[WONT]Marque Default Slider Locations

[Arakash]

I know that, in this game, Marques are designed as different brands, and as such will have (more or less) unique images and won't be (as strongly) effected by the sales or images of other marques under the same company, allowing you to segregate as has been said, things like your "Cheap Commuter Car" from the "Million Dollar 200 MPH Luxury Sports Car" without each affecting the other, either positively or negatively.

Now, a lot of this also depends of course on vehicle quality. Is there any way perhaps to have each marque have its own set of default positiions on the production sliders, so that when I select my, say, Luxury Marque, the sliders boost themselves so that Material Quality, Component Quality, Tech and Manufacturing Requirements. Likewise, going to the Mass Market Marque, those same sliders are appropriately lowered to help increase production capacity and lower cost.

Any thoughts from others as well about being able to set defaults for at least this one area? Or maybe even have the game, based on where sliders are auto-suggest a Marque based upon other vehicles in each marque that already exists. Of course this can also be overridden or even totally disabled if they don't want the game to decide for them.

This really got me thinking about how and what default positions for sliders should be, as well as presets and the like.

First, i should mention that if my memory is correct, Eric is adding in some sort of wizard for the Vehicle design process, which may or may not do the kind of thing your talking about. It will certainly allow you to build a vehicle with far fewer sliders(afaik that was its purpose) but I suspect we will have to see it to really know.
It may change how we look at this whole issue/mechanic/suggestion though.

Onto the suggestion:
I like the concept of having some easy to set presets which adjusts your sliders based on a vehicle idea(economy for instance), before you actually fine tune it.
I think it could be simpler and easier to implement, while still having a similar effect, if it just introduces generalized presets along with a few customizable ones, available for all vehicles you design.
Ill try to lay out an example of the presets you might see, using some of the concepts you talked about already:

• Sports
  
• Luxury
  
• Economy/Mass Market
  
• Durability
  
• Preset 1 (customizable)
  
• Preset 2 (customizable)

If this was also moddable, then you could add in 300 presets with marginally different stats if you wanted
Assuming you can save any slider positions, It would also make it far easier to give someone the design of a vehicle that you've described but they like. Design trading i suppose is the word. Ive tried it in the current build, and its actually quite hard unless you adjust very few sliders.

I believe ive seen a precedent for this before in other games, which is where i got the idea from, but i cant remember which game it was at the moment, sorry about that.