[FIXED]Bug (maybe design related)

[Eric.B]

You got acceleration 0 because your car top speed is under 100km/h, so it is impossible to measure something that can't be reached...

Nicely spotted, im embarrassed none of us thought of that

My assumption when playing the game was that car body design was purely cosmetic and had no impact on the stats of a car.

Actually the car body does have effect on the vehicle stats. Aerodynamic drag is calculated and has various effects on fuel economy, acceleration, top speed etc. The figures need to be tweaked as with everything else of course...

That's useful to know, but i consider it a bit of a shame. Personally i don't enjoy designing vehicle bodies, so i was often just copying any vehicle design i had available to all of them and focusing on the parts of the game that interested me.
I don't expect you to change anything on my personal preference though, just to clarify.

Two questions, if you don't mind:
- Does the vehicle body design also effect any of the stats like comfort?
For example, if i make a super high end luxury vehicle with a roof and a average chassis but almost no headroom(height) in body design.
- If body design does effect the vehicle, what effect does it have on the AI vehicles which seem to always have no body design when i buy companies.

Well with the save vehicle system, you'd only need to design a car once. Then you can reuse the save file everytime...

Question 1) No to all of it.
2)The stats for the AI are simulated. The only way for us to have AI designed car bodies right now would be for me to go in and manually make thousands of car combos for the AI to use. (Not going to happen) When/If we ever get to redo the car models, then I could set up an accessories auto positioning system thus allowing the AI to dynamically design their own junk.