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====== Designing A Successful Vehicle ====== | ====== Designing A Successful Vehicle ====== | ||
While you probably already know how to design a vehicle in the game, there are some things you can do to optimize your design for maximum sales or ratings to costs. | While you probably already know how to design a vehicle in the game, there are some things you can do to optimize your design for maximum sales or ratings to costs. | ||
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Knowing what you're trying to do is very important before you start doing it. Most of the information on this page applies to making a best-selling, | Knowing what you're trying to do is very important before you start doing it. Most of the information on this page applies to making a best-selling, | ||
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===== Know the Market ===== | ===== Know the Market ===== | ||
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==== What Ratings Are Important ==== | ==== What Ratings Are Important ==== | ||
- | ==== Chassis | + | The most important rating when designing a vehicle is the unit costs. This variable can affect margins or allow you to undercut your competition. But less obvious than unit costs are the vehicle ratings themselves. While having the most ratings possible in every category will produce the best vehicle, it will also likely make the vehicle too expensive. This is especially true for lower wealth demographic vehicle types. |
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+ | The same concept extends to creating and selecting components for your vehicle designs. | ||
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+ | ==== Where to Find Importance Ratings | ||
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+ | You can find a full listing on the [[GameManual: | ||
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+ | === Advanced Component Designer === | ||
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+ | Using the Advanced Component Designer for chassis, engines, and gearboxes allows you to access the vehicle type importance ratings via the Prototyping system. To use this system, select the Vehicle Type from the Vehicle Estimations dropdown (#1). If you want a more accurate estimation, you can pair other components with the buttons below the dropdown. | ||
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+ | === Advanced Vehicle Designer === | ||
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+ | The Advanced Vehicle Designer shows you the importance ratings in two places. The first is in the Setup Wizard. Selecting a vehicle type from the list will display the importance ratings in the first details list on the window (#1). You would use these importance ratings when picking components. | ||
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+ | The second place the game shows the importance ratings is at the bottom of the Advanced Designer. Under each of the vehicle' | ||
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+ | === Assisted Designers === | ||
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+ | If you're using the assisted designer, the game will not show you the importance ratings of the selected vehicle type. Instead, the assisted designer will consider the importance of ratings and attempt to maximize the ratings in the most important categories. You do have the option to switch to the advanced designer with the " | ||
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- | ==== Engine | + | ==== Goal ==== |
- | ==== GearBox ==== | + | When designing vehicles for lower wealth demographics, |
- | ==== Vehicle ==== | + | You should also consider the marque' |
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