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Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:32 am
Oil crises, Legislations and other game events?
Hello!
First i want to say that i'm a huge fan of these kind of games, or rather the illusion of these kinds of games as as you yourself states many have tried and most have failed... Looking forward to this game a lot and will definitely pre-order!
Now on to the case:
In real life, automakers have had to endure several up's and down's trough history, mainly due to large-scale happenings on a world-scale or nationwide-scale.
Good examples of these is the dual Oil-crises of the 70's which effectively killed off the big-bore V8's of GM, Ford and Chrysler and forced them to build smaller more economical cars and brought the US car market wide open for smaller, more fuel-effective Japanese and to some extent, European cars. Will the game feature some kind of randomized events that drastically alters the price of, for example, oil which will rise fuel prices and force the player(s) into making smaller cars or more effective engines? That would be a really cool feature.
Shortage or dramatically raised prices for resources such as steel and/or plastic is also a possibility that would make the player want to use less materials, or alternative materials for his/her cars for different reasons, East germany had quite a big shortage of sheet-metal during the 60's which made them manufacture the Trabant in Duroplast, a compound made from cotton waste and phenol resins, lowering weight and making it easy and cheap to mass-produce with the resultant car never rusting, but bursting into flames producing higly toxic smoke when crashed
... It would nevertheless be interesting for game-purposes to have materials have a cost that randomly goes up and down, forcing players to try to think outside the box if steel becomes too expensive or hard to get by.
Other events may be Legislations by countries forcing the player to alter their strategy. Emission-regulations, crash-safety regulations and other legislations like the 1958 US law that required all cars to feature dual headlights is some examples. Will these be featured in the game or can i fit the same old gas-guzzler or smoke-machine into every car trough the entire era of the game?
Lastly, in the Trabant note - I know it's a longshot, but will we be seeing 2-stroke engines for small cars in the early game? East germany had their Trabants and Wartburg with 2-strokers, here in Sweden we had the 2-stroke Saab 93 and 96 into the mid 60's and some other smaller carmakers like Bond Minicar utilized 2-stroke engines into the late 60's and early 70's, i know it's a longshot but it would still be a fun feature... What if the 2-stroker never died!?
Good luck and keep up the good work.
First i want to say that i'm a huge fan of these kind of games, or rather the illusion of these kinds of games as as you yourself states many have tried and most have failed... Looking forward to this game a lot and will definitely pre-order!
Now on to the case:
In real life, automakers have had to endure several up's and down's trough history, mainly due to large-scale happenings on a world-scale or nationwide-scale.
Good examples of these is the dual Oil-crises of the 70's which effectively killed off the big-bore V8's of GM, Ford and Chrysler and forced them to build smaller more economical cars and brought the US car market wide open for smaller, more fuel-effective Japanese and to some extent, European cars. Will the game feature some kind of randomized events that drastically alters the price of, for example, oil which will rise fuel prices and force the player(s) into making smaller cars or more effective engines? That would be a really cool feature.
Shortage or dramatically raised prices for resources such as steel and/or plastic is also a possibility that would make the player want to use less materials, or alternative materials for his/her cars for different reasons, East germany had quite a big shortage of sheet-metal during the 60's which made them manufacture the Trabant in Duroplast, a compound made from cotton waste and phenol resins, lowering weight and making it easy and cheap to mass-produce with the resultant car never rusting, but bursting into flames producing higly toxic smoke when crashed
... It would nevertheless be interesting for game-purposes to have materials have a cost that randomly goes up and down, forcing players to try to think outside the box if steel becomes too expensive or hard to get by.Other events may be Legislations by countries forcing the player to alter their strategy. Emission-regulations, crash-safety regulations and other legislations like the 1958 US law that required all cars to feature dual headlights is some examples. Will these be featured in the game or can i fit the same old gas-guzzler or smoke-machine into every car trough the entire era of the game?
Lastly, in the Trabant note - I know it's a longshot, but will we be seeing 2-stroke engines for small cars in the early game? East germany had their Trabants and Wartburg with 2-strokers, here in Sweden we had the 2-stroke Saab 93 and 96 into the mid 60's and some other smaller carmakers like Bond Minicar utilized 2-stroke engines into the late 60's and early 70's, i know it's a longshot but it would still be a fun feature... What if the 2-stroker never died!?
Good luck and keep up the good work.
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