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[FIXED]Unexplained Sales Drop
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I found what may be an bug in sales figures while i was testing for another thread i want to post.
Because of that, i happen to have saves for every single month.

I launched a new Sedan in early 1901 in February at a price of $600(for testing purposes), the sales were as follows:
(All of the sales figures are for one city, London)
February : 971 units
March : 0 units
April : 0 units

The drop seems large, hard to explain and is perhaps a bug.
There are a lot of possible explanations for this, but as i was already testing, ive managed to narrow it down a lot.

The vehicle had the sliders left where they were for everything, with the following choices:
- Sedan
- 2 gear "Generic" gearbo
- 2 Stroke gas
- Demographics - Male - Upper Middle
This gives it a quality level equal to most of its competitors. Though its fuel economy is amazing for some reason.

Other variables:
- Marketing was not changed in that period
- No changes to branch size(maximum in London) or retooling
- There was also no change in production, every month had a surplus of vehicles.

I checked competitor sales(see below), but they barley breached 100 in that period and there wasn't any increase that happened at the same time as the drop February to March

Code:
Here is the competitor sales for that period:
(All of the sales figures are for one city, London)

February : One competitor
"Allnights and Potatoes"
@$2257 - 13 units - Phaeton
@$785 - 12 units - Compact

March: Two competitors
"Allnights and Potatoes"
@$2595 - 14 units - Phaeton
@$903 - 10 units - Compact

(new) "AD Cars":
@$6647 - 0 units - Couple
@$6545 - 0 units - Sedan

April: Two competitors
"Allnights and Potatoes"
@$2595 - 35 units - Phaeton
@$903 - 92 units - Compact

"AD Cars":
@$6647 - 1 units - Couple
@$6545 - 5 units - Sedan
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[FIXED]Unexplained Sales Drop - by Arakash - 01-14-2014, 11:16 AM
RE: Unexplained Sales Drop - by Eric.B - 01-14-2014, 11:51 AM
RE: Unexplained Sales Drop - by Arakash - 01-14-2014, 12:02 PM
RE: Unexplained Sales Drop - by Arakash - 01-15-2014, 10:33 AM
RE: Unexplained Sales Drop - by Eric.B - 01-18-2014, 10:39 AM

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