GearCity 1.20 Progress Thread!

[Eric.B]

When using regions to manage multiple factories at once will the game try to minimise this extra cost or will it continue to spread production evenly around the factories in the region?

It will continue to spread it out as transportation costs are generally more expensive than this added cost. I should note I have reduced both factory build costs as well as factory monthly costs to offset this added expense. So the costs increases are not as bad as they seem. I'm also considering dropping the expense from 2% to 1.5%

Also, how will this extra cost be allocated in the fiscal reports? It's going to be hard to determine if a model is in fact profitable if these kinds of add on costs are simply averaged across all models. Like how the racing costs being averaged across branches can make profitable branches look like they are loosing money at the moment.

The costs are embedded into the factory monthly costs. Just as line usage is. So if your factory is building 5 cars with no shared components. And the factory supports 20 lines. And each car is using 2 Lines then the monthly costs for the factory is simply:MonthlyCosts = BaseMonthlyCosts * ((10+2lines used)/(20+2total lines)) + (BaseMonthlyCosts * 0.02 * 15 number of different components)

Then individual car, like in manufacturing costs on the side panel would simply factor in: BaseMonthlyCosts * ((2+2lines used for specific car)/(20+2total lines)) + (BaseMonthlyCosts * 0.02 * (15 number of different components / 5 number of cars) )

So it's integrated into the factory monthly costs and distributed the same as line use is. (Calculated at individual factory level.) So technically the cost is spread out among the cars being built at that factory. But this costs isn't really individual car costs, but a factory cost which should be shared by all at the factory IMO.

As for detailed reports on this. I have not implemented them. The entire report system is getting a major overhaul in 1.21, a complete from nothing rewrite. So I haven't bothered doing much more than the above to the existing systems.