01-21-2015, 10:41 PM
I've finished RnD cost balancing for now. It took me a couple of days to do it, but it involved quite a bit of testing, tweaking numbers, testing more, etc.
As mentioned before, sliders have become exponential to design and unit costs. I've also now balanced out these costs keeping them within historical ranges while using the same formula for the entire 120 years of (currently) active gameplay.
I've included a new "Hypercar" tax to the sliders. This is a large value multiplied by the sum of your sliders to the power of 4. (sliders^4) This adds additional rapidly increasing costs to "perfect" designs while not having much effect on designs less than 70% perfect. This means no more $15,000 perfect super cars in 1980. If you're going to make a McLaren, you'll now have McLaren unit costs of $300,000 in 1980s easily.
Sometime later this build I believe I'll make a way for you to "adjust" the design budget at the cost of ratings and design time. This will allow you to run a budget supercar company for instance, but at a lower cost without killing your specs.
I've also fixed a bug allowing for vehicle costs to be lower than the costs of the components.
I'll now be moving to adding new sub-components, such as valved engines, tweaking existing components, and fixing cylinder-less sub-components such as wankles and electrics!
AI files are 50% finished with the new behaviors.
Things should start moving a little faster, as balancing is very very very time consuming (I've made at least 1000 components the last 2 days ~,~
-Balanced Designed Costs
-Balanced Unit Costs
-Hypercar Design/Unit Costs penalty
-Fixed lower vehicle costs than components bug.
As mentioned before, sliders have become exponential to design and unit costs. I've also now balanced out these costs keeping them within historical ranges while using the same formula for the entire 120 years of (currently) active gameplay.
I've included a new "Hypercar" tax to the sliders. This is a large value multiplied by the sum of your sliders to the power of 4. (sliders^4) This adds additional rapidly increasing costs to "perfect" designs while not having much effect on designs less than 70% perfect. This means no more $15,000 perfect super cars in 1980. If you're going to make a McLaren, you'll now have McLaren unit costs of $300,000 in 1980s easily.
Sometime later this build I believe I'll make a way for you to "adjust" the design budget at the cost of ratings and design time. This will allow you to run a budget supercar company for instance, but at a lower cost without killing your specs.
I've also fixed a bug allowing for vehicle costs to be lower than the costs of the components.
I'll now be moving to adding new sub-components, such as valved engines, tweaking existing components, and fixing cylinder-less sub-components such as wankles and electrics!
AI files are 50% finished with the new behaviors.
Things should start moving a little faster, as balancing is very very very time consuming (I've made at least 1000 components the last 2 days ~,~
-Balanced Designed Costs
-Balanced Unit Costs
-Hypercar Design/Unit Costs penalty
-Fixed lower vehicle costs than components bug.
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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