05-23-2023, 09:10 PM
Let's see, my "dependability/power", i.e. truck companies are:
Autocar - 1.0
Clydesdale - 0.85/0.9 (not founded yet)
Studebaker - 0.8/0.35
White - 0.8/1.0
Four Wheel Drive - 0.7/1.0
Ford - 0.7/0.6
Rapid Motor Vehicle - 0.7/0.9
Armleder Motor Trucks - 0.7/1.0
Generic Designer is set to 0.0 for each of them.
For vans, Rapid Motor Vehicle has the 8th and 9th spots in worldwide sales (two trims of the same model). Four Wheel Drive has one entry down around 15th-20th place.
For pickups, only Four Wheel Drive and Armleder have offerings, and both are lower than 10th place. Although Ford has two pickups under its Haynes-Apperson marque, which doesn't have preferences set (all -1.0, other than Generic designer which is 0.0).
But in all-time sales, the top vans are:
1. White
5. Rapid
6. Rapid
For pickups:
2. White
White only has one model for sale right now, but their previous trucks were highly successful; they appear to be in the middle of a refresh.
Ultimately it's a point in time picture for the most part, and early game. And there's always the whims of fate; my top-ranked Peerless luxury brand which sometimes does great already foundered and got bought by Chevrolet. It's a bit hard to tell how much of an impact it is having, the truck companies are selling a lot of non-trucks and non-truck companies are selling a lot of trucks, but assuming they remain going concerns, maybe by 1970 the truck companies will dominate trucks reliably? They have had some success.
Maybe once the game is a bit farther along I'll write some database queries to see if the truck companies sold appreciably more trucks as a percentage of sales than the non-truck companies, and similarly for luxury (I don't have enough sports companies to have enough data there). That would be a better answer, if a luxury company sells 20% luxury cars on average and everyone else sells 8%, that's a noticeable impact.
Autocar - 1.0
Clydesdale - 0.85/0.9 (not founded yet)
Studebaker - 0.8/0.35
White - 0.8/1.0
Four Wheel Drive - 0.7/1.0
Ford - 0.7/0.6
Rapid Motor Vehicle - 0.7/0.9
Armleder Motor Trucks - 0.7/1.0
Generic Designer is set to 0.0 for each of them.
For vans, Rapid Motor Vehicle has the 8th and 9th spots in worldwide sales (two trims of the same model). Four Wheel Drive has one entry down around 15th-20th place.
For pickups, only Four Wheel Drive and Armleder have offerings, and both are lower than 10th place. Although Ford has two pickups under its Haynes-Apperson marque, which doesn't have preferences set (all -1.0, other than Generic designer which is 0.0).
But in all-time sales, the top vans are:
1. White
5. Rapid
6. Rapid
For pickups:
2. White
White only has one model for sale right now, but their previous trucks were highly successful; they appear to be in the middle of a refresh.
Ultimately it's a point in time picture for the most part, and early game. And there's always the whims of fate; my top-ranked Peerless luxury brand which sometimes does great already foundered and got bought by Chevrolet. It's a bit hard to tell how much of an impact it is having, the truck companies are selling a lot of non-trucks and non-truck companies are selling a lot of trucks, but assuming they remain going concerns, maybe by 1970 the truck companies will dominate trucks reliably? They have had some success.
Maybe once the game is a bit farther along I'll write some database queries to see if the truck companies sold appreciably more trucks as a percentage of sales than the non-truck companies, and similarly for luxury (I don't have enough sports companies to have enough data there). That would be a better answer, if a luxury company sells 20% luxury cars on average and everyone else sells 8%, that's a noticeable impact.