10-16-2017, 01:20 PM
(10-16-2017, 08:29 AM)Eric.B Wrote: Agreed, I also may put restrictions in how often you can do it. I find people do it 5 or 6 times in one try. Which is a bit unrealistic, since the purpose of the feature is to extend the life of the component when it becomes very old and ratings have degraded.
Can confirm, 5 or 6 times is exactly how often I did major modifications on a part in one go.
In the beginning I used the system as intended, i.e. in 1902 I did the aforementioned 5 or 6 major modifications on all of my year 1900 components and introduced a new generation of my cars with the updated components.
However I later moved to immediatly improving brand new developed components like this, before even designing the first vehicle with these components. This way I was able to design really cheap components and still get them into the 80+ score range. That proved way more efficient, since I had vehicles that cost roughly half in materials at almost twice the score compared to the AI vehicles.
You probably shouldn't allow modifications of freshly developed components and/or only allow one modification every x months, like you said.
Thank you for all the answers/clarifications, I really appreciate it. You can consider thread closed and customer happy.
