Some small Bugs

[Eric.B]

First i want to say that im impressed with the game.
I bought it 4 weeks ago and thought it would be a nice game worth about 20 hours of gameplay but now i have already played nearly 100 hours :-)

Glad to hear you enjoy it! Hopefully I can steal more of your life in the future!

Im sorry i dont have the time the create an own thread per bug. But most can be reproduced using a single savegame, so i hope its ok for you.

This is fine as long as it's a list format, which it is, so nothing to worry about.

The game started 1900 and im currently in 1972 with worldwide branches and >80% Marketshare, so savegame is pretty huge, i hope it can be attached...

Thank you for the save.

7. Microvan does not have a body from invention until 196x (about 10-15 years)

I thought I had fixed this, I'll make a note of it to check it for 1.18.

8. In every dialog cars are ordered differently. Some include build year and others dont. I keep adding the build year to name so its visible everywhere but its not an optimal solution.

I am in the process of fixing up the lists in the RnD. Eventually I will get to the others parts of the game with lists. (For example worldmap 1.19, office 1.20, etc)

Eventually most of the GUI will be standardized. Hopefully I can get some sort of sorting mechanism as well.

9. Vehicle name cannot be longer then ~15 chars when using advanced designer, but you can give it longer names at the start dialog - if used the is a linebreak in the name and not displayed correctly in advanced designer.

Already fixed in the new RnD GUI for 1.18

11. After using AutoCommand the data for branches are not updated until i close and reopen the dialog.

Which autocommand?

12. Marketing doesnt seem to have any effect as long im invest a small amout in every single type. I tried maxing out everything (about 1 billion every month) and it did not increase number of selled cars.

Marketing is effective against competition. If you have 80% marketshare you won't have much competition thus you won't notice much if any boost in sales.

13. "Yearly all models" is broken, probably it should not include an outline because in 1970 it contains so many cars its all over the graphic.
(suggestion) an "overall" graph would be nice, too. So you could see how many cars you sold in total in every year.

This is a problem with all charts that have dynamic amount of lines/bars. When I get around to redesigning the sales book. I'm going to look into other options such as dynamically generated webpages that you'll view with a browser in game...

-I cannot produce above average gearboxes, so skill cannot exceed ~50-60

This should be fixed in 1.17.5

-I cannot find a way to change my "coachwork" rating, its on 38 for the last 20 years

Average overall rating for all vehicles you designed the last 5 years needs to be over 38 for it to increase. Invest to research teams to increase it faster.

-A single recall will destroy your prestige from >100 to <10 in most rankings. Thats too much in my opinion.

Which option did you choose? That amount sounds wrong as I believe it's limited % drop. I will have to check my math.

-If you decide to cover up an issue instead of recalling it, you never recieve a message if it was successful after 11 month as stated in the dialog.

If you covered it up and did not get a message that means you weren't caught. If you had been caught there would of been a class action lawsuit.

18. When cloning an vehicle/engine/gearbox sometimes you get an error message saying some value is invalid and you have to redesign it.
Most times its when cloning data from one car typ for another type.
Another minor bug: overdrive and limited slip is not cloned

These have all been fixed for 1.18

23. License costs are way too high. About 10 times higher than producing it on your own.

I start rewriting most of this code in about a week.

24. Chassis design is hard, because you dont know concrete modifiers for every frame/drivetrain/suspension. So its try and error but with star rating its hard to see small effects.

This issue has been resolved with the new GUI in 1.18.




Thanks for the list! A lot of these little things are hard for me to get because I get developer blinders. If I did not directly reply to each ones fear not. I will tag these as tickets to be looked at over the next three major builds of the game. I'll do this next time I am on a computer that I can not work on the actual game on.

Thank you again!