One of the major things to trip up most new users (and some long time players) is our "Overall Rating." The Overall Rating was designed to be an overall rating of the car in general. The perfect vehicle so to speak. This had no baring on how good of a specific vehicle type that model was. For instance, you might make a great minivan. But overall it's not that great of a vehicle.
The major issue with this was people were directly comparing the overall ratings instead of sub ratings for vehicle types. Using the Minivan for instance, you might have maxed out your performance rating thus giving you a higher overall rating than your competition. However minivan buyers don't care how well their vehicles perform. So while your competition might have a lesser overall rating. If it has higher ratings than you in specific areas such as cargo, it would actually outsell your minivan.
To resolve this issue I have implemented what I call "Type Rating" this rating is specific to your vehicle type and can be directly compared to other vehicles of the same type. It is specifically weighted to the new multi-rated system. Demographics, marketing, image, manufacturing quality and other data do not play a factor into this. It is purely off the merits of the vehicle. It also has no impact on sales, as the rating is generated from part of the consumer AI code it self.
So far I have included this rating in all lists. I'll go over and add it to the RnD GUI (along with some other new features) and have it influence magazine articles in the very near future. It should also be mentioned, we'll be adding a similar system to the components designers to help you design the best components.
We've had an influx of new faces here, as such there has been an influx of new bug reports. I'm going to take the next day or two to take care of as many of these as I can so they don't pile up. Then I'll get back to RnD fixes for 1.18. Currently the trac shows us at 9% complete. But there are a good number of tickets that will not take much more than a few minutes for me to do. So we're more around 15%
-Specific Vehicle Type Rating.
The major issue with this was people were directly comparing the overall ratings instead of sub ratings for vehicle types. Using the Minivan for instance, you might have maxed out your performance rating thus giving you a higher overall rating than your competition. However minivan buyers don't care how well their vehicles perform. So while your competition might have a lesser overall rating. If it has higher ratings than you in specific areas such as cargo, it would actually outsell your minivan.
To resolve this issue I have implemented what I call "Type Rating" this rating is specific to your vehicle type and can be directly compared to other vehicles of the same type. It is specifically weighted to the new multi-rated system. Demographics, marketing, image, manufacturing quality and other data do not play a factor into this. It is purely off the merits of the vehicle. It also has no impact on sales, as the rating is generated from part of the consumer AI code it self.
So far I have included this rating in all lists. I'll go over and add it to the RnD GUI (along with some other new features) and have it influence magazine articles in the very near future. It should also be mentioned, we'll be adding a similar system to the components designers to help you design the best components.
We've had an influx of new faces here, as such there has been an influx of new bug reports. I'm going to take the next day or two to take care of as many of these as I can so they don't pile up. Then I'll get back to RnD fixes for 1.18. Currently the trac shows us at 9% complete. But there are a good number of tickets that will not take much more than a few minutes for me to do. So we're more around 15%
-Specific Vehicle Type Rating.
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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