02-23-2014, 10:12 PM
I was curious because there's really no way of knowing if you're paying the same freight rate for all cars with the info the game gives atm (unless I've missed something) and there's been a number of games in which I've been selling certain cars well under the average freight per car rate to certain cities. In the games that I've been doing this I've been happy to make a loss on those cars because my target was volume and I was able to make up the loss on more expensive cars and high sales to low/zero freight cities.
I plan to start an elite high end company selling sports cars and such once 1.12 hits and I wanted to be able to do it all from one factory. In order to do that successfully I needed a better understanding of how freight rates worked and if I needed to cover the full cost on every vehicle or if I was paying less for smaller ones.
My experiment answered that and now you've confirmed it so I can go into my 1.12 adventures armed and ready =)
On that note, I don't know how car shipping is done but if it's anything like other shipping types it should probably be charged on a per container basis and then divide that by the number of cars that'll fit in a container.
Although, thinking about it, I'm not sure if that level of realism is really that necessary. It might be easier just to apply a 10-20% surcharge on shipping less than 5-6 cars to a city in a month and maybe a small discount for really huge numbers.
I plan to start an elite high end company selling sports cars and such once 1.12 hits and I wanted to be able to do it all from one factory. In order to do that successfully I needed a better understanding of how freight rates worked and if I needed to cover the full cost on every vehicle or if I was paying less for smaller ones.
My experiment answered that and now you've confirmed it so I can go into my 1.12 adventures armed and ready =)
On that note, I don't know how car shipping is done but if it's anything like other shipping types it should probably be charged on a per container basis and then divide that by the number of cars that'll fit in a container.
Although, thinking about it, I'm not sure if that level of realism is really that necessary. It might be easier just to apply a 10-20% surcharge on shipping less than 5-6 cars to a city in a month and maybe a small discount for really huge numbers.