading the forum, I found out that I missed this topic.
So, here's my introduction:

Name: Antonio "calicoe"

Occupation: Clinical Research Associate

Location: Madrid, Spain

Interests: games, technology, biotechnology, anything with an engine: cars, planes, ships...

Vehicles Currently Owned: Alfa Romeo Brera Q4 V6, Alfa Romeo MITO 1.4 Multiair Turbo (yes, I'm alfisti)

Dream Garage Vehicles: Mitsubishi Evo VI, Subaru Impreza STI, Maserati Gran Turismo, Aston Martin Vanquish

Previous Vehicles of Interest: Seat Ibiza 1.9TDI (nice car, engine finally not so reliable...)

How did you find us?
I wanted to find if there was any car tycoon game, apart from Detroit, Motor City and Car Tycoon... And Automation appeared!

About:
I like anything with an engine (although my job hasn't anything to do with it).
About cars, I used to race on classic car's "regularity" rallys with some good results.
We began with an Authi Mini 1300, wich was really the Austin (UK) Mini built in Spain under license.
Then, we moved on an Alfa Romeo 2000 GT Veloce.
Now, I'm retired (and also, due to the crisis the amount of competitions has decreased).

[Donforce]

Name: Donforce (real name Tim)

Occupation: Part-Time

Location: Northamptonshire, England.

Interests: Games, Cars (vehicles i guess), guns, women, booze, etc etc =P

Vehicles Currently Owned: Honda S2000 '99

Dream Garage Vehicles: Nissan GTR (most up to date one) then tuned by 'Mine's' tuning company, Toyota Sprinter Trueno (initial d style ^_^), some more cars that i cba to write.

Previous Vehicles of Interest: What? like previous cars? only had a slow fiat punto 1.2 8v and a bmw e36 323 saloon before my s2000.

How did you find us? Stumbled on this whilst looking through steam greenlight - and i'm bloody glad i did!

About:

I'm 23, have an s2000 (sorry if i keep repeating that), play games, etc.

As most of you who are reading this have probably done the same, is think of a perfect game for a particular genre. One of mine was to have a game where you design engines, and would you adam and eve it - we have one right here! I couldn't believe that some brave heroes have finally started to make this game! and how far it's gotten! i'll be keeping an eye on this project and hope things progress to completion soon. Already showed my support by becoming a turbocharged member =P