Pricing Comparison

[Laurent Tommy Flanagann]

So I am looking at a new game I started yesterday and some interesting data/statistics.

This is for New York City. I have been building and selling a rather successful pickup truck at $1800 (rating of 19). I sold 164 units last month. Not too bad. Initially I had priced it around $3800 and had to keep dropping the price and increasing marketing until I found a balance. I am probably going to increase the price though.

Demand was high but now it is only average. There is only one other car maker selling a pickup in the city which is only rated 11, and sells for a whopping $13,225 !!!! They only sold 4 last month.

There are about 8 companies now in New York. I am thinking of building a Touring car, but 6 companies already build them. Here's their stats:

Company 1 - $11,013, sold 4, rating 22
Company 2 - $ 4,889, sold 12, rating 18
Company 3 - $ 4,187, sold 0, rating 9
Company 4 - $ 3,555, sold 10, rating 10
Company 5 - $ 4,917, sold 10, rating 9
Company 6 - $ 1,865, sold 0, rating 12

Same here! In my new 1.11 game, prices are just crazy in 1906. Competitors sell their cars between $ 4000 and $ 10K...

As a matter of facts, the only price for old cars I know for sure (I have an original advert at home) is the Peugeot 202 produced between 1938 and 1949. Well, when Peugeot launched it in 1938, its price was 2200 francs. If I do the math right now it is something like $ 300...

Thus, as I've been working for the last year in a small french company (Actually, well, the very best BUGATTI specialist worldwide - I know how lucky I am ;-) ) I had the chance to look through BUGATTI original sales magazines. The Type 35 B was sold for about 2000 francs in the twenties! That is the price for a Peugeot 20 years later, but, well, it was THE GP car from in those days, winning everything and so on... Which should explain its price!

But still, there should be a problem or bug with this release as, in my game, everyone was selling cars between $ 600 - 1200, and then, a year later, for about 4-5 times this price.

I had to launch my new 1907 model for $ 3500 whereas in my previous game (based on easy mode and beta 1.10) I was still selling my 1905 car in the 1910s for $ 1500. Thus, I also discovered a high raise in costs (1901 car = from 600 to 350 in 1906; 1907 car started from $ 2200...)