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I thought the DeLorean challenge was start with 50M, no starting tech.  I started like that in 1977.  My submission still counts, right? 

I've designed a GTO, but I'm wondering what to design as a second, cheaper trim with only access to Coupe body type.  My idea is to have the GTO and a cheaper engine variant and trim, just in case.

I mean, in the rules he didn't pin down competitor difficulty, sooooooo

for now I used 2/3 of the contour line for secondaries, while placement is equidistant along the side for secondaries and along aft/fore 2/3 for others.

here's a sample destroyer, with 2 primaries aft, 1 fore and 2 secondaries per side


legibility is ass, I know, but destroyer are going to be cheap and disposable, turret scale with volume so it should work out for cruiser battleships and the likes.

turret layer of a larger ship:

full ship

in order: triple railgun, triple missile launcher, double cannon (yeah cannon and rail have the same gfx for now I was out of time)

cellular automata procgen for another space game experiment I'm working on



any idea/literature on how to superimpose structures so they don't "stick out"? got to add bridges, hangars, turrets and the like and I'd happily generate these too, but they need to stand out from the ship noise (I can reduce ship noise too but then it becomes a little too roshrach).

wait wasn't insane+ 7 or more?

yeah it was me all along thinking that items in setup were grouped by engine/car instead of plot/factory

I disagree that it's quite as formulaic as you think, though. You can certainly find a forumula and stick to it, but trying different things is worthwhile.

I think I didn't express properly what I meant. In the Kee/Old version, some engine combinations where almost impossible to make run. In the UE/Campaign version you can just decide arbitrarily engine capacity and layout and you can always find a compression/timing combination that makes it work.

And finding the optimal solution is easy, because all the governing equations became directly proportional and the number expose a lot of their internals, so a two pass tune will always get you into the optimal spot for performance/efficiency you're looking for.

which is fine, the point I'm trying to make is not that less hard = worse game, what I'm trying to tell is that almost all kind of car you can dream of has a solution and a market, so in the new version there's almost no way of engineering a car wrong, the only risk is being unable to produce it at a decent price point.

that was in answer to the guy which had some trouble in building cars, as in: the business aspect is now quite more important than the engineering aspect, especially compared to the initial engine simulator.

made some pretty good cars  [without] fine-tuning sliders until the desirability stops going up

yeah that kind of fine tuning usually makes the car unsuitable for other demographics and makes competitor cars impact much worse if they happen to improve squarely what your demo had asked you to optimize for, I usually refrain myself from doing it even if I'm leaving 20 points on the ground it's almost never worth it in the long run (exceptions: supercars and luxury, because these dems are monodimensional anyway).

it's quite niche, but I've been running many campaigns on 6 and 7 difficulties and it's pretty great, car engineering has been a little too much simplified since the beginning but it's good enough to build just about anything, designing and running my own car in beamng tracks is great since I can no longer do track days

can't wait for the new economy system, the current one is too easy to game and too simple to support more realistic companies (something like BMW or Audi releasing new models yearly all overlapping in their own segments basically kills your sales)

there's always carmageddon, both old and new