Help with design reqs

[Arakash]

I have suspicions(guesses) on what design requirements mean, but i would also like to hear exactly what they are.
I suspect its related to labor skill at the very least.

Do you think this would somehow increse/decrease the design costs? Or the production costs?

Or did you encounter same kind of problem in your games? (I mean with production costs)

I can wildly speculate (guess) if you like?

My guess would be that it is similar to the relationship between Labour skill on the world map and manufacturing requirements of vehicles, as explained by Eric.
In that case, if your manufac reqs are higher than labour skill, then you get severe penalties to the number of vehicles you produce.

So if i was to guess, i would assume that having a vehicle design reqs higher than the design skill (as shown in reports- Labor skill report) you would get some sort of penalty.

As youve partly said, the penalty is probably either :
Design cost (as you said)
time (longer to design)
lower quality vehicles as an end product
more expensive vehicles as an end product (as you said)

But this is all wild guessing. Im waiting to hear what Eric says is the truth of the matter.