(01-25-2014, 12:23 AM)Celeste Wrote: But I want also to see some essential technics (I am not a technican!). Until now we have only very few technical differentations when designing engines (number of cyl., typ of motor (straight, V, H,..), displacement and adding an compressor, etc. This is great, but adding a very few numbers of technical issues would be great. Car designing is a technical thing. As you can see, I only suggested two more features which would be quiet easy to handle without much knownledge.
That's a fair and reasonable point you've made. Especially about only two changes.
The main reason i brought up the comparison:
I was wondering, how we (or more more accurately the game designers) would go about deciding what engine feature stays abstracted through sliders and what is directly chosen.
Again lets use the Automation comparison. Im not suggesting we use all or any of that game, or that you would want to, its just a useful comparison as an extreme example.
Major design categories seem to be:
Displacement/layout - Part of which is in Gearcity
Head type/number/design - the category where the valves of your suggestion were
Aspiration system - Part of which is in Gearcity
Fuel system (carb/injection)
Exhaust design
What i was wondering, was if you had valve number, whether it might be equally justified to have carb/injector decision or to select the type of Cam.
Anyway, its just something to think about. As i said earlier, i dont know enough about engines to actually say what is important or not.