Yesterday, 10:58 PM
We now have skill levels in various fuel, gearbox, and chassis types, to a fairly fine-grained level. My company could heavily specialize in 3-cylinder vehicles, for example.
But we don't have any specialization in vehicle types. There's a general vehicle research skill, and more hidden, there are safely, luxury, and coachwork marque skills, but there isn't an ability to specialize in vans or phaetons and be really good at them.
This suggestion is to add that.
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The intended outcome would be that certain companies would focus on certain vehicle types, and you might have Ford, Chevy, and Dodge be really good at pickups, while Honda and Toyota are really good at sedans.
This would also create an incentive to acquire marques that are good at areas you aren't good in, to make your overall company skilled across a wider set of vehicle types.
The AI would benefit from having some awareness of this, and focusing on types it has some skill at. Because skills develop with experience, that would in turn encourage further AI specialization, and make those AIs attractive acquisition targets (or perhaps dominant independent companies in certain areas).
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See my full list of suggestions at https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4839
But we don't have any specialization in vehicle types. There's a general vehicle research skill, and more hidden, there are safely, luxury, and coachwork marque skills, but there isn't an ability to specialize in vans or phaetons and be really good at them.
This suggestion is to add that.
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The intended outcome would be that certain companies would focus on certain vehicle types, and you might have Ford, Chevy, and Dodge be really good at pickups, while Honda and Toyota are really good at sedans.
This would also create an incentive to acquire marques that are good at areas you aren't good in, to make your overall company skilled across a wider set of vehicle types.
The AI would benefit from having some awareness of this, and focusing on types it has some skill at. Because skills develop with experience, that would in turn encourage further AI specialization, and make those AIs attractive acquisition targets (or perhaps dominant independent companies in certain areas).
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See my full list of suggestions at https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4839