International?

[MustangManiac]

I happened to stumble across this site/game today..sounds neat! however I live in the United States (Tennessee) and was wondering if it would be available here?

[conan]

Wong place dude

You should post in Off-Topic

[MustangManiac]

The poll was more or less for fun, just saw a poll thing and thought it'd be fun to add. The question itself still stands

[conan]

Okay fine i'm drunk

This game probably sold on Stream

[MustangManiac]

hahaha alright thanks

[fordford]

ford obviously welcome mustangmaniac

[Drake]

I would have to say ford... Although its beyond me why they keep giving the Mustang truck suspension..

[T16]

Favorite big 3 American car manufacture
Hmm, what a hard question.





or maybe not

[Daffyflyer]

It'll be sold online, so you can buy it anywhere

[MustangManiac]

Thanks for the confirmation, Daffyflyer!

The game looks promising and very fun to play!

It is interesting to see an overwhelmingly Ford response..since here in America Ford and Chevrolet are very close competition.

I do have another question though. Will the game be very menu based such as statistic charts and graphs etc. or will it be hands on as well? Such as being able to visit a major city (New York, London, Sydney) and be able to see people actually drive the car that you built?

[zeussy]

If you take a look at this http://automationgame.com/node/39 From back in September, is a first pass on the screen presented as the trade routes manager.

We are going to try and balance both, there will be menu's charts and things, but we want things to be similar to the Engine Designer. Everything should have Visual feedback to it.

We want plots where your factories are. With car parks, with cars driving from the factory to the car park, and from the car park to the dealership to be sold.
Things like that.

There won't be a city level view though.

[fordford]

yep ford seems to be the most favourable company so far.
you say ford and chevrolet are close in america but here in the uk we dont get chevrolet(well we do but they are just rebadged daewoo cars)which is not the same thing lol. im a massive fan of ford as my name suggests.

[Deus ex Machina]

GM isnt chevy alone....

i think with all the brands and stuff like Mazda/Ford considered GM sells more cars in the german speaking countries. Most of them are Opels, like astra, vectra, sigma, corsa.

personally i like only one car made by GM, the corvette, one of the things ill do in the beta (if the V engines ever get to be part of it) or the game is to build a Corvette V8, and then compare its output to the one with mods like DOHC, 4 valves etc.

Same for the Viper.

[Daffyflyer]

To follow on with what Zeussy said, the basic layout of the game is like so (subject to change, but this is how we have it planned so far)


World Map - A view of the whole world, From here you'll be able to see ships transporting your cars and select regions, view world information etc.

Region view - Basically just a more zoomed world view looking at one region.

Plot view - a view of your factory, complete with buildings, cars driving out of the factory and being shipped etc.

Specific views - like the engine designer or car designer, or the factory screen, marketing screen etc.


I'm not sure I've explained that very well, but there you go

[MustangManiac]

Thanks zeussy and daffyflyer, that actually did help. When you think about it a true city view is tons of work, and really you gain nothing from it! So that layout makes sense. It's great that you guys are keeping in touch with everyone like this

To Deus ex Machina and fordford: It's interesting to see what they'll do to appeal to every market! Like for instance how in America the hatchbacks haven't quite caught on yet, so in Europe there are many Ford and GM cars we don't have. I guess that marketing strategy will apply to the game too! Since you ship your cars overseas to different markets etc.