my question about the crisis has become a reality XD, hope your company survives it and even profits from the sale of a car that will come in handy in this fuel crisis, good luck to you!
I can't wait for next episode, your designs all look very elegant. The V2 reminds me of the Cadillac Cimarron, which I personally think is a very underrated car.
I don't know if halfing displacement all across the model range is what will be done. Seems a bit excessive to me, while we do not yet need to manage emissions in this game version. After next update it would be necessary for sure.
@Der_Bayer you can increase the factory size without a facelift by clicking on the factories button at the bottom of the main screen. Then click on the engine factory you want to change, click on assign to current project (or something like that, tab on right), make sure to click on the current engine, then you can upgrade, remember it will still shut down for X months, and that will start IMMEDIATELY, so make sure you financially are okay with 6-8-10 months downtime before you do it.
Here is my experience so far: It is usually always more beneficial to upgrade a factory with a facelift. So really consider on why you want it without a facelift! Example: I have many preorders left. Solution: just make a facelift with maximum learning and good optimisation and upgrade the factory, you will catch up meanwhile since it takes a long time, and have a really polished and efficient facelift arriving as a result. In my opinion, waiting for preorders to be delivered and then being like "I should start a facelift" provides rushed products. Reason for this is reacting instead of predicting. So here I wanted to share my experiences and I am also aware that there are various other reasons on why you wouldn't want a facelift with a factory upgrade!
Sure, I will try to explain a bit more about tuning the cars! Next episode by accident already focuses on one specific stat, I will try to focus on more other stats in the next episodes!
I love this campaign! And the Bramble II is just in the company spirit! Also love the pop-ups. Can't wait for more and also will have to check up a lot of older episodes. I binged the OG fastest car series back in the day and haven't had a lot of time to catch up yet. Herzallerliebste Grüße aus Oberbayern
Instant click when I see this on my feed. You keep slaying it! Do you have any suggestions on how to have a good start in the lesser nations like Archana(sp?), because I keep getting cars that never turn a profit because they are either too expensive to design/make, or cheaply built that nobody wants them. I really struggle with the economic side of things, even on medium.
Thanks! I am currently considering recording an Archana start. Budgets are an issue, so any trick to reduce car cost and find a good niche is probably necessary. A first try with delivery focus at least got me rolling even on 100x, but I don't know yet how sustainable the approach is...
Not so well: Too heavy and sluggish, no traction (no limited slip diff), no reliability. We will need to focus our efforts in the future with another platform or even a dedicated race car. Btw: The Cleres would at least qualify for Group 3 or 4 requirements - we didn't hand in the homologation papers though, as it is even less suited for racing :D The Godwit in theory should be possible, too, but now with the oil crisis it is probably a bad idea.
@@the.bavarian The Godwit looked like a beast, and probably would have been the most dominant car available had it hit the market sooner. The timing was all wrong for it with the oil crisis hitting. I wonder if it will get the "Mustang II" treatment.
This channel is awesome and I love your content. I always imagined myself being an auto designer and I am wondering if this game is for me. I know the game is more difficult than you make it look because you've done it for so long. In your honest opinion, would you recommend the game? What do you think are the strong suits and the negatives? The second generation Bramble looks almost exactly like a real world car I've seen before, I am just drawing a blank on the name. But, it looks like a car from the 80's coming to market in the 70's! Maybe because it is taking design cues from a few different cars, looking like a mix of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and I think Nissan Maxima. At first, it started looking like a Toyota Cressida.
In my opinion, if you just want to build and design cars, the sandbox is the best and most intuitive editor available. It is easy and quick to build something decent, but of course it takes time to build something very nice. So the car designer / sandbox game is a no-brainer and you can spend countless hours there if you like designing cars. And there is a very nice community always willing to help and provide feedback to your creations. The worst part of the game is a missing tutorial for the campaign mode (and in general also for building cars and understanding the various graphs). It is hard to get into, and once things go wrong, it is hard for beginners to figure out where the problem is. The UI will hopefully be made a bit clearer and a proper tutorial will have to be introduced when the game is more fleshed out. But it is totally playable and enjoyable once you know what you are doing! I normally rate games depending on the time I can spend with them. In Automation, I have a playtime of 2-3000 hours, so the 30 bucks or so were totally worth it! You definitely get more entertainment/hour than from a night at the bar or in the movie theatre :)
Will you end up in a loop where every facelift or new car demands lots of time to be made? I am just wondering if making a facelift with the slider set to learning instead of working will break the loop where every single facelift takes A LOT of time. For example, I have arranged some of my cars to come into market without a rush, so that you get the familiarity bonus to various tech. So basically learning/work slider at maximum learning. If I am not mistaken, it really starts to bite you back at 1980 and later on, if you haven't given the workers a chance to learn. Then you end up sacrificing a lot from optimization and reliability. So I am suggesting a facelift for a suitable car, with minimal changes, but it optimizes production and gives a window of opportunity for the workers to familiarize themselves with the components! And do this a couple of times and I think it's impossible not to see its bonus. Might Motors will feel its impact while making the upcoming models, where you need lots of time for new tech, so you need all the familiarity from the other parts you can get!
I completely agree that optimally you would always have a facelift in the making to maximize familiarity effects. I am just too lazy :) You can partially offset the engineering time requirements by R&D and using only part of the Tech Pool you have. I will probably have to do that.
Definitely the best automation series YT
The Bramble II is delicious, even better than the first one. Really hyped for the next episode!
For the people saying 20k for a luxury car is cheap. 20k in 1971 is equivalent to $150,958.52 in todays money
It's probably like when Rolls Royce drivers talk despicably about Porsche drivers :)
While true, Automation uses 2012 dollars for everything.
@@MrHamof yhh ik but I thought id keep it w the 1971 money
And then you still need to take wages into consideration
Bramble II looking cool, It reminds me of a Bentley Turbo R or a Jaguar XJ6 series 😍
my question about the crisis has become a reality XD, hope your company survives it and even profits from the sale of a car that will come in handy in this fuel crisis, good luck to you!
I can't wait for next episode, your designs all look very elegant. The V2 reminds me of the Cadillac Cimarron, which I personally think is a very underrated car.
Not the best eco car ever, but hey, it is very comfy. :D Hans-Dieter Krause turns in his campaign grave seeing these numbers! Ze WÖRST EFFISCHENCY
Maybe he can be resurrected next week! :)
Hans-Dieter Krause is a legend! 🎉
Bramble II looking nice!
For the fuel saving measures, Supercharger and turbo them all and half their liter displacement.
I don't know if halfing displacement all across the model range is what will be done. Seems a bit excessive to me, while we do not yet need to manage emissions in this game version. After next update it would be necessary for sure.
Again, since yesterday been waiting. Splendid.
@Der_Bayer you can increase the factory size without a facelift by clicking on the factories button at the bottom of the main screen. Then click on the engine factory you want to change, click on assign to current project (or something like that, tab on right), make sure to click on the current engine, then you can upgrade, remember it will still shut down for X months, and that will start IMMEDIATELY, so make sure you financially are okay with 6-8-10 months downtime before you do it.
Ok thanks! I will maybe try it next time, if there is an opportunity to upgrade!
Here is my experience so far:
It is usually always more beneficial to upgrade a factory with a facelift. So really consider on why you want it without a facelift!
Example: I have many preorders left.
Solution: just make a facelift with maximum learning and good optimisation and upgrade the factory, you will catch up meanwhile since it takes a long time, and have a really polished and efficient facelift arriving as a result.
In my opinion, waiting for preorders to be delivered and then being like "I should start a facelift" provides rushed products. Reason for this is reacting instead of predicting.
So here I wanted to share my experiences and I am also aware that there are various other reasons on why you wouldn't want a facelift with a factory upgrade!
bramble 2 looks awesome!!
Loving this series, could you show/explain a little bit more of the fine tuning stuff?
Sure, I will try to explain a bit more about tuning the cars! Next episode by accident already focuses on one specific stat, I will try to focus on more other stats in the next episodes!
I love this campaign! And the Bramble II is just in the company spirit! Also love the pop-ups.
Can't wait for more and also will have to check up a lot of older episodes. I binged the OG fastest car series back in the day and haven't had a lot of time to catch up yet.
Herzallerliebste Grüße aus Oberbayern
Amazing job as always
Nice video ! Will you continue the campaign until modern times ?
Thanks! Yes, I plan to do so if nothing breaks the game :)
Instant click when I see this on my feed. You keep slaying it!
Do you have any suggestions on how to have a good start in the lesser nations like Archana(sp?), because I keep getting cars that never turn a profit because they are either too expensive to design/make, or cheaply built that nobody wants them. I really struggle with the economic side of things, even on medium.
Thanks! I am currently considering recording an Archana start. Budgets are an issue, so any trick to reduce car cost and find a good niche is probably necessary. A first try with delivery focus at least got me rolling even on 100x, but I don't know yet how sustainable the approach is...
@@the.bavarian That's awesome, I can't wait to watch the video when you figure it all out and see what your findings are! :)
Love this series. Please keep it going
Nice way to end the video, makes us want more!
Discovering cliffhanger techniques :D
Nice!
love to see these videos
How did the Bramble finish in the Gasmean racing series?
Not so well: Too heavy and sluggish, no traction (no limited slip diff), no reliability. We will need to focus our efforts in the future with another platform or even a dedicated race car. Btw: The Cleres would at least qualify for Group 3 or 4 requirements - we didn't hand in the homologation papers though, as it is even less suited for racing :D The Godwit in theory should be possible, too, but now with the oil crisis it is probably a bad idea.
@@the.bavarian The Godwit looked like a beast, and probably would have been the most dominant car available had it hit the market sooner. The timing was all wrong for it with the oil crisis hitting. I wonder if it will get the "Mustang II" treatment.
the bramble II gives me major jaguar vibes
The oil crisis gonna be awful
This channel is awesome and I love your content. I always imagined myself being an auto designer and I am wondering if this game is for me. I know the game is more difficult than you make it look because you've done it for so long. In your honest opinion, would you recommend the game? What do you think are the strong suits and the negatives?
The second generation Bramble looks almost exactly like a real world car I've seen before, I am just drawing a blank on the name. But, it looks like a car from the 80's coming to market in the 70's! Maybe because it is taking design cues from a few different cars, looking like a mix of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and I think Nissan Maxima. At first, it started looking like a Toyota Cressida.
In my opinion, if you just want to build and design cars, the sandbox is the best and most intuitive editor available. It is easy and quick to build something decent, but of course it takes time to build something very nice. So the car designer / sandbox game is a no-brainer and you can spend countless hours there if you like designing cars. And there is a very nice community always willing to help and provide feedback to your creations.
The worst part of the game is a missing tutorial for the campaign mode (and in general also for building cars and understanding the various graphs). It is hard to get into, and once things go wrong, it is hard for beginners to figure out where the problem is. The UI will hopefully be made a bit clearer and a proper tutorial will have to be introduced when the game is more fleshed out. But it is totally playable and enjoyable once you know what you are doing!
I normally rate games depending on the time I can spend with them. In Automation, I have a playtime of 2-3000 hours, so the 30 bucks or so were totally worth it! You definitely get more entertainment/hour than from a night at the bar or in the movie theatre :)
@@the.bavarian Thank you for a very thorough and honest view, I appreciate it.
Do you have your mod list anywhere? Love the videos!
Yes, it is here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3117557093
new episode dropped
what happened with the engine factory exactly?
You mean with the V16 contract? I still have no idea.
@@the.bavarian truly the moments you remember the game is still far from being complete haha
Sure! In next episode, the message is still there at the beginning, but then disappears at some point. So all is good :)
Will you end up in a loop where every facelift or new car demands lots of time to be made?
I am just wondering if making a facelift with the slider set to learning instead of working will break the loop where every single facelift takes A LOT of time.
For example, I have arranged some of my cars to come into market without a rush, so that you get the familiarity bonus to various tech. So basically learning/work slider at maximum learning.
If I am not mistaken, it really starts to bite you back at 1980 and later on, if you haven't given the workers a chance to learn. Then you end up sacrificing a lot from optimization and reliability.
So I am suggesting a facelift for a suitable car, with minimal changes, but it optimizes production and gives a window of opportunity for the workers to familiarize themselves with the components! And do this a couple of times and I think it's impossible not to see its bonus.
Might Motors will feel its impact while making the upcoming models, where you need lots of time for new tech, so you need all the familiarity from the other parts you can get!
I completely agree that optimally you would always have a facelift in the making to maximize familiarity effects. I am just too lazy :) You can partially offset the engineering time requirements by R&D and using only part of the Tech Pool you have. I will probably have to do that.
Are you using ray tracing?
Yes, I believe I have it on medium preset
Are these cars on beam ng?
Not yet, only the first three are so far. I have to catch up!
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