09-07-2015, 07:19 PM
Been a while since I updated, I was out of the office for a few days as it is/was a holiday weekend here in the states. I actually did some work during this time as well, just had unstable internet which resulted in my not updating progress (Or logging into my ticketing system due to insecurity.)
Anyhoo:
-Finished changing the vehicle naming system, 5000 new names that have been vetted. (More may come in the future.)
-Added 218 new paints
-8 Shades of glass
-50 something leathers, plastics, and fabrics paints.
-3 different types of metal paints.
-Changed paint display layout system.
-Fixed bug that had $0 sales price displayed when viewing competition. (This was pushed as a hotfix in 1.18.4)
-Improved/adjusted demographics code and effect on vehicle sales.
-Selecting a demographic now adjust the importance sliders when designing a vehicle in advance mode. This allows you to better tell what you need to do to please the demographic.
-Selecting a demographic now boosts or decreases certain vehicle ratings as your designers cater more to the selected demo.
-Added a new development pace slider system to vehicle and components. This new system allows you to speed up designs for extra costs, or slow down design process (thus taking more time) for reduced costs.
I've been looking at balancing the new development pace system. The goal is to increase costs over all in later years (to bring it more inline with modern development costs.) As well increase development time in later years. At the same time allowing for niche market bouquet cars to be made at lower costs. This is specially important for supercar, luxury cars, and early game years. (This will allow me to lower starting game funds down to a more realistic amount!)
Progress reports may be slow for the next few days. But should pick back up in the middle of the month.
Anyhoo:
-Finished changing the vehicle naming system, 5000 new names that have been vetted. (More may come in the future.)
-Added 218 new paints
-8 Shades of glass
-50 something leathers, plastics, and fabrics paints.
-3 different types of metal paints.
-Changed paint display layout system.
-Fixed bug that had $0 sales price displayed when viewing competition. (This was pushed as a hotfix in 1.18.4)
-Improved/adjusted demographics code and effect on vehicle sales.
-Selecting a demographic now adjust the importance sliders when designing a vehicle in advance mode. This allows you to better tell what you need to do to please the demographic.
-Selecting a demographic now boosts or decreases certain vehicle ratings as your designers cater more to the selected demo.
-Added a new development pace slider system to vehicle and components. This new system allows you to speed up designs for extra costs, or slow down design process (thus taking more time) for reduced costs.
I've been looking at balancing the new development pace system. The goal is to increase costs over all in later years (to bring it more inline with modern development costs.) As well increase development time in later years. At the same time allowing for niche market bouquet cars to be made at lower costs. This is specially important for supercar, luxury cars, and early game years. (This will allow me to lower starting game funds down to a more realistic amount!)
Progress reports may be slow for the next few days. But should pick back up in the middle of the month.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski