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Location: Halifax, UK
Cars: Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sportiva
Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:05 am
Tycoon Mode - Dealerships
I was thinking about Dealerships (having recently been looking around some for a new car) f I recall correctly, in other car tycoon games car, the player's companies seemed to "own" their dealerships.
I know in the UK most, in not all, dealerships are franchises, not owned by the car company.
I thought the franchise idea might be an interesting one and could work something like this:
- Your company has a "recruiting budget" to court new franchises
- Franchisees apply for a dealership and the player's company incurs an initial set-up charge + smaller monthly charge to keep them stocked in your merchandising materials for everyone you accept.
- Your company's brand reputation affects dealerships. The better it is the easier it is to recruit and you get more applications. The lower it is the harder it is to recruit, you either have to spend more in your budget or you get less and less applicants until it comes to a point where they start to leave you for other brands.
- The ability to try and poach franchises from other brands.
- In harder times you could look to end franchise agreements to cut costs (would need some sort of stats to see which are the lesser performing dealerships.
- random events where franchisees go bust, etc
I know in the UK most, in not all, dealerships are franchises, not owned by the car company.
I thought the franchise idea might be an interesting one and could work something like this:
- Your company has a "recruiting budget" to court new franchises
- Franchisees apply for a dealership and the player's company incurs an initial set-up charge + smaller monthly charge to keep them stocked in your merchandising materials for everyone you accept.
- Your company's brand reputation affects dealerships. The better it is the easier it is to recruit and you get more applications. The lower it is the harder it is to recruit, you either have to spend more in your budget or you get less and less applicants until it comes to a point where they start to leave you for other brands.
- The ability to try and poach franchises from other brands.
- In harder times you could look to end franchise agreements to cut costs (would need some sort of stats to see which are the lesser performing dealerships.
- random events where franchisees go bust, etc
