https://www.ventdev.com/forums/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:15:22 +0000 MyBB https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4714 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:18:26 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4714 Price: $1500

Description:  This bounty doesn't change anything for users on x86, x64, or ARM Linux, OSX, MacOS, or Windows XP and newer. So, 99.9999% chance you.

Due to the lack of multi-column list boxes / tables in the game's UI, we're using Chromium to display web pages in the game for the various reports, magazines, and newspapers.

Sadly, this limits the game to only platforms Google supports with Chromium. This makes porting to other operating systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HaikuOS, and architectures like POWER, RISCV, Loongson, and MIPS practically impossible.

This bounty would remove all requirements for CEF for specific ports that do not have CEF.

A replacement bare minimum reports system will be made at a much lower quality than the game with CEF. Hopefully future work toward multi-column list boxes and tables will pull the quality up somewhat.


Requirements: None

Required By: #272, #273, #274, #275, #277, #351, #352

Concerns: This might end up being a lot more work than it's worth. But we did have non-HTML reports for a long period of time, up until v1.17, if I recall. I do not believe the reports will even be as good as what was in that version of the game. I will probably limit it to a specific set of information that is absolutely required to play, and nothing more.

Eric's Opinion: Previously I looked toward implementing some hackish ports of CEF to some of the above platforms. But I do not think they will work. And even if they do, it will be too much work. This bounty will significantly increase the chances of alternative system ports. With bounty #300, multi-column list boxes, we can work toward removing the CEF requirements from the entire game. That would improve performance, stability, file sizes, and portability significantly.

Links: None]]> Price: $1500

Description:  This bounty doesn't change anything for users on x86, x64, or ARM Linux, OSX, MacOS, or Windows XP and newer. So, 99.9999% chance you.

Due to the lack of multi-column list boxes / tables in the game's UI, we're using Chromium to display web pages in the game for the various reports, magazines, and newspapers.

Sadly, this limits the game to only platforms Google supports with Chromium. This makes porting to other operating systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HaikuOS, and architectures like POWER, RISCV, Loongson, and MIPS practically impossible.

This bounty would remove all requirements for CEF for specific ports that do not have CEF.

A replacement bare minimum reports system will be made at a much lower quality than the game with CEF. Hopefully future work toward multi-column list boxes and tables will pull the quality up somewhat.


Requirements: None

Required By: #272, #273, #274, #275, #277, #351, #352

Concerns: This might end up being a lot more work than it's worth. But we did have non-HTML reports for a long period of time, up until v1.17, if I recall. I do not believe the reports will even be as good as what was in that version of the game. I will probably limit it to a specific set of information that is absolutely required to play, and nothing more.

Eric's Opinion: Previously I looked toward implementing some hackish ports of CEF to some of the above platforms. But I do not think they will work. And even if they do, it will be too much work. This bounty will significantly increase the chances of alternative system ports. With bounty #300, multi-column list boxes, we can work toward removing the CEF requirements from the entire game. That would improve performance, stability, file sizes, and portability significantly.

Links: None]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4712 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:17:25 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4712 Price: $300

Description: Currently the game is supposed to center above your HQ, and the zoom level is set to a default number. This bounty would save your previous map location and zoom level. I do believe I had done some work for this in the past maps, but it was broken or overwritten when I added the Base City Map system to the game.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I may need to add a button to reset position. The map shouldn't let you screw up anything, but never underestimate the power of users to break the game! Should I save the info to an external file or the save game? Leaning toward the latter since the user could be using different maps.

Eric's Opinion: My wife's car is a Mazda.... Zoom! Zoom!

Links: Recommendation: https://steamcommunity.com/app/285110/di...028516514/]]> Price: $300

Description: Currently the game is supposed to center above your HQ, and the zoom level is set to a default number. This bounty would save your previous map location and zoom level. I do believe I had done some work for this in the past maps, but it was broken or overwritten when I added the Base City Map system to the game.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I may need to add a button to reset position. The map shouldn't let you screw up anything, but never underestimate the power of users to break the game! Should I save the info to an external file or the save game? Leaning toward the latter since the user could be using different maps.

Eric's Opinion: My wife's car is a Mazda.... Zoom! Zoom!

Links: Recommendation: https://steamcommunity.com/app/285110/di...028516514/]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4711 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:12:53 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4711 Price: $1750

Description: This bounty will display the engine's brake-specific fuel consumption. This is currently a non-exposed internal number. It doesn't really correlate with real-world numbers, which are typically measured in g/(kW·H) or lb/(hp·h).

Most users will not get any usable information from this. That is why the game converts the internal number to MPG, L/100 km, etc. We will need to convert the internal number to lb/(hp·h) and then display this information.

Requirements: None

Required By: In the future, we might be able to do a consumption map. Though, our graphing system might not be able to do it.

Concerns: Converting the internal numbers to real-world units and then having them translate to MPG may cause the numbers to not be realistic (i.e., unbalanced). Engines BSFC changes based on speed and load; displaying the optimal levels is not exactly useful. What is truly needed is a consumption map, but that would be another ticket and a lot more data that would need to be generated (and more prone to errors).


Eric's Opinion: This adds another layer of realism to the game. I have a lot of what is needed already generated, but it's not in the range of real-world numbers. Things will need to be tweaked/converted to get something that is in the real-world ranges. And then that will have to be realistically converted to the MPG numbers. In short, I will likely have to rewrite/rebalance a lot of the fuel consumption system to expose these numbers realistically.

Links: Recommendation: https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4662]]> Price: $1750

Description: This bounty will display the engine's brake-specific fuel consumption. This is currently a non-exposed internal number. It doesn't really correlate with real-world numbers, which are typically measured in g/(kW·H) or lb/(hp·h).

Most users will not get any usable information from this. That is why the game converts the internal number to MPG, L/100 km, etc. We will need to convert the internal number to lb/(hp·h) and then display this information.

Requirements: None

Required By: In the future, we might be able to do a consumption map. Though, our graphing system might not be able to do it.

Concerns: Converting the internal numbers to real-world units and then having them translate to MPG may cause the numbers to not be realistic (i.e., unbalanced). Engines BSFC changes based on speed and load; displaying the optimal levels is not exactly useful. What is truly needed is a consumption map, but that would be another ticket and a lot more data that would need to be generated (and more prone to errors).


Eric's Opinion: This adds another layer of realism to the game. I have a lot of what is needed already generated, but it's not in the range of real-world numbers. Things will need to be tweaked/converted to get something that is in the real-world ranges. And then that will have to be realistically converted to the MPG numbers. In short, I will likely have to rewrite/rebalance a lot of the fuel consumption system to expose these numbers realistically.

Links: Recommendation: https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4662]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4709 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:14:43 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4709 Price: $750

Description: Players can save their custom districts to their hard drives. They can also load their custom districts into other save games as long as they’re on the same map.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: None

Eric's Opinion: This will reduce the work between save games creating custom districts.

Links: None]]> Price: $750

Description: Players can save their custom districts to their hard drives. They can also load their custom districts into other save games as long as they’re on the same map.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: None

Eric's Opinion: This will reduce the work between save games creating custom districts.

Links: None]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4708 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:31:41 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4708 Price: $250

Description: This adds a fuel price map to the world map maps.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: Maps don’t stick on all the time. We really need a way to display data and buildings at the same time.

Eric's Opinion: This will be a good addition if fuel prices become significantly more important in the future.

Links: Request: https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4654]]> Price: $250

Description: This adds a fuel price map to the world map maps.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: Maps don’t stick on all the time. We really need a way to display data and buildings at the same time.

Eric's Opinion: This will be a good addition if fuel prices become significantly more important in the future.

Links: Request: https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4654]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4707 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:17:51 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4707 Price: $300

Description: This bounty randomizes the maximum values for sub-components. Players will toggle this in the New Game settings.

Requirements: #59

Required By: None

Concerns: Adding more starting game options could overwhelm players. Likewise, many players won’t like attaching this to the random option.

Eric's Opinion: This should be doable, and I think it could give a bit of replayability to the game.

Links: https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4628]]> Price: $300

Description: This bounty randomizes the maximum values for sub-components. Players will toggle this in the New Game settings.

Requirements: #59

Required By: None

Concerns: Adding more starting game options could overwhelm players. Likewise, many players won’t like attaching this to the random option.

Eric's Opinion: This should be doable, and I think it could give a bit of replayability to the game.

Links: https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4628]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4619 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:57:58 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4619 Price: $750

Description: Currently, we vote on the official forums and Patreon. Many people don't like using forums and would prefer a cleaner voting system. This bounty would extend the FBS website to allow you to vote. You'll also see your voting points (the system already exists) and see real-time voting results. You can also assign if your contributions go toward FBS milestones or our general operations. (In the event we start raising funds for AeroMogul separately from GearCity.) The system won't require an old-school forum account OR the use of Patreon's comment system.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I suck at javascript and barely can do php. It may not increase voter turnout, which renders it moot.

Eric's Opinion: The hope is that a separate voting system could increase voter turnout and make voting easy. It will also make it easier to let everyone know the current vote result status. That said, there is a high chance it won't tempt more people to vote which renders it moot. I don't think forum posts are that high of a barrier, so, I don't think a voting website would change that.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $750

Description: Currently, we vote on the official forums and Patreon. Many people don't like using forums and would prefer a cleaner voting system. This bounty would extend the FBS website to allow you to vote. You'll also see your voting points (the system already exists) and see real-time voting results. You can also assign if your contributions go toward FBS milestones or our general operations. (In the event we start raising funds for AeroMogul separately from GearCity.) The system won't require an old-school forum account OR the use of Patreon's comment system.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I suck at javascript and barely can do php. It may not increase voter turnout, which renders it moot.

Eric's Opinion: The hope is that a separate voting system could increase voter turnout and make voting easy. It will also make it easier to let everyone know the current vote result status. That said, there is a high chance it won't tempt more people to vote which renders it moot. I don't think forum posts are that high of a barrier, so, I don't think a voting website would change that.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4618 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:38:42 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4618 Price: $1000

Description: This bounty would extend the old production system features for the World Map Districts to the new production system. This includes bulk building, bulk closing, bulk redesign, and bulk management.


Requirements: #19

Required By: None

Concerns: This is a complex bounty and possibly time consuming.

Eric's Opinion: This was originally planned for the new production system, but the complexity caused me to split it away since it was not necessary to implement the new production system. This bounty would implement many of the old production system's world map district functions in the new production system.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $1000

Description: This bounty would extend the old production system features for the World Map Districts to the new production system. This includes bulk building, bulk closing, bulk redesign, and bulk management.


Requirements: #19

Required By: None

Concerns: This is a complex bounty and possibly time consuming.

Eric's Opinion: This was originally planned for the new production system, but the complexity caused me to split it away since it was not necessary to implement the new production system. This bounty would implement many of the old production system's world map district functions in the new production system.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4617 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:21:49 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4617 Price: $300

Description: This bounty would allow you to set the "Neuron Processing Penalty" in the starting game options, thus allowing you to reduce your buying score for a significantly harder challenge.


Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: None

Eric's Opinion: When you start to understand some of the game mechanics, it becomes pretty easy to do well even in nightmare mode. This bounty allows adjusting the game difficulty by handicapping your design scores.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $300

Description: This bounty would allow you to set the "Neuron Processing Penalty" in the starting game options, thus allowing you to reduce your buying score for a significantly harder challenge.


Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: None

Eric's Opinion: When you start to understand some of the game mechanics, it becomes pretty easy to do well even in nightmare mode. This bounty allows adjusting the game difficulty by handicapping your design scores.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4612 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:18:42 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4612 Price: $1800

Description: This bounty adds a revenue report for each marque your company owns. The game will use marque assignment and ownership to calculate the report's revenues and expenses. This will not include revenues or expenses related to activities outside of manufacturing, racing, sales, licensing, contracting, or RnD. We'll also work this information into the stock report.


Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: This bounty can become complicated quickly. In the database, the game stores most of the financial information under the parent company. This bounty will require me to split out the marque's share of the revenues/expenses from the bulk data and/or store it with the marque's data. This will result in longer turn times either way.

Eric's Opinion:
Eric's Opinion: I believe this will add more transparency and openness to how well your marque's are doing on their own. The downside is, I don't see a way to do this without increasing turn times.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $1800

Description: This bounty adds a revenue report for each marque your company owns. The game will use marque assignment and ownership to calculate the report's revenues and expenses. This will not include revenues or expenses related to activities outside of manufacturing, racing, sales, licensing, contracting, or RnD. We'll also work this information into the stock report.


Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: This bounty can become complicated quickly. In the database, the game stores most of the financial information under the parent company. This bounty will require me to split out the marque's share of the revenues/expenses from the bulk data and/or store it with the marque's data. This will result in longer turn times either way.

Eric's Opinion:
Eric's Opinion: I believe this will add more transparency and openness to how well your marque's are doing on their own. The downside is, I don't see a way to do this without increasing turn times.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4564 Sun, 05 May 2024 04:42:00 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4564 Price: $50

Description: This bounty adds the number of races that ran that month to the racing results memos. It will attempt but is not guaranteed to remove the one-off event's follow-up memo. It will also switch the translation for inactive series from "Dormant" to "Off Season".

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I'm unsure if the game stores the number of races ran that month after it tallies the results. Displaying a secondary memo after a one-off is a design flaw from how racing series go dormant. I'm not sure if I can fix that without a major rewrite of the code. The last part of this bounty is easy to do, just change the name in the English translation.

Eric's Opinion: It's a doable request that could take a little longer than planned or could take much less time.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $50

Description: This bounty adds the number of races that ran that month to the racing results memos. It will attempt but is not guaranteed to remove the one-off event's follow-up memo. It will also switch the translation for inactive series from "Dormant" to "Off Season".

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I'm unsure if the game stores the number of races ran that month after it tallies the results. Displaying a secondary memo after a one-off is a design flaw from how racing series go dormant. I'm not sure if I can fix that without a major rewrite of the code. The last part of this bounty is easy to do, just change the name in the English translation.

Eric's Opinion: It's a doable request that could take a little longer than planned or could take much less time.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4563 Sun, 05 May 2024 03:54:25 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4563 Price: $400

Description: This bounty adds a tool to the Mega Menu End Production Autotool that will allow you to bulk end used or unused designs by marque and minimum age.
There will be an additional tab in the Mega Menu End Production allowing for bulk ending. The player can select a category (vehicle, chassis, engine, gearbox), include used, a specific marque, and the youngest age to end production. If "including used" is selected while bulk ending components, active vehicle designs that use the component will also be discontinued.
Features of this bounty will probably override features found in #218.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: Like many things in my game, players can and probably will shoot themselves in the foot with this one, but it will also aid those who like to take over marques and wipe them clean.

Eric's Opinion: It's a speedy way to clear a large amount of old designs and a proper way to purge a company compared to our discontinue marque hack.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $400

Description: This bounty adds a tool to the Mega Menu End Production Autotool that will allow you to bulk end used or unused designs by marque and minimum age.
There will be an additional tab in the Mega Menu End Production allowing for bulk ending. The player can select a category (vehicle, chassis, engine, gearbox), include used, a specific marque, and the youngest age to end production. If "including used" is selected while bulk ending components, active vehicle designs that use the component will also be discontinued.
Features of this bounty will probably override features found in #218.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: Like many things in my game, players can and probably will shoot themselves in the foot with this one, but it will also aid those who like to take over marques and wipe them clean.

Eric's Opinion: It's a speedy way to clear a large amount of old designs and a proper way to purge a company compared to our discontinue marque hack.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4562 Sun, 05 May 2024 03:39:37 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4562 Price: $800

Description: When a player ends the game via bankruptcy or retirement phases, the game will display HTML reports that summarize their career. We'll have a main HTML page that will link individual reports. Most of the reports will be existing reports in the game, but we'll also generate a few statistics about your career, such as the number of cars sold, best-selling models, total revenues, etc.

Let me know if you think of any specific data not found in normal reports that should be in this end-of-game report.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I believe the save file is unloaded at the bankruptcy screen. So, this bounty will require architecture changes there. The retirement phase already offers most of these reports, as you can say, "Wait a minute," and then go examine the reports yourself. I'll need to implement something after you officially retire to display the report. Both make a simple bounty into a complex one.

Eric's Opinion: I admit, I find myself nerding out on information like this in other games.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $800

Description: When a player ends the game via bankruptcy or retirement phases, the game will display HTML reports that summarize their career. We'll have a main HTML page that will link individual reports. Most of the reports will be existing reports in the game, but we'll also generate a few statistics about your career, such as the number of cars sold, best-selling models, total revenues, etc.

Let me know if you think of any specific data not found in normal reports that should be in this end-of-game report.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: I believe the save file is unloaded at the bankruptcy screen. So, this bounty will require architecture changes there. The retirement phase already offers most of these reports, as you can say, "Wait a minute," and then go examine the reports yourself. I'll need to implement something after you officially retire to display the report. Both make a simple bounty into a complex one.

Eric's Opinion: I admit, I find myself nerding out on information like this in other games.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4561 Sun, 05 May 2024 03:03:59 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4561 Price: $750

Description: The game randomly selects a name from the nounslist.txt file. This bounty would allow modders to create specific model names for their AI companies. Modders will also be able to specify the vehicle types the name should be used for. This will require a new file format for the names, likely in XML. We'll also need mod tools to support this. I may also put component naming in this system, but that's not guaranteed. It will depend on how quickly I can complete the core systems.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: Without the mod tools, this bounty wouldn't be too much work. With the mod tools, it's a bit more work.

Eric's Opinion: In the right hands, this bounty will add much more fidelity. Without those hands, this bounty won't add anything because I can't use this feature.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $750

Description: The game randomly selects a name from the nounslist.txt file. This bounty would allow modders to create specific model names for their AI companies. Modders will also be able to specify the vehicle types the name should be used for. This will require a new file format for the names, likely in XML. We'll also need mod tools to support this. I may also put component naming in this system, but that's not guaranteed. It will depend on how quickly I can complete the core systems.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: Without the mod tools, this bounty wouldn't be too much work. With the mod tools, it's a bit more work.

Eric's Opinion: In the right hands, this bounty will add much more fidelity. Without those hands, this bounty won't add anything because I can't use this feature.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4560 Sun, 05 May 2024 02:23:53 -0400 Eric.B]]> https://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=4560 Price: $150

Description: Currently, the city sales report shows profits, but it does not consider the material costs of the vehicles sold. This bounty would remove production expenses from City Expenses and add another column for Material Costs.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: There isn't much width space left in this table. Things are going to start getting cramped.

Eric's Opinion: This will probably make the city sales report more useful.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]> Price: $150

Description: Currently, the city sales report shows profits, but it does not consider the material costs of the vehicles sold. This bounty would remove production expenses from City Expenses and add another column for Material Costs.

Requirements: None

Required By: None

Concerns: There isn't much width space left in this table. Things are going to start getting cramped.

Eric's Opinion: This will probably make the city sales report more useful.

Links: It doesn't happen unless you contribute!]]>